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Jennifer Heldmann

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.

Matthew Deans

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.

Alexander Sehlke

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

Ross Beyer

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.

John Bresina

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.

Anthony Colaprete

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).

Joshua Coyan

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.

Michael Downs

Co-Investigator

Affiliation: NASA Kennedy Space Center

Email: michael.downs@nasa.gov

Responsibility: Lead infrastructure engineer for simulation testing.

Rick Elphic

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.

Jeffrey Hoffman

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.

Dana Hurley

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.

Deena Khalil

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.

Julie Kleinhenz

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.

Darlene Lim

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.

Alexandra Matiella Novak

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.

Dava Newman

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.

Aaron Paz

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.

Andrew Rivkin

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.

Kris Zacny

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.