Suzaku Learning Center Team

Suzaku Learning Center Team

To contact the Suzaku Learning Center team, please use the HEASARC Feedback form, and mention that this is about the Learning Center. Thanks!

Beth Barbier is using her many years of experience in E/PO to make sure what we have on our site is grammatically correct and easily understandable.

Kevin Boyce is the author of the diary of the traumatic time in 2000 February, and of happier events in the summer of 2005; also, he is the official videographer of the XRS team, whose footage is being incorporated into the "Building the Coolest X-ray Satellite: Astro-E2" video.

Ilana Harrus grew up near Paris, and joined the group via New York and Cambridge, Mass. Even though she hasn't yet figured out the subtler rules of baseball, she still supports the Boston RedSox. Ilana's research interest is mostly in supernova remnants; she is also deeply interested in the public understanding of science.

Jim Lochner grew up near Rochester, NY, where the AAA RedWings are based, and ended up near Baltimore, MD, home of the Orioles, which, for a long time, had been the parent club of the RedWings. He's not too far away from a couple other Orioles affiliates (in Bowie and in Frederick), either, although it's a long drive (trust us!) to Salisbury, home of the 4th minor-league affiliate of the Orioles. Jim is in charge of the Suzaku E/PO activities, and of the cookies at Suzaku E/PO meetings.

Maggie Masetti, originally from New Jersey (exit 165 off the Parkway), studied physics and astrophysics at Penn State University. She prefers hockey (go Devils!) to baseball (she once started to look for the penalty box at Camden Yard). She was the tech writer/graphic designer/webmaster of this learning center in the happier days before the unsuccessful launch of the original ASTRO-E mission; since then, she has moved onto the Earth science side (aka "the Dark Side") of NASA.

Sara Mitchell brings a fresh face to Suzaku. Her (fairly recent) experience as a high school and college physics student helps remind us about the needs of our Learning Center audience - a valuable perspective.

Koji Mukai was born and raised in Japan, spent 6 years in the UK, and has been in the US for over 10 years; he can speak Japanese, English, and American - or so he claims! Koji studies cataclysmic variables in between his support duties for ASCA and Suzaku.

The Suzaku Learning Center is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), within the Astrophysics Scicence Division (ASD) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.