{"id":7197,"date":"2013-07-02T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:36:32","slug":"ess-professor-awarded-nasas-exceptional-scientific-achievement-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=7197","title":{"rendered":"ESS Professor awarded NASA&#8217;s Exceptional Scientific Achievement medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/portraitforscience1_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7204\" title=\"portraitforscience1_small\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/portraitforscience1_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/portraitforscience1_small.jpg 400w, https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/portraitforscience1_small-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Professor Dave Paige of UCLA&#8217;s Department of Earth and Space Sciences has been awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.\u00a0 This award is NASA&#8217;s top scientific honor and is given to individuals &#8220;for exceptional scientific contributions (specific, concrete scientific achievements) toward achievement of the NASA mission.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Dave is honored for his &#8220;Breakthrough discoveries in the thermal stability of volatiles on the Moon and Mercury&#8221;. To learn more about Dave&#8217;s work, visit his website <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ess.ucla.edu\/people\/faculty\/572\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Dave Paige of UCLA&#8217;s Department of Earth and Space Sciences has been awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.\u00a0 This award is NASA&#8217;s top scientific honor and is given to individuals &#8220;for exceptional scientific contributions (specific, concrete scientific achievements) toward achievement of the NASA mission.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Dave is honored for his &#8220;Breakthrough discoveries in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=7197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ESS Professor awarded NASA&#8217;s Exceptional Scientific Achievement medal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7219,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}