Sentences with phrase «laboratory project scientist»

Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist John Grotzinger's fascinating comments at the December 3 press conference, followed by analysis from Emily Lakdawalla.

Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist John Grotzinger's fascinating comments at a December 3rd press conference.

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De Brouwer founded Starlab NV / SA, a multidisciplinary laboratory in Brussels where about 130 scientists worked on various projects, encompassing bits of everything from time travel to neuroscience.

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«I've certainly been pitching this for 20 years, really from the beginning of BECs, when doing something like this in space seemed crazy,» says Robert Thompson, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and CAL's project scientist.

«Quantifying the Risk of Extreme Events Under Climate Change» by Eric Gilleland, project scientist at the Research Applications Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Richard W. Katz, senior scientist at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Philippe Naveau, senior scientist at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

«Cassini's stunning images are providing us a quick look at Enceladus from this ultra-close flyby, but some of the most exciting science is yet to come,» said Linda Spilker, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Ravi is the project scientist for the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, which is being constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the JPL President's and Director's Fund Program.

They also could revolutionize manufacturing and allow people to design and print their own robot to do whatever they want, even play games with their cat, suggests Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and one of the lead scientists on the project.

But these mid-sized ripples are a reminder that those differences can surprise us,» said Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

I am scaling this slope with a group of scientists and journalists led by John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which launched Curiosity in November.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

«With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun.»

«In hindsight, we should have left it alone,» laments Andrew Cheng, NEAR project scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Cosma's training abroad was a key step in her career, and she recommends that scientists — especially Italian scientists — leave a laboratory if it does not offer good projects or enough resources while they are still young and have fewer family ties.

«If you had a mission at one of these sites, sampling the layers going down the scarp, you could get a detailed climate history of Mars,» suggested MRO Deputy Project Scientist Leslie Tamppari of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

«The ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these: first identifying the puzzling seasonal streaks and now making a big step towards explaining what they are,» said Rich Zurek, MRO project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«This is really an entirely new kind of remote sensing,» says project scientist Michael Watkins, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«First, we didn't expect to find any plumes at all, and second, we didn't expect to find any organic matter in those plumes,» says Cassini project scientist Dennis Matson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Experiments are conducted at the academic laboratory, and Lilly scientists contribute data analysis, project planning, and other virtual activities.

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«We want the ability to get context and zoom in,» says Richard Zurek, MRO project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«The rover has made this detection of simple organic compounds,» says project scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

At the time of its launch, Paul Goldsmith, Herschel project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told ScientificAmerican.com that Herschel's infrared view of star birth would be «analogous to using ultrasound to seeing what is going on in a mother's womb.»

The OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) collaboration of almost 200 scientists working at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in central Italy has discovered a phenomenon the physicists could simply not explain.

On average, Borrelly's nucleus reflects a low 2.5 % to 3 % of the light that strikes it, says Deep Space 1 project scientist Robert Nelson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Richard Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the project scientist for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, whose gravity mapping provided support for the hypothesis that the northern lowlands were formed by a massive impact.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

«Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth - like and intriguing in the solar system,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too.

There is an urgent need for such climate study projects in temperate regions across the world, says Eric Rignot, principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Radar Science and Engineering Section.

«Witnessing the possible birth of a tiny moon is an exciting, unexpected event,» said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Woodruff is working on the project with other scientists at Northwestern, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Draper Laboratory, Inc..

«Io is the next best thing to traveling back in time to Earth's earlier years,» says Torrence Johnson, Galileo project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore laboratories will also take part in the project and SLAC hopes that scientists from many countries will participate.

Its overarching theme as an observatory is investigating star formation, says Paul Goldsmith, Herschel project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Both spacecraft, though primarily ESA projects, were built in conjunction with NASA.)

«This new finding is of paramount importance to unlocking the multitude of processes behind particle behavior in the belts,» says Barry Mauk, project scientist for the Van Allen Probes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «To have one of the primary science objectives of the mission met within just over a year of launch is a testament to the quality and quantity of the data the instruments on the probes are gathering, and to the teams analyzing them.»

«I think it's a very compelling argument, especially with the two papers together,» says Linda Spilker, a planetary scientist and Cassini project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who also did not contribute to the new studies.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

«If you think being a weather forecaster on Earth is difficult, it can be even more challenging at Titan,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We know there are weather processes similar to Earth's at work on this strange world, but differences arise due to the presence of unfamiliar liquids like methane.

The observatory's critical systems all work well, says project scientist Michael Werner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

«Thanks to all of you, near and far, old and young, who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings, the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands, uplifted paws, smiling faces and artwork.»

«A stellar nursery in what seems to be the middle of nowhere is quite surprising,» said Peter Eisenhardt, the project scientist for the WISE mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

«It is remarkable that even after many decades of studying the sky, we still do not have a complete inventory of the Sun's nearest neighbors,» said Michael Werner, the project scientist for Spitzer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages and operates Spitzer.

The work was first conceived by Yao and postdoctoral fellow Hyun Deog Yoo in 2014; the project spanned several years and involved scientists from three universities and three national laboratories, working both experimentally and theoretically.

But on an early fly - by in February 2005, the spacecraft's magnetometer «sensed something unusual going on with its magnetic field», says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

«It was clear,» says Charles Beichman, chief scientist for physics and astronomy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the head of the Finder project, «that going out to three or four or five astronomical units [500 million miles from Earth] was just too hard.»