ppm. As Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, he leads
the science team and represents scientific interests in the project management. He
has been on advisory and working groups for the National Academy of Sciences,
NASA, and the NSF for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and also
the Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic (CARA). He has received
many awards including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for achieving precise
measurements of the CMB radiation using the COBE satellite.
Robyn M. Milan
She is an experimental physicist specializing in the processes acting on energetic
particles in the atmosphere and in space and in coming up with new experimental
methods for studying these processes. She has undergraduate degrees in Physics
and Astronomy from UC Berkeley in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Physics from there in
2002. She joined Dartmouth College in 2002 as a NASA Space Grant Visiting
Young Scientist and joined the regular faculty in 2005. Her research includes the
use of scientific balloons to study Earth’s radiation belts, specifically the loss of
relativistic electrons into the atmosphere. She is currently Principal Investigator
for the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL)
project. Her group carried out four balloon campaigns in association with the
NASA Van Allen Probes. The group also uses similar instrumentation to observe
X-rays produced in association with lightning and laboratory sparks to provide a
new tool for studying the breakdown process. Over her career, she has received
many prestigious awards.
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