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<\/a><\/p>\nDr. Colwell got his Ph.D. from the Department of Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Colorado in 1989 and remained in Colorado as a Research Associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics until 2006. He spent a year at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees in Toulouse, France, as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in 1995-1996. He is a member of the science team on the Cassini mission to Saturn, and he has flown experiments on the space shuttle and the NASA “Weightless Wonder” airplane. In June 2006 Dr. Colwell joined the UCF Physics Department’s Planetary Science group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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