GPHI Administration

Name	Title	Phone Number	Email Address
GSFC
Merka, Jan	Director	301-286-8751	merka@umbc.edu
UMBC
Young, Margo	Assistant Director	410-455-8809	mayoung@umbc.edu
Lucadamo, David	Business Specialist	410-455-5996	lucadamo@umbc.edu
Tanabe, Paula	Business Specialist	410-455-6329	ptanabe@umbc.edu
Hyman, Camilla	Business Specialist	410-455-8027	hyman1@umbc.edu
Manalansan, Cathy	Administrative Assistant II	410-455-8812	cmanalan@umbc.edu
Mooney, Kevin	Accountant I	410-455-8899	kmooney@umbc.edu
UMCP
Kimbrell, Dorinda	Director of Admin Services	301-405-1511	kimbrell@astro.umd.edu
Newman, Adrienne	Coordinator	301-405-7123	anewman1@astro.umd.edu
Rowe, Natalie	Business Manager	301-405-1560	narowe@astro.umd.edu
Sharma, Surja	Associate Director	301-405-1528	ssh@astro.umd.edu
American University
Johnson, Philip	Associate Director	202-885-2761	pjohnson@american.ecu

Parker Space Probe's First Pictures

NASA spacecraft on mission to ‘touch the sun’ sends back first images

Parker Probe Launched on Historic Journey to Touch Sun

Aug. 12, 2018 RELEASE 18-072

Solar Winds

Eugene Parker’s Journey to the Sun

Parker Solar Probe ready for the Sun

The Parker Solar Probe will explore the surface of the Sun like never before.

NASA Selects Proposals to Study Sun, Space Environment

NASA has selected nine proposals under its Explorers Program that will return transformational science about the Sun and space environment...

Solar Simulation At NASA

The scientists’ solar simulation; constructed using IMAX projectors to recreate the heat and light the probe will experience at the surface of the Sun.

5,200 Days in Space

An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile

Scientists Discover a New Type of Magnetic Event

By Deborah Byrd in EARTH | SPACE | May 16, 2018

Solar System News

NASA Selects Proposals to Further Study the Fundamental Nature of Space August 13, 2019
NASA has selected two proposals for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles.
NASA Mission Selects Final Four Site Candidates for Asteroid Sample Return August 12, 2019
After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has selected four potential sites for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to “tag” its cosmic dance partner.
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Groundbreaking Astrophysics Mission July 8, 2019
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe.