[NASA] NASA Ames Stars of the Month: October 2024

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The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) America Reyes Wang, Sepideh Khajehei, Julie Nottage, and Ryan Felton. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the talent, camaraderie, and vision needed to explore this world and beyond.

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Space Biosciences Star: America Reyes Wang

America Reyes Wang serves as the Space Biology Biospecimen Sharing Program (

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) Lead in the Space Biosciences Research Branch, where she guides a team of support scientists and a logistics coordinator in planning and performing detailed, collaborative dissections to maximize the scientific return from biological investigations. Under her leadership, the BSP team has contributed over 5,000 samples to the NASA Biological Institutional Scientific Collection (

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), approximately half of which were collected in the last 10 months.

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Earth Science Star: Sepideh Khajehei

Sepideh Khajehei is a NASA Earth eXchange (

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) Data and Research Scientist in the Biospheric Science Branch, for the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute. She is recognized for her dedicated support of the NASA Administrator’s

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, and recently for her outstanding support for an urgent request to revise climate indices just days before the October 7, 2024, opening of

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in Washington, D.C.

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Space Science & Astrobiology Star: Julie Nottage

Julie Nottage continuously goes above and beyond in her role as the Space and Earth Sciences Facilities Service Manager.  She keeps a multi-use interdisciplinary science building running across all aspects of operations and is the go-to person for any problem.  Her can-do approach and wealth of knowledge ensures the facility’s high-quality operation that enables scientists and engineers to focus on their research and instrument work.  Her quality work and extensive coordination of the Voluntary Protection Program allowed these month-long inspections to run smoothly with an improved safety outcome.

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Space Science & Astrobiology Star: Ryan Felton

Ryan Felton, a NASA Postdoctoral Management Fellow with the Exobiology Branch, is recognized for his successful coordination of an engaging community-wide 

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 focused on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML). This seminar series featured four speakers so far over six months on a variety of exciting topics to advance AI/ML knowledge and use in the branch’s research.

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