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So I'm Owen Kelley, and I work at NASA Goddard, and I'm going to tell you about

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Joanne Simpson. So when I was new at NASA,

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she was the chief scientist for the TRMM satellite,

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that's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. It was the first satellite ever

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that could map the global three-dimensional structure of

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storms in the tropics. And for her, it was a

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culmination of her career, she had studied this stuff and made theories about it for

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decades and finally NASA was going to launch a satellite that could

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show up or down whether these theories were working.

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So I walked into her office and I said, "Hey, I've done some hurricane research, I've looked at

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hot towers." And I didn't

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expect her to, but she critiqued it, she

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said, "Show me some more, keep working on this."

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That led to my PhD research. And

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I learned after the fact that Joanne has done this

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for generations of young scientists. And

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not everyone who's made it and can talk to the VIPs

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will take the time to help new people get started.

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But I think she actually enjoyed that, and

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that's a wonderful way to be, and have that be part of your personality.