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Meet NASA's New Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
July 29, 2013
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NASA Welcomes New Chief Scientist, NASA
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named planetary geologist Ellen Stofan the agency’s chief scientist, effective Aug. 25.
The appointment marks Stofan’s return to NASA. From 1991 through 2000, she held a number of senior scientist positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., including chief scientist for NASA’s New Millennium Program, deputy project scientist for the Magellan Mission to Venus, and experiment scientist for SIR-C, an instrument that provided radar images of Earth on two shuttle flights in 1994.

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One response to “Meet NASA's New Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan”

  1. David_Morrison says:
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    Congratulations to Ellen — a great choice as NASA Chief Scientist!