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Dr. Joseph B. Gurman Project Scientist Solar and Heliospheric Observatory  Dr. Joe Gurman, Project Scientist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), is responsible for insuring the scientific success of the SOHO mission, a joint effort with the European Space Agency to improve our understanding of the Sun's interior, its outer atmosphere, and the heliosphere. In addition, he serves as Mission Scientist for the Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE), a Small Explorer mission, and Facility Scientist for the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) within the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics. As part of his SDAC responsibilities, he is project leader for the Virtual Solar Observatory, an effort to simplify access to solar data services on the Internet. Dr. Gurman began working at Goddard in August 1979, as a contractor scientist supporting the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM). After joining NASA in 1985, he became Project Manager for the UltraViolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter (UVSP) experiment on SMM, and SMM Project Scientist in 1986. As a Co-Investigator on the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on SOHO, he became involved in science operations planning for SOHO in 1990. He was appointed Deputy US Project Scientist for that mission in 1996, and US Project Scientist in 1998. Dr. Gurman has served on the NASA Solar Physics Management Operations Working Group, the NASA Sun-Earth Connections Advisory Subcommittee, and the solar physics subpanel of the National Research CouncilÕs Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society and American Geophysical Union. Dr. Gurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1951 and was educated in the Boston public schools. He received an A.B. (mcl) in Astronomy from Harvard College in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1972, and an M.Sc. in Physics in 1974 and Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1979 from the University of Colorado in Boulder. |