Astrochemistry Laboratory
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Richar Starr
Astrochemistry Laboratory
NASA/GSFC, Code 691 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-5073 Email: Richard Starr |
Current Position
- Research Associate Professor, Astrochemistry Laboratory
Professional Experience
- Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America
- Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America
- National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Standards
- Research Assistant, Physics Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
- Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
Major Research Activities
- Co-Principal Investigator on NASA Grant NSG 5066, "Research of Cosmic Hard X Rays and Gamma Rays."
- Co-I and Project Scientist for the Long-duration Antarctic Mars-calibration Balloon (LAMB) Program.
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) X-ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) science team associate member.
- Participating Scientist on the Mars Observer, Gamma-ray Remote-sensing Spectrometer (GRS) and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Gamma-Ray Spectrometer.
- Principal Investigator for the X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) experiment that will fly on board the "Clark" satellite which is part of the Small Satellite Technology Initiative.
Selected Publications
1996 "Compositional Mapping with the NEAR X-ray/Gamma-ray Spectrometer," J. I. Trombka, W. V. Boynton, J. Brückner, S. W. Squyres, P. E. Clark, R. Starr, L. G. Evans, S. R. Floyd, E. Fiore, R. E. Gold, J. O. Goldsten, R. L. McNutt, Jr., and S. H. Bailey J. Geophys. Res., accepted for publication.
1996 "The X-Ray Spectrometer for the Clark Mission," R. Starr, M. Acuña, B. Dennis, U. Desai, L. Orwig, J. Trombka, D. Douglass, J. Houser, P. Panetta, T. Plummer, J. Scheifele, P. Uribe Acta Astronautica 39, 293.
1992 "Science Applications of the Mars Observer Gamma Ray Spectrometer," Boynton, W. V., Trombka, J. I., Feldman, W. C., Arnold, J. R., Englert, P. A. J., Metzger, A. E., Reedy, R. C., Squyres, S. W., Wänke, H., Bailey, S. H., Brückner, J., Callas, J. L., Drake, D. M., Duke, P., Evans, L. G., Haines, E. L., McCloskey, F. C., Mills, H., Shinohara, C., and Starr, R. J. Geophys. Res. 97, 7681.
1992 "Analysis of Phobos Mission Gamma Ray Spectra from Mars," J. I. Trombka, L. G. Evans, R. Starr, S. R. Floyd, S. W. Squyres, J. T. Whelan, G. J. Bamford, R. L. Coldwell, A. C. Rester, Yu. A. Surkov, L. P. Moskaleva, V. P. Kharyukova, O. S. Manvelyan, S. Ye. Zaitseva, and G. G. Smirnov Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Sci. 22, 23.
1988 "Hard X-Ray and Low Energy Gamma Ray Spectrometers," N. Gehrels, C. J. Crannell, D. J. Forrest, R. P. Lin, L. E. Orwig, and R. Starr Solar Phys. 118, 233.
