Conference Speaker

Dr. James L. Green

Former NASA Chief Scientist

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Jim Green, now retired, was a scientist and senior advisor in the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. Prior to this appointment, he had been NASA’s Chief Scientist and was the longest serving director of the Planetary Science Division with the overall programmatic responsibility for the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, and the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, just to name a few. Dr. Green was awarded Japan’s Kotani Prize in 1996 in recognition of his international science data management activities and received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for the New Horizons flyby of the Pluto system. He has written over 120 scientific articles in refereed journals and over 50 technical articles. In 2015 Jim helped coordinate NASA’s involvement with the film The Martian.


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