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Awards & Recognition

NPP Fellow NASA Center Awards and Recognition Year
Darlene Sze Shien Lim  ARC Shad Valley Alumna of the Year Award 2006
Emmanuel Philippe Dinnat  GSFC NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Peer Award for Outstanding Post-Doc/Research Associate 2006
Takanori Sakamoto  GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center, Exploration of the Universe Division 2006 Peer Award 2006
Mark Brodwin  JPL Author of 2007 Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Keck Fellowship Award Spitzer GO-3 Proposal grant of $160,000 2007
Flora Paganelli  JPL Certificate of Achievement, JPL Planetary Summer School 2005
Paul Alexander Abell  JSC Awarded observing time for calendar year 2006 on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility to investigate Near Earth Object/Potentially Hazardous Object compositions and their physical characteristics 2006
Paul Alexander Abell  JSC Invited member of a preliminary feasibility study sponsored by the Advance Projects Office of the Constellation Program to examine the possibility of sending the new Crew Exploration Vehicle to a near Earth object 2006
Sayata Ghose LaRC Outstanding Paper Award (3rd Place), SAMPE International Technical Conference 2005, Seattle, WA 2005
Sayata Ghose LaRC “Flexible Fabrics with High Thermal Conductivity for Advanced Spacesuits”; Human and Robotic Technology Intramural Call for Proposals 2004 - Award for $14.7m (2005-2008). 2005
Sayata Ghose LaRC ”Continuous Ultrasonic Process for Dispersion of Nanofibers and Nanotubes in Polymer Melts and Manufacture of Products from Prepared Nanocomposites”; A.I. Isayev, M.R. Sadeghi, P.T. Lillehei, S. Ghose, NASA Broad Agency Announcement, Human and Robotic Technology - Award for $2.33m (2005-2007) 2005
Sayata Ghose LaRC Selected for an article in the Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine. 2007
Anna Gannet Hallar ARC Co-Principal Investigator for Proposal titled "Climatic Studies of Thin Cirrus coupled with the Validation of Aura Detection of Upper Tropospheric and Stratospheric Clouds using Solar Occultation Data" funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Aura Validation Research Announcement 2005
Jennifer Lynne Heldmann ARC 2005 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters 2005
Robert Thomas James McAteer GSFC Queen's University Visiting Fellow 2006
Igor I. Broun JSC Outstanding Co-op Mentor Award 2006
Satheesh Krishnakumari GSFC Asian Young Aerosol Scientist Award, 2007, Asian Aerosol Research Assembly (AARA) 2007
Satheesh Krishnakumari GSFC SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in Earth Sciences, 2007, ELSEVIER ASIA PACIFIC 2007
Satheesh Krishnakumari GSFC Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) Award in Space Sciences, 2008 by the Department of Space, Government of India 2008
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez JPL 2008 Outstanding Young Scientist Award by the European Geosciences Union 2008
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez JPL 2007 James R. Holton Jr. Scientist Award by the Atmospheric Science Section of the AGU 2007
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez JPL 2007 NASA-JPL Junior Scientist Outstanding Research Award 2007
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez JPL 2007 Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientist (ACCESS) participant 2007
Ala Khazendar JPL Invited presentation selected to be published in Geophysical Research Letters 2008
Christopher Wohl LaRC Creative and Innovative Research Opportunity Award from the NASA Langley Research Center 2008
Andreas Beyersdorf LaRC Selected to participate in NASA’s ‘Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction between the Surface and Atmosphere’ (AMISA) mission, an airborne laboratory study in northern Sweden in support of the International Polar Year science project 2008
Andreas Beyersdorf LaRC Selected to participate in NASA’s ‘Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites’ (ARCTAS) mission, an airborne study conducted over Alaska and Canada as part of the International Polar Year effort; also recognized by the Discovery Channel 2008
Michael Obland LaRC Recognized by the Discovery Channel for his contributions to studying air pollution in the Arctic 2008
Joel Berge JPL Paris University's Chancery Prize, recognizing the academic and scientific excellence of the Ph.D. thesis; includes a monetary award of $10,000 Euros 2008
Jacob Bleacher GSFC One of eight scientists invited to attend the Constellation Program Office (Cx) Optimizing Science & Exploration Working Group (OSEWG) Lunar Field Geology Workshop  2008
Christian Schroeder JPL NASA Group Achievement Award for the Mars Exploration Rover 3rd and 4th Extended Mission Team 2008
Matthew Pasek NAI NASA Sagan-Haskin Early Career Fellowship 2007
Matthew Pasek NAI PI of a NASA Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Grant: Reduced Phosphorus Assemblages as Sources of Reactive P the Origin and Evolution of Early Life.  $305,295 for 3 years. 2007
Matthew Pasek NAI Recipient of a Royal Society visiting scientist travel grant; $3,500 2007
Karly Pitman JPL Nomination, Annie Jump Cannon Award, American Astronomical Society based in part on significance of NPP research to outer solar system research 2007
Dorothy Oehler JSC Invited to give a Keynote Address at the Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver 2008
Dorothy Oehler JSC Selected as one of 33 Expenses-Paid participants in the World Summit on Ancient Microscopic Fossils, Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life at UCLA 2008
Dorothy Oehler JSC Science Principal Investigator for successful grant application to NASA Exibiology and Astrobiology Program -- Elemental, Isotopic, and Structural Characteristics of Earth’s Earliest Life: Implications for Recognizing Remnants of Early Microbial Life on Earth and Elsewhere 2008
Dorothy Oehler JSC Successful Application for funding from Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Technology Investments FY 2009: Planetary Mapping Project by  Dorothy Z. Oehler & Carlton C. Allen. 2008