Research Interests

Education

University of California, Berkeley

University of Missouri-Rolla

Employment History

Research Interests

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

California Institute of Technology

Stanford University

Current Projects

Professional Experience

Principal Scientist (2012-Present)

Principal Investigator, Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a proposed Discovery mission selected for technology development funding in 2011

Deputy Project Scientist, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

Principal Investigator, NEOWISE, an enhancement to the WISE data processing pipeline that will facilitate solar system science, including discovery of new asteroids with WISE

Principal Investigator, Pointing Calibration & Reference Sensor (PCRS) for Spitzer Space Telescope. The PCRS is the Observatory's fine guidance sensor, and it has been operational on-orbit since 2003.

Luke Dubord is an Avionics System Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is currently the cross cutting infrastructure and autonomous fault protection lead on the Mars Science Laboratory mission that successfully landed on August 5th. Prior to working in fault protection, Luke was a member of the MSL Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) team, and worked on many aspects of the MSL computer and power systems, including being the lead system engineer for the development of the MSL pyrotechnics system. Luke was the system engineer on console for both MSL launch and Entry Descent and Landing, and was quite pleased that every pyrotechnic device fired correctly to land Curiosity on Mars! Prior to MSL, Luke also worked on numerous mission proposal teams at JPL performing mission concept development. Luke received his bachelors in 2003 from the University of Washington and his Masters in 2005 from Stanford, both in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering with a focus in Dynamics and Controls.

Education

Cornell University

State University of New York at Buffalo

Research Interests

I have been using Galileo Photopolarimeter-Radiometer (PPR) and ground-based data to study volcanism on Jupiter's moon, Io. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, putting out more than 40 times the amount of energy that the Earth does. (And Io is only about the size of our moon!) I’m currently using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to study Io and finishing a study of Jupiter’s moon Europa using PPR data.

Rob Manning is Chief Engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) project and is a JPL Engineering Fellow. Rob began his career at JPL designing and testing spacecraft electronics for missions like Galileo, Magellan and Cassini. In the 1990's, Rob was the Mars Pathfinder chief engineer. Afterward he co-conspired the idea to modify Pathfinder to become the MER Spirit and Opportunity rovers. He also led the system engineering for MER, and lead MER's Entry, Descent and Landing team. After MER he became the Mars Program Chief Engineer. As a result of his good luck at JPL, Rob has received two NASA medals and is in the Aviation Week Magazine Space Laureate Hall of Fame in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In 2004, “SpaceNews” magazine named Rob as one of 100 people who made a difference in civil, commercial and military space since 1989. Rob is a graduate of Caltech and Whitman College where he studied math, physics, computer science, and control systems. He makes his home in La Canada with his wife Dominique and their daughter, Caline.

Karla Clark received her bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas. After graduation, Ms. Clark worked at Hughes Aircraft Company developing flight batteries for communications satellites. Ms. Clark continued her education and received master’s degrees in both mechanical engineering and engineering management from the University of Southern California. In 1987, Ms. Clark joined JPL where she has held numerous technical and managerial roles. Her primary technical roles included system engineering efforts for the Cassini Power System and Outer Planets/Solar Probe Project. Her management roles have ranged from Task Manager for the Flight Battery Research; Power System Technical Manager for Cassini; Power Electronics Engineering Group Supervisor; Flight System Manager for the Europa Orbiter; Spacecraft Manager and Contract Technical Manager for the Prometheus Project and study lead for the NASA Europa Explorer Flagship Mission. Currently, Karla serves as the Division Manager for Mission Assurance.

Mark Allen is a Principal Scientist in the Science Division at JPL. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Columbia in 1971 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech in 1976. For over 40 years, he has been studying the chemistry of most Solar System atmospheres, including the Earth and comets, and the chemistry of interstellar molecular clouds, through computer model simulations, observations, and laboratory measurements. He is the Principal Investigator for NASA Astrobiology Institute JPL-Titan team. Most recently, until NASA cancelled its participation, he was the US Project Scientist for the joint ESA-NASA 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Pat Beauchamp
Pat has been at JPL since for 20 years in a variety of technical and project leadership positions. She is currently managing the Technology Task in support of the Planetary Science Division at NASA HQ. She is also Co-I and lead for the surface chemistry theme on a NAI Titan award and manages the JPL effort to develop instrumentation that will determine the composition and structure of organics on Titan’s surface and in the atmosphere. She holds a Ph. D. in Chemistry from Caltech.

Research Interests

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (1995 - Present)

National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Research Associate, (1990 - 1992)

Adjunct Professor of Physics, California State University, Fullerton, (1996-Present)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, (1988-1989)

Education