Thorsten Markus is the program manager for Cryospheric Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was head of NASA Goddard’s Cryospheric Sciences Lab and the Project Scientist for the ICESat-2 mission. 

Suneel Bhardwaj

 Ryan Fitzgibbons is a video producer for Earth science missions and Goddard social media. He has produced for missions such as GPM, ICESat-2 and PACE.

Ronnette Barnes is a Senior Resource Analyst at NASA/GSFC that has over 20 years of experience with a wide range of business support and a variety of financial efforts supporting the Division and Laboratory Principal Investigators under the Earth Sciences Divisi

Pho – a mission mascot created by the ICESat-2/SCAD Collaborative Student Program - is one of trillions of photons working on the ICESat-2 mission to bring back important measurements of Earth.

Develops Ground System software and processes specifically in the area of instrument commanding and performance monitoring for several projects since 1990 with the most recent being ICESat-2.  

Patricia Vornberger

Paige is a mission mascot created by the ICESat-2/SCAD Collaborative Student Program.

Nathan Kurtz received the B.S. degree in Physics from Iowa State University in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2007 and 2009, respectively.

John Shepherd

Mr. Robbins has provided expertise in various geodetic, tectonic and cryospheric research efforts since 1984.

I began my career at GSFC in 1988, working on attitude and orbit determination for the UARS and EUVE missions.

Jeffrey Lee

Jayshree Murthy

Helen Amanda Fricker is a Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, where she also co-leads the Scripps Polar Center.

Denis Felikson is the Deputy Project Scientist of the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission, Lead of the Integration Working Group on NASA's

Claudia Carabajal

Christine Sadlik

Brian, with GST, Inc., has been a NASA Senior Earth Science Specialist for over two decades.

As the instrument scientist, Tony was responsible for the architecture and high-level design of ATLAS. He now helps run instrument performance tests and computer models to ensure ATLAS will continue to meet the mission’s science requirements.

Ann Reese

Aimee Neeley, ICESat-2’s mission applications lead, studied both marine biology and biological oceanography with research focused on the polar regions.

Aimée Gibbons joined the ICESat-2 team in 2018. She supports various Project Science Office activities, mission planning, and data analyses and has led the Global Geolocated Photon data product (ATL03) since 2021.