BS (Physics) - New York University - June 1972
MS (Physics) - University of Illinois - January 1974
Ph.D. (Physics) - University of Illinois - September 1978

(1985 - Present) Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, and the
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, NASA/GSFC
(1980 - 1985) Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America
(1978 - 1980) National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Standards
(1973 - 1978) Research Assistant, Physics Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
(1972 - 1973) Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Illinois

Recent and Current Research Experience:

1. Co-Principal Investigator on NASA Co-operative Agreement NCC5-380, "Research of Cosmic Hard X Rays and Gamma Rays.''
2. Co-I and Project Scientist for the Long-duration Antarctic Mars-calibration Balloon (LAMB) Program.
3. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) X-ray/Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (XGRS) science team associate.
4. Participating Scientist on the Mars Observer, Gamma-ray Remote-sensing Spectrometer (GRS) and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Gamma-Ray Spectrometer.
5. Principal Investigator for the Clark/SSTI X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) experiment.
6. Lunar Data Analysis Program Guest Investigator.

American Physical Society
American Astronomical Society
Sigma Xi
New York Academy of Sciences

Antarctic Service Medal
NASA Group Achievement Award - Mars Observer Payload Development/GRS

"Radiation Effects in the Si-PIN Detector on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission" R. Starr, P. E. Clark, L. G. Evans, S. R. Floyd, T. P. McClanahan, J. I. Trombka, J. O. Goldsten, R. H. Maurer, R. L. McNutt, Jr., and D. R. Roth, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. In Phys. Res. A, accepted for publication 1999.

"Cruise Measurements Taken with the NEAR XGRS" R. Starr, P. E. Clark, L. G. Evans, S. R. Floyd, T. P. McClanahan, J. I. Trombka, W. V. Boynton, S. Bailey, J. Brückner, S. W. Squyres, J. Goldsten, and R. McNutt, Jr., Advances in Space Research, accepted for publication 1999.

"Compositional Mapping with the NEAR X-ray/Gamma-ray Spectrometer" J. I. Trombka, W. V. Boynton, J. Brückner, S. W. Squyres, P. E. Clark, R. Starr, L. G. Evans, S. R. Floyd, E. Fiore, R. E. Gold, J. O. Goldsten, R. L. McNutt, Jr., and S. H. Bailey, J. Geophys. Res.102, (1997) 23729-23750.

"The X-Ray Spectrometer for the Clark Mission" R. Starr, M. Acuña, B. Dennis, U. Desai, L. Orwig, J. Trombka, D. Douglass, J. Houser, P. Panetta, T. Plummer, J. Scheifele, P. Uribe, Acta Astronautica 39 (1996) 293.

"Performance of the Gamma-Ray Detector for the NEAR Mission and Applications to Future Missions" L. G. Evans, R. Starr, J. I. Trombka, J. Brückner, S. H. Bailey, J. O. Goldsten, and R. L. McNutt, Jr., Second IAA International Conference on Low Cost Planetary Missions, IAA-L-0905P, Laurel, Maryland, USA, April 16-19, 1996.

"Analysis of Phobos Mission Gamma Ray Spectra from Mars" J. I. Trombka, L. G. Evans, R. Starr, S. R. Floyd, S. W. Squyres, J. T. Whelan, G. J. Bamford, R. L. Coldwell, A. C. Rester, Yu. A. Surkov, L. P. Moskaleva, V. P. Kharyukova, O. S. Manvelyan, S. Ye. Zaitseva, and G. G. Smirnov, Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Sci. 22 (1992) 23.

"Performance of Bismuth Germanate Active Shielding on a Balloon Flight over Antarctica" A. C. Rester, R. L. Coldwell, J. I. Trombka, R. Starr, G. Eichhorn, and G. P. Lasche, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 37 (1990) 559.

"Hard X-Ray and Low Energy Gamma Ray Spectrometers" N. Gehrels, C. J. Crannell, D. J. Forrest, R. P. Lin, L. E. Orwig, and R. Starr, Solar Phys. 118 (1988) 233.

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