Lunar and Planetary Institute






Lunar Science and Exploration

Team Members

Dr. David A. Kring (USRA-LPI), Principal Investigator

Dr. Eileen Stansbery (Johnson Space Center), Deputy Team Leader

Science Team

Dr. Donald Bogard (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Alan Brandon (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Gareth Collins (Imperial College London)
Dr. David Draper (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Everett Gibson (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Lindsay Keller (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Walter Kiefer (USRA-LPI)
Dr. John Jones (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Thomas Lapen (University of Houston)
Dr. Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University)
Dr. Gary Lofgren (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Patrick McGovern (USRA-LPI)
Dr. David McKay (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Wendell Mendell (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Charles Meyer (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Keiji Misawa (National Institute for Polar Research)
Dr. David Mittlefehldt (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Clive Neal (University of Notre Dame)
Dr. Alexander Nemchin (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Marc Norman (Australian National University)
Dr. Lawrence Nyquist (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Robert Pidgeon (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Kevin Righter (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Jonathan Snow (University of Houston)
Dr. Paul Spudis (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Timothy D. Swindle (Univ. Arizona)
Dr. Allan Treiman (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Richard Walker (Univ. Maryland)
Dr. Michael Zolensky (Johnson Space Center)

 Education Team

Ms. Jaclyn Allen (JSC)
Dr. Stephanie Shipp (USRA-LPI)

Lunar Consortium for Higher Education

Dr. William Ambrose (University of Texas, Austin)
Ms. Miriam Barquero-Molina (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Alan Dutton (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Dr. Robert Gregory (Southern Methodist University)
Dr. Mark Helper (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Alison Henning (Rice University)
Dr. Jose Miguel Hurtado Jr. (University of Texas, El Paso)
Dr. Thomas Lapen (University of Houston)
Dr. John Lassiter (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University)
Dr. Alan Levander (Rice University)
Dr. Jung-Fu Lin (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Rhiannon Mayne (Texas Christian University)
Dr. Julia Smith Wellner (University of Houston)
Dr. Jonathan Snow (University of Houston)
Dr. David Sparks (Texas A&M University)
Dr. Roger Steinberg (Del Mar College, Corpus Christi)
Dr. Michael Tice (Texas A&M University)
Dr. James Whitford-Stark (Sul Ross State University, Alpine)

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Marion Grange (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Katherine Joy (Birkbeck College London, University of London)
Dr. Véronique Le Roux (Rice University)
Dr. Axel Wittmann (USRA-LPI)

Graduate Student Researchers

Donald Barker (University of Houston)
Amy Fagan (University of Notre Dame)
Miriam Galenas (University of Maryland)
Katie O’Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Ross Potter (Imperial College London)
Kellen Springer (University of Houston)

Lunar Exploration Student Interns

2008 Program
Tomas Kohout (University of Helsinki)
Anna Losiak (Michigan State University)
Katie O’Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Kevin Thaisen (University of Tennessee)
Shoshana Weider (University College London)

2009 Program
Daniel Eldridge (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Megan Ennis (University of Tennessee)
Amy Fagan (University of Notre Dame)
Jarmo Korteniemi (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Münster, Germany)
Trevelyn Anne Lough (University of Buffalo)
James Pogue (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Simon Porter (Arizona State University)
Kaitlin Singer (North Carolina State University & University of Tennessee)
Joshua Snape (University College London)
Lesley Werblin (Mount Holyoke College)

Undergraduate Student Researchers

Charis Hall (University of Houston)
Sam Simmons (University of Houston)



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Lunar Science and Exploration Information Portal

NLSI Central (at NASA Ames)

Other NLSI Member Teams
   Applied Physics Laboratory
   Brown University
   Goddard Space Flight Center
   Southwest Research Institute
   University of Colorado (a)
   University of Colorado (b)

International NLSI Partners
   Canada
   Korea
   United Kingdom

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