Space Telescope Scientist to Speak on Campus

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Matthew Greenhouse, project scientist at the James Webb Space Telescope, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at the Space Center Auditorium in the Old Museum Building on the University of Arkansas campus. Greenhouse has served on the senior staff as project scientist for the telescope science instrument payload since 1997. He specializes in infrared imaging spectroscopy and development of related instrumentation and technologies.

Greenhouse began work in infrared astronomy during 1979 when he joined the University of Arizona Steward Observatory as an instrument technician for balloon-borne and Kuiper Airborne Observatory instrument development. During 1983, he joined the Wyoming Infrared Observatory as a graduate student in physics. After receiving his doctorate during 1989, he joined the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., as an astrophysicist. He then joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center during 1996 as an astrophysicist. Greenhouse has served on several NASA and European Space Agency flight mission teams and is the recipient of three NASA exceptional service awards.

The event is sponsored by the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences and is free and open to the public.