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Dr. Dorothy J. Zukor
Deputy Diirector
Earth Sciences Division
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
ph (301) 614-5635
Dorothy.J.Zukor@nasa.gov
Dorothy J. Zukor is presently Deputy Director of the Earth Sciences Division
at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA. She is responsible for managing the
internal operations of the Division. At this time, she is also the acting
Head of the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory. Dr. Zukor
is the Sciences Exploration Directorate representative of the Diversity Council
and actively sponsors a Civility Collaborative on Center. The Collaboration
is working with Dr. P.M. Forni, author of Choosing Civility, of Johns
Hopkins University. Dr. Zukor serves as the Center Mentoring and Coaching
Champion and is an active mentor and coach herself. In addition, she
serves on Goddard’s Library Advisory Committee as it transitions from
providing its main information from hardcopy to electronic format. In
1996, she led the Goddard Strategic Planning Team to help chart the course
for Goddard's future success. She served as the senior science official for
the design and construction of the Earth System Science Building (Bldg. 33)
which houses most of the Center's Earth scientists together to encourage cross-disciplinary
collaboration.
Prior to assuming her present position, she held the position of Associate
Director for Projects Engineering for the Earth Sciences Directorate (1990-1993)
where she was responsible for providing guidance and coordination to all Earth
Sciences projects in matters pertaining to systems engineering and instrumentation.
From 1988-1990, she served as the Assistant Executive Officer to NASA Headquarters'
Administrators Admiral Richard H. Truly and Dr. James C. Fletcher. In that
capacity, she worked directly with the Administrator to assure that he was
kept informed of issues and activities in a timely manner and coordinated all
NASA activities with the White House. In addition, she worked with other Senior
NASA officials to assure that the Administrator's directions were properly
communicated.
Before going to NASA Headquarters, she spent 2 years at the Goddard Space Flight
Center as a Payload Safety Manager for the Attached Payloads Project (1986-1988).
From 1979-1981, Dr. Zukor served as a Fellow for the Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards where she researched specific issues for Committee members
and represented the Committee on task forces and at meetings where appropriate.
Dr. Zukor's academic training includes a B.A. in Physics from the College of
Notre Dame of Maryland (1972), an M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the
University of Maryland (1976), and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the
University of Maryland (1982). While at Maryland, she earned her Reactor
Operator’s license for their research reactor, taught numerous undergraduate
classes and labs, and worked part time at the NRC analyzing reactor cores for
liquid metal fast breeder reactors.
