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Amy Simon

December 20, 2023

Amy Simon is an American planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, involved in several missions of the Solar System Exploration Program.[1]

Amy A. Simon
Amy Simon in 2023
BornOctober 1971
Union, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma materFlorida Institute of Technology
New Mexico State University
Children1 son
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary atmospheres
Robotic exploration
InstitutionsCornell University
Goddard Space Flight Center

Education edit

Simon is from Union Township, Union County, New Jersey,[2] where she attended Union High School.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree in Space Sciences from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1993 [4] and was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma. She completed her doctoral studies in astronomy at the New Mexico State University in 1998.[5] Upon graduation, she became a postdoctoral research scientist at Cornell University.

Career edit

Simon is a Senior Scientist in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, having joined NASA as a civil servant in 2001. She served as the Chief of the Planetary Systems Laboratory from 2008 to 2010 and the Associate Division Director from 2010 to 2013.[4]

Her scientific research involves the study of the composition, dynamics, and cloud structure in jovian planet atmospheres, primarily from spacecraft observations, and as of 2023, she has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications.[6]

Works edit

Her contributions include the first detailed study of the changing shape of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as well as the discoveries of several types of waves in the atmosphere of Jupiter.[7][8][9] Her analysis of Voyager 2, Cassini-Huygens, Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons images led to the discovery of several new classes of Jupiter atmospheric waves.[10][11][12]

Beyond Jupiter, she has studied atmospheric chemistry and dynamics on Saturn, including the north-polar hexagon.[13] She was also part of a team that observed Neptune using the Kepler space telescope, detecting solar oscillations in light reflected off a planet for the first time.[14][15]

Simon is involved in multiple robotic NASA planetary missions. She was a co-investigator on the Cassini-Huygens Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) and is the deputy instrument scientist for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and IR Spectrometer (OVIRS), as well as for the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 [16] instrument and the deputy principal investigator for the Lucy spacecraft L'Ralph instrument.[17]

Since 2014, she has been the principal investigator of the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program.[18] Her team discovered a new Great Dark Spot on Neptune with Hubble[19] and has published more than 12 manuscripts from OPAL data.[18] Her work with OSIRIS-REX led to the discovery of hydrated minerals on the surface of Bennu and earned a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.[20]

Explorations edit

Simon also plans future planetary exploration missions. She served on the National Academy of Sciences' Space Studies Board 2013 Planetary Science Decadal Survey.[21] She has co-led several mission studies for NASA including Flagship class missions to Enceladus and to the Ice Giants, Uranus, and Neptune.[22][23] She was the principal investigator for the proposed New Frontiers class Saturn probe mission, SPRITE.

Simon is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Astronomical Society, and the Division for Planetary Sciences.

Honors and awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "(84994) Amysimon". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  2. ^ Amy Simon: Planetary Scientist, NASA. Accessed September 13, 2018. "[Q] Where are you from? [A] I am originally from Union, N. J."
  3. ^ Parkinson, Claire L.; Millar, Pamela S.; and Thaller, Michelle (editors) Women of Goddard: Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 2011, p. 111 Accessed September 13, 2018 "Amy Simon-Miller Union High School, Union, New Jersey"
  4. ^ a b "Bio - Amy A. Simon". science.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 19 August 2018.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ . astronomy.nmsu.edu. October 2015. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Google scholar profile: Amy A. Simon". Google Scholar. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  7. ^ Simon-Miller, A. A; Gierasch, P. J.; Beebe, R. F.; Conrath, B.; Flasar, F. M.; Achterberg, R. K. (2002). "New Observational Results Concerning Jupiter's Great Red Spot". Icarus. 158 (1): 249–266. Bibcode:2002Icar..158..249S. doi:10.1006/icar.2002.6867.
  8. ^ Simon, Amy A.; Tabataba-Vakili, F.; Cosentino, R.; Beebe, R. F.; Wong, M. H.; Orton, G. S. (2018). "Historical and Contemporary Trends in the Size, Drift, and Color of Jupiter's Great Red Spot". Astronomical Journal. 155 (4): 151. Bibcode:2018AJ....155..151S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aaae01. S2CID 126147959.
  9. ^ "Jupiter's Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks, NASA Team Finds". nasa.gov. NASA. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ^ Simon, Amy A.; Hueso, R.; Inurrigarro, P.; Sanchez-Lavega, A.; Morales-Juberias, R.; Cosentino, R.; et al. (2018). "A New, Long-Lived, Jupiter Mesoscale Wave Observed at visible Wavelengths". Astronomical Journal. 156 (2): 79. arXiv:1807.10692. Bibcode:2018AJ....156...79S. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aacaf5. PMC 6268009. PMID 30510304.
  11. ^ Simon, Amy A.; Li, L.; Reuter, D. C. (2015). "Small-scale waves on Jupiter: A reanalysis of New Horizons, Voyager, and Galileo data". Geophysical Research Letters. 42 (8): 2612–2618. Bibcode:2015GeoRL..42.2612S. doi:10.1002/2015GL063433. S2CID 129617336.
  12. ^ Simon-Miller, A. A; Rogers, J. H; Gierasch, P. J; Choi, D. C; Allison, M. D; Adamoli, G.; Mettig, H. J (2012). "Longitudinal Variation and Waves in Jupiter's South Equatorial Wind Jet". Icarus. 218 (2): 817–830. Bibcode:2012Icar..218..817S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.022. hdl:2060/20120007841. S2CID 122840527.
  13. ^ Morales-Juberias, R.; Sayanagi, K. M.; Simon, Amy A.; Fletcher, L. N.; Cosentino, R. G. (2015). "Meandering Shallow Atmospheric Jet as a Model of Saturn's North-Polar Hexagon". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 806 (1): L18. Bibcode:2015ApJ...806L..18M. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/806/1/L18. S2CID 55193896.
  14. ^ Simon, Amy A.; Rowe, J. F.; Gaulme, P.; Hammel, H. B.; Casewell, S. L.; Fortney, J. J.; et al. (2016). "Neptune's Dynamic Atmosphere for Kepler K2 Observations: implications for Brown Dwarf Light Curve Analysis". Astrophysical Journal. 817 (2): 162. arXiv:1512.07090. Bibcode:2016ApJ...817..162S. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/162. PMC 5257274. PMID 28127087.
  15. ^ Gaulme, P.; Rowe, J. F.; Bedding, T. R.; Benomar, O.; Corsaro, E.; Davies, G. R.; et al. (2016). "A Distant Mirror: Solar Oscillations Observed on Neptune by the Kepler K2 Mission". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 833 (1): L13. arXiv:1612.04287. Bibcode:2016ApJ...833L..13G. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/833/1/L13. S2CID 119477700.
  16. ^ . landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2018.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  17. ^ . lucy.swri.edu. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  18. ^ a b "Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy Program". archive.stsci.edu. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  19. ^ Wong, M. H.; Tollefson, J.; Hsu, A. I.; de Pater, I.; Simon, Amy A.; Hueso, R.; et al. (2018). "A New Dark Vortex on Neptune". Astronomical Journal. 155 (3): 117. Bibcode:2018AJ....155..117W. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aaa6d6.
  20. ^ Hamilton, V. E.; Simon, Amy A.; et al. (2019). "Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu" (PDF). Nature Astronomy. 3 (4): 332–340. Bibcode:2019NatAs...3..332H. doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0722-2. hdl:1721.1/124501. PMC 6662227. PMID 31360777.
  21. ^ . National Academies. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  22. ^ "Enceladus: Saturn's Active Ice Moon" (PDF). lpi.usra.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  23. ^ "Ice Giants Mission Planning". lpi.usra.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  24. ^ "2023 Prize Winners". dps.aas.org. DPS. Retrieved 13 August 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  25. ^ "2022 Presidential Rank Award Winners" (PDF). opm.gov. NASA. Retrieved 6 December 2022.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  26. ^ "Solar System Exploration Division (690) Awards Won". science.gsfcnasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 8 February 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  27. ^ "Lindsay Awards and Lectures". science.gsfcnasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 5 March 2021.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  28. ^ "NASA Bio, Dr. Amy Simon". nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 5 May 2023.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  29. ^ "Sciences and Exploration Directorate (600) Awards Won". nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 17 August 2018.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  30. ^ "NASA Agency Honor Awards 2014" (PDF). nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 17 August 2018.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  31. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

December 20, 2023
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Amy Simon is an American planetary scientist at NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center involved in several missions of the Solar System Exploration Program 1 Amy A SimonAmy Simon in 2023BornOctober 1971Union New Jersey U S Alma materFlorida Institute of TechnologyNew Mexico State UniversityChildren1 sonScientific careerFieldsPlanetary atmospheresRobotic explorationInstitutionsCornell UniversityGoddard Space Flight Center Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Works 4 Explorations 5 Honors and awards 6 ReferencesEducation editSimon is from Union Township Union County New Jersey 2 where she attended Union High School 3 She earned a bachelor s degree in Space Sciences from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1993 4 and was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma She completed her doctoral studies in astronomy at the New Mexico State University in 1998 5 Upon graduation she became a postdoctoral research scientist at Cornell University Career editSimon is a Senior Scientist in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center having joined NASA as a civil servant in 2001 She served as the Chief of the Planetary Systems Laboratory from 2008 to 2010 and the Associate Division Director from 2010 to 2013 4 Her scientific research involves the study of the composition dynamics and cloud structure in jovian planet atmospheres primarily from spacecraft observations and as of 2023 she has authored more than 160 peer reviewed publications 6 Works editHer contributions include the first detailed study of the changing shape of Jupiter s Great Red Spot as well as the discoveries of several types of waves in the atmosphere of Jupiter 7 8 9 Her analysis of Voyager 2 Cassini Huygens Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons images led to the discovery of several new classes of Jupiter atmospheric waves 10 11 12 Beyond Jupiter she has studied atmospheric chemistry and dynamics on Saturn including the north polar hexagon 13 She was also part of a team that observed Neptune using the Kepler space telescope detecting solar oscillations in light reflected off a planet for the first time 14 15 Simon is involved in multiple robotic NASA planetary missions She was a co investigator on the Cassini Huygens Composite Infrared Spectrometer CIRS and is the deputy instrument scientist for the OSIRIS REx Visible and IR Spectrometer OVIRS as well as for the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 16 instrument and the deputy principal investigator for the Lucy spacecraft L Ralph instrument 17 Since 2014 she has been the principal investigator of the Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy OPAL program 18 Her team discovered a new Great Dark Spot on Neptune with Hubble 19 and has published more than 12 manuscripts from OPAL data 18 Her work with OSIRIS REX led to the discovery of hydrated minerals on the surface of Bennu and earned a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal 20 Explorations editSimon also plans future planetary exploration missions She served on the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board 2013 Planetary Science Decadal Survey 21 She has co led several mission studies for NASA including Flagship class missions to Enceladus and to the Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune 22 23 She was the principal investigator for the proposed New Frontiers class Saturn probe mission SPRITE Simon is a member of the American Geophysical Union the American Astronomical Society and the Division for Planetary Sciences Honors and awards editAmerican Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences Claudia J Alexander Prize 2023 24 Meritorious Senior Professional Presidential Rank Awards 2022 25 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal 2020 26 John C Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science 2020 27 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal 2019 28 NASA Silver Achievement Medal OVIRS Team 2017 NASA Group Achievement Award OSIRIS REx Team 2017 Robert H Goddard Science Achievement Award Hubble OPAL Team 2016 Robert H Goddard Engineering Achievement Award OVIRS Team NASA Exceptional Service Medal 2016 29 Robert H Goddard Exceptional Engineering OVIRS Team 2014 NASA Exceptional Service Medal 2014 30 Asteroid 84994 Amysimon discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in 2003 was named in her honor 1 The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 May 2014 M P C 88406 31 References edit nbsp Spaceflight portal a b 84994 Amysimon Minor Planet Center Retrieved 18 January 2020 Amy Simon Planetary Scientist NASA Accessed September 13 2018 Q Where are you from A I am originally from Union N J Parkinson Claire L Millar Pamela S and Thaller Michelle editors Women of Goddard Careers in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics NASA Goddard Space Flight Center July 2011 p 111 Accessed September 13 2018 Amy Simon Miller Union High School Union New Jersey a b Bio Amy A Simon science gsfc nasa gov NASA Retrieved 19 August 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain NMSU Astronomy Alumni astronomy nmsu edu October 2015 Archived from the original on 28 July 2018 Retrieved 4 June 2018 Google scholar profile Amy A Simon Google Scholar Retrieved 16 August 2018 Simon Miller A A Gierasch P J Beebe R F Conrath B Flasar F M Achterberg R K 2002 New Observational Results Concerning Jupiter s Great Red Spot Icarus 158 1 249 266 Bibcode 2002Icar 158 249S doi 10 1006 icar 2002 6867 Simon Amy A Tabataba Vakili F Cosentino R Beebe R F Wong M H Orton G S 2018 Historical and Contemporary Trends in the Size Drift and Color of Jupiter s Great Red Spot Astronomical Journal 155 4 151 Bibcode 2018AJ 155 151S doi 10 3847 1538 3881 aaae01 S2CID 126147959 Jupiter s Great Red Spot Getting Taller as it Shrinks NASA Team Finds nasa gov NASA 12 March 2018 Retrieved 13 March 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Simon Amy A Hueso R Inurrigarro P Sanchez Lavega A Morales Juberias R Cosentino R et al 2018 A New Long Lived Jupiter Mesoscale Wave Observed at visible Wavelengths Astronomical Journal 156 2 79 arXiv 1807 10692 Bibcode 2018AJ 156 79S doi 10 3847 1538 3881 aacaf5 PMC 6268009 PMID 30510304 Simon Amy A Li L Reuter D C 2015 Small scale waves on Jupiter A reanalysis of New Horizons Voyager and Galileo data Geophysical Research Letters 42 8 2612 2618 Bibcode 2015GeoRL 42 2612S doi 10 1002 2015GL063433 S2CID 129617336 Simon Miller A A Rogers J H Gierasch P J Choi D C Allison M D Adamoli G Mettig H J 2012 Longitudinal Variation and Waves in Jupiter s South Equatorial Wind Jet Icarus 218 2 817 830 Bibcode 2012Icar 218 817S doi 10 1016 j icarus 2012 01 022 hdl 2060 20120007841 S2CID 122840527 Morales Juberias R Sayanagi K M Simon Amy A Fletcher L N Cosentino R G 2015 Meandering Shallow Atmospheric Jet as a Model of Saturn s North Polar Hexagon Astrophysical Journal Letters 806 1 L18 Bibcode 2015ApJ 806L 18M doi 10 1088 2041 8205 806 1 L18 S2CID 55193896 Simon Amy A Rowe J F Gaulme P Hammel H B Casewell S L Fortney J J et al 2016 Neptune s Dynamic Atmosphere for Kepler K2 Observations implications for Brown Dwarf Light Curve Analysis Astrophysical Journal 817 2 162 arXiv 1512 07090 Bibcode 2016ApJ 817 162S doi 10 3847 0004 637X 817 2 162 PMC 5257274 PMID 28127087 Gaulme P Rowe J F Bedding T R Benomar O Corsaro E Davies G R et al 2016 A Distant Mirror Solar Oscillations Observed on Neptune by the Kepler K2 Mission Astrophysical Journal Letters 833 1 L13 arXiv 1612 04287 Bibcode 2016ApJ 833L 13G doi 10 3847 2041 8213 833 1 L13 S2CID 119477700 Landsat 9 Science Instrument Details landsat gsfc nasa gov NASA Archived from the original on 7 April 2017 Retrieved 19 August 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain The Lucy Spacecraft and Payload lucy swri edu Archived from the original on 3 June 2021 Retrieved 19 August 2018 a b Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy Program archive stsci edu Retrieved 19 August 2018 Wong M H Tollefson J Hsu A I de Pater I Simon Amy A Hueso R et al 2018 A New Dark Vortex on Neptune Astronomical Journal 155 3 117 Bibcode 2018AJ 155 117W doi 10 3847 1538 3881 aaa6d6 Hamilton V E Simon Amy A et al 2019 Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid 101955 Bennu PDF Nature Astronomy 3 4 332 340 Bibcode 2019NatAs 3 332H doi 10 1038 s41550 019 0722 2 hdl 1721 1 124501 PMC 6662227 PMID 31360777 Planetary Science Decadal Survey National Academies Archived from the original on 2 February 2012 Retrieved 7 September 2018 Enceladus Saturn s Active Ice Moon PDF lpi usra edu Retrieved 7 September 2018 Ice Giants Mission Planning lpi usra edu Retrieved 7 September 2018 2023 Prize Winners dps aas org DPS Retrieved 13 August 2023 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain 2022 Presidential Rank Award Winners PDF opm gov NASA Retrieved 6 December 2022 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Solar System Exploration Division 690 Awards Won science gsfcnasa gov NASA Retrieved 8 February 2021 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Lindsay Awards and Lectures science gsfcnasa gov NASA Retrieved 5 March 2021 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain NASA Bio Dr Amy Simon nasa gov NASA Retrieved 5 May 2023 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain Sciences and Exploration Directorate 600 Awards Won nasa gov NASA Retrieved 17 August 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain NASA Agency Honor Awards 2014 PDF nasa gov NASA Retrieved 17 August 2018 nbsp This article incorporates text from this source which is in the public domain MPC MPO MPS Archive Minor Planet Center Retrieved 18 January 2020 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Amy Simon amp oldid 1187750489, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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