Planetary Systems Laboratory
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Ramsey Smith
Planetary Systems Laboratory
NASA/GSFC, Code 693.0 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-4303 Email: Ramsey Smith |
Current Position
- Research Space Scientist, Planetary Systems Laboratory
Education
2008 - NASA Planetary Science Summer School, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2007 - Ph.D., Chemistry, Howard University
2002 - NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences. (NCAS) Remote Sensing and GIS Summer Workshop, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
2001 - Data Storage Workshop, Eastern Analytical Symposium
2000 - B.S., Chemistry, Morehouse College
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Geophysical Union, National Society of Black Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers-Space Special Interest Group and National Society of Black Chemist and Chemical Engineers
Research Interests
Research Projects
2008, Remote Spectroscopic investigation of the Sun-Jupiter Connection: Auroral Stratosphere
2007, Dissertation topic: An Evaluation of the Fate of Octafluorocyclobutane and Hexafluoroethane In the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets
2006, The Laboratory Investigation of Ethane and Allene Using HIPWAC (Heterodyne Instrument for Planetary Wind and Composition)
2006, Vacuum-UV Dissociative Photoionization Dynamics of Perfluorocarbons by Ion Imaging With Synchrotron Radiation
2005, Attenuated Total Reflectance Study of Chihuahuan and Saharan Dust using FTIR spectroscopy
2003, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic study of Nitrosyl Sulfuric Acid
Professional Experience
2008 - 2009 - ORAU/NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 693 Planetary Systems Laboratory
2000 - 2007 - Graduate Research Assistant, Howard University, Department of Chemistry
2005 - 2006 - Research Intern, Washington, DC Space Grant/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 693 Planetary Systems Laboratory
2003 & 2006 - Guest Graduate Student Scientist, Advanced Light Source Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2002 - 2004 - Teaching Assistant, Howard University, Department of Chemistry
1999 - 2000 - Undergraduate Research Assistant, Clark Atlanta University
Selected Publications
2009 "SHOTPUT: A JPL Planetary Summer Science School Study. Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace", Klesh, S. Taniguchi, C. Burke, A. Springmann, M. Cartwright, R. Gadre, J. Wang, L. Horodyskyi, K. Milam, N. Moskovitz, J. Oiler, M. Pagano, D. Ostrowski, R. Smith, A. Townsend-Small, C. Budney, K. U-yen, S. Vance, J. Westlake and K. Zacny, submitted.
2008 "Ground Based Observation of Isotopic Oxygen in the Martian Atmosphere Using Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy". Smith, R. L. , T. Kostiuk, T. A. Livengood, K. E. Fast, T. Hewagama, J. D. Delgado, and G. Sonnabend, Third International Workshop on The Mars Atmosphere: Modeling and Observations. Williamsburg, Virginia. LPI Contributions 1447, 9120.
2008 "Probing the Temperature of Mars' Mesosphere", Livengood, T. A. , R. L. Smith, Th. Kostiuk, K. E. Fast, W. C. Maguire, and T. Hewagama, Third International Workshop on The Mars Atmosphere: Modeling and Observations. Williamsburg, Virginia. LPI Contributions 1447, 9124.
2007 "An Evaluation of the Fate of Octafluorocyclobutane and Hexafluoroethane in the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets", Dissertation. Howard University, 2007. AnnArbor, MI: ProQuest/UMI, 2008, Publication #3304424.
