Biography:Linda Spilker
Linda Spilker | |
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| Born | Linda Joyce Bies[1] 1955 (age 69–70) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Planetary Science |
| Institutions | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Thesis | Wave structure in planetary rings (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher T. Russell |
Linda Spilker is an American planetary scientist who served as the project scientist for the Cassini mission exploring the planet Saturn.[2][3][4][5][6] Her research interests include the evolution and dynamics of Saturn's rings.[7]
Career
Spilker received a B.A.in Physics from California State University, Fullerton in 1977 and an M.S. in Physics from California State University, Los Angeles in 1983. She obtained a Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA in 1992. She joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977, initially working on the Voyager missions that were launched the same year.[8] She became a Cassini mission scientist in 1990.[2] In 1997, she was the editor of a NASA publication that summarizes the mission's legacy.[9] In 2010 she became the Cassini mission project scientist, a role in which she directed the entire team's scientific investigations.[3][4][5][6][8] She has appeared as herself in multiple television documentary programs, including several in the PBS Nova series.[1]
Honors and awards
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2013)[10][2]
- NASA Group Achievement Award (2011, 2009, 2000, 1998, 1982–1989)[2]
- NASA Scientific Achievement Award (1982)[2]
See also
- List of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Linda Spilker". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1995978/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Linda Spilker". https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Spilker/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NASA's Cassini Begins Its Final Mission Before Self-Destruction". NPR.org. April 5, 2017. https://www.npr.org/2017/04/05/522756844/nasas-cassini-begins-its-final-mission-before-self-destruction.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "NASA's Cassini Mission Conducts Daring Dive through Saturn's Rings" (in en). Scientific American. April 26, 2017. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-cassini-mission-conducts-daring-dive-through-saturns-rings/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Saturn ruled this scientist's life for 40 years — here's why she needs NASA to go back after Cassini's death" (in en). Business Insider. September 17, 2017. http://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-mom-linda-spilker-why-nasa-should-go-back-saturn-2017-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kaplan, Sarah (September 14, 2017). "Cassini was the mission of a lifetime for this NASA scientist. Now she must say goodbye.". Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/14/for-this-nasa-scientist-cassini-was-the-mission-of-a-lifetime-now-she-must-say-goodbye/.
- ↑ Meltzer, Michael (2015). The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn: An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet. Springer. p. 287. ISBN 978-3-319-07607-2.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Linda Spilker, planetary scientist" (in en). https://scicom.ucsc.edu/publications/QandA/2015/spilker.html.
- ↑ Spilker, Linda, ed (1997). Passage to a ringed world : the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. National Aeronautics and Space Administration SP-533. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-533.pdf.
- ↑ "NASA Agency Honor Awards". 2013. pp. 25. https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/2013_Agency_Honor_Awards_Brochure.pdf?rhid=1000&did=1626944&type=released.
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