Dan Seaton is a Staff Scientist and section manager in the Department of Solar and Heliospheric Physics. He serves as Project Scientist for the SunCET CubeSat, the Citizen CATE 2024 and NASA WB-57 total eclipse observation missions, and the CATEcor coronagraph project. Previously, Seaton served as the Science Operations Center manager for the PUNCH mission. Prior to arriving at SwRI, he was the Lead Scientist for NOAA’s GOES-R Solar Ultraviolet Imagers and PI of the SWAP extreme-ultraviolet solar imager on ESA’s PROBA2 mission. Dr. Seaton has made pioneering extreme-ultraviolet observations of the middle solar corona, a region of the Sun’s atmosphere that had previously been only sporadically observed. He earned a B.A., in Astrophysics and Mathematics from Williams College and a Ph.D. in space physics from the University of New Hampshire.