Don George
Dissertation Title:
- Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Energized Oxygen in the Magnetotail
Dissertation Advisor:
Graduation Date:
- Spring 2020
Publications:
Current Position
- Southwest Research Institute – Staff Scientist in SwRI Space Sector, Space Research Division
Current Projects and Roles:
- Principal Investigator (PI) of the SwRI Lunar Surface Observatory (LSO), under a SwRI Presidential Discretion Internal Research (PDIR) grant.
- PI of the Regenerative Lunar Fuel Cell, under a SwRI PDIR grant.
- PI and Instrument Scientist/Engineer for the ENABLE Software Defined Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer development under a NASA DALI grant and SwRI IRD.
- Laboratory Manager of the SwRI EPIC (Energized Plasma Instrument Calibration) Lab.
- Instrument Scientist for development of the OCTEA neutral particle instrument under a NASA HTIDeS grant.
- PI of the SwRI LSO Technology Demonstration (LTD) Project for a Lunar Lander collaboration.
Current Proposals in Development:
- Proposal PI of the LACE II, Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment 2 (LACE II), Surface Volatiles Investigation for an Artemis Mission
- Proposal PI of the LACE-M, Surface Volatiles Investigation for an Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle
- Proposal Co-I of the LACE-L, Surface Volatiles Investigation for a CLPS Lander
- Proposal PI for EISR – Exospheric ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) – A network of Lunar detectors used to determine point of origin of surface activity.
- Proposal PI for FIRE – Frozen-In Reconnection Experiment – Basic Plasma Research – Transition between Magnetic Vacuum Merging and Frozen-In Plasma
- Proposal PI of the TBD Sub-Surface Volatiles Investigation, Ultrasonic Drill
Research Areas:
- Space Based Mission and Instrument development. From concept to proposal thru development and deployment.
- Lunar Volatiles Science Investigations. What, where, and how much is there? And Isobaric species discrimination.
- Lunar Infrastructure Development with a focus on Survive the Night.