Principal Investigators

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Alan Stern

Principal Investigator

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

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Kelsi Singer

Deputy Principal Investigator

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Project Scientists

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Pontus Brandt

Project Scientist

Johns Hopkins APL

Deputy Project Scientists

Anne Verbiscer
U. of Virginia

Joel Parker
SwRI

Program Office/Management Team

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Helene Winters

Project Manager

Johns Hopkins APL

Cindy Conrad
SwRI Deputy Project Manager

Shalene Flynn
SwRI Resource Analyst

Felicia Hastings
Johns Hopkins APL Resource Analyst

Chris Hersman
Johns Hopkins APL Mission Systems Engineer

Gabe Rogers
Johns Hopkins APL Deputy Project Manager

Debi Rose
SwRI Project Manager

Lisa Turner
Johns Hopkins APL PM Office Admin

LeeAnn Marshall
SwRI PI/PM Office Admin

NASA Officers

Becky McCauley Rench
NASA HQ SMD PSD Program Scientist

Karen Gelmis
NASA HQ SMD PSD Program Executive

Cheryl Alexander
NASA MSFC PMPO Mission Manager

Current Co-Investigators

Olivier Barnouin
Johns Hopkins APL

Tracy Becker
SwRI

Susan Benecchi
PSI

Pontus Brandt
Johns Hopkins APL

Marc Buie
SwRI

Andy Cheng
Johns Hopkins APL

Heather Elliott
SwRI

Wes Fraser
National Research Council of Canada

Randy Gladstone
SwRI

Will Grundy
Lowell Observatory

Matt Hill
Johns Hopkins APL

Mihaly Horanyi
U. of Colorado

Carly Howett
PSI

JJ Kavelaars
National Research Council of Canada

Tod Lauer
NOIRlab

Ivan Linscott
Stanford University

David McComas
Princeton University

Ralph McNutt
Johns Hopkins APL

Merav Opher
Boston University

Joel Parker
SwRI

Andrew Poppe
UC Berkeley

Simon Porter
SwRI

Silvia Protopapa
SwRI

Dennis Reuter
NASA Goddard

Stuart Robbins
SwRI

Kelsi Singer
SwRI

Anne Verbiscer
U. of Virginia

Please see the end of this page for the full list of emeritus Co-Is including those from previous mission phases.

Engineering Team

Linda Burke
Johns Hopkins APL

Stewart Bushman
Johns Hopkins APL

Steve Conard
Johns Hopkins APL

Mike Davis
SwRI

Chris DeBoy
Johns Hopkins APL

Alex Doner
U. of Colorado

Jack Ercol
Johns Hopkins APL

Eric Fattig
SwRI

Jacob Firer
Johns Hopkins APL

Brian Garofalo
Johns Hopkins APL

Daniel Hals
Johns Hopkins APL

Chris Hersman
Johns Hopkins APL

Steve Jaskulek
Johns Hopkins APL

Presanth Jeevan
Johns Hopkins APL

Nicholas Lenzi
Johns Hopkins APL

Allen Lunsford
GSFC

Jorge Nunez
Johns Hopkins APL

Pegah Pashai
Johns Hopkins APL

Gabe Rogers
Johns Hopkins APL

Paul Rosendall
Johns Hopkins APL

Lisa Segal
Johns Hopkins APL

Zoltan Sternovsky
U. of Colorado

Mark Tapley
SwRI

Teresa Tropf
Johns Hopkins APL

Maarten Versteeg
SwRI

Michael Vincent
SwRI

Rick Webbert
Johns Hopkins APL

Eddie Weigle
Big Head Endian

Daisy Zhang
Johns Hopkins APL

Grace Zimmerman
Johns Hopkins APL


Mission Operations Center (MOC)

Joshua M. Albers
Johns Hopkins APL

Gordon Allen
NASA JPL

Steven P. Benites
Johns Hopkins APL

Alice Bowman (Mission Operations Manager)
Johns Hopkins APL

Cheryl Cawthon
Johns Hopkins APL

Omar Custodio
Johns Hopkins APL

Gabrielle Griffith
Johns Hopkins APL

Charlie Hall
Johns Hopkins APL

Daniel Hals
Johns Hopkins APL

Helen M. Hart
Johns Hopkins APL

Anisha Hosadurga
Johns Hopkins APL

Bob Jenson
Johns Hopkins APL

Mark C. Kochte
Johns Hopkins APL

Robert Krueger
Johns Hopkins APL

Adam Lafin
Johns Hopkins APL

Mark S. Lahr
Johns Hopkins APL

George B. Lawrence
Johns Hopkins APL

Valerie Mallder
Johns Hopkins APL

Ashique Rahman
Johns Hopkins APL

Louis Randall
Johns Hopkins APL

Daniel J. Schultz
Johns Hopkins APL

Karl Whittenburg
Johns Hopkins APL

Science Operations Center (SOC)

Emma Birath
SwRI

Kate Crombie
Indigo Information Services

Anthony Egan
SwRI

Brian Enke
SwRI

Caden Gobat
SwRI

Ann Harch
Subcontractor

Brian Keeney
SwRI

Nicole Martin
Subcontractor

Joey Mukherjee
SwRI

Joel Parker
SwRI

Jon Pineau
Stellar Solutions

Debi Rose
SwRI

Mission Design

Yanping Guo
Johns Hopkins APL

Navigation Team

Derek Nelson
KinetX

John Pelgrift
KinetX

Carly VeNard
KinetX

Bobby Williams
KinetX

Media

Michael Buckley
Johns Hopkins APL

Erin Morton
NASA

Joanna Quintanilla
SwRI

Michael Soluri
Photography

Maria Stothoff
SwRI-SAT

Website Developer/Administrator

Alysen Regiec
Johns Hopkins APL

Affiliate Science Team Members and Guest Observers

Veronica Bray
U. of Arizona

Nathaniel Cunningham
Wesleyan

Alex Doner
U. of Colorado

Tetsuharu Fuse
NIICT, Japan

David Gerdes
U. of Michigan

Heidi Hammel
AURA

Sammy Hasler
MIT

Richard Henry
Johns Hopkins U.

Jason Hofgartner
SwRI

Peng Hong
Chiba Inst. of Technology

Ko Ishibashi
Chiba Inst. of Technology

Ryo Ishimaru
Chiba Inst. of Technology

Takashi Ito
NAOJ

Peter Kollman
Johns Hopkins APL

Carey Lisse
Johns Hopkins APL

Patryk Lykawka
Kindai University

Laura Mayorga
Johns Hopkins APL

Parisa Mostafavi
Johns Hopkins APL

Jayant Murthy
Indian Inst. of Astrophysics

Romina Nikoukar
Johns Hopkins APL

Marc Postman
STScI

Elena Provornikova
Johns Hopkins APL

Seth Redfield
Wesleyan

John Richardson
MIT

Michael Shull
U. Colorado and UNC

Jonathan Slavin
Smithsonian Astrophysical Obs.

Amy Simon
NASA Goddard

Justyna Sokol
SwRI

Ted Stryk
Roane State

Tsuyoshi Terai
Subaru/NAOJ

Daniel Wenkert
JPL

Fumi Yoshida
U. of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan

Science Theme Teams

Geology & Geophysics Investigation (GGI) Theme Team (Emeritus)

Lead

Jeff Moore
NASA ARC

Deputies

William McKinnon
Washington University in St. Louis

Oliver White
SETI

Astrophysics Theme Team

Lead

Tod Lauer
NOIRlab

Deputy

Joel Parker
SwRI

Ground-Based Kuiper Belt Object Observation Team

Lead

Marc Buie
SwRI

Deputy

Anne Verbiscer
U. of Virginia

Planetary Theme Team

Lead

Will Grundy
Lowell Observatory

Deputy

Susan Benecchi
PSI

Heliophysics Theme Team

Lead

Andrew Poppe
UC Berkeley

Deputy

Elena Provornikova
Johns Hopkins APL

Emeritus Co-Is
institutions are listed as they were at the time of their involvement in the mission

Fran Bagenal
U. of Colorado

Ross Beyer
SETI

Rick Binzel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Britt
U. of Central Florida

Bonnie Buratti
NASA JPL

Dale Cruikshank
NASA ARC

Kimberly Ennico
NASA ARC

Dave Hinson
SETI Institute

Don Jennings
NASA GSFC

William McKinnon
Washington University in St. Louis

Jeff Moore
NASA ARC

Cathy Olkin
SwRI

Alex Parker
SwRI

Harold Reitsema
Consultant

Paul Schenk
LPI

Mark Showalter
SETI Institute

John Spencer
SwRI

Darrell Strobel
JHU

Mike Summers
George Mason University

Len Tyler
Stanford University

Orkan Umurhan
SETI

Hal Weaver
Johns Hopkins APL

Oliver White
SETI

Leslie Young
SwRI

Amanda Zangari
SwRI