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GAYLE J. BOWEN (Space Dynamics Laboratory)
MANAGER, Education and Public Outreach Office

As Manager of the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) Education and Public Outreach Office and Affiliate Director of the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium Ms. Bowen brings twelve years of experience in education and public outreach activities. Bowen has been involved with student mentoring programs, for Utah Space Week, USU, and has teamed with national and international government programs on education and public outreach activities. Bowen recently completed the design of an interferometer animation video and a 3-D satellite model at the Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, Virginia. She is also a co-investigator on various proposals with SDL scientists and other faculty involving upper atmospheric data collection and display.

Bowen has fifteen years of experience involving commercial and government projects, including proposal generation, strategic planning, and management of financial/fiscal year budgets and program management. Bowen also has experience working directly with DoD, NASA, NSF and DOE contracts.

Previously, Bowen managed the information technology division for the Utah State University Research Foundation. This included extensive coordination between the University relations and SDL technical staff.

With over eight years of program management experience for DoD and DOE contracts, Bowen has been involved in developing program plans and monitoring and tracking manpower, monitoring subcontractors and ensuring compliance with the contractual deliverables, including hardware and software deliverables as well as technical reports. This included weekly interaction with the customer, during which an excellent relationship with DOE, DoD, BMDO and the MSX community was established.

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