Title: The Power of NASA Science
Abstract: Dr. Mark Clampin, Acting Deputy Associate Administrator (DAA), NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will provide an overview of SMD’s portfolio and discuss its priorities, including its Moon to Mars objectives. He will highlight research and recent results in the fields of Earth Science, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, Biology and Fundamental Physics, and identify key technologies that enable these missions and their research objective. He will also discuss in broad terms NASA's growing interest in emerging quantum technologies.
Bio:
Dr. Mark Clampin is the Acting Deputy Associate Administrator in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where he provides executive leadership, overall planning, direction, and management of NASA’s science portfolio focused on the scientific exploration of Earth, the Sun, solar system, universe, and biological and physical sciences.
Dr. Mark Clampin previously held the position of the Astrophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. He was the Director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SED) at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), where he led the Astrophysics, Solar System, Heliophysics and Earth Science Divisions, together with the high-performance computing office.
He served as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Observatory Project Scientist for 14 years and was responsible for the development and oversight of Webb’s scientific performance. Prior to joining GSFC, Dr Clampin he worked on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Servicing Missions SM1 to SM3B, and was a Co-Investigator on HST’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Dr. Clampin was the founding Editor of SPIE’s peer-reviewed Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments and Systems (JATIS), and served as Chief Editor for 7 years.
Dr. Clampin graduated from the University of London with a BS in Physics and from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, with PhD in Astronomy. Dr. Clampin is the recipient of the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work on the Webb Telescope, NASA’s Scientific Achievement Medal and the AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Prize. He is a Fellow of SPIE and the Royal Astronomical Society.
