Ralph Shuping Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Boulder, Colorado, United States (working remotely)

Responsible for in-flight radiometric calibration update using stellar standards; support other instrument calibration activities including flat-field generation and imaging performance analysis; support EXI pipeline and archiving development and operations; carry out and present research project(s) related to Mars atmospheric science.

Boulder, CO (working remotely)

Deputy to SSI's Executive Director; assisting with strategic planning, establishment of policies and priorities, week-to-week operations, procedure development and improvement, and program oversight. Also serving as Acting Director of Research (see below).

Boulder, CO (working remotely)

Supervising over 70 active scientists (located across the US and internationally) working on federally funded grants and contracts valued at over $21M. Responsible for overall quality of research programs, long-range planning, new initiatives, interaction with funding agencies and other academic/industrial research communities, performance management, and.

Boulder, CO (working remotely)

Principal investigator responsible for carrying out grant and contract funded research and development in astronomy and astrophysics. Awarded $2.3M in contracts from the Universities Space Research Assoc. (USRA) for work on the NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA, see contract positions below), and $178K in research grants as part.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (working remotely)

Develop plans for transition of the SOFIA Archive to the NASA Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at the Infrared Processing and Analaysis Center (IPAC, CalTech) including interface control documents and project implementation plan; contribute new content for the SOFIA program website; organize and lead SOFIA guest investigator workshops; support planning and.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (working remotely)

Lead and support development, integration, test, verification, and operation of science data systems for SOFIA, including requirements analysis, concept of operations development, development planning and scheduling, verification and validation planning, status reviews and briefings to NASA management, and management of week-to-week development and.

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Led software development activities for SOFIA science project; provided functional management and oversight to planning and budgeting of future software developments; supervised 5 senior software engineers and one student intern (from Germany).

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Led software systems development for the SOFIA Data Cycle System (DCS), including infrastructure and functionality for proposal preparation, observation planning, and data archiving.

Portland, Oregon Area

Physics department. Classes taught: Introduction to Astronomy (PHYS105). Including supervision of undergraduate teaching assistants.

Los Altos, CA

Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering division. Classes taught: Intro to our Solar System & Life in the Universe.

Santa Cruz, CA

Astronomy & Astrophysics department. Classes taught include: Observational Astronomy; Light, Vision, & Color. Including supervision of graduate student teaching assistants and undergraduate readers.

Los Angeles, CA

Led SOFIA archive software system development; developed data reduction pipelines for SOFIA Facility Science Instrument FLITECAM; led and participated in multiple observational astronomy programs using the W. M. Keck, Gemini, and Lick observatories resulting in a number of published papers (see Projects below).

Phd, Astronomy & Astrophysics

Ba, Physics