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Mitchell K. Hobish, Ph.D.

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Profile: Self-employed for over 20 years as planner, facilitator, manager, reviewer, editor, and writer, working with private sector, academic, and federal and state governmental organizations in areas related to science and technology. Fluent in many dialects of Earth-, space-, and life sciences and their supporting technologies and organizations.

Education:

1982 Ph.D., Biochemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

1974 B.S., Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

1971 B.A., English, minor in Electrical Engineering, The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Selected Experience:

Strategic Planning: Co-founder, Consortium for Analysis in Space Exploration; co-founder, New Realities, LLC; participant and group leader, NASA Astrobiology Program Roadmap Workshop; board member, Outreach Center for Sustainable Building; visiting scientist, United Nations Development Program, Sri Lanka; member, Advisory Group, Tech Ranch; member, Business Expansion and Retention Committee and Marketing and PR Committee, Gallatin Development Corporation; Member, Advisory Board, Children's Museum of Bozeman; member and secretary, Board of Trustees, Gallatin River Ranch Rural Fire District.

Business and Economic Development: Consultant, facilitator, reviewer, editor, or writer on over $195,000,000 of successful research and business proposals, with sterling SBIR track record. Mentor to numerous start-ups.

Leadership and Management: Deputy director, international academic research laboratory; manager on high-profile aerospace projects and tasks at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); executive director, Consortium for Analysis in Space Exploration; project scientist, NASA GSFC Earth Sciences Gallery project.

Education and Outreach: Outreach scientist for an international Earth science information consortium; visiting scientist, native American highschool educational program; concept developer and content provider for NASA GSFC Visitor Center's Earth Sciences Gallery; writer and co-producer, instructional videos; advisor on Earth system science to Challenger Center, Greenbelt, MD; adjunct professor,ol of Business, University of Baltimore; adjunct instructor, College of Business, Montana State University; writer of weekly newspaper column on science and technology, Manhattan-Churchill Times and the Lewis & Clark Journal.

Publishing: Content editor and author of scientific and technical reports for academia and federal government agencies (including NASA and NIST); experienced in conceptualization, design, layout, and production of complex technical documents. Content editor and author of scientific and technical materials for lay audiences at many levels.

Conferences: Organizer, coordinator, and/or facilitator of technical workshops, meetings, conferences, and symposia in the U.S. and abroad.

Research: Information transfer in biological systems and physical chemistry of biomolecules: origins of the genetic code and biochirality; nucleic acid/protein interactions; ligand control of biomacromolecular function. Roles of computers in origins of life research.

Awards: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Customer Service Excellence Award (1999)

Professional Memberships: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronautical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, Sigma Xi