Nancy Chabot
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| fields = Planetary science
Physics
| workplaces = Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Case Western Reserve University
NASA
| alma_mater = Rice University
University of Arizona
| thesis_title = Geochemical studies of the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies
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| doctoral_advisor = Michael J. Drake
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Nancy Chabot (born 1972) is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Career
Nancy Chabot earned her B.A. in physics from Rice University in 1994.{{Cite web|url=https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/105|title=JHUAPL - , Nancy, Chabot - Science Research Portal|last=Chabot|first=Nancy|website=secwww.jhuapl.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-10}} After earning her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1999,{{Cite web |last=Chabot |first=Nancy |title=Geochemical studies of the cores of terrestrial planetary bodies |url=https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/10150/289052/1/azu_td_9957965_sip1_m.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjvt42apZmFAxWZnokEHR6DAuYQFnoECBAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0yAPGOTlcqds3pM7IElN9D |access-date=2024-03-29}} Chabot worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, then at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 2005.
She has been a member of five field teams that traveled to Antarctica with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program to collect meteorites.{{cite web
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}} In 2001, Chabot was awarded the United States Antarctic Service Medal.
On NASA's MESSENGER mission, she served as the Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the Chair of the Geology Discipline Group. She was the lead for MDIS-based scientific investigations of Mercury's polar, radar-bright, ice-bearing craters and led the release of web images since MESSENGER's first flyby of Mercury in January 2008.{{cite web|url=http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=244|title=1,000th Featured Image from MESSENGER Posted on the Project's Web Gallery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221185524/http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=244|archive-date=2014-02-21}}
Currently, she is the Deputy PI for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission.
She is also the Coordination Lead on NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which was led by APL.{{Cite web |last=Bardan |first=Roxana |date=2022-10-11 |title=NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid's Motion in Space |url=http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=NASA}}
She is a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society, and Asteroid (6899) Nancychabot is named in her honor.
References
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External links
- [http://www.aaas.org/news/art-and-science-converge-%E2%80%9Cimages-our-solar-system%E2%80%9D/ Art and Science Converge in ‘Images of Our Solar System’]
- [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/who_we_are/member_focus_120710.html/ Highlighted Team Member Nancy Chabot: Scientist’s Passion for Discovery Fuels Curiosity about Mercury]
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Category:Rice University alumni
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:Women planetary scientists
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