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This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Casey Honniball to the WSH. Casey is a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and has extensive experience in observing, instrumentation, and telescope operation.
As an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, she aided in the development of a submillimeter instruments that she would later help deploy to Mt. Graham and Llano de Chajnantor Observatories and to Antarctica.
As a graduate student at the University of Hawai’i she was responsible for assembly, test, and deployment of a 3-5 µm imaging interferometer (MIDAS, Mid infrared detector of atmospheric species) used for volcanological studies and as a prototype for a small satellite instrument. She co-led a large-scale survey of the mid-IR hydration properties of lunar surface using the SpeX cross-dispersed spectrograph at the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF). Dr. Honniball originated the project to use the NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to search for the 6 µm molecular water signature on the lunar surface and has had two observing runs on SOFIA with 20 more hours planned. As a postdoc fellow, Dr. Honniball continues lunar observations with the IRTF and SOFIA and works to connect the 3 and 6 µm hydration bands on the Moon.
Be sure to follow Casey on Twitter to stay up to date with all of her research.
This Week’s Journalists and Their Stories
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- Dr. Brian Koberlein: [story title/link];
- Carolyn Collins Petersen: [story title/link];
- Dave Dickinson: [story title/link];
- Dr. Kimberly Cartier: [story title/link];
- Dr. Morgan Rehnberg: [story title/link];
- Pamela Hoffman: [story title/link];
- Dr. Alex Teachey: [story title/link];
- Chris Carr: [story title/link];
- Michael Rodruck: [story title/link];
- Molly Wakeling: [story title/link];
- Moiya McTier: [story title/link];
- Veranika Klimovich: [story title/link];
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