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NASA Ames Facts:

NASA Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, California in the heart of "Silicon Valley". Ames was founded December 20, 1939 as an aircraft research laboratory by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and in 1958 became part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ames specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.

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DANA BOLLES
NASA Ames Research Center

 

Government Relations and Outreach

Currently, Ms. Bolles works as a Public Relations Specialist. She's been in this position since Oct 2007. Among her major job duties are: ensuring that the local elected officials are aware of NASA Ames' activities; coordinating tours for elected officials and their staff members; writing speeches, white papers, briefing papers, and articles for the Ames Astrogram; and assisting in outreach activities.

Ms. Dana Bolles joined NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as a flight systems safety engineer. Her projects included the Mars Orbiter project and the third assembly flight for the International Space Station. After almost three years, Ms. Bolles spent the next 1-1/2 years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, as a fire protection safety engineer.

In 1999, she transferred to NASA Ames, where she has been working now for 8-1/2 years. For her first 8 years at Ames, Ms. Bolles worked as an environmental compliance specialist. She managed programs that monitor air quality, industrial wastewater, toxic gases, and aboveground storage tanks. She helped NASA Ames carry out its commitment to environmental protection by ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and local environmental regulations and by obtaining the required permits for all equipment and processes that had the potential to pollute the air, water, and/or ground. Shed supervised tracking of activities that monitored compliance and provided consulting services when others needed help to meet environmental regulations.

In addition to her assigned job duties, Dana enjoys occasional public speaking engagements, mainly to audiences of students. She is active in disability-related issues and has served for several years as the Chair to the Employees with Disabilities Advisory Group (EDAG).

Ms. Bolles attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, for 2 years, and graduated from the California State University, Long Beach, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. She then attended San Francisco State University, where she received a master's certificate in rehabilitation engineering and technology.

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