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The HEASARC and NuSTAR teams are greatly saddened by the sudden passing of Katja Pottschmidt. Most recently Katja was the lead scientist for the NuSTAR Guest Observer Facility (GOF), a role she had supported for many years. During her science career she worked on many other high energy astrophysics missions and played an integral role in advancing our knowledge of the universe. She was a wonderful colleague and friend and will be keenly missed by all who knew her.

Patricia A. Tyler


Employer: Raytheon ITSS
Job Description: Support Scientist
Phone: (301) 286-3566
email: tyler@lheapop.gsfc.nasa.gov

Pat Tyler recieved a BS in Physics from Texas A&M University, Kingsville, and an MS in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at the University of Maryland, she worked as a research assistant with the Astro-Metrology Group, processing and archiving images from various NASA missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope.

Pat joined the HEASARC in September 1991. Currently, she provides science and education/public outreach support for NASA's Exploration of the Universe Division (EUD). She also designs, develops, and maintains Web sites for the Beyond Einstein initiative and for EUD missions such as Generation-X and MAXIM and for HEASARC data sources such as the WGA Catalog of ROSAT Sources (WGACAT).