Louise Prockter
| Louise Prockter | |
|---|---|
| Fields |
Planetary geology Geophysics Remote Sensing |
| Alma mater |
Lancaster University Brown University |
Louise Prockter is a planetary scientist and supervisor of the Planetary Exploration Group at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory.[1]
Education
Prockter did her undergraduate work at Lancaster University in England and got her Master’s degree from Brown University. She went on to get Ph.D. in planetary geology at Brown University in 1999.
Career
Prockter has worked on a number of NASA missions, both formally and informally. She was on the imaging team for the Galileo Europa Mission (GEM), the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, and the MErcury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury. For the MESSENGER mission, she has served as the Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System, Co-Investigator, and Deputy Project Scientist.[2]