Kepler Mission Team

Kepler Mission Team Members

[click for larger image ]	The development phase of the Kepler Mission is managed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. The industrial partner for the Kepler Mission is Ball Aerospace in Boulder, CO.
William Borucki, Principal Investigator NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000	David Koch, Deputy Principal Investigator NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Co-Investigators	SWG \| Participating Scientists \| Other \| top
Gibor Basri, Co-Investigator University of California-Berkeley Dept of Astronomy Berkeley, CA 94720	Natalie Batalha Co-Investigator San Jose State University San Jose, CA 95192
Timothy Brown, Co-Investigator Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope(LCOGT) 6740B Cortona Dr Goleta, CA 93117	Doug Caldwell Co-Investigator SETI Institute 515 North Whisman Road Mountain View, CA 94043
William Cochran, Co-Investigator McDonald Observatory University of Texas Austin Austin, TX 78712-1083	Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Co-investigator Aarhus University Denmark
Edna DeVore, Co-Investigator SETI Institute Mountain View, CA 94043	Edward (Ted) Dunham, Co-Investigator Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Nick Gautier Co-Investigator Jet Propulsion Lab Pasadena, CA 91109	John Geary, Co-Investigator Harvard Smithsonian CfA Cambridge, MA 02138
Ronald Gilliland, Co-Investigator Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD 21218	Alan Gould, Co-Investigator Lawrence Hall of Science 5200 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720
Jon Jenkins, Co-Investigator SETI Institute Mountain View, CA 94043	Yoji Kondo, Co-Investigator NASA GSFC Greenbelt, MD 20771
David Latham, Co-Investigator Harvard Smithsonian CfA Cambridge, MA 02138	Jack Lissauer, Co-Investigator NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035
Dave Monet Co-Investigator US Naval Observatory Flagstaff, AZ 86001-8521
Science Working Group	Co-Is \| Participating Scientists \| Other \| top
Alan Boss, Science Working Group Member Carnegie Institute of Washington Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism Washington, DC 20015-1305	Donald Brownlee, Science Working Group Member University Of Washington Department of Astonomy Seattle, WA 98195
John J.Caldwell, Science Working Group Member York University Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada	Andrea Dupree, Science Working Group Member Harvard Smithsonian CfA Cambridge, MA 02138
Steve Howell, Science Working Group Member Planetary Science Institute Tucson, AZ 85705	Geoff Marcy, Science Working Group Member University of California-Berkeley Dept of Astronomy Berkeley, CA 94720
David Morrison, Science Working Group Member NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000	Tobias Owen, Science Working Group Member University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI 96822
Harold Reitsema, Science Working Group Member Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Boulder, CO 80306-1062	Dimitar Sasselov, Science Working Group Member Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Cambridge, MA 02138
Jill Tarter, Science Working Group Member SETI Institute Mountain View, CA 94043
Participating Scientists	Co-Is \| SWG \| Other \| top
Derek Buzasi, "Removing A Source of Planetary Detection Bias: Stellar Granulation Models for Kepler"	Matt Holman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "Applying the Method of Transit Timing Variations to Kepler
David Charbonneau, Use of both the Spitzer Space Telescope during the warm phase of its mission (after its cryogen has been exhausted) and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to study the planets detected by Kepler. The data will also be used to confirm the planetary nature of many candidates identified by the Kepler Mission and to detect false positives.	Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Theoretical Interpretation of Kepler Exoplanet Albedos and Reflected Light Curves"
Laurance Doyle, SETI Institute "Detection of Extrasolar Planets Around Eclipsing Binaries in the Kepler Field" ˆ "Kepler at Home"	Jason Steffen, Fermilab "Detecting Additional Planets in Transiting Systems Using Transit Timing Variations"
Eric Ford, University of Florida "Characterizing the Orbital Eccentricities of Earth-like Planets with Kepler"	William Welsh, San Diego State University "Detailed Modelling of Extrasolar Planet Transit Observations"
Jonathan Fortney, UC Santa Cruz "Giant Planet Science from the Kepler Mission"
Other Scientists Actively Working on Kepler	Co-Is \| SWG \| Participating Scientists \| top
Jason Barnes, NASA Ames Research Center Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center Jessie Dotson, NASA Ames Research Center Mike Haas, NASA Ames Research Center Hans Hjeldsen, Aarhus University, Denmark	Jeff Kolodziejczak, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Soeren Meibom, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Jason Rowe, NASA Ames Research Center Maura Rabbette, NASA Ames Research Center Jeff Van Cleave, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.

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