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  Eileen Stansbery  

Eileen Stansbery
Genesis Contamination Control Lead
NASA – Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX

Additional Present Positions:
Assistant Chief, Planetary Science Branch
Earth Science and Solar System Exploration Division, JSC

Previous Positions:
NASA--Johnson Space Center — June 1992 to present

  • Planetary Mission Scientist:

    Responsible for advanced curation planning and Discovery mission curation interfaces. Manages the Genesis Contamination Control and curation tasks, Stardust curation, and advanced curation and organic contamination control for Mars sample handling preparation.

  • Systems Engineer, Exploration Programs Office:

    Responsible for leading system effectiveness analyses for the Space Exploration Initiative. Developed and managed analyses and tools tasks in the definition and evaluation of mission concepts for human missions to the moon and Mars.
Lockheed Engineering and Sciences — June 1989 to June 1992
  • Principle Engineer, Systems Effectiveness:

    Responsible for developing decision analysis techniques and systems effectiveness analyses, methodologies and tools for the Exploration Programs Office.

  • Senior Engineer, Technology Assessment:

    Responsible for evaluating and advocating current and planned technology programs for the space Exploration Initiative and providing a liaison with NASA's Office of Aeronautics, Exploration, and Technology. Monitored the progress of NASA-wide studies in the areas of Human Support (life support, health care, radiation protection, zero-g/partial-g countermeasures.)
Houston Baptist University — June 1986 to May 1989
  • Instructor of Physics:

    Responsible for teaching all levels of physics curriculum (sophomore to senior) as well as managing the laboratory facilities and personnel.
Rice University — September 1982 to May 1989
  • Research Assistant:

    Responsible for researching the coupling of tropospheric and magnetospheric phenomena as part of the NASA Solar Terrestrial Theory Program in development of a feasible theory of whistler duct formation (Ph.D. Thesis).

  • Teaching Assistant:

    Responsible for sophomore astronomy and physics laboratory courses and grading assignments for the introductory graduate solar system classes.
Lunar and Planetary Institute — June 1982 to September 1982

  • Visiting Undergraduate Fellow:

    Completed the development of a diffuse reflectance model begun as a senior research project at Houston Baptist University. This model was to be used for studying infrared transmission spectroscopy of powders immersed in alkali halide disks.

NASA--Johnson Space Center — September 1981 to May 1982
  • Student Researcher:

    Wrote a computer model to solve the radiative transfer equation for planar geometry, allowing for Fresnel reflection at the boundaries. Began work on a diffuse reflectance model as it applied to particulate matter.
Education:
Ph.D. Rice University, 1989, Space Physics
M. S. Rice University, 1986, Space Physics and Astronomy
B. S. Houston Baptist University, 1982, Mathematics and Physics

 
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