Team
Principal Investigator (PI)
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Branch: Planetary Systems
Email: Jennifer.L.Heldmann@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Oversight of Architecture, Science, Technology, and Robotics subteams. Participate in Citizen Science / Science Activation / Public Engagement (SA/CS/PE) activities.
Deputy PI
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Intelligent Robotics Group
Email: matthew.deans@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for Robotics aspect of RESOURCE, including Lead for Exploration Ground Data Systems (xGDS) and management of data products, scheduling tools for integration with xGDS. Management field lead for field testing.
Deputy PI
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)
Email: alexander.sehlke@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Deputy PI responsible for assisting with project management of science and technical aspects of RESOURCE. Provides lunar science and field deployment expertise.
Mahesh Anand
International Collaborator
Affiliation: The Open University at Milton Keynes, UK
Email: mahesh.anand@open.ac.uk
Responsibility: Principal Investigator for the United Kingdom SSERVI Team and ensures close collaboration between RESOURCE and our UK colleagues; contribute to the scientific assessment of resources on SSERVI Target Bodies (with a special emphasis on mineral resources and ISRU), and maintain a close connection between European ISRU mission plans and the RESOURCE project.
Koorosh Araghi
Affiliation: NASA Johnson Space Center
Email: koorosh.araghi@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for ISRU, including serving as JSC Center ISRU & Advance Fuel Cell & Electrolysis Domain Manager Energy Conversion System Branch, EP3, Propulsion & Power Division
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
SETI Institute
Email: ross.a.beyer@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead development of data products necessary for lunar polar rover traverse planning & science analysis.
Phil Bland
International Collaborator
Affiliation: Curtin University, Australia
Email: p.bland@curtin.edu.au
Responsibility: Principal Investigator for the Australian SSERVI Team and ensures close collaboration between RESOURCE and our Australian colleagues. Bland coordinates collaborations between RESOURCE and the mining industry of Australia to inform the RESOURCE planning for optimal planetary ISRU as well as contribute to scientific analysis of resource distributions on SSERVI Target Bodies.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Email: john.l.bresina@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead development and integration of mission scheduling tools into xGDS to enable real-time operations of a lunar polar rover.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Branch: Planetary Systems
Email: anthony.colaprete-1@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for NIRVSS spectrometer system and leads technology development plan and testing for near-infrared spectrometer system (laboratory and field tests).
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: USGS, WA Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
Email: jcoyan@usgs.gov
Responsibility: Lead for mineral potential modeling resource assessment, development of predictive maps to identify regions of high prospectivity, assess risk profiles compared with economic return for lunar ISRU.
Ariel Deutsch
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Email: ariel.deutsch@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Remote sensing and geophysical techniques to study the evolution of planetary bodies, with particular focus on volatiles and volcanism.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Kennedy Space Center
Email: michael.downs@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead infrastructure engineer for simulation testing.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Branch: Planetary Systems
Email: Richard.C.Elphic@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS) and leads technology development plan and testing for NSS (laboratory and field tests). Science lead to identify and characterize resources on Phobos and Deimos.
Carter Emmart
Collaborator
Affiliation: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Email: –
Responsibility: Partner for Citizen Science / Science Activation / Public Engagement (SA/CS/PE) activities. Principal Investigator for the OpenSpace Science Activation team at the AMNH. RESOURCE works with Emmart to develop lunar public presentations using the OpenSpace visualization tools.
Kevin Frank
Collaborator
Affiliation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Email: kevin.frank@jpl.nasa.gov
Responsibility: Partner for Citizen Science / Science Activation / Public Engagement (SA/CS/PE) activities. Lead for the NASA Museum Alliance program run at JPL, serves as POC for RESOURCE collaboration to give online seminars to the Museum Alliance audience including planetariums, science centers, museums across the country.
Pamela Harman
Collaborator
Affiliation: SETI Institute
Email: pharman@seti.org
Responsibility: Partner for Citizen Science / Science Activation / Public Engagement (SA/CS/PE) activities. Principal Investigator for the Science Activation (SA) team at the SETI Institute and organizes multiple Girl Scout activities each year focused on space-themed activities for girls. RESOURCE Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) will help plan and also participate in Girl Scout activities.
Dan Hendrickson
Collaborator
Affiliation: Astrobotic Technologies, Inc.
Email: –
Responsibility: Connects RESOURCE Science Matter Experts with Astrobotic to assess resource prospecting payload accommodation and flight operations capabilities for future flight missions to the lunar surface.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Email: jhoffma1@mit.edu
Responsibility: Assists with assessment of human-robotic interactions (HRI), AR/VR for ISRU missions, and HCI at MIT for ISRU mission concepts.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Email: dana.hurley@jhuapl.edu
Responsibility: Science Lead for analysis of mission data to identify and characterize potential resources on SSERVI Target Bodies. Lead for lunar volatiles analysis and science data analysis for field deployment.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Howard University
Email: deena.khalil@howard.edu
Responsibility: Lead for developing highly effective STEAM teachers who then elect to serve in either urban schools or in education systems with a predominantly marginalized student population.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Glenn Research Center
Email: julie.e.kleinhenz@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Deputy for NASA’s ISRU System Capability Leadership Team thus ensuring close coordination with RESOURCE project. Study lead for lunar ice mining, assist with ISRU hardware development and test.
Kyeong Kim
International Collaborator
Affiliation: Korean Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources
Email: kjkim@kigam.re.kr
Responsibility: Assists with scientific interpretations of mission data to identify and characterize volatiles. Ensures close coordination with burgeoning Korean lunar exploration program to infuse RESOURCE activities into mission opportunities.
Emily Law
Collaborator
Affiliation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Email: emily.s.law@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for the Moon Trek project, ensures that RESOURCE data products are ingested into this platform to make these datasets available to the scientific community and public.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Branch: Planetary Systems
Email: darlene.lim@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for integration of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality (AR/VR) into laboratory and field testing operations. Lead for organization and operations of Mission Science Center for lunar polar rover concepts.
Jennifer Lopez
Collaborator
Affiliation: Astrobotic Technologies, Inc.
Email: –
Responsibility: Assess resource prospecting payload accommodation and flight operations capabilities for future flight missions to the lunar surface.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Email: alexandra.matiella.novak@jhuapl.edu
Responsibility: Lead for Citizen Science / Science Activation / Public Engagement (SA/CS/PE). Responsible for CS/PE/SA planning and integration of RESOURCE CS/PE/SA into broader NASA and public activities.
Chris McKay
Collaborator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center
Email: chris.mckay@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Assists with planning of RESOURCE fieldwork in the Antarctic Dry Valleys & ice-rich field sites.
Boleslaw Mellerowicz
Collaborator
Affiliation: Honeybee Robotics
Email: –
Responsibility: Design and hardware development pertaining to water extraction. Testing of hardware in simulated lunar conditions.
Zara Mirmalek
Collaborator
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center/ Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)
Email: zara.mirmalek@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Investigates human-technology work for conducting science and exploration in extreme environments by applying social science research methods, specifically work ethnography research practices for data collection and analysis.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Email: dnewman@mit.edu
Responsibility: Lead for Architecture studies pertaining to ISRU. Lead for Human Centered Investigations (HCI) and use of AR/VR for ISRU mission operations.
Gordon Osinski
International Collaborator
Affiliation: Western University, Canada
Email: gosinski@uwo.ca
Responsibility: Assists with science interpretation regarding distribution and availability of resources, advise regarding research plans for fieldwork in terrestrial cold / polar environments.
Joe Palmowski
Collaborator
Affiliation: Honeybee Robotics
Email: –
Responsibility: Design and hardware development pertaining to water extraction. Testing of hardware in simulated lunar conditions.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: NASA Johnson Space Center
Email: aaron.paz-1@nasa.gov
Responsibility: Lead for technology identification and development for ISRU volatiles processing through RESOURCE (including laboratory and field testing).
Mohamed Ragab
International Collaborator
Affiliation: ispace Inc., Japan
Email: –
Responsibility: Collaborates with RESOURCE to assess payload accommodation options for future lunar flight mission opportunities.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Email: andy.rivkin@jhuapl.edu
Responsibility: Responsible for science analysis to identify and characterize potential resources on Near Earth Asteroids.
Julie Shah
Collaborator
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Email: julie_a_shah@csail.mit.edu
Responsibility: Designing machine intelligence to enhance human capabilities
Leo Stolov
Collaborator
Affiliation: Honeybee Robotics
Email: –
Responsibility: Design and hardware development pertaining to water extraction. Testing of hardware in simulated lunar conditions.
Anna Wagner
Collaborator
Affiliation: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
Email: Anna.M.Wagner@usace.army.mil
Responsibility: Logistics lead for field activities in Alaska at CRREL Permafrost Research Tunnel Facility, advises on science analysis of ice dynamics.
Ferrous Ward
Graduate Student
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Email: ferrous@mit.edu
Responsibility: Architecture studies pertaining to ISRU. Development of tools for data analysis and planning support in the context of simulated mission operations.
Co-Investigator
Affiliation: Honeybee Robotics
Email: kazacny@honeybeerobotics.com
Responsibility: Lead for Drilling and water extraction activities (design and hardware development & testing). Lead for hardware chamber testing in simulated lunar conditions at Honeybee Robotics.