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Partnering With NASA JSC for Community Research Needs; Collaborative and Student Opportunities via Jacobs and PSAMS InitiativeNASA Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division houses a unique combination of laboratories and other assets for conducting cutting-edge planetary research. These facilities have been accessed for decades by outside scientists; over the past five years, the 16 full time contract research and technical staff members in our division have hosted a total of 223 visiting researchers, representing 35 institutions. In order to continue to provide this level of support to the planetary sciences community, and also expand our services and collaboration within the broader scientific community, we intend to submit a proposal to NASA specifically for facilities support and establishment of our laboratories as a collective, PSAMS, Planetary Sample Analyses and Mission Science. This initiative should result in substantial cost savings to PIs with NASA funding who wish to use our facilities. Another cost saving could be realized by aggregating visiting user experiments and analyses through COMPRES, which would be of particular interest to researchers in earth and material sciences. JSC is a recognized NASA center of excellence for curation, and in future will allow PIs and mission teams easy access to samples in Curation facilities that they have been approved to study. Our curation expertise could also be used for a collection of experimental run products that could be shared and distributed to COMPRES community members. These experimental run products could range from 1 bar controlled atmosphere furnace, piston cylinder, multi-anvil, CETUS (see companion abstract), to shocked products. Coordinated analyses of samples is one of the major strengths of our division, where a single sample can be prepared with minimal destruction for a variety of chemical and structural analyses, from macro to nano-scale.
Document ID
20160009081
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Danielson, Lisa
(Jacobs Technology, Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Draper, David
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
July 15, 2016
Publication Date
August 19, 2016
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-36538
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2016 Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Annual Meeting
Location: Santa Ana Pueblo, NM
Country: United States
Start Date: August 19, 2016
End Date: August 24, 2016
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF EAR-1606856
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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