1. Lynnae C Quick was born on 1984 and is an American planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Lynnae Quick is a member of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute Toolbox for Research and Exploration team, and serves as co-chair of the Earth and Planetary Systems Sciences section of the National Society of Black Physicists.
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Lynnae Quick was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from James Benson Dudley High School.
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Lynnae Quick then attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where she received her Master of Science degree in physics with a concentration in astrophysics.
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Lynnae Quick received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2013.
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Lynnae Quick then became a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, making her the first African American staff scientist in the center's history.
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In 2019, Lynnae Quick joined NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as an Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist, specializing in the study of ocean worlds in the Solar System and beyond.
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Lynnae Quick continues her research program studying cryovolcanic activity and other geophysical processes on moons and planets in the Solar System and has expanded that work to study activity in extrasolar planetary systems.
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Lynnae Quick has applied her expertise to characterizing the surface of the crater-laden dwarf planet Ceres, located in our solar system's asteroid belt.
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Lynnae Quick undertook this work as an Associate Scientist on NASA's Dawn Mission.
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In 2020, Lynnae Quick was the lead author on a NASA study that analyzed 53 terrestrial exoplanets that were all of a similar size to Earth.
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Lynnae Quick mathematically modeled the geologic activity of these planets by estimating their internal heating rates as a proxy for potential volcanic activity.
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In 2013, after completing her PhD, Lynnae Quick received a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship award.