“When we established the Asteroid Institute, our goal was to continue to bring in the best and brightest in planetary science and data analysis to work with us to provide detailed information on asteroids to the scientific, business, and policy communities which need to make the difficult decisions of what to do in case we determine an asteroid is headed towards Earth,” stated Dr. Lu. “The work of Sarah and Bryce has been exemplary and we are very pleased to welcome them to the Institute.”

Dr. Greenstreet, with expertise in near-Earth and small body orbital dynamics, observations and main belt asteroid resonances, most recently served as a postdoctoral fellow at Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) / Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). She received her BS degree in physics and mathematics from Western Washington University and her MS and PhD degrees in Astronomy from the University of British Columbia.  She has published numerous papers and has an exemplary record of achievement.

Bryce Bolin comes to the Institute from The Universite Cote d’Azur and the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and University of Central Florida. His areas of expertise include dynamics of solar system small body populations, solar system formation, survey astronomy, optical observations, asteroid structure and formation, activated asteroids and comets. In December 2017, Mr. Bolin led a team of astronomers and astrophysicists to research and author of the study measuring 1I/’Oumuamua shape and rotation, and this research paper was recently printed in The Astrophysical Journal.

A key partner of the Asteroid Institute is the Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DIRAC) Institute of the University of Washington, where the first Institute Fellows reside. They will work closely with other DIRAC researchers, including teams involved in building of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) .

“We are tremendously excited to be the first partners to host Asteroid Institute fellows”, stated Dr. Mario Juric, DIRAC Faculty and the LSST Solar System Data Management Lead. “We’re looking forward to working with Sarah and Bryce on enabling the next generation of survey-driven discoveries in the Solar System.”

THE ADAM PROJECT
“The Asteroid Decision Analysis  and Mapping (ADAM) project of B612 will be central to all of the work conducted at the Asteroid Institute,” explained B612 President Danica Remy. “In the next decade, we will see a surge of data emerge, as major assets, including LSST and hopefully NASA’s NEOCam go into operation. ADAM  will provide the essential open-source, cloud-based infrastructure necessary for collaboration on large-scale orbital dynamics and related computations needed to analyze asteroid threats. With the goal of greater collaboration and transparency, ADAM will enable not only rapid calculations but also be able to run very large scale astrodynamics algorithms that will allow researchers to make sense of the enormous data set of asteroid observations.  ADAM will enable the science, policy and business communities to identify, monitor, and analyze asteroid threats in order to make decisions on how to respond to specific threats from asteroids in our solar system.”