Miriam Baltuck

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Miriam Baltuck
NationalityAmerican & Australian
Education
Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex

Miriam Baltuck (born 1954) is an Australian American geologist. She was a program manager of the Solid Earth and Natural Hazards program at the

Tidbinbilla in the Australian Capital Territory
.

Education

Baltuck obtained her B.S. degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. degree from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1982. Her graduate work included oceanographic research cruises, geologic field mapping, and laboratory geochemical analyses.[1]

Career

Baltuck began her career as an assistant professor of geology at

SRTM Space Shuttle missions, and represented NASA in Airborne Geophysics, Natural Hazards and Global Change research activities.[3][4]

Baltuck was appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1994, chairing a multi-agency National Earthquake Strategy Working Group.[5] Later in 1997 she moved to Australia to take up a post as NASA representative at the US Embassy in Canberra, working to foster cooperation between NASA programs and space activities in Australia, Oceania, and Southeast Asia.[6] She participated in the successful negotiation of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2004.

After a period in 2005 as Director of University Advancement at the

Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex (CDSCC) in 2006.[7][8][9]

Baltuck participated in the Global Forest Observations Initiative, developed to foster satellite Earth observations for national forest monitoring systems in a multinational framework.[10]

In 2005 a minor planet 5701 was designated Baltuck in her honor.[11][12]

Honors

References

  1. ^ "Miriam Baltuck". UC San Diego. 1982.
  2. ^ "Baltuck, Miriam".
  3. ISBN 978-0-309-05183-5
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  4. ^ "Global Change and Natural Hazards". Aspen Global Change Institute.
  5. ^ "National Earthquake Strategy Working Group".
  6. ^ "Deep Space Network – A Solar-wide Network". Space Daily. 2 October 1998.
  7. ^ "Australian Space Activities in 2007". APRSAF.
  8. ^ Wright, Andrew (24 May 2010). "American honour for Australian space tracking stations". CSIRO.
  9. ^ "National Engineers Heritage Landmark (NEHL)". 7 August 2010.
  10. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.382.3233. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  11. ^ "5701 Baltuck (1929 VS)". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  12. ISBN 9783540343615
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