Plantary Sciences Department -- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

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Dr. Robert G. Strom

With LPL since: 1963

Current Projects:
* Resurfacing of Venus (with U.S.G.S. Flagstaff)
* Ancient Oceans and Icesheets on Mars (with U.S.G.S. and Geosciences)
* Solar system impact cratering record

Current LPL PhD students:
* Janet McLarty-Schroeder

Current LPL postdocs:

Classes taught:
* PtyS 106 Survey of the Solar System
* PtyS 112 Undergraduate Research in Planetary Science
* PtyS 411 Geology of the Solar System

Selected Memberships/Committee Positions:
* Member: AAS/DPS, AGU, IAS
* RPIF NASA Committee

Spacecraft involvement:
* Apollo 8, 10, and 11-- Lunar Operations Working Group
* Mariner 10 (Venus/Mercury) Deputy Team Leader--Imaging Experiment
* Voyager 1 and 2-- Imaging Team Member

Recent references:
* Evidence of ancient continental glaciation in the Martian northern plains. J.S. Kargel, R.G. Strom, et al (1994) J. Geophys. Res., in press.

* The global resurfacing of Venus. R.G. Strom, G.G. Schaber, and D.D. Dawson (1994) J. Geophys. Res. 99, E5, pp. 10899-10926.

* The volcanology of Venera and VEGA landing sites and the geochemistry of Venus. J.S. Kargel, G. Komatsu, V.R. Baker, and R.G. Strom (1993) Icarus 103, pp. 253-275.

* Constraints on the thermal evolution of Venus from Magellan data. J. Arkani-Hamed, G.G. Schaeber, and R.G. Strom (1993) J. Geophys. Res. 98, E3, pp. 5309-5315.

* The cratering record on Mars. R.G. Strom, S.K. Croft, and N.G. Barlow (1992) in Mars, University of Arizona Press.


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