Dr Robert Troy January 16, 2009

Dr. Robert Troy has a unique perspective on the science and engineering efforts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, having served for more than a decade as a staff engineer on projects including Genesis, the Mars Polar Lander, Mars Exploration Rovers, and the Mars Science Laboratory, while simultaneously completing his doctoral studies in geophysics and space physics at UCLA utilizing data from the airborne JPL Laser Hygrometer. Experienced as both a spacecraft design engineer and planetary scientist, he'll relate how these two communities combine talents (and make tradeoffs) to bring missions from concept to flight.