Curriculum Vitae
Alan P. Boss

Education:

• University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. 1979, Physics
• University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A. 1975, Physics
• University of South Florida, B.S. 1973, Physics

Affiliations:

• American Astronomical Society
  
• Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society
  
• Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
  
• American Geophysical Union
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  
• International Astronomical Union
  
• Meteoritical Society

Professional experience:

• Staff Member, 1983-present, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
• Staff Associate, 1981-1983, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
• Resident Research Associate, 1979-1981, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division
• Postdoctoral Researcher, 1979, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
• Research Assistant, 1974-1979, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics
• Teaching Assistant, 1973-1974, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics

Miscellaneous:

• Undergraduate awards: CRC Freshman Chemistry Award, Outstanding Senior Finalist, B.S. awarded with Honors (3.96/4.00 GPR), graduate of College of Liberal Arts Honors Program
• Undergraduate honorary fraternities: Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics), Sigma Pi Sigma (physics), Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership), Phi Kappa Phi (general)
• National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (1979-1981)
• Minor Planet (29137) named Alanboss (1987)
• Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2000)
• Benson Memorial Lecturer, Miami University (2000)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)
• Fellow, Meteoritical Society (2002)
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
• Carnegie Evening Lecturer, Carnegie Institution (2004)
• Scottish Universities Physics Alliance Distinguished Visitor (2008)
• NASA Group Achievement Award for Astrobiology Roadmap (2008)
• Yuval Ne'eman Lecturer & Sackler Distinguished Lecturer, Tel Aviv University (2010)
• NASA Group Achievement Award for SIM Planet Finding Capability Study Team (2010)
• Carl Seyfert Lecturer, Vanderbilt University (2012)

History of DTM grant support:

NASA	Initial State of the Earth and the Terrestrial Planets (with G.W. Wetherill [PI] and R.W. Carlson)	$434,000 (1982-1985)
NSF	Theory of Star Formation (with supplement)	$46,400 (1984-1986)
NASA	The Earliest History of Earth and Moon in the Context of Solar System Formation (with G.W. Wetherill [PI], R.W. Carlson, J.A. Graham, and S.B. Shirey)	$425,456 (1985-1988)
NSF	Theory of Stellar Formation	$78,481 (1986-1989)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$30,000 (1988-1989)
NSF	Theory of Stellar Formation	$81,900 (1989-1992)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$33,331 (1989 - 8 months)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$45,000 (1989-1990)
NASA	Dynamics and Dispersal of the Solar Nebula (with J.A. Graham [PI] and G.W. Wetherill)	$40,000 (1990-1991)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$45,000 (1990-1991)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$45,000 (1991-1992)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$55,000 (1993)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula (with augmentation)	$57,874 (1992-1993)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$48,750 (1993-1994)
NSF	Binary Star Formation	$66,000 (1993-1996)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$55,000 (1994)
NASA	Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Embryos (with G. W. Wetherill [PI])	$35,000 (1994-1995)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$50,855 (1994-1995)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$57,054 (1995)
NASA	Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Embryos (with G. W. Wetherill [PI])	$46,686 (1995-1996)
NASA	Chairing the Planetary Systems Science Working Group	$28,000 (1995-1996)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$50,900 (1995-1996)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$71,873 (1996)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$50,900 (1996-1997)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$74,446 (1997)
NSF	Binary Star Formation	$78,201 (1997-1999)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$52,000 (1997-1998)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$75,847 (1998)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$52,000 (1998-1999)
NASA Astrobiology Institute	Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Evolution and Cosmic Environments (with S. C. Solomon [PI] and fourteen Co-Is)	$3,347,200 (1998-2003)
NASA	Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems	$15,000 (1999)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$80,000 (1999)
NSF	Acquisition of an Alpha Workstation Cluster for Theoretical Studies of the Origin of Stars, Planets, and Life (with Co-Is G. W. Wetherill, G. D. Cody, and G. Saghi-Szabo)	$400,000 [2/3 NSF, 1/3 CIW] (1999-2002)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$49,400 (1999-2000)
NASA	Mixing and Transport of Tracers in the Solar Nebula	$75,000 (2000)
NSF	Binary Star and Brown Dwarf Formation	$95,000 (2000-2003)
NASA/JPL	Ball/TPF Study Science Team	$12,000 (2000-2001)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$52,000 (2001)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2001)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$52,800 (2002)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2002)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$52,800 (2003)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2003)
NSF	Theoretical Models of Binary Star and Brown Dwarf Formation	$111,760 (2003-2006)
NASA Astrobiology Institute	Astrobiological Pathways: From the interstellar medium, through planetary systems, to the emergence and detection of life (with S. C. Solomon [PI] and 26 Co-Is)	$6,308,470 (2003-2008)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$53,000 (2004)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2004)
NSF	Astrometric Camera for Detecting Brown Dwarfs and Gas Giants with the Du Pont Telescope (with Co-Is G. D. Gatewood, S. R. Majewski, I. B. Thompson, and A. J. Weinberger)	$321,025 [68% NSF, 32% CIW] (2004-2005)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$50,000 (2005)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2005)
NASA	Three Dimensional Evolution of the Solar Nebula	$50,000 (2006)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2006)
NASA	Solar Nebula Evolution	$40,000 (2007)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$51,000 (2007)
NASA	Solar Nebula Evolution	$42,500 (2008)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2008)
NASA	Independent Verification of SIM Data Generation	$21,996 (2008)
NASA Astrobiology Institute	Astrobiological Pathways: From the interstellar medium, through planetary systems, to the emergence and detection of life (with G. Cody [PI] and multiple Co-Is)	$6,977,059 (2008-2013)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2009)
NASA	Solar Nebula Evolution	$42,500 (2009)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2010)
NSF	Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth and Space Science at the Carnegie Institution (with S. C. Solomon [PI] and multiple Co-Is)	$1,093,000 (2010-2015)
NSF	Collapse and Fragmentation of Magnetic Molecular Cloud Cores	$121,277 (2010-2013)
NASA	Mixing and Transport in the Solar Nebula	$60,000 (2011)

Other grant support:

• JPL DDF -- Chemistry and Dynamics in Evolving Protostellar Cores and Disks (with W. D. Langer [PI] and M. Allen) $120,000 (1993-1995)
• Carnegie Canada -- What is the Difference Between a Brown Dwarf Star and a Gas Giant Planet? (with Pierre Bastien [Co-I]) $40,000 (2002-2003)
• NASA Discovery -- Kepler: A Search for Terrestrial Planets (with W. Borucki [PI] and twenty-three Science Team members) $577,266,000 (2002-2013)

Doctoral thesis committees:

• Elizabeth A. Myhill, University of California, Los Angeles (1991)
• Prudence N. Foster, University of Virginia (1993)
• Yan Fernandez, University of Maryland (1999)
• Grant M. Kennedy, Australian National University (2009)
• Johannes Sahlman, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2012)

Professional committees:

• CIW/Geophysical Laboratory Director Search Committee (1985-86)
• NASA Origins of Solar Systems Workshops (1986-87)
• NAS/NRC Committee on Cooperation with the USSR on Planetary Sciences (1988-89)
• NASA Planetary Systems Science Working Group (1988-91,1994)
• CIW/DTM Director Search Committee (1990-92)
• NAS/NRC Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (1990-93)
• NASA Toward Other Planetary Systems Science Working Group (1991-93)
• DDA/AAS Brouwer Award Selection Committee (1992-94)
• NASA Origins of Solar Systems Management Operations Working Group (1994-96)
• Chair, DDA/AAS Brouwer Award Selection Committee (1994-95)
• AAS Warner/Pierce Prize Committee (1995-97)
• Chair, NASA Planetary Systems Science Working Group (1995-96)
• NASA Keck Review Team (1995-96)
• NASA Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS) Roadmap Integration Team (1995)
• NASA Solar System Exploration Subcommittee (1995)
• NASA Astronomical Search for Origins and Planetary Systems Subcommittee (1996-98)
• NASA Keck/IRTF Management Operations Working Group (1996-98)
• NASA Space Interferometry Mission Science Working Group (1996-2000)
• NASA SScAC Task Force on R&A and MO&DA (1997-98)
• NASA Astrobiology Roadmap Team (1998)
• Chair, NASA Origins of Solar Systems Management Operations Working Group (1998-2001)
• External Review Committee, Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center (1999)
• Chair, IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (2000-03)
• Co-Chair, DTM-GL Experiment Building Renovation Committee (2001-03)
• Chair, NASA Origins and Evolution of Solar System Bodies Operations Working Group (2000-01)
• NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Management Operations Working Group (2001-03)
• NASA Astrobiology Roadmap Team (2001-02)
• NASA Kepler Mission Science Team (2001-)
• AAAS Electorate Nominating Committee of Section on Astronomy (2002-05)
• NASA Navigator Program Independent Review Team (2002-05)
• Chair, OCIW Director Search Committee (2002)
• Chair, NASA TPF Precursor Science Roadmap Advisory Group (2003)
• Organizing Committee, Division III, International Astronomical Union (2003-)
• Vice President, Commission 51: Bioastronomy, International Astronomical Union (2003-06)
• Chair, IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (2003-06)
• IAU Working Group on the Definition of a Planet (2004-05)
• NASA Navigator Program External Independent Readiness Board (2005-08)
• President, Commission 51: Bioastronomy, International Astronomical Union (2006-09)
• Vice President, Commission 53: Extrasolar Planets, International Astronomical Union (2006-09)
• Co-Chair, NASA Astrobiology Institute Planetary System Formation Focus Group (2008-11)
• NASA ExoPlanet Exploration External Independent Readiness Board (2008-09)
• NASA Kepler Mission Science Council (2008-09)
• President, Commission 53: Extrasolar Planets, International Astronomical Union (2009-12)
• Past President, Commission 51: Bioastronomy, International Astronomical Union (2009-12)
• Chair-Elect, AAAS Section on Astronomy (2009-10)
• NAS/NRC Astro 2010 Decadal Survey, EOS Program Prioritization Panel (2009-10)
• Chair, AAAS Section on Astronomy (2010-11)
• NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Technology Assessment Committee (2010-)
• Chair, Astrophysics Subcommittee, NASA Advisory Council (2010-12)
• NASA Science Committee, NASA Advisory Council (2010-12)
• NASA Star and Exoplanet Database User's Group (2010-11)
• Past Chair, AAAS Section on Astronomy (2011-12)

Conference organization committees:

• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium #147, Grenoble (1988-90)
• Steering Committee, Clemson Workshop on Isotopic Anomalies (1989-90)
• Chair, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Time Scales & Solar System Formation [in honor of George W. Wetherill] (1990-91)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, First International Conference on Formation, Evolution, and Detection of Planetary Systems (1992)
• Organizing Committee, JPL/Caltech Summer School for Planetary Science (1992)
• Program Committee, Workshop on Isotopic Anomalies, Washington University (1993)
• Organizing Committee, Clouds, Cores, and Low Mass Stars, Fourth Haystack Observatory Conference (1994)
• Organizing Committee, Chondrules as Probes of Protoplanetary Disks, University of New Mexico (1993-94)
• Organizing Committee, Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting, Washington, D.C. (1993-94)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Workshop on Galactic Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, Ringberg Castle, Germany (1994-95)
• Organizing Committee, Meteoritical Society Washington Meeting (1992-95)
• Organizing Committee, From Stardust to Planetesimals, NASA Ames Research Center, Santa Clara, California (1995-96)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Planetary Formation in the Binary Environment, State University of New York, Stony Brook (1995-96)
• Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire (1995-97)
• Co-Chair, Protostars & Planets IV Conference (Co-Editor, book), University of California, Santa Barbara (1996-98)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, The International Origins Conference, Estes Park, Colorado (1996-97)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Numerical Astrophysics 1998, Tokyo, Japan (1997-98)
• Organizing Committee, Origin of the Earth and Moon Conference, Monterey, California (1996-1998)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Euroconference on Extrasolar Planets, Lisbon, Portugal (1997-1998)
• Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems, New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire (1997-99)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium 200: The Formation of Binary Stars, Potsdam, Germany (1999-2000)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe -- Observation, Formation and Evolution, Manchester, England (1999-2000)
• Program Committee, Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting, Pasadena, California (2000)
• Chair, Program Committee, Second NASA Astrobiology Institute General Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2001)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, California (2001-02)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets, Washington, D.C. (2001-02)
• Scientific Advisory Committee, Protostars and Planets V, Kohala, Hawaii (2002-05)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium 219: The Stars Are Suns: Activity, Evolution, and Planets, Sydney, Australia (2002-03)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Meteorites and the Early Solar System II, University of Arizona Space Science Series (2002-04)
• Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee, Bioastronomy 2004, Iceland (2003-04)
• Organizing Committee, Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk, Kauai (2003-04)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Planet Formation 2005: Theory Meets Observation, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, Germany (2004-05)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Fourth Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington, D.C. (2004-06)
• Program Organizing Committee, Pale Blue Dot III: Terrestrial to Astronomical Biosignatures, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois (2005-06)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium No. 249 on Exoplanets: Physics, Dynamics, and Evolution, China (2005-07)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Nobel Symposium on Physics of Planetary Systems, Stockholm, Sweden (2006-07)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes, and Extraterrestrial Life, Puerto Rico, (2006-07)
• Science Steering Committee, Fifth Astrobiology Science Conference, Santa Clara, California (2007-08)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Exoplanets, University of Arizona Space Science Series (2008)
• Program Committee, Searching for Life Signatures, International Academy of Astronautics, Paris, France (2008)
• Co-Editor and Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Special Session on Planetary Systems as Potential Sites for Life, IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2008-09)
• Co-Editor and Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Symposium #276 on the Astrophysics of Planetary Systems - Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution, Torino, Italy (2009-2010)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Origins 2011: Joint Meeting of IAU Commission 51 on Bioastronomy and ISSOL, Montpellier, France (2009-2011)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, Frontier Science Opportunities with the James Webb Space Telescope, Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming (2010-2011)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, First Kepler Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California (2010-2011)
• Scientific Advisory Committee, IAU Symposium #293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets, IAU 28th General Assembly, Beijing, China (2010-2012)
• Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Sean Solomon Scientific Symposium, DTM, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. (2010-2011)
• Scientific Organizing Committee, IAU Special Session #10: Dynamics of the Star-Planet Relations, IAU 28th General Assembly, Beijing, China (2011-2012)
• Scientific Advisory Committee, Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, Germany (2011-2014)

Editorial position:

• Series Editor (with C. Cockell, B. Jakosky, D. Prieur, and F. Westall), Cambridge Astrobiology Series, Cambridge University Press, (2001-)

Proposal review panels:

• NASA Astrophysical Theory Review Panel (1987)
• NASA Origins of Solar Systems Review Panels (1989-91)
• Group Chief (Observations), NASA Origins of Solar Systems Review Panel (1993)
• NASA Lunar and Planetary Geosciences Review Panels (1993-94)
• Chair, NASA Origins of Solar Systems Review Panels (1994-96)
• NASA Hubble Space Telescope Allocation Committee (1995)
• NASA Keck Telescope Allocation Committee (1996)
• NASA Discovery 5 Mission Review Panel (1997)
• Panel Chair, NASA Astrophysical Theory Review Panel (1997)
• Panel Chair, NSF Stellar Astronomy and Astrophysics Review Panel (1997)
• NSF Astronomy Division Career Program Review Panel (1998)
• NSF/NASA Joint NStars/SIM Review Panel (1999)
• NASA Michelson Fellowship Program Review Board (2000)
• Chair, NASA Origins/Evolution Cluster Review, Office of Space Science (2000)
• Subpanel Chair, NASA Astrobiology Institute Review Panel, Cycle 2 (2000)
• Group Chief, NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Review Panel (2001-02)
• NASA Explorer Mission Review Panel (2002)
• NASA Exobiology Program Review Panel (2002)
• Chair, NASA Exobiology Program Review Panel (2003-then schedule conflict)
• NASA ADP/LTSA Program Review Panel (2004)
• Carnegie Observatories Telescope Assignment Committee (2005)
• Chair, NASA Interdisciplinary Exploration Science Review Panel (2005)
• Chair, NASA Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development Review Panel, Astronomy and Missions Subpanel (2006)
• Chair, NASA Origins of Solar Systems Review Panels (2006-07)
• Group Chair, NASA SOFIA Second Generation Instrument Science Peer Review Panel (2011-12)