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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Space Studies Board
COMMITTEE ON PLANETARY AND LUNAR EXPLORATION
JOHN A. WOOD* (CHAIR)
Senior Scientist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, Mass.
WILLIAM V. BOYNTON
Professor of Planetary Science, Cosmochemistry, and Geochemistry
Department of Planetary Science
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson
W. ROGER BUCK
Senior Research Scientist
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades, N.Y., and
Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
New York City
JAMES P. FERRIS
Research Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and
Director
New York Center for Studies on the Origins of Life
Troy
JOHN M. HAYES*
Director, National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility, and
Senior Scientist, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, Mass.
KAREN J. MEECH
Associate Astronomer
Institute for Astronomy
University of Hawaii
Honolulu
JOHN F. MUSTARD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Science
Brown University
Providence, R.I.
ANDREW F. NAGY
Professor of Space Science
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, and
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
KEITH S. NOLL
Associate Astronomer
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer Instrument Group
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore
DAVID A. PAIGE
Associate Professor of Planetary Science
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California
Los Angeles
ROBERT T. PAPPALARDO
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado
Boulder
ANNA-LOUISE REYSENBACH
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Portland State University
Portland, Ore.
J. WILLIAM SCHOPF*
Professor of Paleobiology
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, the Molecular Biology Institute, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and
Director
Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
University of California
Los Angeles
ANN L. SPRAGUE
Planetary Scientist
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson
RESEARCH COUNCIL STAFF
DAVID H. SMITH
Study Director
* Member, National Academy of Sciences
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