Vice President for Programs Dana Lehr joined AURA in 2015 with deep experience of the National Science Foundation’s astronomy programs, having managed portfolios in large facilities operations, individual investigator grants, and career development awards. Most recently, Lehr was Program Manager for NSF’s Cooperative Agreement to operate the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the North American […]
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Vice President for Science Heidi Hammel received her undergraduate degree from MIT and a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from the University of Hawaii. After a post-doctoral position at JPL, where she was a member of the Imaging Science Team for the Voyager 2 Neptune Encounter, Hammel returned to MIT as a Principal Research Scientist […]
Chief Financial Officer/Vice President for Operations Before joining AURA, Barbara Lam was Vice President of Finance at the Diplomat Group in Annapolis, Maryland. There she led government contract accounting and compliance and business operations for large overseas construction, aviation and logistics projects. Prior to that, Barbara Lam was a Division Senior Director of Finance and […]
AURA President Matt Mountain, President of AURA since 2015, is the Telescope Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and a member of the JWST Science Working Group. Previously, he was Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and prior to that led the construction of and directed Gemini Observatory. He received his Ph.D. […]
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon’s surface sublimates — that is, turns from solid to gas.
Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the implosion of a massive star. Using the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers identified the cause of this 0.6-second flurry of gamma rays as a supernova explosion in a distant galaxy.
Hubble is one of the most successful science experiments ever. Although Hubble is currently not observing, the good news is that its dedicated team has a handle on the problem and will get it up and running again soon.
Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars.
A giant comet from the outskirts of our Solar System has been discovered in 6 years of data from the Dark Energy Survey.
In August 2018 NASA launched Parker Solar Probe, humanity’s mission to touch the Sun. In November, PSP flew close to the Sun for the first time (getting more than 5x closer to the Sun than the Earth), as it traveled, one of it’s scientific instruments measured the magnetic field it was experiencing.
When astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn’t have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation.
Committee Charter (pdf) George Clark Retired Caroline Garcia University of Arizona Gregory L. Geoffroy Iowa State University Elizabeth Hoffman (Vice Chair) Iowa State University Barbara Lam (ex officio) AURA Duc Ma University of Arizona Warren Madden (Chair) Iowa State University James McAteer New Mexico State University
AURA congratulates Chryssa Kouveliotou, member of the AURA Board of Directors, and recipient of the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
It is with great sadness that we learned this week of the recent passing of former AURA President, Dr. Goetz Oertel.
In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more than 7 billion light-years across the Universe
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