Will's SSL Web Page

This is Will Marchant's SSL home page. Here is Will's personal home page.

Current projects:

• STEREO IMPACT
• Stardust@Home
• TRACERS
• SPHEREx
• Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA)

Past projects:

• ICON
• Microfabricated Organic Analyzer for Biosignatures instrument (MOAB) for a potential Europa Lander mission
• Parker Solar Probe SWEAP
• NuSTAR
• CHIPSat
• ORFEUS-SPAS II
• ORFEUS-SPAS
• EUVE

Education Outreach

I continue to mentor local Civil Air Patrol and High School teams competing in the The American Rocketry Challenge. I continue my involvement with the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program by hosting the slow scan and fast scan data galleries.

• NASA Group Achievement Award to Ionospheric Connection Explorer Team, December 2020.
• NASA Silver Achievement Medal to the Parker Solar Probe Team, August 2019.
• ARISS 20th Anniversary Sustained Service Award, November 2016.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to NuSTAR Project Team, June 2015.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to NuSTAR Pipeline Development Team, June 2015.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to NuSTAR Operations Team, August 2014.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to NuSTAR Mission Operations Team, July 2013.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to NuSTAR Instrument Team, July 2013.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination Team, July 2013.
• Top 100 Award for The Large Area Imager for Standoff Detection, R&D Magazine, 2007.
• NASA Group Achievement Award to Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Team, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, May 2006.
• NASA Group award for CHIPS-UNEX Mission, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, 2004.
• Award for "Outstanding support for amateur radio on the International Space Station", AMSAT, 2004.

Conferences and Papers This Century

• 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2020)
  • Butterworth, et al. New Candidate Interstellar Particle in Stardust IS Aerogel Collector: Analysis by STXM and Ptychography
• Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts
  • Marchant, et al. Using a Drone as a Vehicle for Learning
• 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
  • Westphal, et al. A Massively Distributed Search for Impacts in Aluminum Foil on the Stardust Interstellar Collector
  • Westphal, et al. Identification of Candidate Interstellar Dust Impact Features on Stardust Foil I1020W,1
• Space Science Review, October 2015
  • Kasper, et al. Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation: Design of the Solar Wind and Coronal Plasma Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus
• 2014 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software
  • Marchant, et al, ICON end-to-end operations philosophy
• Meteoritics & Planetary Science : Stardust-Interstellar Dust Special Issue, September 2014, Volume 49, Issue 9
  • Westphal, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination I: Identification of tracks in aerogel
  • Frank, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination II: Curating the interstellar dust collector, picokeystones, and sources of impact tracks
  • Bechtel, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination III: Infrared spectroscopic analysis of interstellar dust candidates
  • Butterworth, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IV: Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy analyses of impact features in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
  • Brenker, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination V: XRF analyses of interstellar dust candidates at ESRF ID13
  • Simionovici, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VI: Quantitative elemental analysis by synchrotron X-ray fluorescence nanoimaging of eight impact features in aerogel
  • Flynn, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VII: Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence analysis of six Stardust interstellar candidates measured with the Advanced Photon Source 2-ID-D microprobe
  • Gainsforth, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VIII: Identification of crystalline material in two interstellar candidates
  • Postberg, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IX: High-speed interstellar dust analog capture in Stardust flight-spare aerogel
  • Sterken, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination X: Impact speeds and directions of interstellar grains on the Stardust dust collector
  • Stroud, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination XI: Identification and elemental analysis of impact craters on Al foils from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
  • Westphal, et al, Final reports of the Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination
• Science Magazine
  • Westphal, et al, Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft
• SPIE Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V
  • Korreck, et al, Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Science Operations Center initial design and implementation
• 233rd Meeting of the AAS
  • Forster, et al, NuSTAR Observatory Operations and Data Analysis
• AIAA Space 2013
  • Bester, et al, NuSTAR Ground Systems Approach - Lessons Learned
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 06/2013
  • Ziock, et al, Performance of the Roadside Tracker Portalless Portal Monitor
• Stereo-4/SDO-2/SOHO-25 Workshop: The Sun 360
  • Schroeder, et al, Real-Time Visualization Tool Integrating STEREO, ACE, SOHO and SDO
• AGU Fall Meeting 12/2011
  • Schroeder, et al, Real-Time Visualization Tool Integrating STEREO, ACE, SOHO and SDO
• 74th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2011)
  • Simionovici, et al, Synchrotron X-Ray Irradiation of Stardust Interstellar Candidates: From "No" to "Low" Damage Effects
• 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2011)
  • Westphal, et al, Four Interstellar Dust Candidates from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
  • Simionovici, et al, High Fluence Synchrotron Radiation Microprobe Effects on Stardust Interstellar Dust Candidates
  • Westphal, et al. Constraints On The Interstellar Dust Flux Based On Stardust@Home Search Results
• AIP X-RAY OPTICS AND MICROANALYSIS (2010)
  • Westphal, et al, Non-destructive search for interstellar dust using synchrotron microprobes
• Proc SPIE 04/2010
  • Karnowski, et al, Design of Dual-road Transportable Portal Monitoring System for Visible Light and Gamma-ray Imaging
• 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference
  • Bester, et al, Using the NuSTAR mission operations software for instrument and spacecraft development
• Solar Physics, Volume 264, Issue 2, pp.287-309. 07/2010.
  • Sirk, et al, EUV Spectra of the Full Solar Disk: Analysis and Results of the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS)
• AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 11/2010
  • Westphal, et al, Discovery of Interstellar Dust Candidates in Stardust Aerogel Collectors Through Stardust@home (invited)
• 73rd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society (2010)
  • Westphal, et al, Two Interstellar Dust Candidates from the Stardust Aerogel Interstellar Dust Collector
• 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2010)
  • Westphal, et al, Analysis of “Midnight” Tracks in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector: Possible Discovery of a Contemporary Interstellar Dust Grain
• 72nd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society (2009)
  • Westphal, et al, Detection Efficiency and Noise Rates in the Stardust@home Instrument
• 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2009)
  • Westphal, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination (IPSE)
• AGU Fall Meeting (2008)
  • Schroeder, et al, Online Analysis for STEREO's IMPACT Investigation: Lessons Learned
• 71st Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2008)
  • Westphal, et al, Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination — First Results
• IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science volume 55, issue 6, year 2008, pp. 3643 - 3653
  • Ziock, et al, A fieldable-prototype, large-area, gamma-ray imager for orphan source search
• ACM SIGITE Newsletter 01/2007
  • Marchant, et al, An Undergraduate Experimental UAV Payload Project to Teach Problem Solving and Project Lifecycle Skills
• American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #7.73; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.1292
  • Hurwitz, et al, Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Spectroscopy with CHIPS
• AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2003
  • Taylor, et al, CHIPS: A NASA University Explorer Astronomy Mission
• IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002
  • Marchant, et al, Status of CHIPS: A NASA University Explorer Astronomy Mission
• AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2001
  • Taylor, et al, Status of CHIPS: A NASA University Explorer Astronomy Mission