Scientific Colloquium
October 7, 2015

THE JOHN C. LINDSAY MEMORIAL LECTURE

Steve Snowden is an Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where he serves as the Project Scientist for the NASA contribution to the European Space Agency XMM-Newton X-ray observatory program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986 and then spent five years as a UW post-doc in Garching, Germany, working on the ROSAT mission producing maps of the 0.1-2.0 keV diffuse X-ray background. In 1993 he joined the ROSAT Guest Observer Facility (GOF) at GSFC and then the XMM-Newton GOF 1997, becoming the Project Scientist in 2009. He has studied the soft X-ray diffuse background and local interstellar medium throughout his entire career with a current excursion into X-ray emission within the heliosphere.