The Charles A. Barth Scholarship in Space Research

Charles Barth

The Charles A. Barth Scholarship in Space Research will contribute to tuition costs of an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder in studies related to space research at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). For the Fall semester, we expect that there will be two awards, each to cover $1,500 in tuition.

Applicants should submit a 300-word statement of their proposed research project, an up-to-date academic transcript, and a one-page CV that includes any previous research experience and lists the researcher who would supervise the applicant’s work, plus an additional potential reference.

Please send a single .pdf file to scholarships@lasp.colorado.edu.

Dr. Charles A. Barth received his Ph.D. from UCLA, and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bonn from 1958-59. Before coming to LASP, he worked as a Research Physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1959 to 1965. Dr. Barth was the Director of LASP from 1965 to 1992. He was an Associate Professor from 1965 to 1967 and a Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences from 1967 to 2002. Dr. Barth was a Professor Emeritus at LASP and in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder from 2002 through 2014.

Between 1962 and 2002, Dr. Barth served as Principal Investigator for eleven missions and experiments. Among these were Mariner 5, Mariner 6 and 7, Mariner 9, OGO-2, 4, 5, and 6, Atmosphere Explorer-C and D, the Solar Mesosphere Explorer, and the Student Nitric Oxide Experiment.

He was a Co-Investigator for ultraviolet experiments on Apollo 17, Pioneer Venus, Galileo, and Cassini. Dr. Barth served on the NASA Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee (1982-1985), the NASA Advisory Council’s Solar System Exploration Committee (1980-1987), and as a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1995).

2019 Award Recipient

We are pleased to announce that the 2019 Charles A. Barth Scholarship in Space Research was awarded to LASP graduate researcher Tara Tomlinson.

Tara Tomlinson is a graduate student in the CU Boulder Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences who works with advisor Paul Hayne (right) and studies the dark ejecta exhibited around many of Europa’s impact craters. (Courtesy LASP)

Previous Award Recipients

Year	Photo	Student name	LASP advisor
2018		Zac Milby	Nick Schneider
		Carlos Eytan Gary Bicas	Paul Hayne
2017		Parker Hinton	Fran Bagenal
		Rachel Lee McClure	Mark Rast
2016		Skylar Shaver	Laila Andersson
2015		Willow Reed	Marty Snow
2014		Wren Suess	Marty Snow