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Sally Ride EarthKAM Management & Advisors
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Dr. Deborah Barnhart
Director
Dr. Barnhart is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and serves as the principal investigator on the EarthKAM project. Her career spans three decades of service in commercial industry, government, aerospace and defense – including a 26 year career in the United States Navy, where she attained the rank of Captain and was one of the first ten women assigned to duty aboard ships. She holds several recognitions for her work in education outreach, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Award and the Honeywell Hometown Heroes Award.
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Dr. Sara J. Graves
Information Technology and Systems Lead
Dr. Graves is a Board of Trustees University Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Director of Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. ITSC conducts research and development in data mining and knowledge discovery, distributed sensor and data systems, data and service interoperability, and semantics. Dr. Graves oversees the EarthKAM web portal, image processing, and other information technology and systems.
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Dr. Rob Griffin
Mission Operations and Science Lead
Dr. Rob Griffin is an Earth system scientist and environmental anthropologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). With his students, Rob works around the globe using NASA science and technology to study current environmental issues. A specialist in the fields of satellite remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), he is the science lead and oversees the Mission Operations Center for EarthKAM.
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Brion J. Au
Payload Developer
Brion Au works for Teledyne Brown Engineering as the EarthKAM Operations Lead with the Training & Crew Operations Branch, Mission Operations Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center. Overseeing the development of training and real-time flight products, he coordinates actions of the EarthKAM Mission Operations Center with the Payload Operations Integration Center during EarthKAM missions onboard the International Space Station.
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Sally Ride EarthKAM Mission Operations
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