Barbara Maggi is the Outreach Director for the Hampton University (HU) Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS).  She works closely with the HU Interdisciplinary Science Center serving as the Assistant Outreach Director for three NASA satellite-based research missions CALIPSO, AIM, & SABER.  In addition, she develops and implements student and teacher programs for a GEOSCIENCES grant funded by the National Science Foundation.  Barbara has developed and implemented professional development programs for teachers for over 20 years.  In addition she has directed a NASA undergraduate mentorship program, Advanced Undergraduate Research using Optical Radiation in the Atmosphere (AURORA).  In previous years she was a special education teacher, technology/media specialist, and education specialist for the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.  She has a Masters in education from Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia.

Paul Adams, Professor of Physics and Anschutz Professor of Education at Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.  He received his BS Degree in Physics and Mathematics at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH (1983); MS Degree in

Physics at Washington State University (1986), and PhD in Science Education with an emphasis in physics and Earth science from Purdue University (1996).

James M. Russell, III, Ph.D.
AIM Principal Investigator,
Professor and Co-director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University

Address:
Center for Atmospheric Sciences
Hampton University
Hampton, VA  23668

Fax:  (757) 727-5090
Email:  james.russell@hamptonu.edu

I attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1962 and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. My master's degree at the University of Virginia was also in electrical engineering. I earned my Ph.D. in aeronomy at the University of Michigan. I am a professor and co-director at the Center for Atmospheric Sciences.

I study long-term trends, chemistry, dynamics, and transport of trace gases in the middle atmosphere, analyze data to study the properties of Polar Mesospheric clouds, and aid in the development of retrieval algorithms for the SABER experiment. I am the Principal Investigator for the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission which will launch in 2007.

I enjoy being with family, going fishing, and watching football.

Scott Bailey, Ph.D.
AIM Deputy Project Investigator
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Email: baileys@vt.edu

Dr. Bailey's research interests involve the aeronomy of the atmosphere including studies of the Sun's influence and the formation and variability of polar mesospheric clouds. He is actively engaged in sounding rocket and satellite observations of both the Earth and Sun. He served as instrument scientist and later principal-investigator on the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer. He is co-investigator on the Solar EUV Experiment and the EUV Variability Experiment. He is deputy-principal investigator of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere. Dr. Bailey is was an assistant professor of physics at the University of Alaska and is currently an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. He received his B.S. in physics in 1990 from Virginia Tech. He received his M.S. in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Colorado. Before joining the University of Alaska he was a research assistant professor of physics at Hampton University.

John Anderson, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Hampton University

Address:
Center for Atmospheric Sciences
Hampton University
Hampton, VA 23668

Phone: (757) 727-5106

Email: john.anderson@hamptonu.edu

I am from Rockford, Illinois and a 1981 graduate of Rockford East high school. I enlisted in the United States Air Force and proudly served my country from February 1982 through January 1986 as a certified weather observer. I did my undergraduate studies at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb Illinois. I received a B.S. degree in Meteorology and a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from NIU in 1990. I recieved a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from North Carolina State University in the spring of 1998.

EXPERIENCE: Staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico from 1984-1996. Projects included reduced gravity fluid flow and materials processing experiments on board the NASA KC-135 airplane, atmospheric spectroscopy on noctilucent clouds seeded from sounding rockets, fumarole gas sampling from volcanoes, and problems in detonation physics. He was a member of the Synthesis Group, slated with assembling the technology to return to the moon and explore Mars (1990), and the Space Station Freedom Redesign Team (1993).

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in April 1996, Dr. Pettit reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he is qualified as a mission specialist.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Expedition-6, Nov. 23, 2002 to May 3, 2003. Dr. Pettit recently completed his first space flight as NASA ISS Science Officer aboard the International Space Station, logging over 161 days in space, including over 13 EVA hours. During 5-1/2 months aboard the International Space Station, the crew worked with numerous U.S. and Russian science experiments. Dr. Pettit and the mission commander Ken Bowersox performed 2 EVAs (spacewalks) to continue the external outfitting of the orbital outpost. The Expedition-6 crew launched on STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour and returned to Earth on Soyuz TMA-1.

Dr. Joyce M. Jarrett is a tenured college professor and a university administrator who has been an educator for more than 30 years. She holds the BA degree in English and a MA in English Education from Tennessee State University and the doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Jarrett began her career at Hampton University in 1983 as Assistant Professor of English. Prior to assuming her current role as Provost, she served in a variety of positions to include Director of the Writing Center, Chair of the Department of English, Executive Assistant to the President, and as Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs.

Dr. Jarrett has an insatiable love for writing. She has written several creative narratives about her life growing up in Mississippi, the most popular of which is “Freedom” which first appeared in Between Worlds in May 1986 and has since been anthologized in several literary texts. Additionally, she co-authored two writing text books: Pathways: A Text for Developing Writers, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1990 (second edition published by Allyn-Bacon, scheduled January 1999) and Heritage: African American Readings for Writing, Prentice-Hall 1996 (second edition published in 2002).

Susan Lini has been the Research Program Coordinator for Graeme Stephens Research Group at Colorado State University for over 20 years. She spends significant time negotiating contracts, implementing cost accounting standards, and responding to requirements for NASA and JPL.  She also coordinates meetings, work extensively in human resources areas, and participates actively in CloudSat/GLOBE outreach activities. 

Emily Hill is a graphic and web designer who contracts with the Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) at Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. Among other projects, she designed, developed, and currently maintains three NASA satellite mission web sites: AIM, CALIPSO Outreach, and SABER Outreach. She also designs AIM mission graphics, posters, and products.

Emily received her B.A.S. from the Rochester Institute of Technology where she studied computer science and digital imaging and publishing.

Dr. Walton is an educator with expertise in science teaching, science materials and professional development. She taught for 10 years, served as a science supervisor for 19 years and spent four years as a program director at the National Science Foundation. Upon retirement, she was elected NSTA President. As a member of the Board of Directors for the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska, she has been involved with the GLOBE program and related activities.

Her most recent work has included consulting on a CD Rom project titled, Arctic Connections, serving as the evaluator to a project titled, Rural Access to Technical Education and serving as the evaluator to a project titled, Development of an Alaska Earth Systems Field School. Presently she is working with the NASA Explorer Schools program in Alaska, working with an NSF project titled, MapTeach & working with an NSF project titled, Improved Online STEM Instruction for Rural Alaskan Native Students.