NPP Fellows who ended their appointments in 2008
| NASA Center | NPP Fellow | Research Proposal Title | NPP Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaRC | Almimi, Ashraf | Statistical Engineering | Peter Parker |
| GSFC | Arendt, Anthony | Combining Satellite Gravity and Airborne Altimetry Measurements to Calculate Ice Mass Changes in Alaska | Waleed Abdalati |
| ARC | Barnes, Jason | Planetary Detection | William Borucici |
| GSFC | Belikov, Ruslan | Hybrid External-Internal Occulter Design for Terrestrial Planet Detection | Richard Lyon |
| ARC | Blank, Jennifer (Jen) | Serpentinization in the Coast Range Ophiolites of California: Mechanisms for Biosignature Preservation in Chemosynthetic Systems | David Blake |
| GSFC | Bleacher, Jacob (Jake) | Geologic Mapping of the Tharsis Montes, Mars | Herbert V. Frey |
| ARC | Bonaccorsi, Rosalba | Assessing Biosignatures in the Deep Rock Samples from the Rio Tinto: An Analog for the Search for Deep Subsurface Life on Mars | Aaron Zent |
| JPL | Boxe, Christopher (Chris) | Microphysical Analysis of Low-Temperature Ice Films with Adsorbed HNO3 as a Means to Validate the Existence of D-Ice: Relevance to Understanding the Role of Cirrus Cloud Microphysics in the Radiative Forcing of Climate Change | Ming-Taun Leu |
| JSC | Bradley, Robert | Nanoscale and Multiscale Biomechanics of Gravity: Ground Based Experiments and Models | Leonard L.Yowell |
| ARC | Brown, Adrian | Hyperspectral Mapping of Ancient Hydrothermal Systems | Janice Bishop |
| GSFC | Brown, Ari-David | Fabrication of Bi Thin Film X-ray Absorbers | James Chervenak |
| GSFC | Burger, Matthew (Matt) | Neutrals in Planetary Magnetospheres: Understanding Icy Satellites | Edward C. Sittler, Jr |
| MSFC | Chronis, Themis | Use of Lightning Information as Valuable Insight in Tropical Convective Processes | Richard Blakeslee |
| NAI | Cooper, Curtis | Three-dimensional modeling of habitable zones and the paleoclimates of the terrestrial planets | Alexander A. Pavlov |
| ARC | D'Angelo, Gennaro | Numerical Simulations of Disk-Planet Interactions | Jack J. Lissauer |
| ARC | Davatzes, Alexandra (Alix) | Role of fault geometry on Martian channel systems | Virginia Gulick |
| GSFC | Deppe, Jill | Predicting the Occurrence of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Development of a Spatially Explicit Habitat Model | James A. Smith |
| GSFC | Feofilov, Artem | Non-LTE Diagnostics of Satellite and Rocket Born Observations of the Earth's Polar Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere | Richard A. Goldberg |
| LaRC | Fogarty, David | Active Twist Rotor Control for BVI-Induced Noise Reduction | Mark W. Nixon |
| GSFC | Fukumura, Keigo | The Physics of Compact Objects | Demosthenes Kazanas |
| NAI | Furlan, Elise | Exploring the Birthplaces of Planets High Angular Resolution in the Mid-Infrared from the Ground and from Space | Andrea Ghez |
| MSFC | Gamayunov, Konstantin | Small- and Large-scale Ring Current Electrodynamic Coupling | George V. Khazanov |
| ARC | Hartlep, Thomas | Convection and Acoustic Waves in the Sun | Nagi Mansour |
| JSC | Hausrath, Elisabeth | Interpreting Phosphate Mobility on Mars | Douglas W. Ming |
| GSFC | Hurford, Terry | Probing Europa's Interior Structure | Bruce G. Bills |
| JPL | Jin, Kyoung-Wook | Error Modeling of Soil Moisture Retrieval and Relationship of Precipitation and Soil Moisture Over Land from AMSR-E Data | Eni G. Njoku |
| GSFC | Kadler, Matthias | Observational Links between Mass Accretion and Jet Formation in AGN | Kimberly Weaver |
| JPL | Kahn, Brian | Characterizing Cirrus Clouds and their Radiative Forcing with a Multi-sensor Approach | Annmarie Eldering |
| JPL | Khazendar, Ala | Analysis & Model Interpretation of Interferometric Radar Observations of Glacier Motion | Eric Rignot |
| GRC | Lei, Shuliang | Synthesis of Magnetic Suspension of High Speed Flywheel Systems | Albert F. Kascak |
| JPL | Leyrat, Cedric | Physical Properties of Saturn's Rings with CIRS | Linda L. Spilker |
| JSC | Marquette, Michele | Biomedical Engineering, Research, and Technology Development | Diane L. Byerly |
| GSFC | Marsh, Michael (Mike) | The Structure and Dynamic Nature of the Solar Atmosphere | Therese Kucera |
| GSFC | Martoff, Charles | X-ray Polarimetry with Negative Ion TPC | Keith Jahoda |
| JPL | McNary, Jason | THz Imaging of Surface and Sub-surface Water, Ice and Biomarkers | Peter Siegel |
| JPL | Mitchell, Karl | Cryovolcanism on the Cronian Icy Satellites: Development of Physical Models as an Aid to Cassini Image Data Analysis | Rosaly Lopes-Gautier |
| JPL | Mitri, Giuseppe | Thermal Evolution of Titan and Icy Satellites of the Saturn System: Implication for the Surface Structures and Resurfacing | Rosaly Lopes-Gautier |
| MSFC | Mizuno, Yosuke | General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations for Gamma-Ray Bursts | Gerald J. Fishman |
| LaRC | Obland, Michael | Airborne High Spectral Resolution LIDAR | Chris Hostetler |
| GSFC | O'Donovan, Francis | Probing the Atmospheres of New Transiting Exoplanets | Drake Deming |
| GSFC | Ott, Lesley | Evaluating the Impact of Meteorological Fields on the Representation of Convection in the GMI COMBO CTM | Steven Pawson |
| JSC | Park, Jisun | Study of Ar-Ar Dating on Martian Meteorites; Shock Effects of K-Ar Clock in Minerals | Donald D. Bogard |
| NAI | Pasek, Matt | University of Arizona: An Astronomical Search for the Essential Ingredients for Life: Placing our Habitable System in Context | Jonathan Lunine |
| MSFC | Pittman, Jasna | Convective & Radiative Characteristics of the Tropopause Layer over the Tropical Americas | Pete Robertson |
| JPL | Rambaux, Nicolas | Lunar Laser Ranging and the interior structure of the Moon | James Williams |
| NAI | Raymond, Sean | Comet Clouds, Terrestrial Impacts, & the Habitability of Planets in the Galaxy | John Bally |
| GSFC | Roberge, Aki | The Evolution of Gas in Protoplanetary Disks | Marc Kuchner |
| ARC | Roser, Joseph | Maxtrix-Isolation Spectroscopy of Large PAH Molecules and PAH Nanocluster Ions Utilizing Pulsed Laser | Louis J. Allamandola |
| JPL | Saiz-Lopez, Alfonso | Ultraviolet-Visible Remote Sensing of Earth's Atmosphere | Stanley Sander |
| GSFC | Satheesh, S. | Retrieval of Dust and Sea-Salt Aerosols over Afro-Asian Regions using Multiple Satellite Data: Implications to Radiative Forcing | Lorraine Remer |
| JSC | Schroeder, Christian | Aqueous minerals on Mars: Fractionation of non-traditional stable isotopes investigated in analogue materials | Douglas W. Ming |
| LaRC | Schuecker, Clara | Progressive damage analysis for predicting the durability of composite structures | Carlos Davila |
| GSFC | Sergienko, Olga | Polar Oceanography and Glaciology | Robert Bindschadler |
| NAI | Shkolnik, Evgenya | Hot Jupiters, Hot Spots and the Characterization of Extrasolar Planets | Eric Gaidos |
| JPL | Simcic, Jurij | Proposal for cross section measurements for electron impact excitations of some multiply charged ions | Ara Chutjian |
| LaRC | Simpson, Steven | LIDAR Atmospheric Measurements of Water Vapor | Edward Browell |
| GSFC | Singh, Kumar (goes by Hemant) | Planetary Geology and Geophysics | Herbert V. Frey |
| MSFC | Solakiewicz, Richard | Determination of Electric Field Enhancement Factors for Aircraft | William Koshak |
| GSFC | Son, Seunghee | The Development of Silicon Detectors for the Cons Experiment and Future Experiment | Stanley Hunter |
| ARC | Srikanthan, Ramachandran | Mixing State of Aerosols; Implications to Radiative Forcing | Phillip Russell |
| GSFC | Stamatikos, Michael | Correlative Leptonic Observations from Individual Swift GRBs with AMANDA II and IceCube | Neil Gehrels |
| GSFC | Stern, Jennifer (Jen) | Detecting Abiotically Produced Organics on Prebiotic Earth: Establishing a Benchmark for Life | Jamie Elsila |
| GSFC | Taktakishvili, Aleksandre (Sandro) | The Multi-Scale Plasma Processes in the Magnetosheath and Inner Magnetosphere | Maria M. Kuznetsova |
| LaRC | Tejada Ruiz, Arturo | A Hybrid Systems Methodology for the Analysis and Formal Verification of Fault Diagnostic Systems | Benedetto L. Di Vito |
| JPL | Thomson, Bradley | Eolian Modification of Rock Surface Texture: Applications to Earth & Mars | Nathan Bridges |
| NAI | Tian, Feng | Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres | Jim Kasting |
| NAI | Trainer, Melissa | The Evaluation of CO2 Clathrate Hydrates as a Possible Sink for CH4 in the Martian Atmosphere: Fusing Laboratory Results with a Developing Mars General Circulation Model | Owen B. Toon |
| GSFC | Valencic, Lynne | Extragalactic and Nonstellar X-Ray Astrophysics | Richard F. Mushotzky |
| ARC | Van Wyngarden, Annalise | Changes in the Organic Fraction of Aerosols during Cloud Cycling and the Effects on Aerosol Properties | Laura Iraci |
| GSFC | Villanueva, Geronimo | Methane on Mars: The Search for Atmospheric Biomarkers of Subsurface Life | Michael J. Mumma |
| ARC | Vogel, Marilyn | Biomarker Analysis of Microbial Mats and Sediments in Mineral-Precipitating Evaporation on Ponds, Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico | David J. Des Marais |
| GSFC | Wisniewski, John | Instrumentation for High-Contrast Imaging | Mark Clampin |
| JPL | Woods, Paul | Organic Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks | Karen Willacy |