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Above: Lou Mayo
Lou Mayo
Title: Planetary Scientist
Location: Goddard Space Flight Center
E-mail: Louis.A.Mayo@nasa.gov
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist and program manager working for Raytheon at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a member of the DC Space Grant Consortium and NASA’s Sun Earth Connection Education Forum where he designs space science education programs for schools and the public.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center working on problems involving the atmospheric modeling of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. He also spends much of his time designing and promoting education outreach programs for space science.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist working for Raytheon at Goddard Space Flight Center. He leads the Raytheon ITSS Education Program and is a member of the NASA Sun Earth Connection Education Forum and the DC Space Grant Consortium. In his free time, he leads an after school astronomy club for 3-5 graders.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. As a scientist, Lou is devoted to studying the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. These studies use data taken by the Voyager spacecraft infrared spectrometer to peer beneath Titan's thick haze to examine the nature of Titan's clouds and precipitation (rain!). He also spends much of his time designing and promoting space science education programs for elementary, middle, and high school students and teachers. Lou also leads an after school astronomy club in Silver Spring, MD for grades 3-5.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist and program manager working for Raytheon at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He was a member of the Voyager IRIS and Cassini CIRS experiment teams for 11 years where he was responsible for program management, instrument calibration, and atmospheric research. Subsequently, he was appointed to the JPL Cassini Ground System Redesign team. He is a published author of a number of papers on the atmosphere of Titan, using Voyager infrared observations to derive the physics of aerosols and condensates in Titan’s atmosphere.
He also spends much of his time designing and promoting education outreach programs for space science and is a member of the NASA Sun Earth Connection Education Forum and the D.C. Space Grant Consortium. He also leads the education outreach program for Raytheon ITSS and is co-lead for the AAS/DPS education program. Lou leads an after school astronomy club in Silver Spring, MD for grades 3-5 and is a frequent speaker and author on topics in space science.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist and deputy program manager for Goddard's Space Science Data Operations Office contract. He is Director of the Raytheon ITSS Education Outreach Program and a member of the D.C. Space Grant Consortium and the NASA OSS Sun Earth Connection Education Forum. Through these organizations, Mayo facilitates the involvement of space scientists in a wide array of educational programs with nationwide impact. For this presentation, he will introduce the field of Sun Earth Connection (SEC) science and discuss its importance to us here on Earth.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist and program manager working for Raytheon at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center with over 20 years experience supporting NASA space and Earth science missions and data systems. His experience includes 11 years as a member of the Voyager IRIS and Casssini CIRS instrument teams. He has published a number of papers on the atmosphere of Titan focusing on radiative transfer modeling of aerosols and condensates.
Lou is a co-director of the DC Space Grant Consortium and is a member of the AAS/DPS education committee. He is a frequent author and speaker on space science subjects and was a columnist for Mercury Magazine for three years. Lou has worked with Maryland State and Montgomery County Board of Education to develop physics and astronomy curricula for K-8 and 9-12 students and has developed and trained teachers in astronomy 100 level courses. For SECEF, Lou provides science content and coordinates community based astronomy programs for groups such as amateur astronomers and girl scouts. He also runs a national network of after school astronomy clubs.
