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Dr. Thomas B. McCord
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in WA
Areas of Expertise
Targets: Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Comets, Earth, Enceladus, Europa, Ganymede, Iapetus, Icy satellites, Mars, Mercury, Meteorites, Moon, Small satellites, Titan, Vesta
Disciplines/Techniques: Geochemistry, Geology, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mineralogy, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy, Thermal modeling
Missions: Apollo, Cassini, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Dawn, Europa Clipper, Galileo, Mariner 9, Mars Express (ESA), Rosetta
Mission Roles: Calibration/Test planning, Data archive, Data validation, Instrument Co-Investigator, Instrument PI, Mission science team, Optical design, Requirements generation and flow down, Science operations
Instruments: Cameras, FTIR, Imaging spectrometers, Spectrometers
Facilities: Cerro Tololo, IRTF, Kitt Peak, Palomar
Research Interests
Composition of Solar System objects, and especially the surfaces.
Professional History
California Institute of Technology: MS geology 1966, Ph.D. Astronomy and Planetary Science 1968, Postdoctral Fellow 1968
Mass. Inst. Tech: asst and assoc professor, tenured, 1968-78.
University of Hawaii: Professor and director. 1976-2021
Honors and Awards
Whipple Award AGU
Fellow AGU and AAAS
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
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