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and eventual interplanetary effects. He is currently the principal investigator for the operating experiments
SOHO/LASCO and STEREO/SECCHI and two experiments under development, the Solar Orbiter/SoloHI
and the Solar Probe Plus WISPR. Dr. Howard developed the CCDs and CCD cameras for LASCO and EIT,
for which he received an NRL Royalty Award, and he is currently developing the APS/CMOS sensor for
SoloHI and WISPR. He was the project scientist for the development of the Solwind and LASCO coronagraphs and led the development of the LASCO/EIT flight software and ground system. Dr. Howard has been
a co-investigator on numerous NASA projects, including an XUV CCD detector development program. He
has more than 200 papers in the refereed literature. He received the E.O. Hulburt Science Award, which is
the highest award that NRL gives to a scientist, and the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award.
Dr. Howard earned a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in chemical physics, both from the University of
Maryland.
JUSTIN KASPER, see committee entry above.
ROBERT P. LIN is a professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley. 1 Dr. Lin is a world-renowned
experimentalist in space science. Through numerous innovative instruments that have flown on NASA
missions, he has revealed the behavior of electrons and ions accelerated by the Sun and has detected the
accompanying X-ray and gamma-ray emissions. As an astrophysicist, his primary interest is in how particles
are accelerated to high energies in nature. To study these processes, Dr. Lin has developed instruments
to directly measure the plasma, fields, and energetic particles and flown them on spacecraft into regions
where acceleration is occurring. He is particularly interested in the Sun as the most powerful accelerator in
our solar system, accelerating particles to the highest energies. Dr. Lin conducts imaging and spectroscopy
of the X rays and gamma rays emitted by energetic particles at the Sun, as well as directly detecting the
accelerated particles that escape to the interplanetary medium. He studies the acceleration that occurs in
transient events that involve the phenomena of magnetic reconnection or collisionless shock waves. Dr.
Lin is the principal investigator on the Gamma Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar Flares experiment, which
will utilize high-altitude balloons but is not funded by the NASA suborbital program but by the Supporting Research and Technology program. He is a member of the NAS. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. from UC
Berkeley in 1967. He is a member of the NRC’s SSB and has served on many committees, including the
Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities and the Panel on Solar and Space Physics.
GLENN M. MASON is on the senior professional staff at JHU/APL, where he is currently an investigator
for the Remote Analysis Site for the Ultra Low Energy Isotope Spectrometer particle instrument in the ACE
mission. Dr. Mason was a professor in the Department of Physics and at the Institute for Physical Science
and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has worked on the development of novel
instrumentation that allows determination of the mass composition of solar and interplanetary particles
in previously unexplored energy ranges. His research has included work on galactic cosmic rays, solar
energetic particles, and the acceleration and transport of particles both in the solar atmosphere and in the
interplanetary medium. Dr. Mason is principal investigator on the NASA SAMPEX spacecraft mission and
is co-investigator on energetic particle instruments for the NASA Wind spacecraft and the ACE spacecraft.
He received his A.B. in physics from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of
Chicago. Dr. Mason was former chair of the NASA Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee, the
NASA Space Science Advisory Committee, and the Steering Committee of the Space Science Working
1 The survey committee notes with regret that Dr. Lin died on November 17, 2012.
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and eventual interplanetary effects. He is currently the principal investigator for the operating experiments
SOHO/LASCO and STEREO/SECCHI and two experiments under development, the Solar Orbiter/SoloHI
and the Solar Probe Plus WISPR. Dr. Howard developed the CCDs and CCD cameras for LASCO and EIT,
for which he received an NRL Royalty Award, and he is currently developing the APS/CMOS sensor for
SoloHI and WISPR. He was the project scientist for the development of the Solwind and LASCO coronagraphs and led the development of the LASCO/EIT flight software and ground system. Dr. Howard has been
a co-investigator on numerous NASA projects, including an XUV CCD detector development program. He
has more than 200 papers in the refereed literature. He received the E.O. Hulburt Science Award, which is
the highest award that NRL gives to a scientist, and the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award.
Dr. Howard earned a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in chemical physics, both from the University of
Maryland.
JUSTIN KASPER, see committee entry above.
ROBERT P. LIN is a professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley. 1 Dr. Lin is a world-renowned
experimentalist in space science. Through numerous innovative instruments that have flown on NASA
missions, he has revealed the behavior of electrons and ions accelerated by the Sun and has detected the
accompanying X-ray and gamma-ray emissions. As an astrophysicist, his primary interest is in how particles
are accelerated to high energies in nature. To study these processes, Dr. Lin has developed instruments
to directly measure the plasma, fields, and energetic particles and flown them on spacecraft into regions
where acceleration is occurring. He is particularly interested in the Sun as the most powerful accelerator in
our solar system, accelerating particles to the highest energies. Dr. Lin conducts imaging and spectroscopy
of the X rays and gamma rays emitted by energetic particles at the Sun, as well as directly detecting the
accelerated particles that escape to the interplanetary medium. He studies the acceleration that occurs in
transient events that involve the phenomena of magnetic reconnection or collisionless shock waves. Dr.
Lin is the principal investigator on the Gamma Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar Flares experiment, which
will utilize high-altitude balloons but is not funded by the NASA suborbital program but by the Supporting Research and Technology program. He is a member of the NAS. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. from UC
Berkeley in 1967. He is a member of the NRC’s SSB and has served on many committees, including the
Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities and the Panel on Solar and Space Physics.
GLENN M. MASON is on the senior professional staff at JHU/APL, where he is currently an investigator
for the Remote Analysis Site for the Ultra Low Energy Isotope Spectrometer particle instrument in the ACE
mission. Dr. Mason was a professor in the Department of Physics and at the Institute for Physical Science
and Technology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has worked on the development of novel
instrumentation that allows determination of the mass composition of solar and interplanetary particles
in previously unexplored energy ranges. His research has included work on galactic cosmic rays, solar
energetic particles, and the acceleration and transport of particles both in the solar atmosphere and in the
interplanetary medium. Dr. Mason is principal investigator on the NASA SAMPEX spacecraft mission and
is co-investigator on energetic particle instruments for the NASA Wind spacecraft and the ACE spacecraft.
He received his A.B. in physics from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of
Chicago. Dr. Mason was former chair of the NASA Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee, the
NASA Space Science Advisory Committee, and the Steering Committee of the Space Science Working
1 The survey committee notes with regret that Dr. Lin died on November 17, 2012.