Eileen K. 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. 

• 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.) 

• Instructor of Physics: 

Responsible for teaching all levels of physics curriculum (sophomore to senior) as well as managing the laboratory facilities and personnel. 

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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.