ASD Peer Awards 2018 Citations
Joseph Asercion — For your valuable and tireless work as software developer on the Fermi mission team, as well as always striving to build a team out of disparate individuals.
Akinola Bentham — For your creativity and kindness with which you solve the well-posed problems we bring... as well as the problems we don't.
Charles Bowers — For your dedicated, skillful, and insightful leadership of the optical Independent Verification Team for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Brian Hicks — For agreeing to fix a co-worker's flat tire, only to find out the spare was flat and for staying late on a cold and dark December evening to install the new tire.
J.D. Myers — For working tirelessly, effectively, and responsively behind the scenes of the Astrophysics Division to maintain the Division's public face, its websites.
Kelly Pecnick — For managing our interactions with the NASA Conference Tracking System, usually under externally created deadline pressure.
Kazuhiro (Kazu) Sakai — For your outstanding contributions to the X-ray Microcalorimeter group.
Claire de Saravia — As the communications lead for the TESS mission, for working heroically this past year to bring its exciting science message and the story of its launch to the public.
Hasine (HD) Thorpe — For your passion, care, and friendship for the residents of the 3rd floor that you bring to the job every day.
Pat Tyler — For your skill, intelligence, and hard work in document preparation, especially the 446-page LUVOIR Interim Report.
Pamela King-Williams — For taking time to make sure that essential administrative functions of the Astrophysics Science Division operate efficiently, while at the same time never failing to be a joy to work with.
Neil Zimmerman — For generously sharing your scientific expertise and career advice with junior researchers at GSFC.
