Amy R. Winebarger

Affiliation: NASA MSFC/ST13

Email: amy.r.winebarger@nasa.gov

Phone: (256) 961-7509

Dr. Amy R. Winebarger is a solar astrophysicist employed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She specializes in the analysis of observations of the solar corona and compares these observations with computer models. Dr. Winebarger is one of the first female principal investigators for sounding rocket missions and has been in the management team for 9 missions to date

Research Areas

Solar Corona: Studying the heating, evolution, and eruptions of the solar corona.

Instrument Development: Building scientific instruments to study the Sun and launching them on sounding rockets.

Observational Analysis: Analyzing observations of the solar corona and comparing with computer models.

Current Projects

Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE)

Heliophysics MidEx mission due to launch in 2027.

Sounding Rocket Missions

Principal investigator and management team member for solar observation sounding rocket missions.

Experience

Solar Astrophysicist
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Current

Principal Investigator
Sounding Rocket Missions
Multiple missions to date

Teaching & Outreach

Research Experience for Undergraduates: Co-director of REU program, mentoring undergraduate students in solar physics research

Educational Lectures: Regularly gives educational lectures about solar physics and space research