Michael Mumma is the Director of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology
at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and is the PI of the Goddard
NAI lead team.  He received his PhD in Physics at the University of
Pittsburgh.

His research interests include comets, organic molecules in space,
origin of organics and volatiles on terrestrial planets, and methane on
Mars.  He is an active Observer on the Hubble Space Telescope, IUE,
FUSE, EUVE, ROSAT, Space Shuttle (SKIRT-CVF), Kuiper Airborne
Observatory, Kitt Peak National Observatory (McMath, 50-inch, and
4-meter), Mauna Kea Observatory (Keck-2, Subaru, NASA. IRTF, and
UKIRT), and Gemini-South, using (his own) heterodyne spectrometers,
cryogenic grating spectrometers, infrared camera, Fourier Transform
Spectrometers.  He received the Medal for Exceptional Scientific
Achievement for the first detection of saturated hydrocarbons in a
cometary atmosphere from NASA in 1997 and for the first detection and
characterization of cometary water in comet Hally from NASA in 1988.