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Janet Barth of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal (EAM) at Goddard’s yearly NASA awards ceremony in July 1999. The EAM is awarded to employees for a significant, specific accomplishment or contribution clearly characterized by a substantial and significant improvement in operations, efficiency, service, financial savings, science, or technology, which contributes to the mission of NASA. This is one of NASA’s most prestigious honor awards which is approved by the Administrator of NASA and presented to carefully selected individuals. Ms. Barth received the honor in recognition for her outstanding technical leadership in the field of space radiation physics.
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Since 1976 Ms. Barth has been involved in application oriented research in the areas of magnetospheric physics, solar-terrestrial relationships, and natural and man-made radiation problems. She has extensive experience with radiation hardness assurance programs for NASA’s flight projects including Hubble Space Telescope, Next Generation Space Telescope, Earth Observing Systems, and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites.
Ms. Barth is a senior member of the IEEE and is actively involved in the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). She has served as a Session Chair, Short Course Instructor, a member of the Awards Committee, and Assistant and Associate Guest Editor of the NSREC IEEE Transactions. For NSREC 2000 she will serve as the Chief Guest Editor of the Transactions and for NSREC 2001 she will be the Technical Program Chair.
Among her accomplishments, Ms. Barth has authored over one hundred papers and technical notes, including a 1997 IEEE tutorial entitled “Modeling Space Radiation Environments”. The 1998 NSREC presented her with an award for “Outstanding Radiation Effects Data Workshop Paper” and in 1999 she co-authored an “Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation” at NSREC.
Ms. Barth is also a member of the committee for the European Conference on Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS). She served as the IEEE U.S. liaison for the 1999 RADECS conference held in September in Fontevraud, France. At the 1999 RADECS she was presented with an award for the “Outstanding Poster Presentation” from the 1997 RADECS.