Astrochemistry Laboratory
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Dr. Richard Starr
Astrochemistry Laboratory
NASA/GSFC, Code 691 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-5073 Email: Dr. Richard Starr |
Current Position
Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America and Astrochemistry Laboratory, NASA/GSFC
Professional History
Richard Starr is a Research Associate Professor in the Physics Department at The Catholic University of America and has been funded through NASA grants to conduct X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron studies at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD since 1980. He has developed instrumentation for balloon and space flight missions in the fields of solar physics, astrophysics and planetary physics. Over the last fifteen years he has worked on such programs as the GRS for Mars Observer, the X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker (NEAR) mission, the Russian Mars ’96 GRS and the X-Ray Spectrometer for the Clark mission. He is currently involved with three flight missions: as a co-investigator for the GRS instrument suite on the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, as the X-Ray Spectrometer instrument scientist and participating scientist for the Mercury MESSENGER mission, and as a co-investigator on the Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) which is part of the science payload on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Dr. Starr is co-author of more than 60 papers in refereed journals.
Awards
Antarctic Service Medal - 1988
NASA Group Achievement Award - Mars Observer payload Development/GRS
NASA Group Achievement Award - NEAR Shoemaker Mission Team
NASA Group Achievement Award - 2001 Mars Odyssey Project Team
NASA Group Achievement Award - 2001 Mars Odyssey Project GRS Team
Selected Publications
2008 "Mercury's Magnetosphere After MESSENGER's First Flyby", Slavin, J. A., Acuña, M. H., Anderson, B. J., Baker, D. N., Benna, M., Gloeckler, G., Gold, R. E., Ho, G. C., Killen, R. M., Korth, H., Krimigis, S. M., McNutt, R. L., Nittler, L. R., Raines, J. M., Schriver, D., Solomon, S. C., Starr, R. D., Trávnícek, P., Zurbuchen, T. H.Science 321, Issue 5885, pp. 85-89.
2007 "Concentration of H, Si, Cl, K, Fe, and Th in the low- and mid-latitude regions of Mars", W. V. Boynton, G. J. Taylor, L. G. Evans, R. C. Reedy, R. Starr, D. M. Janes, K. E. Kerry, D. M. Drake, K. J. Kim, R. M. S. Williams, M. K. Crombie, J. M. Dohm, V. Baker, A. E. Metzger, S. Karunatillake, J. M. Keller, H. E. Newsom, J. R. Arnold, J. Bruckner, P. A. J. Englert, O. Gasnault, A. L. Sprague, I. Mitrofanov, S. W. Squyres, J. I. Trombka, L. d'Uston, H. Wanke, and D. K. Hamara J. Geophys. Res. 112 E12S99, doi:10.1029/2007JE002887.
2007 "The X-Ray Spectrometer on the MESSENGER Spacecraft", Charles E. Schlemm II, Richard D. Starr, George C. Ho, Kathryn E. Bechtold, Sarah A. Hamilton, John D. Boldt, William V. Boynton, Walter Bradley, Martin E. Fraeman, Robert E. Gold, John O. Goldsten, John R. Hayes, Stephen E. Jaskulek, Egidio Rossano, Robert A. Rumpf, Edward D. Schaefer, Kim Strohbehn, Richard G. Shelton, Raymond E. Thompson, Jacob I. Trombka, and Bruce D. Williams Space Sci Rev 131, Issue 1-4, pp. 393-415.
2007 "MESSENGER and the Chemistry of Mercury's Surface", William V. Boynton, Ann L. Sprague, Sean C. Solomon, Richard D. Starr, Larry G. Evans, William C. Feldman, Jacob I. Trombka, and Edgar A. Rhodes Space Sci Rev 131, Issue 1-4, pp. 85-104 .
2006 "Analysis of gamma ray spectra measured by Mars Odyssey", Evans, Larry G., Reedy, Robert C., Starr, Richard D., Kerry, Kristopher E., Boynton, William V. J. Geophys. Res.111 No.E3,E03S04 10.1029/2005JE002657.
2005 "Pulsed neutron generator system for astrobiological and geochemical exploration of planetary bodies", Hatice Akkurt, Joel L. Groves, Jacob Trombka, Richard Starr, Larry Evans, Samuel Floyd, Richard Hoover, Lucy Lim, Timothy McClanahan, Ralph James, Timothy McCoy, Jeffrey Schweitzer Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 241 232-237.
