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Therese A. Kucera Astrophysicist  Dr. Therese Kucera is a solar physicist and has been working at Goddard Space Flight Center since 1993, first as a National Research Council Post Research Associate, then as a contractor, and starting in 2001, as a civil servant. She is the US Deputy Project Scientist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft as well as a member of the science operation teams of two of UV spectrometers onboard SOHO, Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) and Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation (SUMER). She was on the team of the Spartan 201 White Light Coronagraph, which last flew in 1998. She uses these and other instruments to study various facets of the solar atmosphere, including solar prominences, flares, and active regions. She is the project scientist for the Living With a Star Data Environment, and is active in education and outreach. Dr. Kucera is originally from Evanston, IL. She received a bachelor degree in Physics from Carleton College in 1987, and a PhD in Astrophysical, Planetary, and Astrophysical Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1993. |