Therese A. Kucera

NASA/GSFC Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771

301-286-0829             therese.a.kucera@nasa.gov

Education

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder 1993 

M.S., University of Colorado, Boulder 1991

B.A., Carleton College 1987

Positions Held

11/01-present

Astrophysicist, Solar Physics Branch, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

11/01 - pres.  Deputy US Project Scientist for the SOHO spacecraft

11/03- pres.   Deputy Project Scientist for the STEREO mission

11/01 - 12/03 Living with Star Data Environment Project Scientist

11/95-10/01

Member of SOHO Science Team, Emergent Information Technologies Inc.

Worked at NASA's GSFC in support of SOHO, in particular the SUMER and CDS ultraviolet spectrographs.

Team of SPARTAN 201-5 White  Light Coronagraph

10/93-10/95

National Research Council Resident Research Associate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Awards

GSFC Performance Award 07/2003,  03/2005

Group Achievement Award (Spartan 201 WLC Team) 08/2000

Selected Refereed Publications

“Prominence Motions Observed at High Cadences in Temperatures from 10,000 to 250,000 K,” T.A. Kucera, M. Tovar, and B. De Pontieu. Solar Phys., 212, 81, 2003

“Wavelengths of Forbidden Transitions Arising from Levels Within the Fe+19 2s22p3 Ground Configuration,” T.A. Kucera, U. Feldman, K.G. Widing, and W. Curdt. Astrophys. J., 538, 424, 2000.

“Filament Channel Fine Structures in UV Lines Related to a 3-D Magnetic Model,” T.A. Kucera, G. Aulanier, B. Schmieder, N. Mein, and J.-C. Vial. Solar Phys., 186, 259, 1999.

“Neutral Hydrogen Column Depths in Prominences Using EUV Absorption Features,” T.A. Kucera, V. Andretta, and A.I. Poland. Solar Phys., 183, 107, 1998. postscript text