The Radiation Physics Office Group, NASA/GSFC
Janet L. Barth
Janet L. Barth received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1978,
and pursued graduate studies in computer science. She is an astrophysicist with the Radiation
Physics Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she has worked since 1976. Her
responsibilities are to develop spacecraft radiation hardening guidelines, and to lead research efforts
to improve the accuracy of radiation environment definitions and the effectiveness of mitigation
techniques. She began her career at NASA/GSFC by developing integration software for radiation
environment models and codes. Later, she implemented the use of 3-dimensional ray trace methods
for defining component level radiation exposures and developed techniques for optimizing mitigation
procedures. She is principal investigator on an experiment to investigate the effect of composite
materials on exposure levels, and is co-investigator on the Cosmic Ray Upset Experiment (CRUX).
Ms. Barth has served the NSREC as a reviewer and session chair. She has co-authored papers on
the space radiation environment, in-flight verification of single-event effect rate predictions, and system
level radiation effects mitigation.
Janet's e-mail address is
Janet.L.Barth.1@gsfc.nasa.gov.
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