Sarah K. Noble
Sarah K. Noble is a planetary geologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and a program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Her area of expertise is space weathering processes.
Career
Sarah Noble earned her B.S. in geology from the University of Minnesota in 1998, her M.S. in geological sciences from Brown University in 2000, and her Ph.D. in geological sciences from Brown University in 2004. In 1997 during her undergraduate studies, Noble was selected as a summer intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute. After graduating, Noble worked as a congressional staffer with the United States House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and then went on to serve as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In 2008 she became a NASA Postdoctoral Management Fellow at NASA Headquarters and later went on to a position as a research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Marshall Space Flight Center where she worked on lunar mapping and modeling and space weathering-related issues. Since September 2010, Noble has been working on a variety of research and program activities at the Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Headquarters.[1]
Awards
Noble has received many awards and honors during her career, including a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship and NASA ROSES201 Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER) grant. She has served as a Geological Society of America committee member and as an Association for Women Geoscientists board member. She has co-authored many scholarly articles about space weathering and the lunar surface.
In addition to her scientific research, Noble is a painter, and much of her artistic work is inspired by space exploration and alien worlds.[2]
References
External links
- NASA Solar System Exploration People: Profile of Sarah Noble, Planetary Geologist
- Sarah Noble and the Congressional Science Fellowship