CRESST Central Hours of Operations: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am - 5 pm
CRESST II Program Manager
Building 28 W-268
Email: leland.cheyne@nasa.gov
Phone: 301-286-9563
Mr. Cheyne is the Program Manager for the CRESST II Cooperative Agreement. He is the primary point of contact between the five CRESST II partner organizations and NASA/GSFC. He is responsible for administrative, financial, and day to day on-site operations.
He is the primary point of contact for the visitor program, requests for travel, CRESST II meetings, conferences, seminars, and consultants.
CRESST II Finance Manager
Email:
Phone: 301-286-8370
Ms. Benton-Harrison is responsible for producing the CRESST II annual task budgets and consolidating the partner financial reports. She works with RAs and the CATO to get new tasks approved, and coordinates responses to financial queries.
Science Support Manager
Building 28 W-270
Phone: 301-286-7335
Ms. Vivi is the main point of contact for CRESST II employee on-boarding (e.g., badge applications/renewals and IT access). Her primary duties are to provide CRESST II orientations to new scientists and students, assist with scientist proposals, generally maintaining proactive communicatons with scientific staff, record-keeping, quality control over problem resolution, and CRESST II website updates.
Career Development Manager
Building 28 W-272
Email: Katherine.S.McKee@NASA.gov
Phone: 301-286-3063 Fax: 301-286-1681
Ms. McKee supports early career scientists through managing the Postdoc and Post-bacc Program and assists the Special Programs Manager with the Summer Internship Program. She also manages the scientist recruitment process and tracks government furnished equipment.
Special Programs Manager
Email: aaliyah.kerr@nasa.gov
Phone: 301-286-7780
Ms. Kerr is the manager of CRESST II Special Programs and is the main point of contact for workshops and meetings, travel reimbursements, consultants, and other activities that require a special programs task. She will also be taking on the internship program.
Administrative Assistant
Email: Keyerra.M.Owens@NASA.gov
Phone: 301-286-7583 Fax: 301-286-1681
Ms. Owens serves as the Program Administrative Assistant for CRESST II. She provides a variety of general program support including responding to inquiries, and collecting, assembling, and distributing information to our scientists from CRESST Central. She assists with formatting, proofreading, copying, and packaging both internal and external communication materials and reports. Additional duties include providing back up for the badging process, conducting quarterly publication searches and leading the CRESST Scientists of the Month initiative and LinkedIn Page. Ms. Owens joined CRESST II in December 2022.