Linda Spilker
Linda Spilker | |
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Spilker in 2017 | |
| Born | Linda Joyce Bies[1] 1955 (age 69–70) |
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| Fields | Planetary science |
| Institutions | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Thesis | Wave structure in planetary rings (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Russell |
Linda Spilker (born 1955) is an American planetary scientist who served as the project scientist for the Cassini mission exploring the planet Saturn.[2][3][4][5][6] Her research interests include the evolution and dynamics of Saturn's rings.[7] In 2022, she became the project scientist for the Voyager mission after Edward Stone's retirement.[8]
Career
Spilker received a BA in Physics from California State University, Fullerton in 1977 and an MS in Physics from California State University, Los Angeles in 1983. She obtained a PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA in 1992. She joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977, initially working on the Voyager missions that were launched the same year.[9] She became a Cassini mission scientist in 1990.[2] In 1997, she was the editor of a NASA publication that summarizes the mission's legacy.[10] In 2010, she became the Cassini mission project scientist, a role in which she directed the entire team's scientific investigations.[3][4][5][6][9] She has appeared as herself in multiple television documentary programs, including several in the PBS Nova series.[1]
Honors and awards
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2013)[11][2]
- NASA Group Achievement Award (2011, 2009, 2000, 1998, 1982–1989)[2]
- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1982)[2]
Selected publications
- Kunde, Virgil G.; et al. (1996). "Cassini infrared Fourier spectroscopic investigation". In Horn, Linda (ed.). Cassini/Huygens: A Mission to the Saturnian Systems. Vol. 2803. pp. 162–177. doi:10.1117/12.253416.
- Spilker, Linda J. (October 1997). "Passage to a Ringed World: The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan". National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report. Bibcode:1997nasa.reptX....S.
- Matson, Dennis L.; Spilker, Linda J.; Lebreton, Jean-Pierre (2002). "The Cassini/Huygens Mission to the Saturnian System". Space Science Reviews. 104 (1): 1–58. Bibcode:2002SSRv..104....1M. doi:10.1023/A:1023609211620.
- Hansen, Candice J.; Bolton, Scott J.; Matson, Dennis L.; Spilker, Linda J.; Lebreton, Jean-Pierre (2004). "The Cassini-Huygens flyby of Jupiter". Icarus. 172 (1): 1. Bibcode:2004Icar..172....1H. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.06.018.
- Flasar, F. M.; et al. (2004). "An intense stratospheric jet on Jupiter". Nature. 427 (6970): 132–135. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..132F. doi:10.1038/nature02142. PMID 14712270.
- Flasar, F. M.; et al. (2004). "Exploring the Saturn System in the Thermal Infrared: The Composite Infrared Spectrometer". The Cassini-Huygens Mission. pp. 169–297. doi:10.1007/1-4020-3874-7_4. ISBN 1-4020-3147-5.
- Kunde, V. G.; et al. (2004). "Jupiter's Atmospheric Composition from the Cassini Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy Experiment". Science. 305 (5690): 1582–1586. Bibcode:2004Sci...305.1582K. doi:10.1126/science.1100240. PMID 15319491.
- Spilker, Linda J.; Pilorz, Stuart; Lane, Arthur L.; Nelson, Robert M.; Pollard, Benjamin; Russell, Christopher T. (2004). "Saturn a ring surface mass densities from spiral density wave dispersion behavior". Icarus. 171 (2): 372. Bibcode:2004Icar..171..372S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.05.016.
- Spilker, L. J.; Pilorz, S. H.; Edgington, S. G.; Wallis, B. D.; Brooks, S. M.; Pearl, J. C.; Flasar, F. M. (2005). "Cassini Cirs Observations of a Roll-Off in Saturn Ring Spectra at Submillimeter Wavelengths". Earth, Moon, and Planets. 96 (3–4): 149–163. Bibcode:2005EM&P...96..149S. doi:10.1007/s11038-005-9060-8.
- Flasar, F. M.; et al. (2005). "Titan's Atmospheric Temperatures, Winds, and Composition". Science. 308 (5724): 975–978. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..975F. doi:10.1126/science.1111150. PMID 15894528.
- Flasar, F. M.; et al. (2005). "Temperatures, Winds, and Composition in the Saturnian System". Science. 307 (5713): 1247–1251. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1247F. doi:10.1126/science.1105806. PMID 15618486.
- Spilker, Linda J.; Pilorz, Stuart H.; Wallis, Brad D.; Pearl, John C.; Cuzzi, Jeffrey N.; Brooks, Shawn M.; Altobelli, Nicolas; Edgington, Scott G.; Showalter, Mark; Michael Flasar, F.; Ferrari, Cecile; Leyrat, Cedric (2006). "Cassini thermal observations of Saturn's main rings: Implications for particle rotation and vertical mixing". Planetary and Space Science. 54 (12): 1167. Bibcode:2006P&SS...54.1167S. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2006.05.033.
- Altobelli, Nicolas; Spilker, Linda J.; Leyrat, Cedric; Pilorz, Stuart (2008). "Thermal observations of Saturn's main rings by Cassini CIRS: Phase, emission and solar elevation dependence". Planetary and Space Science. 56 (1): 134. Bibcode:2008P&SS...56..134A. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.05.029.
- Cuzzi, Jeff; Clark, Roger; Filacchione, Gianrico; French, Richard; Johnson, Robert; Marouf, Essam; Spilker, Linda (2009). "Ring Particle Composition and Size Distribution". Saturn from Cassini-Huygens. pp. 459–509. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9217-6_15. ISBN 978-1-4020-9216-9.
- Christophe, B.; et al. (2012). "OSS (Outer Solar System): A fundamental and planetary physics mission to Neptune, Triton and the Kuiper Belt". Experimental Astronomy. 34 (2): 203–242. arXiv:1106.0132. Bibcode:2012ExA....34..203C. doi:10.1007/s10686-012-9309-y.
- Lunine, Jonathan; Waite, Hunter; Postberg, Frank; Spilker, Linda; Clark, Karla (2015). "Enceladus life finder: The search for life in a habitable moon". Egu General Assembly Conference Abstracts: 14923. Bibcode:2015EGUGA..1714923L.
- Edgington, Scott G.; Spilker, Linda J. (2016). "Cassini's Grand Finale". Nature Geoscience. 9 (7): 472–473. Bibcode:2016NatGe...9..472E. doi:10.1038/ngeo2753.
- Reh, Kim; Spilker, Linda; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Waite, J. Hunter; Cable, Morgan L.; Postberg, Frank; Clark, Karla (2016). "Enceladus Life Finder: The search for life in a habitable Moon". 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference. pp. 1–8. doi:10.1109/AERO.2016.7500813. ISBN 978-1-4673-7676-1.
- Dougherty, Michele K.; Spilker, Linda J. (2018). "Review of Saturn's icy moons following the Cassini mission". Reports on Progress in Physics. 81 (6). Bibcode:2018RPPh...81f5901D. doi:10.1088/1361-6633/aabdfb. PMID 29651989.
- Spilker, Linda (2019). "Cassini-Huygens' exploration of the Saturn system: 13 years of discovery". Science. 364 (6445): 1046–1051. Bibcode:2019Sci...364.1046S. doi:10.1126/science.aat3760. PMID 31197006.
- Tiscareno, Matthew S.; et al. (2019). "Close-range remote sensing of Saturn's rings during Cassini's ring-grazing orbits and Grand Finale". Science. 364 (6445). Bibcode:2019Sci...364.1017T. doi:10.1126/science.aau1017. PMID 31196983.
- MacKenzie, Shannon M.; et al. (2021). "The Enceladus Orbilander Mission Concept: Balancing Return and Resources in the Search for Life". The Planetary Science Journal. 2 (2): 77. Bibcode:2021PSJ.....2...77M. doi:10.3847/PSJ/abe4da.
- Cable, Morgan L.; et al. (2021). "The Science Case for a Return to Enceladus". The Planetary Science Journal. 2 (4): 132. Bibcode:2021PSJ.....2..132C. doi:10.3847/PSJ/abfb7a.
- Rymer, Abigail M.; et al. (2021). "Neptune Odyssey: A Flagship Concept for the Exploration of the Neptune–Triton System". The Planetary Science Journal. 2 (5): 184. Bibcode:2021PSJ.....2..184R. doi:10.3847/PSJ/abf654.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Linda Spilker". IMDb.
- ^ a b c d e "Linda Spilker". science.jpl.nasa.gov.
- ^ a b "NASA's Cassini Begins Its Final Mission Before Self-Destruction". NPR.org. April 5, 2017.
- ^ a b "NASA's Cassini Mission Conducts Daring Dive through Saturn's Rings". Scientific American. April 26, 2017.
- ^ a b "Saturn ruled this scientist's life for 40 years — here's why she needs NASA to go back after Cassini's death". Business Insider. September 17, 2017.
- ^ a b Kaplan, Sarah (September 14, 2017). "Cassini was the mission of a lifetime for this NASA scientist. Now she must say goodbye". Washington Post.
- ^ Meltzer, Michael (2015). The Cassini-Huygens Visit to Saturn: An Historic Mission to the Ringed Planet. Springer. p. 287. ISBN 978-3-319-07607-2.
- ^ Spilker, Linda. "JPL Science: Linda Spilker". science.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ a b "Linda Spilker, planetary scientist". scicom.ucsc.edu.
- ^ Spilker, Linda, ed. (1997). Passage to a ringed world : the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration SP-533.
- ^ "NASA Agency Honor Awards" (PDF). 2013. p. 25.