Subcommittees
- Lunar Subcommittee
- Microparticle Subcommittee
- Genesis Subcommittee
- Asteroid Subcommittee
- Meteorite Subcommittee
- Mars Subcommittee
- Facilities & Informatics Subcommittee
- Steering Subcommittee
Lunar Subcommittee
The Lunar Subcommittee provides assessment and analysis for all aspects of current and future lunar sample curation, including sample and hardware handling processes, collection, contamination control, documentation, and facilities design, care, and use.
Lunar Subcommittee Members:
| Jessica Barnes (Chair) | University of Arizona |
| Kerri Donaldson Hanna | University of Central Florida |
| Brad Jolliff | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Tom Lapen | University of Houston |
| Joshua Snape | Manchester University |
Collections:
Microparticle Subcommittee
The role of the committee will be as a champion of and focal point for information about existing cometary, cosmic dust and related microparticle collections, including Stardust Mission Cometary and Interstellar collections. We will communicate their relevance to the science goals of the NASA R&A program, identify strategic new collection opportunities, promote opportunities in particle handling and analysis training for early career scientists.
Microparticle Subcommittee Members:
| Philipp Heck (Chair) | Field Museum of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Bradley de Gregorio | Naval Research Laboratory
| Elena Dobrica |
University of Hawai'i at Manoa |
Zack Gainsforth |
UC Berkeley |
Ryan Ogliore |
Washington University |
My Riebe |
ETH Zurich |
Penelope Wozniakiewicz |
University of Kent |
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Sample collections:
Genesis Subcommittee
The Genesis Subcommittee provides assessment and analysis of the curation and science of the Genesis mission collection. It currently operates on an ad hoc basis.
Genesis Subcommittee Members:
| Larry Nittler (Chair) | Arizona State University |
Collections:
Asteroid Subcommittee
The Asteroid Subcommittee advises NASA on issues related to sample return from asteroids on missions where NASA is a participant. Currently, these missions include the JAXA missions Hayabusa 1 (asteroid Itokawa) and Hayabusa 2 (asteroid Ryugu) where NASA is a participating organization and a fraction of the samples are shared for allocation by NASA, and the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. The subcommittee reviews sample curation plans at NASA for each mission. It advises on the optimal use of samples and reviews NASA policies affecting asteroid returned samples for both ongoing and future missions.
Asteroid Subcommittee Members:
| Larry Nittler (Chair) | Arizona State University |
| Jamie Elsila Cook | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| David Joswiak | University of Washington |
| Lindsay Keller | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| Tomoki Nakamura | Tohoku Univeristy |
| Andrew Westphal | SSL / UC Berkeley |
Collections:
Meteorite Subcommittee
The Meteorite Subcommittee provides assessment and analysis for all aspects of current and future Antarctic meteorite sample curation, including sample and hardware handling processes, contamination control, documentation, and facilities design, care, and use.
Meteorite Subcommittee Members:
| Jon Friedrich (Chair) | Fordham University |
| Jose Aponte | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Romy Hanna | University of Texas - Austin |
| Tsuyoshi Iizuka | University of Tokyo |
| Ming-Chang Liu | Lawrence Livermore |
| Andy Needham | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
Collections:
Mars Subcommittee
The Mars Subcommittee provides assessment and analysis on planning and implementation of Mars Sample Return.
Mars Subcommittee Members:
| Yang Liu (Co-Chair) | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Lydia Hallis (Co-Chair) | University of Glasgow |
Collections:
Facilities & Informatics Subcommittee
The Facilities and Informatics Subcommittee provides analysis to NASA concerning the operation, maintenance, construction, and future planning for curatorial facilities and data-serving capabilities for NASA-held collections, in consultation with the PI community and Curation at Johnson Space Center.
Facilities and Informatics Subcommittee Members:
| Pierre Haenecour (Co-Chair) | University of Arizona |
| Rhiannon Mayne (Co-Chair) | Texas Christian University |
Steering Subcommittee
Steering Subcommittee Members:
| Jeff Grossman | NASA HQ |
| Francis McCubbin | NASA Johnson Space Center |
| Kathleen Vander Kaaden | NASA HQ |