Cornell Calibration Crew (CCC)

Calibration of all of the Pancam images has been performed by a hard-working and dedicated team of undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff at Cornell University since sol 1 on both rovers (January, 2004). These folks, collectively called the Cornell Calibration Crew , have been supervised by Jonathan Joseph and Jim Bell and have performed phenomenal work, sol after sol, 24.7 hours per sol, 12 Phobes per Deim (or something like that), to allow the rest of the team to generate the color images and other multispectral images products from the four Pancam instruments on Mars.

	Graham Anderson
	Shianne Beer
	Diane Bollen I have been involved with the Athena project from the very beginning. I worked with Steve Squyres and his colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California writing the original proposal in 1997. Since that time, I have taken on many roles including creating blind calibration samples for the APXS for the APEX mission, taking on a mission operations role as documentarian and KOP on MER, being part of the pancam calibration team, and making classroom visits where I teach kids about Mars and the mission. Before delving into a career in space science, I focused on matters of this planet, working on watershed geochemistry in the Department of Ecology. I have also been an associate editor of a science journal, and an assistant museum curator. Then came Mars. There are many cool things about being involved with the Mars Exploration Rover mission. It is on the "cutting edge " of science -- we are trying to do things that have NEVER been done before. Since I have a strong biology and geochemistry background, I am intrigued by the idea that Mars once may have had conditions very similar to early Earth - when life first came about. Mars demands most of my attention these days. Still, I am able to find time to be a musician, a writer, and an artist.
	Lindsey Brock
	Rich Chomko
	Emily Dean Emily started working for the Mars Exploration Rover mission in 1998 as a student intern with Steve Squyres and Jim Bell. As a sophomore in high school, she was introduced to Mars missions through an outreach program called LAPIS, which exposed her team to Mars exploration and mission planning. Since that point, she finds herself captivated by the journey that Spirit and Opportunity have taken, from napkin sketches to the launch pad, to the unexplored terrain of Gusev and Meridiani. She currently works as a Pancam Payload Uplink Lead, creating the imaging sequences for the color cameras on Mars. Her undergraduate work was in Art and Architectural History, which she claims provides her with insight about the powerful relationship between images and the human mind. After she has seen the last data from the last rover, she will take off on her own journey around this planet, and then become engrossed in something else interesting.
	Adam Fischman
	Kristen Frazier
	Alissa Friedman
	Stephanie Gil
	Lisa Grossman
	Ben Herbert Ben graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics in May 2005. He started working for MER in 2002 during his sophomore year in the Mars Camera Lab, assisting Alex Hayes with the lab work required for his honors thesis. Ben then started as a member of the Cornell Calibration Crew during its early days and worked hard to recruit undergraduates to the CCC team until the end of his time at Cornell. Apart from MER, Ben did some moasaic design for the Cassini mission while at Cornell and has worked at both JPL and Goddard Space Flight Center during summer internships. Ben is currently a Masters student at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Aerospace Engineering Sciences. He plans to have a career dedicated to bridging the gaps between science, engineering, and space policy and hopes to contribute to the next generation of Mars exploration.
	Ben Holmes
	Kelley Hess
	Min Hubbard
	Jonathan Joseph Jonathan Joseph is the programming lead for the Pancam calibration and quick-look mosaicking software, and has played a leading role in the development of all of the Pancam data processing and analysis tools. Prior to working on MER, Jonathan developed observation planning and scientific analysis tools for the successful Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission to 433 Eros and the (sadly, unsuccessful) CONTOUR comet flyby mission.
	Kjartan Kinch Kjartan first got involved with the Mars Exploration Rovers as a graduate student in the Danish magnet properties team. He graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Aarhus University, Denmark in March 2005; the thesis work being focused on aerodynamics of martian dust motion as it relates to dust capture on the rover magnets. He is now at Cornell University where he holds a temporary post doc. position and works as a Pancam PDL as well as continuing to work on the properties of martian airborne dust. In Denmark he used to go sailing and rollerskating, play soccer and board games, and dress up in medieval costumes. These days he mostly spends his free time biking or reading about history, politics, biology, codfish, and anything else that catches his fancy.
	Peter Meakin
	Chase Million
	Mary Mulvanerton
	Eldar Noe
	Lucy Ooi
	Aaron Rubin
	Dmitry Savransky Dmitry Savransky started working for Jim Bell while still an undergraduate at Cornell University. Starting with developing code for processing Themis visual data from the Odyssey mission, he later also joined the MER Pancam calibration crew. He received his BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2004, and completed his Masters of Engineering in January of 2005. Since then, he has become a full time member of the Pancam imaging team and is currently working on true color representation of MER Pancam data, continuing his work with Themis data processing, and pursuing various other projects such as this website. He participates in planning operations as a PDL and PUL. In his newly found copious free time, he enjoys skiing, biking, skating, playing the clarinet and piano, and spending quality time with his rapidly growing collection of classical science fiction.
	Alex Shapero Despite being a Comparative Literature major with no background in Space Science, Alex tried everything he could to become involved with MER since he first found out about it in 2003, and once he found a niche logged many late night/early morning hours during the in flight practice calibration sessions. When the rovers landed he continued to contribute to image calibration and mosaic construction until his graduation in May of 2006, and though now working in Israel he still tries to keep up on the fascinating work being done back in Ithaca/JPL/Gusev/Meridiani.
	Alex Shih
	J.R. Skok J.R. began working with MER before landing, when he was a freshman. Initially, J.R. joined the calibration team working all hours of the night to calibrate images as soon as they came to Earth. The summer after landing, J.R. was hired full time to calibrate and program image support software, improving calibration quality and streamlining the processes. J.R. now spends most of his time putting together Pancam mosaics, many of which are featured on this site. He continues to calibrate while training new members, and has personally calibrated over 100,000 images. J.R. enjoys the outdoors, racquet sports and all forms of rocks, he hopes to continue studying Mars as long as it is there.
	Pam Smith Pamela Smith is on the research staff in the Cornell Department of Astronomy. She received a B.S. degree in Communication Arts from Cornell and wrote for several newspapers and radio stations before immersing herself in matters of the Solar System. She designed the Athena website, wrote most of the content on its pages, and has enjoyed many hours in the Pancam room calibrating images from Mars. She is also on Cornell's Cassini team, working with imaging software for the ISS cameras. A fan of science fiction ever since the days when monsters first roamed Maple Street in "The Twilight Zone," she uses her vivid imagination to fuel a non-stop passion for screenwriting.
	Opportunity Cal Target
	Spirit Cal Target
	Christopher Versfelt
	William Versfelt
	Janet Vertesi Janet is a PhD candidate in Cornell's Science & Technology Studies department, where she is writing her dissertation on the use of images in the MER mission. A historian and sociologist of science trained at Cambridge and Cornell, she has also worked in Human-Computer Interaction in the Culturally Embedded Computing Research Group, and as a Human Factors Engineer in Intel's User Centered Design team. Janet has been a proud member of the Pancam CCC since January 2006, and when not calibrating pictures from Gusev and Meridiani she also serves as President of the Cornell GPSA and plays her electric harp with the Cornell Jazz Ensembles.
	Brandi Wilcox