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The HEASARC Staff 1994
This list updates the one published in the past issues of Legacy. It
includes new members of the science, science support teams, and members of the
programming staff.
Support Staff
Steve Fantasia received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the
University of Alabama in 1987 and a MS in Astronomy from the University of
Maryland in 1993. In between, he worked as an aerospace/systems engineer at
Rockwell International for 2 years and the Computer Sciences Corporation for 2
years. At Rockwell he worked on software to simulate the performance of
hypersonic vehicles with the emphasis being on optimizing the ascent
performance. His primary role at CSC was to develop attitude ground support
software for GSFC's ISTP mission. Steve joined the HEASARC in September 1994.
He helped quality check WGACAT, a point source catalog generated from all the
ROSAT PSPC pointing observations from February 1991 to March 1994. He is
assisting with the investigation of the nature of the many variable sources
that were found through the creation of WGACAT. He will also be providing
analysis and software support for the ROSAT Guest Observer Facility.
Programming Staff
Jesse Allen received a B.S. (Honors) in Physics and Astronomy from the
University of Iowa in 1990 and a M.Ed. from the University of Maryland in 1993.
His astronomy work has largely focused on radio emission from stellar objects,
ranging from black holes to OH masers. An interest in teaching resulted in a
baptism by fire in the local public school system: he escaped the hordes of
thirteen-year-olds by joining the HEASARC staff in March 1994. He is
responsible for converting historical high energy astrophysics observatory data
into FITS formats, such as the HEAO-1 A2 maps described earlier in this issue
of Legacy. He also writes science fiction in his copious spare time. Some
might say the HEAO-1 A2 article is his first fictional work which has failed to
be rejected.
Robert Crosier earned a B.S. in Astrophysics from MIT and an M.S. in
Artificial Intelligence from the University of Pennsylvania His thesis at MIT
was a study of the eclipse transitions of an X-ray pulsar, and his thesis at U.
Penn was on a software approach for robotic mental imagery. He was also a
research engineer at Lockheed's Space Systems Division, a software consultant
in the Boston area, mainly at the MIT Lincoln Lab, and most recently, a UNIX
Systems Administrator/Programmer for Goddard Institute for Space Studies on the
Columbia University campus. At the HEASARC he will be working with the World
Wide Web to help improve the Internet interface between the resources here and
the people out there.
Dave Dawson was born in Zaria, Nigeria, but grew up in Southwest
Washington, D.C. He attended Cornell University where he earned a B.A. in
physics in 1993. He spent the following year working odd jobs, as well as
doing a bit of traveling a backpacking. In August, 1994 he joined the HEASARC
where he is responsible for recovering the data from the Cosmic X-Ray
Spectroscopy Experiment which flew on OSO-8, and putting it online.
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