[meteorite-list] NASA Selects Research Teams for New Virtual Institute

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 10:00:58 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <201311051800.rA5I0wHH008258_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

November 5, 2013

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

Rachel Hoover
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-930-6149
rachel.hoover at nasa.gov
     
RELEASE 13-325
     
NASA Selects Research Teams for New Virtual Institute

NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute
that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to
focus on questions concerning space science and human space exploration.

The teams participating in the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual
Institute (SSERVI) will address scientific questions about the moon,
near-Earth asteroids, the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, and their near
space environments, in cooperation with international partners.

"We look forward to collaborative scientific discoveries from these teams,"
said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division of NASA's Science
Mission Directorate in Washington. "These results will be vital to NASA
successfully conducting the ambitious activities of exploring the solar
system with robots and humans."

Based and managed at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.,
the institute will support scientific research and complement and extend
existing NASA science programs. SSERVI represents an expansion of NASA's
Lunar Science Institute, established at Ames in 2008, to include other solar
system destinations.

"SSERVI continues to strengthen the collaboration between exploration and
science as we explore the solar system together," said Jason Crusan, director
of the Advanced Exploration Systems Division in NASA's Human Exploration and
Operations Mission Directorate in Washington.

SSERVI members include academic institutions, non-profit research institutes,
private companies, NASA centers and other government laboratories. The
winning teams, which SSERVI will support for five years at a combined total
of about $12 million per year, were selected from a pool of 32 proposals
based on competitive peer-review evaluation.

The selected SSERVI member teams, listed with their research topics and
principal investigators, are:

- Institute for the Science of Exploration Targets: Origin, Evolution and
Discovery; William Bottke, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.

- Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science; Daniel Britt, University of
Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.

- Volatiles, Regolith and Thermal Investigations Consortium for Exploration
and Science; Ben Bussey, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
in Laurel, Md.

- Dynamic Response of Environments at Asteroids, the Moon, and Moons of Mars;
William Farrell, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

- Remote, In Situ and Synchrotron Studies for Science and Exploration;
Timothy Glotch, Stony Brook University in New York.

- Field Investigations to Enable Solar System Science and Exploration;
Jennifer Heldmann, Ames.

- Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust; Mihaly Horanyi,
University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo.

- Inner Solar System Impact Processes; David Kring, Lunar and Planetary
Institute in Houston.

- Evolution and Environment of Exploration Destinations: Science and
Engineering Synergism; Carle Pieters, Brown University in Providence, R.I.

"We are extremely pleased that the community responded with such high-quality
proposals, and look forward to the many contributions SSERVI will make in
addressing NASA's science and exploration goals," said SSERVI Director
Yvonne Pendleton.

SSERVI will be funded jointly by the Planetary Science and Advanced
Exploration Systems divisions.

For more information about SSERVI and selected member teams, visit:

http://sservi.nasa.gov [3]

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Received on Tue 05 Nov 2013 01:00:58 PM PST


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