Shannon Curry
Shannon Curry | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | B.S., Tufts University M.S., University of Michigan |
| Occupation | Deputy Assistant Director of Planetary Science |
| Employer | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | planetary atmospheres, Mars exploration, Venus exploration, atmospheric escape, planetary science, plasma physics |
Shannon Curry
Shannon Curry is a planetary physicist and the Deputy Assistant Director of Planetary Science at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Currently, she is the Project Scientist on the Phase-A/B SIMPLEX mission ESCAPADE[1][2], a science team member on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission[3][4][5][6], and a collaborator on NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) program. She is also a science team member of the MAVEN mission[7].
Research and Career
Dr. Curry's research focus is on terrestrial planetary atmospheres, primarily in atmospheric escape and dynamics at Mars, Venus and other weakly magnetized bodies. She received a fellowship through NASA's Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) and completed her Ph.D at the University of Michigan in 2013; her thesis was titled "Test Particle Analysis of High Altitude Ion Transport and Escape on Mars".
She is involved in instrument development and mission concept development for future flight exploration of the solar system. Her research uses statistics, applied mathematics, modeling and machine learning in order to better understand spacecraft observations of the solar system[7]. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Curry was a systems engineer at Lockheed Martin.
Recently, Dr. Curry participated in two Planetary Mission Concept Studies as part of NASA's preparations for the 2023 Planetary Science Decadal Survey [8]: MOSAIC (a mission concept at Mars) and the Venus Flagship Mission Concept.
Dr. Curry also leads the science campaigns for the Venus gravity assists performed by the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft[5].
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- ^ "SIMPLEx Small Satellite Concept Finalists Target Moon, Mars and Beyond". Nasa.gov. June 19, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "EscaPADE". NASA.gov.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Venus views from NASA sun probe show potential of hitchhiking science instruments". Space.com. May 20, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Does lightning strike on Venus? Mysterious flash may help solve puzzle". National Geographic. Dec 28, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Hello, Venus! Parker Solar Probe Makes Second Planetary Flyby". Space.com. Dec 26, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "NASA's Parker Solar Probe swings through Venus 'tail' in flyby today". Space.com. July 10, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Sun-Stripped Mars Can Help NASA's MAVEN Provide Exoplanet Insights". Space.com. July 5, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "MOSAIC" (PDF). Nasa.gov. August 1, 2020.
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