Jhony R. Zavaleta 

Division: NASA Earth Science Division (SG)

Branch: Earth Science Project Branch, ESPO (SGG)

Education

Manufacturing and Robotics Engineering, UNM

Professional Experience

Project Manager for the following airborne research campaigns:
ASIA-AQ, AEROMMA, STAQS, ACCLIP, SHARC, CAMP2Ex, Operation Ice-Bridge, KORUS-AQ

Deputy Project Manager: SEAC4RS, ATTREX, ARISE

Design Engineer:
Spectrometers for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR)

Project Engineer:
Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE)

Awards/Honors

EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL, 2023

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: NASA SOCIAL MEDIA CONSOLIDATION TEAM, 2022

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: SHARC TEAM, 2022

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: FIREX-AQ, 2021

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: CAMP2Ex TEAM, 2021

GSFC EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT FOR SCIENCE – TEAM, OPERATION ICEBRIDGE TEAM, 2021

SILVER ACHIEVEMENT MEDAL GROUP SHARC TEAM, 2022

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: ATMOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY MISSION, 2019

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: ORACLES TEAM, 2019

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: KORUS-AQ, 2017

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: POSIDON, 2017

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT (ATTREX), 2016

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL, 2015

INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTEER EXCELLENCE AWARD, DEP. OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY, 2014

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: SEAC4RS, 2014

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: ARC FAMILY, 2013

GROUP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: 4STAR DEVELOPMENT TEAM, 2011

Publications

Reid, J. S. et al, (2023), The Coupling Between Tropical Meteorology, Aerosol Lifecycle, Convection, and Radiation during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP²Ex), BAMS

Dunagan, S. E., et al. (2013), Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (4STAR): Instrument Technology, Remote Sens., 5, 3872-3895, doi:10.3390/rs5083872.

Dunagan, S. E., et al. (2011), 4STAR Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research: Instrument Technology Development, 34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, Sydney, Australia, 10-15 Apr 2011.

Stoker, C. R., et al. (2011), Mineralogical, chemical, organic and microbial properties of subsurface soil cores from Mars Desert Research Station (Utah, USA): Phyllosilicate and sulfate analogues to Mars mission landing sites, Astrobiology).

Alberto G. Fairen, et al. (2010) Astrobiology through the Ages of Mars: The Study of Terrestrial Analogues to Understand the Habitability of Mars, Astrobiology

Stoker, C. R., et al. (2008), The 2005 MARTE robotic drilling experiment in Rio Tinto, Spain: Objectives, approach and results of a simulated mission to search for life in the Martian subsurface, Astrobiology).

Stoker, C. R., et al. (2005), The 2005 MARTE Robotic Drilling Experiment in Río Tinto, Spain: Objectives, Approach, and Results of a Simulated Mission to Search for Life in the Martian Subsurface, Astrobiology