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John Trauger
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Education

BA in Physics, Oberlin College (1965)
MS in Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1967)
PhD in Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1972)

Professional Experience

NASA Office of Space Science, Principal Investigator for Eclipse Proposal, DISCOVERY Program (2000-Present)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Senior Research Scientist, Earth and Space Science Division (1997-Present)
Principal Investigator and Project Scientist, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (1985-Present)
Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee, Member (1998-Present)
Principal Investigator, High Contrast Origins Science for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST instrument concept study) (1998-1999)
Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee, Member (1994-1997)
Hubble space Telescope Science Working Group, Member Instrument Development Working Group, and Servicing Science Working Group (1986-1994)

Selected Awards

Harold Masursky Award of the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences, for meritorious service to Planetary Science. (1997)
NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, for leadership in the scientific development of the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 for the Hubble Space Telescope first servicing mission. (1994)

Selected Publications

Trauger, J.T., 2000, "High Contrast Coronagraphic Imaging with NGST," A.S.P. Conference Series, 207, 165.
Trauger, J.T., J.T. Clarke, G.E. Ballester and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1998, "Saturn's Hydrogen Aurora, Far-Ultraviolet Images from the Hubble Space Telescope," J.G.R. 103, 20237.
Sahai, R., with J.T. Trauger and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1998, "WFPC2/HST Imaging of the Egg Nebula (CRL2688)," ApJ, 493, 301.
Burrows, C.J., with J.T. Trauger and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1996, "HST Observations of the Disk and Jet of HH30," ApJ, 473, 437.
Clarke, J.T., G.E. Ballester, J.T. Trauger and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1996, "Far-Ultraviolet Imaging of Jupiter's Aurora and the Io Footprint," Science, 274, 404.
Clarke, J.T., J.T. Trauger, J.A. Holtzman, and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1995, "Far-Ultraviolet Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2," in Calibrating HST: Post Servicing Mission, eds. A. Koratkar and C. Leitherer, STScI, 322.
Holtzman, J.A., with J.T. Trauger and five other, 1995, "The Photometric Performance and Calibration of WFPC2," P.A.S.P. 107, 1065.
Trauger, J.T., A.H. Vaughan, R.W. Evans, and D.C. Moody, 1995, "The Geometry of the WFPC2 Focal Plane," in Calibrating HST: Post Servicing Mission, eds. A. Koratkar and C. Leitherer, STScI, 379.
Holtzman, J.A., with J.T. Trauger and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1994, "The Performance and Calibratration of the WFPC2," P.A.S.P. 107, 156.
Trauger, J.T., and the WFPC2 Science Team, 1994, "The On-orbit Performance of WFPC2," Astrophys. J. 435, L3.

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