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| Education
and Public Outreach Personnel |
The Education and Public Outreach Team of the Time History of Events and Macroscopic Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission is a community of educators, science museum personnel, and scientists. Our highly collaborative network allows partners to leverage their unique skills. The resultant high quality educational resources benefit teachers, students, the general public, and the science community. We also draw on the science expertise of the THEMIS science team to ensure we are presenting the most up-to-date and accurate science to the public and to teachers.
| The
Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Team |
Vassilis Angelopoulos | Principal Investigator
of THEMIS Mission
Dr. Angelopoulos is a scientist with 15 years of experience in
space physics, with emphasis in magnetospheric processes. He is
the author or co-author of 65 publications in refereed journals
on plasma theory and space plasma phenomenology, space technology,
space instrumentation and design. He is a co-investigator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Polar
Electric Fields Instrument (EFI) experiment and an associate of
the Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) Cluster II experiment.
Nahide Craig | Lead of Education and Public Outreach
(E/PO)
A research astronomer with 10 years' involvement in the EUVE mission
and the SSL Experimental Astrophysics Group, Dr. Craig has worked
for both the EUVE and the ORFEUS missions, specializing in the
ground-based observations for the studies of late-type stars, cataclysmic
variables, white dwarfs, and the local interstellar medium. During
the last five years she has been working as Education and Outreach
Scientist and Manager of the SEGway Program at Center for Science
Education at Space Sciences Laboratory. SEGway is a national consortium
of science museums, research institutions, and educators working
together to adapt the latest NASA scientific research for students,
teachers, and the general public via the Internet . SEGway program
serves as an infrastructure for education and outreach materials
for NASA's RHESSI, FAST, CHIPS, STEREO/IMPACT, THEMIS and WISE
space science satellite missions. Dr. Craig is the lead Scientist,
Director and Manager of numerous UCB mission E/PO efforts, including
the RHESSI, FAST, STEREO/IMPACT and most recently selected MIDEX
WISE Missions. Dr. Craig is responsible for designing and implementing
overarching themes for K-12 science education and contributes to
the dissemination and expansion of the E/PO programs at national
level.
Laura Peticolas | E/PO Specialist
Dr. Peticolas is an educator and scientist with many years of experience
in studying the aurora and in teaching physics to undergraduates,
teachers, and the public. She creates high school and junior college
lessons, in collaboration with teachers and the E/PO team. She
also organizes and teaches at professional development workshops.
As the lead E/PO personnel of the FAST mission and an E/PO specialist
working on the NASA mission, STEREO-IMPACT E/PO efforts, she leverages
efforts from multiple NASA missions that are studying everything
from the Sun to auroras.
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