User:Trilotat/draft/Anthea Coster

Anthea Jane Coster is the Principal Research Scientist and Assistant Director of the Haystack Observatory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education
Coster completed her bachelor's degree at University of Texas at Austin and her Master's degree and Ph.D. at Rice University where William E. Gordon chaired her thesis committee.

Research and career
Coster worked at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico while completing her Ph.D. She moved onto the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where she was the atmospheric scientist on staff for the Millstone Hill satellite tracking group.

She served on the Institute of Navigation (ION) Executive Committee and Council for 2017-19.

Awards and honors

 * Fellow, Institute of Navigation; elected 2016