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Samuel Gulkis

Education

Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering with High Honors, University of Florida (l960)
Master of Science, Physics, University of Florida (l963)
Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, University of Florida (l965)

Projects

MIRO
MIRO (Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter) is a scientific instrument on the ROSETTA Spacecraft.

Juno
Juno will fly to Jupiter and orbit its polar regions in order to understand the planet's gross size and structural properties, as well as measure Jupiter's atmospheric composition, temperature and deep wind profiles.

VESPER
Vesper, the Latin name for "Evening Star" or Venus, is a proposed NASA Discovery-class mission that would increase our knowledge of what the planet's atmosphere is made of and how it changes.

Rosetta
The Rosetta mission is designed to study the origin of comets, the relationship between cometary and interstellar material and its implications with regard to the origin of the Solar System.

Professional Experience

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1968-Present)

Principal Investigator - ROSETTA MIRO (1995-Present)
Senior Research Scientist (1981-Present)
Section Manager, Planetary and Life Detection (2002-2005)
Program Scientist, Solar System Exploration Office, Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate (1996-1999)
Manager, Earth and Space Science, Office of Space Science and Instrumentation (1992-1996)
JPL Pre-Project Scientist, SMME/SMILS Submillimeter Missions (1990-1992)
Project Scientist (SETI), Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1985-1994)
Manager, Space Physics and Astrophysics (1989-1991)
Visiting Scientist, Paris Observatory, Section de Meudon (1987-1988)
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, Epping, N.S.W., Australia (1981)
Manager, Planetary Atmospheres Section (1978-1980)
Senior Member of Technical Staff (1976-1981)
Manager, Planetary Atmospheres Section (1974-1976)
Supervisor, Radio Astronomy and Radiative Transfer Group (1969-1974)
Senior Scientist, Space Sciences Division (1968-1969)

Cornell University (1965-1968)

Research Associate in Radio Astronomy, Arecibo, Puerto Rico (1965-l967)
Assistant Professor Astronomy, Ithaca, New York (l967-l968)

Selected Awards

NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award for Work on Outer Planet Models
NASA Group Achievement Award for Development of Tidbinbilla Interferometer
NASA Group Achievement Award for Voyager Science Investigations
NASA Group Achievement Award for Comet Halley Observation Program
NASA Group Achievement Award for COBE (1990)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award for Observational Cosmology (1991)
NASA Group Achievement Award to High Resolution Microwave Survey Project Team (1993)
NASA Group Achievement Award for Cassini-Jupiter Mircroware Observing Campaign Team (2001)
JPL Excellence Award for Leadership of the MIRO Instrument Development (2005)
Gruber Award for Cosmology (2006)

Selected Publications

Janssen, M.A., M.D. Hofstadter, S. Gulkis, A. P. Ingersoll, M. Allison, S. J. Bolton, S. M. Levin, L. W. Kamp, "Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter's atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft," Icarus, 173, pp447-453 (2005).
Bolton, Janssen, Thorne, Levin, Klein, Gulkis, Bastian, Sault, Elachi, Hofstadter, Bunker, Dulk, Gudim, Hamilton, Johnson, Leblanc, Liepack, McLeod, Roller, Roth, West, "Ultra-relativistic electrons in Jupiter's radiation belts," Nature, pp987-991, Feb. (2002).
Safaeinili, A., S. Gulkis, M.D. Hofstadter, and R. L. Jordan, "Probing the interiors of asteroids and comets using radio reflection tomography," Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37, 1953-1963 (2002).
Gulkis, S., and Imke dePater "Radio Astronomy, Planetary," in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 13, Academic Press, pp687-712 (2002).
Gulkis, S., Frerking, M., Janssen, M., Hartogh, P., Beaudin, G., Koch, T., Salinas, Y., and C. Kahn, "Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter(MIRO)," ESA SP 1165, (2002).
Encrenaz, Th., Coradini, A., Beaudin, G., Crovisier, J., Drossart, P., Erard, S., Germain, B., Gulkis, S., Langevin, Y., Lellouch, E., "The Mars flyby of ROSETTA: an opportunity for infrared and microwave high-resolution sounding," Planetary and Space Science 49, pp673-687, (2001).
Bolton, S. J. Levin, S. M., Gulkis, S., and M. J. Klein, "Divine-Garrett model and Jovian Synchrotron Emission," GRL(28), No. 5, pp 907-910, (2001).
Encrenaz, Th., Lellouch, E., Paubert, G., and S. Gulkis, "The Water Vapor Vertical Distribution on Mars from Millimeter Transitions of HDO and H218O," submitted to Planetary and Space Sciences, 31 (2000)
Gulkis, S., Stetson, D.S., and E.R.Stofan, "Mission to the Solar System: Exploration and Discovery," JPL Publication 97-12, Edited by the authors, (1998).
Gulkis, S., Janssen, M. A. and Olsen, E. T., "Evidence for the Depletion of Ammonia in the Uranus Atmosphere," Icarus, 34, 10 (1978).
Murray, B., Gulkis, S. and Edelson, R. E., "Extraterrestrial Intelligence: An Observational Approach," Science, 199, 485 (1978).
Carr, T. D. and Gulkis, S., "The Magnetosphere of Jupiter," Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 7, 577 (1969).

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