Don George
Current Position: Southwest Research Institute – Staff Scientist in SwRI Space Sector, Space Research Division
Current Projects and Roles:
• Principal Investigator (PI) of the SwRI LSO (Lunar Surface Observatory), under a SwRI PDIR (Presidential Discretion Internal Research) grant.
• Instrument Scientist for the ENABLE Software Defined Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer development under a NASA DALI grant.
• Laboratory Co-Manager and System Engineer, of the EPIC (Energized Plasma Instrument Calibration) Lab.
• Instrument Scientist for development of the OCTEA neutral particle instrument under a NASA HTIDeS grant.
Current Proposals in Development:
• PI of the M-LACE (TBR) Mobile Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment to an Artemis V Lunar Terrain Vehicle under NASA ROSES, 2024.
• Co-I of the LACE-(TBD) Surface Volatiles Investigation to a PRISM SALSA, Stand-Alone, Landing Site-Agnostic Investigation under NASA ROSES, 2024.
• PI of the LACE II Surface Volatiles Investigation for the Artemis IV Astronaut Deployed Instrument Program under NASA ROSES, 2024.
• PI of the TBD Sub-Surface Volatiles Investigation on a Future Lunar Terrain Vehicle under NASA ROSES.
• PI of the Investigation of the Transition from Magnetic Vacuum Merging to Frozen-In Plasma under DOE Basic Plasma Research Program, 2025.
Research Areas:
• Space Based Missions and Instrumentation development. From concept to proposal thru development and deployment.
• Lunar Volatiles Science Investigations. What, where, and how much is there?
• Lunar Infrastructure Development with a focus on Survive the Night.
• Basic Plasma Research – Transitioning between Magnetic Vacuum Merging and Frozen-In Plasma
Dissertation Title: Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Energized Oxygen in the Magnetotail
Dissertation Advisor: Jörg-Micha Jahn
Graduation Date: Spring 2020
Publications: Google Scholar