Dr. Bauer is an expert in the properties and evolution of cometary bodies, and is the lead scientist for the development and execution of the WISE Moving Object Pipeline System. His current research focuses on the physical properties of short and long-period comets, active bodies in the Main Belt, and the Centaur and Scattered Disk objects that feed material from beyond Jupiter into the cometary and near-Earth asteroid populations.AwardsNASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2015)JPL Mariner Award for work on the NEOWISE Restart Mission (2014)NASA Group Achievement Award: NEOWISE team (2012)NASA Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Cryogen Mission Closeout Team (2012)NASA Group Achievement Award, WISE Science Data Center (2012)19494 Gerbs –named after James “gerbs” BauerHonorary Officer, NASA's First Planetary Defense Squadron (Provisional)Mariner Award for work on the WISE Moving Object Pipeline for NEOWISE.Mariner Bonus Award for work on HST imaging of Triton’ s Surface.NEOCAM Mission Team Member.Funded CoI on Near Earth Object Observations grant NEOWISE.Funded PI on Planetary Data Mission Analysis grant: “Archiving the NEAT Database (1996-2007)for Scientific & Mission Support”Funded PI on Discovery Data Analysis grant: “Near Infrared Observations of Deep Impact with thePalomar Adaptive Optics System”.Funded PI on Guest Observer Time for SST warm-mission proposal “A Double PlanetaryOccultation By the Outer Gas Giant Neptune.”Funded PI on Director’s Discretionary Time for SST proposal “Observations of the activatingCentaur 2000 EC98”.Funded CoI of the Spitzer Cometary Nucleus Survey (SEPPCoN).