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Science Team Description       The U.S. science team will make unique contributions to EUSO. These include the optics and expertise on theory, simulations, track reconstruction, electronics, photon detectors, and education and public outreach (EPO). Expertise of team members, in their respective areas, is described below. Each member will participate in analysis, interpretation, and publication of the results. NASA supports the efforts of all team members.       Jim Adams leads two research teams at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). He serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and is responsible for leading the U.S. EUSO team. He is an experimental CR physicist who has experience with six satellite experiments, three that were launched on the Space Shuttle. He has participated in, or led, five international collaborations, three involving satellite launches.       Katsushi Arisaka is a high-energy physicist on the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is an expert on vacuum photon detectors. He advises on the design of the EUSO focal plane.       Mark Christl is a CR physicist at MSFC. He will do radiation testing of the optical components and oversees the design, procurement, and testing of the optical filters.       Henry Crawford is an experimental physicist and instrumentation expert at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). He will work on shower development and signal simulations and provide advice on the electronics and trigger system.       Steven Csorna is an experimental physicist on the faculty of Vanderbilt University (VU) with extensive experience in Cherenkov detectors and simulating high-energy physics experiments. He will lead the U.S. contribution to the EUSO simulation work.       David Cline is an experimental physicist on the faculty of UCLA. His major focus is on astro-particle physics. He leads the U.S. effort to develop track reconstruction software for the production data analysis code.       Lloyd Hillman is an optics physicist on the faculty of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He directed the wide-angle optics development. He will participate in the design and optics testing.       Carl Pennypacker is an astrophysicist and supernova expert at SSL. He is the founder of the Hands-On Universe (HOU) project. He will lead our EPO effort and advise on electronics.       Toshiki Tajima is a plasma physicist on the faculty of the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and is an expert in particle acceleration in plasmas. He will help to interpret the data.       Yoshiyuki Takahashi is an experimental CR physicist on the faculty of UAH. He conceived the OWL and the wide-angle optics for OWL and EUSO. He serves as instrument scientist for the optical system and filters.       Tom Weiler is a theoretical physicist on the faculty of VU. He has developed models for EECR sources. He will lead the theoretical effort to interpret the data.       John Watts is a CR physicist at MSFC with extensive experience in simulations. He will contribute to the EUSO simulation effort.							EUSO North America Team Email Roster Jim Adams Valeri Andreev Katsushi Arisaka Max Bonamente Mark Christl David Cline Hank Crawford Steve Csorna John Dimmock Lloyd Hillman John Hraba Kolonko Kevin Lee David Lehner Christina Matthey Sonny Mitchell S. Otwinowski Tom Parnell Carl Pennypacker Ken Pitalo Tamas Sashalmi Joseph Seele Scott Smith Michael Stallcup Toshi Tajima Yoshi Takahashi Mike Vanhooser John Watts Tom Weiler Roy Young Shuan Nan Zhan Alessandro Zuccaro
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