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Margaret G. Kivelson (NAS) is Distinguished Professor of Space Physics, Emerita in the Department of and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles and a research professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Kivelson’s scientific interests are magnetospheric plasma physics of Earth, Jupiter and , interaction of flowing plasmas with planets and , and ultra-low frequency waves. She is a Co-Investigator on NASA’s Themis mission, the Team Leader for the Magnetometer Facility Instrument on the Clipper mission, and a team member of the magnetometer on the European JUICE mission to Jupiter. She was a member of Cassini’s magnetometer team until the mission ended in 2017. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. She is a the recipient of the Alfven Medal of the European Geophysical Union, the Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Kuiper Prize of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, the Cassini Medal of the European Geophysical Union, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Kivelson earned her Ph.D. in physics from Radcliffe College.

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Gregory P. Asner (NAS) is the director of the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science at Arizona State University. Prior to that he was a staff scientist in the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science, and a Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. He is an ecologist recognized for his work on biospheric processes, land use and climate change at regional to global scales. Asner maintains a research program in Earth spectroscopy and laser- based imaging with airborne and orbital remote sensing instrumentation. Asner graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1991, followed by service as an officer in the Navy. He earned masters and doctorate degrees in geography and biology, respectively, from the University of Colorado in 1997. Asner has served in numerous national and international posts including the NASA Senior Review Committee, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group, U.N. Diversitas Program, NASA-Brazil LBA Steering Committee, and as a Senior Fellow for the U.S. State Department. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, NASA Early Career and Group Achievement awards, and an Outstanding Contributions Award from the Association of American Geographers. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Ecological Society of America. In 2013, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Adam S. Burrows (NAS) is a professor at Princeton University in the Department of Astronomical Sciences. He is also director of the Princeton Planets and Life Certificate Program, on the board of trustees of the Aspen Center for Physics, and is a fellow of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. His primary research interests are supernova theory, exoplanet and brown dwarf theory, planetary atmospheres, computational astrophysics, and nuclear astrophysics. Well known as a pioneer in the theory of exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and supernovae, Burrows has written numerous fundamental and influential papers and reviews on these subjects during the past 30 years. He has collaborated with more than 200 co-authors on more than 350 papers and given more than 300 invited talks and colloquia. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Physical Society, the 2010 Beatrice M. Tinsley Centennial Professor, and a former Alfred P. Sloan fellow. He has been a consultant for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and served as the chair of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Advisory Board, as co- chair of NASA’s Universe Subcommittee, as chair of NASA’s Origins Subcommittee, as co-chair of NASA’s Strategic Roadmapping Committee “Search for Earth-like Planets,” as co-chair of NASA’s Origins/SEUS Roadmapping committee, and as a primary author of NASA 2003 Origins Roadmap. He received his B.S. in physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James H. Crocker (NAE) is vice president and general manager, retired, of Systems Company. The focus of his career has been the design, construction, and management of very large, complex systems and instruments for astrophysics and both in the U.S. and internationally. These include space missions both human and robotic such as 17, , ; missions to , Jupiter, Saturn, asteroids, the , comets, the Hubble Space , the Spitzer and the James Webb Space Telescope. In ground-based astronomy, he was program manager for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and head of the Program Office for the European VLT, an array of optically phased 8-meter telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile. He is a past board chair of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and a past board chair of the Universities Association. He is a fellow of the AIAA and fellow of the AAS. He is a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Crocker earned a BEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in engineering from University of Alabama in Huntsville and a M.S. in engineering management from the Johns Hopkins University.

Jeff Dozier is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He founded the Bren School and served as its first dean for six years. His research interests are in the fields of snow hydrology, Earth-system science, remote sensing, and information systems. He has led interdisciplinary studies in two areas: one addresses the movement of water from headwaters to groundwater and its management; the other involves the integration of environmental science and remote sensing with computer science and technology. He was a principal investigator on the Landsat 4 and 5 programs, when the carrying the first Landsat Thematic Mapper instruments were launched. He served as the senior project scientist for NASA’s when the configuration for the system was established. He is a fellow of the AGU and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a recipient of both the NASA/Department of the Interior William T. Pecora Award and the NASA Public Service Medal, the winner of the Jim Gray Award from Microsoft for his achievements in data-intensive science, the John Nye Lecturer for the AGU, and a Distinguished Scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also helped Disney Animation Studios win the 2014 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, for the film Frozen. He received a Ph.D. in geography in 1973 from the University of Michigan.

Darby Dyar is the Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy at Mount Holyoke College and Senior Scientist at the Institute. Dyar is a mineralogist and spectroscopist interested in a wide range of problems relating to the evolution of the solar system. She studies the redox state of iron and the abundance of in solar system materials using Mössbauer, x-ray absorption, and FTIR spectroscopy. Dyar has pioneered use of machine learning tools to interpret spectroscopic data. She is the Deputy Principal Investigator on the VERITAS mission to Venus and was a participating scientist on the science team. Her honors and awards include the G.K. Gilbert Award for outstanding contributions to planetary science from the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Hawley Medal from the Mineralogical Association of , and the Eugene Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal from NASA; she is a Fellow of GSA, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Geochemical Society. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. for geochemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Antonio L. Elias (NAE) retired from Orbital ATK, Inc. as executive vice president and chief technical officer. Prior to the merger between Orbital Sciences and ATK he served as Orbital Sciences Corporation chief technical officer, corporate senior vice president, and founder and general manager of its Advanced Programs Group. He was the lead architect of the Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft and also led the technical team that designed and built the air-launched booster, flying as operator on the carrier aircraft for the ’s first and fourth flights. He headed the design teams of Orbital’s APEX and Sea Star satellites and X-34 hypersonic research vehicle. Dr. Elias came to Orbital from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he held various teaching and research positions, including the Boeing Chair in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Elias is the current secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (VASEM). He is a fellow of the AIAA, the American Astronautical Society (AAS), and the International Academy of Astronautics. His awards include the AIAA Engineer of the Year, the AIAA Aircraft Design Award, AIAA Von Karman lectureship and the AAS Brouwer Award. He is a co-recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the National Air and Space Museum Trophy. He has a Ph.D. in flight transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Victoria E. Hamilton is a staff scientist in the Studies at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Hamilton is a geologist with extensive experience in laboratory spectroscopy and Mars data analysis as an affiliate of the Mars Global TES science team, as a participating scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory mission, and as deputy principal investigator for the THEMIS instrument on the mission. She is a science team co-investigator and deputy instrument scientist on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, and a co-investigator and deputy instrument principal investigator on the Lucy Trojan asteroid survey mission. She has published on laboratory mineral and meteorite spectroscopy, numerical modeling of spectra, Martian surface and atmospheric aerosol composition, Martian thermophysical properties, and the composition of asteroid Bennu. Dr. Hamilton has built, operates, and manages a NASA-supported spectroscopy laboratory equipped with spectrometers for measuring visible, near infrared, and thermal infrared properties of rocks, minerals, and meteorites in reflectance and emission. She has received the NASA Group Achievement Award for the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer Team, Mars Science Laboratory Science Office Development and Operations Team, 2001 Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System Team, and Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer Team. She received her Ph.D. in from Arizona State University.

Dennis P. Lettenmaier (NAE) is a distinguished professor at University of California, Los Angeles.His research and area of expertise is hydrological modeling and prediction; water and climate; and hydrologic remote sensing. Prior to his time at UCLA, Lettenmaier was a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington 1976-2014. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1975. Lettenmaier was the chair of the Water Resources subpanel and steering committee member for the 2007 Decadal Survey of Earth Science and Applications from Space. He is an author or co-author of over 300 journal articles. He was the first chief editor of the American Meteorological Society Journal of Hydrometeorology, and is a past president of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Washington.

Rosaly M. Lopes is Chief Scientist for the Planetary Science Directorate and a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (JPL). She has been at JPL in various positions since 1991. Lopes was a member of the Galileo flight project, responsible for observations of Jupiter's moon Io using Galileo's Near-infrared mapping spectrometer, and of the Cassini flight project as a member of the Radar Mapper Team, studying the geology of Titan. Lopes has written more than one hundred and thrirty peer-reviewed scientific publications and eight books. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union for her contributions to the studies of volcanism on Earth and the planets. She is also an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. She chairs the Outer Planets Task Group of the International Astronomical Union's working group for planetary system nomenclature. She served as elected chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society and as elected President of the AGU’s Planetary Section. Lopes won the American Astronomical Society's Carl Sagan medal for excellence in communicating science to the public. Among her other awards are the Ambassador Award from the AGU, two NASA Exceptional Service Medals, the Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club, the Science Award from the Adler Planetarium, the Women of Discovery Air and Space Award from Wings, the Women at Work Medal of Excellence, the Latinas in Science medal from the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional, and the of the Year in Science and Technology Award from the Miami-based GEMS television. She obtained a B.S. in astronomy and a Ph.D. in planetary science, both from University College London.

Stephen J. Mackwell is the deputy executive officer at the American Institute of Physics. Previously he was the director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute and subsequently corporate director, science programs at the Universities Space Research Association. He has served as program director for geophysics, Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation (NSF). Mackwell conducts laboratory-based research into the physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of geological materials under conditions relevant to the mantle and crust of Earth and other terrestrial planets. He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University.

David J. McComas is Princeton University vice president for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and professor of Astrophysical Sciences. He is the principal investigator for NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission, the Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral- Atom Spectrometers (TWINS) Explorer Mission-of-, the Integrated Science Investigation of the (ISʘIS) instrument suite on Solar Probe Plus and the Ulysses Observations Over the Poles of the Sun (SWOOPS) experiment; he is also the lead co- investigator for the Solar Wind Electron Proton Alpha Monitor (SWEPAM) instrument on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and the solar wind analyzer and for the mission to Pluto (SWAP) as well as co-investigator on numerous other space missions. McComas has invented a variety of instruments and missions for space applications and holds seven patents. He is an author of over 600 scientific papers in the refereed literature spanning topics in heliospheric, magnetospheric, solar, and planetary science as well as space instrument and mission development. These papers have generated over 26,000 citations. McComas is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received numerous awards and accolades including the 2014 COSPAR Space Science Award, a NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal, and AGU’s James B. Macelwane Medal. McComas serves on the board of directors of the Brookhaven National Laboratory Science Associates. He recently served on the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) and chaired the NAC Science Committee (NAC-SC); previous service includes chairing NASA’s Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee (SECAS), chairing two Solar Probe and Solar Probe Plus Science and Technology Definition Teams, and serving as a member of NASA’s Space Science Advisory Committee (SScAC). He received his B.S. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA.

Larry Paxton is a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and the head of the Geospace and Earth Science group. Paxton is the principal investigator on seven instruments that have flown in space. His research interests include space science, , - and ground-based mission design, the implications of global climate change for the stability of nations; and innovation. He is particularly interested in new instruments that characterize the geospace environment. He has published over 260 papers on these subjects. He is an Academician member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the president of the American Geophysical Union’s Space Physics and Aeronomy section (2017-2019). Awards include JHU/APL Publication of the Year Awards; JHU/APL Government Purpose Invention of the Year Nominee; and Best Paper – 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation. Other recent relevant experience includes JHU’s Global Water Institute and the JHU Earth Environment Sustainability and Health Institute as well as the NASA Heliophysics Roadmap Committee; NSF Aeronomy Review Panel and NSF Aeronomy Committee of Visitors; chair of IAA Commission 4 and Small Satellite Program Committee. He earned his Ph.D. in astrophysical, planetary, and atmospheric sciences from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Eliot Quataert (NAS) is the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Previously he was chair of the Department of Astronomy, a professor of astronomy and physics, and the director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Quataert is an astrophysics theorist who works on a wide range of problems, including stars and black holes, plasma astrophysics, and how galaxies form. He has received a number of national awards for his research, including the Warner Prize of the AAS, the Packard Fellowship, a Simons Investigator award from the Simons Foundation, and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Quataert received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University.

Mark P. Saunders is an independent consultant. Since retiring from NASA, he has been consulting to various NASA offices providing program/project management and systems engineering expertise. This has included support to the Office of Chief Engineer, the Office of Independent Program and Cost Evaluation, the Mars Program and the Science Office for Mission Assessments (at LaRC). He has participated in the rewriting of NASA’s policy on program/project management; advised and supported the Agency’s independent program/project review process; and has supported the review of various programs and projects. At NASA headquarters Mr. Saunders served as director of the independent program assessment office, where he was responsible for enabling the independent review of the agency’s programs and projects at life cycle milestones to ensure the highest probability of mission success. At NASA’s Langley Research Center he was initially the deputy director and then the director, Space Access and Exploration Program Office (SAEPO) and had the responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating the center's research, technology, and flight programs for advanced aerospace transportation and human/robotic exploration systems. Prior to this he was the Manager of Exploration Programs and led all LaRC space exploration research and development activities supporting the agency’s Aerospace Technology (AST), Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) and Space Science Enterprises (SSE). At the office of space science Mr. Saunders’ served as program manager for the , and at the freedom program operations he served as special assistant to the deputy director. He has received a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award, numerous Outstanding Performance awards, and three NASA Outstanding Leadership Medals. He earned his B.S. in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Barbara Sherwood Lollar (NAE) is University Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto. She is a Canada Research Chair in Isotope Geochemistry of the Earth and Environment, and the Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Genesis Geology. She is past-president of the Geochemical Society and co- director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIFAR) program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. In 2015 she was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and in 2019, a fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry. Sherwood Lollar has published on stable isotope geochemistry and hydrogeology, the fate of carbon-bearing fluids and gases such as CO2, CH4 and H2 in ancient fracture waters in the Earth’s crust, deep subsurface , and the remediation of surface drinking water supplies. She has been a recipient of many academic awards including the 2012 Eni Award for Protection of the Environment, 2012 Geological Society of America Geomicrobiology and Geobiology Prize, 2014 International Helmholtz Fellowship, the 2016 NSERC John Polanyi Award, 2016 Bancroft Award for the Royal Society of Canada, 2018 Logan Medal of the Geological Association of Canada and the 2019 C.C. Patterson Award in environmental geochemistry. Sherwood Lollar has served on many advisory boards including NSERC Council, the United States National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, and is currently Director of the Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Division of the Royal Society of Canada. She earned her Ph.D. in Earth sciences from the University of Waterloo and undergraduate degree in Geological sciences from Harvard University.

Howard J. Singer is chief scientist at the NOAA Space Prediction Center and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Previously, he served as the chief of the Research and Development Division of the Center (SEC). Dr. Singer has been the project leader for the current and future NOAA Space Environment Monitor instruments on the GOES spacecraft and the magnetometer responsible scientist on numerous GOES satellites and the joint USAF-NASA Combined Release and Effects satellite. His research is in the area of solar-terrestrial interactions, ultra-low frequency waves, Earth’s radiation belts, geomagnetic disturbances, storms, and substorms. He has had leadership roles in the transition of research to operations and has led the effort to transition a Geospace model into operations at SWPC. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications and was co-editor of the 2001 AGU Geophysical Monograph, . He has received awards from the Air Force, NASA, and NOAA, including the Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Leadership, and he is the recipient of the Antarctica Service Medal for spending more than 1 year at South Pole Station, Antarctica, where he has a geographic feature named for him. He is currently on the NSF Geospace Environment Modeling Steering Committee, recently served as Editor and Editor’s Choice Editor of Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications. Dr. Singer has served on various NASA and NSF committees, including service on the NASA Geospace Mission Definition Team and NSF’s Geospace Section Portfolio Review. Dr. Singer received his Ph.D. in space physics and geophysics from the UCLA.

Harlan E. Spence is the director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, and also professor of physics, at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). Spence leads a research group that studies the physics of cosmic plasmas, from the Sun's corona to interplanetary space to Earth's upper atmosphere, using experimental and modeling techniques. Spence and his research team develop and use physics-based, numerical models to understand the powerful dynamics of interacting solar and planetary plasmas ("space weather") and the resultant deleterious effects on space technologies and . Spence was co-investigator on two energetic particle instruments on the NASA Polar satellite and is co- investigator on a suite of energetic particle instruments on the recently launched NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. He is deputy principal investigator on a sensor on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission and is principal investigator of a comprehensive charged particle instrument suite on NASA's mission. Finally, Spence is principal investigator of the NSF FIREBIRD-II CubeSat mission exploring the physics of relativistic electrons which reach Earth's upper atmosphere from the radiation belts. Spence worked at The Aerospace Corporation. Spence joined the faculty at Boston University as an assistant professor of astronomy and moved up through the ranks to full professor and department chair before moving to UNH. He is a recipient of an NSF Young Investigator Award, received the Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University, received two Editor’s Citations for Excellence in Refereeing from AGU publications, and has earned numerous NASA Group Achievement Awards. Spence earned his Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Erika Wagner serves as business development manager for , a private firm developing vehicles to enable tourists and researchers to access space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. Prior to joining Blue Origin, Wagner worked with the X PRIZE Foundation as senior director of exploration prize development and founding executive director of the X PRIZE Lab@MIT. Previously, she served at MIT as science director and executive director of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, a multi-university spacecraft development initiative to investigate the physiological effects of reduced gravity. She was previously a member of the Commercial Federation’s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group, furthering the research and education potential of commercial suborbital launch vehicles. Today, she serves on the Boards of the Museum of Flight and American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR). Her research spanned both human and mammalian adaptation to microgravity, partial gravity, and centrifugation; as well as organizational innovation and prize theory. She earned her Ph.D. in from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Paul D. Wooster is the Principal Mars Development Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), where he is a lead in the technical development of Mars architecture and vehicles, including precursor activities and human-scale systems. He previously served as SpaceX’s Manager of Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control, overseeing the integrated system design, fault tolerance, and vehicle performance associated with Dragon missions to the International Space Station. While at SpaceX, Wooster has led the development of a diverse set of capabilities, including space-to-space communications, relative navigation, and proximity operations with the ISS. He previously served as a Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where his research included the design and evaluation of a wide range of human exploration system architectures and the development of strategies for affordable human exploration of the Moon and Mars. While at MIT, Paul also led a multi-university team in the preliminary design of a small, partial gravity research satellite and conducted initial prototype work on a number of spacecraft and payload sub-systems. He earned both his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Edward L. Wright (NAS) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, Wright has been the Data Team Leader on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), a co-investigator on the Wilkinson Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), an interdisciplinary scientist on the , and the principal investigator on the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Wright is well-known for his Cosmology Tutorial website for the informed public, and his web-based cosmology calculator for professional . Wright is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.