Nancy Chabot
Nancy Chabot | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Alma mater | Rice University University of Arizona |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Planetary science Physics |
Institutions | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Case Western Reserve University NASA |
Thesis | Geochemical studies of the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies(1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael J. Drake |
Nancy Chabot(born 1972) is aplanetary scientistat theJohns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory.
Career
[edit]Nancy Chabot earned her B.A. inphysicsfromRice Universityin 1994.[1]After earning her Ph.D. inplanetary sciencefrom theUniversity of Arizonain 1999,[2]Chabot worked at theJohnson Space CenterinHouston,then atCase Western Reserve UniversityinCleveland.She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory atJohns Hopkins Universityin 2005.
She has been a member of five field teams that traveled toAntarcticawith theAntarctic Search for Meteorites(ANSMET) program to collectmeteorites.[3]In 2001, Chabot was awarded the United StatesAntarctic Service Medal.[1]
On NASA'sMESSENGERmission, she served as the Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the Chair of the Geology Discipline Group. She was the lead for MDIS-based scientific investigations ofMercury'spolar, radar-bright, ice-bearingcratersand led the release of web images since MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury in January 2008.[4]
Currently, she is the Deputy PI for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission.
She is also the Coordination Lead on NASA'sDouble Asteroid Redirection Test(DART) mission, which was led by APL.[5]
She is a Fellow of theMeteoritical Society,and Asteroid (6899) Nancychabot is named in her honor.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcChabot, Nancy."JHUAPL -, Nancy, Chabot - Science Research Portal".secwww.jhuapl.edu.Retrieved2017-10-10.
- ^Chabot, Nancy."Geochemical studies of the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies".Retrieved2024-03-29.
- ^"MESSENGER Biographies".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-02-21.
- ^"1,000th Featured Image from MESSENGER Posted on the Project's Web Gallery".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-02-21.
- ^Bardan, Roxana (2022-10-11)."NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid's Motion in Space".NASA.Retrieved2022-12-21.
External links
[edit]- Art and Science Converge in ‘Images of Our Solar System’
- Highlighted Team Member Nancy Chabot: Scientist’s Passion for Discovery Fuels Curiosity about Mercury