Carl Agee   New Chief Scientist

Carl B. Agee is the new Chief Scientist for Astromaterials and the Acting Astromaterials Curator at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC). His major areas of interest are origin and evolution of solar system bodies with specific interests in astromaterials, high pressure mineral and magma physics, Materials science, curation and quarantine of extraterrestrial samples, and experimental petrology.

Carl received his B.A. with High Honors in Geology (1984) from the University of California at Berkeley. His honors thesis was “Experimental biotization of hornblende.”  Attending Columbia University in New York City, NY, he received his M.A. (1986), M.Phil. (1988), and his Ph.D. (1988) in Geological Sciences.  His dissertation was titled “Experimental phase density and mass balance constraints on early differentiation of chondritic mantle.”  He served as a visiting scientist at Bayerisches Geoinstitut from 1988-1990, as a faculty member at Harvard University from 1990-1998 and is presently a Senior Staff member at JSC.  He Co-Chaired the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 1999. Carl has received the F.W. Clarke Medal, “For original research on mantle differentiation,” the John L. Loeb Associate Professor Endowment,  the Milton Fund Research Award from Harvard University, and the P.H. Hearst Distinguished Lecturer Award at U.C. in Berkeley.

Carl has many professional memberships.  Some of them include the Geochemical Society, the AGU service (member of Mineral and Rock Physics Committee 1996-2000) and Editor (Solid Earth and Planets) for Geophysical Research Letters 1997-2000.

Carl can be contacted by e-mail at carl.b.agee1@jsc.nasa.gov or by fax at 281-244-8892.