Tech Briefs: Who's Who At Nasa

Waleed Abdalati will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science programs, strategic planning, and the evaluation of related investments.

Dale P. Cruikshank is an astronomer and planetary scientist in the Astrophysics Branch at Ames Research Center.

Dr. Jacqueline Quinn is an environmental engineer with NASA's Surface Systems Office at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Dr. Jim Green began his NASA career in 1980 at Marshall Space Flight Center's Magnetospheric Physics Branch where he developed and managed the Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN), NASA's precursor to the Internet.

Steven Schmidt joined NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in 1994 as a project engineer and manager on programs such as the X-33, X-38, X-43A, F-15 Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles, and the SR-71.