GPHI Administration

Name	Title	Phone Number	Email Address
GSFC
Merka, Jan	Director	301-286-8751	merka@umbc.edu
UMBC
Dawson, Mary	Assistant Director	410-455-8027	mdawson@umbc.edu
Young, Margo	Senior Business Manager	410-455-8809	mayoung@umbc.edu
Lucadamo, David	Business Specialist	410-455-5996	lucadamo@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

Solar System News

NASA Planet Hunter on Its Way to Orbit April 19, 2018
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life.
NASA Ready to Study Heart of Mars March 29, 2018
NASA is about to go on a journey to study the interior of Mars. The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, detailing the next mission to the Red Planet.
NASA Prepares to Launch Next Mission to Search Sky for New Worlds March 28, 2018
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.

Celebrating 28 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope April 19, 2018
This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to the universe’s extraordinary stellar tapestry of birth and destruction.
Sounding Rocket Launches CHESS Mission to Study the Matter Between Stars April 17, 2018
The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS 4, was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at 12:47 p.m. EDT, April 16 (4:47 a.m. local, April 17) from the Kwajalein Atoll in The Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Seasons of Snow Cover in the West April 16, 2018
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this photo while flying over the western United States. The wide field of view stretches from the Sierra Nevada of California to the Columbia Plateau of Oregon and the Snake River Valley of Idaho. Lake Tahoe is nestled on the border of California and Nevada.