Bio
BioDr. Nancy L. Chabot is the chief scientist for the Space Exploration Sector. She was the coordination lead on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, is the deputy principal investigator for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, and is an interdisciplinary scientist on the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission. On NASA’s MESSENGER mission, she was the instrument scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the chair of the Geology Discipline Group. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program.
Notable Awards and Leadership
Notable Awards and Leadership| Year(s) | Description |
|---|---|
| Year(s) 2021 - Present | Description Meteoritical Society: past president, 2025-2026; president, 2023-2024; vice president, 2021-2022 |
| Year(s) 2020 - 2022 | Description Chair of Small Solar System Bodies panel for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey |
| Year(s) 2018 | Description Fellow of The Meteoritical Society |
| Year(s) 2013 - 2016 | Description NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) chair |
| Year(s) 2013 - 2016 | Description NASA Planetary Science Subcommittee member |
| Year(s) 2010 - 2014 | Description Member of the Meteoritical Society Council |
| Year(s) 2007 - 2015 | Description Associate Editor for the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science |
| Year(s) 2006 | Description Asteroid 6899 Nancychabot named in honor |
| Year(s) 2001 | Description United States Antarctica Service Medal |
