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
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

Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life June 25, 2019
Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but compounds containing iron, cyanide, and carbon monoxide discovered in carbon-rich meteorites may have helped power life on early Earth.
NASA Astrobiology Researchers Identify Features That Could Be Used to Detect Life-Friendly Climates on Other Worlds May 22, 2019
Scientists may have found a way to tell if alien worlds have a climate that is suitable for life by analyzing the light from these worlds for special signatures that are characteristic of a life-friendly environment.
Shrinking Moon May Be Generating Moonquakes May 13, 2019
The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, causing the brittle surface crust to break as the Moon shrinks, forming faults where one section of crust is pushed up over a neighboring part. A new analysis gives the first evidence that these faults are still active and likely producing moonquakes today.