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| Name | Year | Degree | Advisor | Thesis Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jayne Aubele | 1988 | Masters | Vesicle zonation and vertical structure of basalt flows | Education Staff - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science | |
| Goro Komatsu | 1993 | PhD | Baker | Channels and valleys on Venus | Research Professor - International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Pescara, Italy |
| Jeffrey Johnson | 1994 | PhD | Baker | Geologic investigations of the Venusian surface using Magellan radar imagery, altimetry, and radiometry | Planetary Geologist - USGS |
| Virginia Gulick | 1993 | PhD | Baker | Magmatic intrusions and hydrothermal systems | Scientist - SETI Institute |
| Windy Jaeger | 2004 | PhD | Baker | Select Problems in Planetary Structural Geology: Global-Scale Tectonics on Io, Regional-Scale Kinematics on Venus, and Local-Scale Field Analyses on Earth with Application to Mars | Research Geologist - USGS |
| Jon Pedicino | 1996 | PhD | Baker | Climate change on Mars: modeling possible glaciers | Professor - College of the Redwoods |
| Philip Maloney | 1987 | PhD | Black | Global Properties of Molecular Clouds and the interstellar Medium in Galaxies | Senior Research Associate - University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Shunbin Zhang | 1996 | Masters | Bougher | The Impact of Gravity Waves on the Venus Upper Atmosphere | |
| Paul Withers | 2003 | PhD | Bougher | Tides in the Martian Atmosphere - And other Topics | Postdoc - Boston University |
| Alex Ruzicka | 1996 | PhD | Boynton | Petrologic-kinetic studies of Meteorites | Assistant Professor - Portland State University |
| Anna Spitz | 1991 | PhD | Boynton | Trace elements analysis of ureilite meteorites and implications for their petrogenesis | Program Manager - LAPLACE (Arizona) |
| Alan Hildebrand | 1992 | PhD | Boynton | Geochemistry and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact ejecta | Associate Professor of Geology - University of Calgary |
| Matt Chamberlain | 2005 | PhD | Boynton | Response of Martian ground ice to orbit-induced climate change | Postdoc - PSI |
| John Keller | 2006 | PhD | Boynton | Part I: Development of a Concept Inventory Addressing Students' Beliefs and Reasoning Difficulties regarding the Greenhouse Effect Part II: Distribution of Chlorine measured by the Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer | Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University |
| Jason Barnes | 2004 | PhD | Brown | Characterizing Transiting Extrasolar Giant Planets: On Companions, Rings, and Love Handles | Assistant Professor - Univ. of Idaho |
| Rachel Mastrapa | 2004 | PhD | Brown | Water Ice and Radiation in the Solar System | Research Scientist - SETI Institute/NASA Ames |
| Nicole Baugh | 2008 | Masters | Brown | Fluvial Channels on Titan | HiRise Operations - LPL |
| Josh Emery | 2002 | PhD | Brown | Constraints on the Surface Composition of Trojan Asteroids from Near-Infrared (0.8 - 4.0 um) Spectroscopy and Spectral Modeling | Research Scientist - Univ. of Tennessee |
| Horton Newsom | 1982 | PhD | Drake | The Experimental Partitioning Behavior of Tungsten and Phosphorus: Implications for the Composition and Formation of the Earth, moon, and Eucrite Parent Body | Research Professor - Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico |
| Don Musselwhite | 1995 | PhD | Drake | Experimental geochemistry of iodine, argon, and xenon: Implications for the early outgassing histories of the Earth and Mars | Research Scientist - LPI |
| Charles Hostetler | 1982 | PhD | Drake | Equilibrium Properties of Some Silicate Materials: A Theoretical Study | Senior Staff Scientist - Columbia Environmental Sciences, Inc. |
| Valerie Hillgren | 1993 | PhD | Drake | Partitioning behavior of moderately siderophile elements in Ni rich systems | Scientist - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry |
| Nancy Chabot | 1999 | PhD | Drake | Geochemical Studies of the Cores of Terrestrial Planetary Bodies | Senior Research Staff - Johns Hopkins Univ./APL |
| Daniel Malvin | 1987 | Masters | Drake | Experimental Partitioning of Siderophile Elements in the Systems Iron-Nickel-Sulfur-Pho | |
| Lisa McFarlane | 1994 | PhD | Drake | Differentiation in the early Earth | Associate Staff Scientist - LPL |
| Michael Hicks | 1997 | PhD | Fink | A Spectrophotometric Survey of Comets and Earth-Approaching Asteroids | Research Scientist - JPL |
| Drayton Benner | 1979 | PhD | Fink | The Visual and Near Infrared Spectrum of Methane and its Application to Uranus, Neptune, Triton, and Pluto | |
| Marc Buie | 1984 | PhD | Fink | Light Curve CCD Spectrophotometry of Pluto | Astronomer - Lowell Observatory |
| Will Grundy | 1995 | PhD | Fink | Methane and nitrogen ices on Pluto and Triton: A combined laboratory and telescope investigation | Associate Astronomer - Lowell Observatory |
| Ron Fevig | 2006 | PhD | Fink | Orbit-Dependent Spectral Trends for the Near-Earth Asteroid Population | Resident Faculty - Univ. of North Dakota |
| Eileen Chollet | 2008 | PhD | Giacalone | Solar Energetic Particles as a Probe of the Inner Heliosphere | Postdoc - Caltech |
| David O'Brien | 2004 | PhD | Greenberg | The Collisional and Dynamical Evolution of the Main-Belt, NEA, and TNO Populations. | Research Scientist - PSI |
| Mike Nolan | 1994 | PhD | Greenberg | Delivery of meteorites from the asteroid belt | Staff Scientist - Arecibo Observatory |
| Chris Schaller | 1998 | Masters | Greenberg | Venusian ejecta parabolas: Comparing theory with observation | Technical Staff - LPL |
| Joe Spitale | 2001 | PhD | Greenberg | Detailed study of the Yarkovsky effect on asteroids and solar system implications | Research Scientist - Space Science Institute/CICLOPS |
| Greg Hoppa | 1998 | PhD | Greenberg | Europa: effects of rotation and tides on tectonic processes | Researcher - Raytheon |
| Bill Bottke | 1995 | PhD | Greenberg | The collisonal and dynamical evolution of asteroids | Senior Research Scientist - SwRI |
| Terry Hurford | 2005 | PhD | Greenberg | Tides and Tidal Stress: Applications to Europa | Planetary Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Paulo Penteado | 2008 | PhD | Griffith | Study of Titan's Methane Cycle | |
| Fred Ciesla | 2003 | PhD | Hood | The Physics and Chemistry of Solar Nebula Shock Waves: Applications to Chondrule Formation | University of Chicago |
| Mark Marley | 1990 | PhD | Hubbard | Nonradial oscillations of Saturn: Implications for ring system structure | Research Scientist - NASA Ames |
| Joseph MacFarlane | 1983 | PhD | Hubbard | Theoretical Prediction for the Phase Stability of Dense Binary Mixtures | |
| Jonathan Fortney | 2004 | PhD | Hubbard | The Evolution of Giant Planets | Assitant Professor - UC Santa Cruz |
| Maki Hattori | 2008 | Masters | Hubbard | Mass Loss of Highly Irradiated Giant Planets | |
| Wayne Slattery | 1976 | PhD | Hubbard | The Structure of the Planets Jupiter and Saturn | Research Scientist - Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Bashar Rizk | 1991 | PhD | Hunten | Observations and modelling of the Martian water vapor budget for 1988-1989 | Senior Research Scientist - LPL |
| Shelly Pope | 1991 | PhD | Hunten | Laboratory measurements of the single scattering properties of ammonia ice crystals | Staff Scientist - Raytheon |
| Nicholas Schneider | 1988 | PhD | Hunten | Sodium in Io's extended atmosphere | Associate Professor - Univ. of Colorado, Boulder |
| Mark Sykes | 1986 | PhD | Hunten | IRAS Observations of Asteroid Dust Bands and Cometary Dust Tails | Director - PSI |
| Ann Sprague | 1990 | PhD | Hunten | An observational comparison of Mercury and the Moon | Senior Research Associate - LPL |
| Douglas Hilton | 1987 | PhD | Hunten | A Partially Collisional Model of the Titan Hydrogen Torus | |
| Cindy Cunningham | 1987 | PhD | Hunten | Spatial and Temporal Monitoring of the Jovian Atmosphere | |
| Guy Consolmagno | 1978 | PhD | Jokipii | Electromagnetic Processes in the Evolution of the Solar Nebula | Planetary Scientist - Vatican Observatory |
| Vladimir Florinski | 2001 | PhD | Jokipii | Two-dimensional, self-consistent model of galactic and anomalous cosmic rays in the solar wind | Researcher - UC Riverside |
| Lance Williams | 1993 | PhD | Jokipii | A single-fluid self-consistent formulation of particle transport and fluid dynamics | |
| Aramais Zakharian | 2000 | PhD | Jokipii | Numerical studies of waves and particle acceleration in shocks | |
| Oleg Abramov | 2006 | PhD | Kring | Impact-Induced Hydrothermal Activity on Earth and Mars | Research Scientist - SwRI |
| Ingrid Daubar Spitale | 2002 | Masters | Kring | Northwest Africa 482: A Lunar Meteorite from the Highlands | HiRISE Operations - LPL |
| Patrick Hartigan | 1987 | PhD | Lada | Observations and Bowshock Models of herbig-haro Objects | Professor - Rice University |
| Gordon Bjoraker | 1984 | PhD | Larson | The Gas Compostion and Vertical Cloud Structure of Jupiter's Troposphere Derived from 5 micron spectroscopic observations | Planetary Scientist - Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Michael Feierberg | 1981 | PhD | Larson | Evidence for a Compositional Relationship between Asteroids and Meteorites from Infrared Spectral Reflectances | |
| Matt Pasek | 2006 | PhD | Lauretta | Phosphorus and Sulfur Cosmochemistry: Implications for the Origins of Life | Postdoc - LPL/NASA Astrobiology Institute |
| Jade Bond | 2008 | PhD | Lauretta | The Chemistry of Extrasolar Planetary Systems | Postdoc - Steward Observatory |
| Celinda Marsh | 2007 | Masters | Lauretta | Thermal Processing in Ordinary Chondrites | |
| Andy Rivkin | 1997 | PhD | Lebofsky | Observations of main-belt asteroids in the 3-um region | Senior Research Staff - Johns Hopkins Univ./APL |
| Ellen Howell | 1995 | PhD | Lebofsky | Probing asteroid composition using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy | Research Associate - Arecibo Observatory |
| Robert Marcialis | 1990 | PhD | Lebofsky & Hubbard | The Pluto-Charon system as revealed during the mutual events | Senior Research Specialist - LPL |
| Seran Gibbard | 1996 | PhD | Levy | Lightning in the Solar System | Research Scientist - LLNL |
| Steven Pearce | 1995 | PhD | Levy | Core-mantle interactions resulting from sudden changes in the Earth's moment of inertia | Lecturer - Simon Fraser University |
| Thomas Jones | 1988 | PhD | Lewis | An infrared reflectance study of water in outer belt asteroids: Clues to composition and origin | Astronaut, Author, Consultant |
| Melinda Hutson | 1996 | PhD | Lewis | Chemical Studies of Enstatite Chondrites | Research Assistant Professor - Portland State University |
| Jeffrey Kargel | 1990 | PhD | Lewis | Cryomagmatism in the outer solar system | Senior Associate Research Scientist - Dept. of Hydrology, Univ. of Arizona |
| David Grinspoon | 1988 | PhD | Lewis | Large impact events and atmospheric evolution of the terrestrial planets | Curator of Astrobiology - Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Adjunct Professor - Univ. of Colorado |
| Robert Howell | 1980 | PhD | Low | Infrared Speckle Interferometry | Associate Professor - Univ. of Wyoming |
| Steffi Engel | 1994 | PhD | Lunine | Titan and the cosmoshemistry of the outer solar system | Associate Staff Scientist - LPL |
| Kim Cyr | 1998 | PhD | Lunine | Distribution of water in the solar nebula: implications for solar system formation | |
| Wei Dai | 2000 | PhD | Lunine | Gas trapping in amorphous water ice: a theoretical and experimental approach | |
| William Sears | 1994 | PhD | Lunine | Tidal effects on the evolution of Titan | |
| David Trilling | 1999 | PhD | Lunine | Theoretical and observational study of the formation and evolution of planetary systems and extrasolar planets | Assistant Astronomer - Univ. Arizona (Steward Observatory) |
| Catherine Neish | 2008 | PhD | Lunine | Formation of Prebiotic Molecules in Liquid Water Environments on the Surface of Titan | |
| John Stansberry | 1994 | PhD | Lunine | Surface-atmosphere coupling on Triton and Pluto | Assistant Astronomer - Univ. of Arizona (Steward Observatory) |
| Matt Tiscareno | 2004 | PhD | Malhotra | Chaotic Diffusion in the Outer Solar System, And Other Topics | Research Associate - Cornell |
| Brandon Preblich | 2005 | Masters | McEwen | Mapping Rays and Secondary Craters From Zunil,Mars | |
| Cynthia Phillips | 2000 | PhD | McEwen | Voyager and Galileo SSI views of volcanic resurfacing of Io and the search for geologic activity on Europa | Research Scientist - SETI Institute |
| Jani Radebaugh | 2005 | PhD | McEwen | Formation and Evolution of Paterae on Jupiter's Moon Io | Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University |
| Jennifer Grier | 1999 | PhD | McEwen | Determining the Ages of Impact Events: Multidisciplinary Studies Using Remote Sensing and Sample Analysis Techniques | Research Scientist and Education Specialist - PSI |
| Moses Milazzo | 2005 | PhD | McEwen | Remote Sensing of Thermally Induced Activity on Io and Mars | Postdoc - USGS |
| Pete Lanagan | 2004 | PhD | McEwen | Geologic History of the Cerberus Plains, Mars | Instructor, Community College of Southern Nevada |
| Ross Beyer | 2004 | PhD | McEwen | Martian Surface Roughness and Stratigraphy | Research Scientist - SETI Institute |
| Stephanie Fussner | 2006 | Masters | McEwen | Search for 938 nm Specular Enhancement on Titan | |
| William Merline | 1995 | PhD | McMillan | Observations of Small-Amplitude Oscillations in the Radial Velocity of Arcturus | Research Scientist - SwRI |
| Richard Clark | 1996 | Masters | Melosh | The Detectability of Lunar Impacts in the Near Infrared | |
| Gwen Barnes | 2007 | PhD | Melosh | Lunar Surface Geology from Analysis of Impact Craters and their Ejecta | Research Assistant Professor - Univ. of Idaho |
| Daniel Janes | 1990 | PhD | Melosh | Tectonics of one plate planets | |
| Erik Asphaug | 1993 | PhD | Melosh | Dynamic fragmentation in the Solar System | Professor - UC Santa Cruz |
| James Head | 1999 | PhD | Melosh | Fragmentation and Ejection of the Martian Clan Meteorites | Staff Scientist, Raytheon |
| Andreas Ekholm | 2001 | Masters | Melosh | Crater Features Diagnostic of Oblique Impacts | |
| Diana Smith | 2008 | Masters | Melosh | Viscous Relaxation of Craters on Enceladus | |
| Abigail Sheffer | 2007 | PhD | Melosh | Chemical Reduction of Silicates by Meteorite Impacts and Lightning Strikes | |
| Betty Pierazzo | 1997 | PhD | Melosh | Chicxulub impact event and the environmental catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous period | Research Scientist - PSI |
| Elizabeth Turtle | 1998 | PhD | Melosh | Finite-element modeling of large impact craters: Implications for the size of the Vredefort structure and the formation of multiple ring craters | Senior Research Staff - Johns Hopkins Univ./APL |
| William Tonks | 1993 | PhD | Melosh | The thermal consequences of giant impacts in the early solar system | Professor - Brigham Young University, Idaho |
| James Richardson | 2005 | PhD | Melosh & Greenberg | The Seismic Effect of Impacts on Asteroid Surface Morphology | Research Associate - Cornell |
| Robert Reid | 1997 | Masters | P. Smith | Spectrophotometric Calibration of Imager for Mars Pathfinder Datasets | Senior Computer Scientist - NewTec/US Army Electronic Proving Ground - Fort Lewis |
| Bruce Wilking | 1981 | PhD | Rieke | Star Formation in the rho-Ophiuchi Dark Cloud | Professor - Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis |
| Humberto Campins-Camejo | 1982 | PhD | Rieke | Infrared Observations of Cometary Solids | Professor - Univ. of Central Florida |
| Ron Vervack | 1997 | PhD | Sandel | Titan's Upper Atmospheric Structure derived from Voyager Ultraviolet Spectrometer Observations | Senior Research Staff - Johns Hopkins Univ./APL |
| Doyle Hall | 1992 | PhD | Shemansky | Ultraviolet resonance radiation and the structure of the heliosphere | Scientist, Boeing LTS |
| Curtis Cooper | 2006 | PhD | Showman | Meteorologies of brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets | Programmer - Electronic Arts |
| Yuan Lian | 2009 | PhD | Showman | Numerical Simulations of Atmospheric Dynamics on the Giant Planets | |
| Michael Bland | 2008 | PhD | Showman | The Tectonic, Thermal, and Magnetic Evolution of Icy Satellites | Postdoc - Washington Univ., St. Louis |
| Paul Geissler | 1992 | PhD | Singer | Spectrophotometric mapping of Coprates Quadrangle, Mars | Research Geologist - USGS |
| Robert Eplee, Jr. | 1987 | PhD | Smith | Spokes in Saturn's B Ring: Dynamical and Physical Properties Deduced from Voyager Saturn Ring Images | |
| John Moores | 2008 | PhD | Smith | Effects of Insolation on Habitability and the Isotopic History of Martian Water | |
| Faith Vilas | 1984 | PhD | Smith | The Nature and Origin of Outer Solar System Asteroids from Reflectance Spectrophotometry | Director, MMTO / Astronomer - Univ. of Arizona (Steward Observatory) |
| John Spencer | 1987 | PhD | Strom | The surface of Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto: An investigation using Voyager IRIS thermal infrared spectra | Staff Scientist - SwRI |
| David Wood | 2000 | PhD | Strom | Effects of Airbursts on the Surface of Venus | |
| Nadine Barlow | 1987 | PhD | Strom | Relative Ages and the geologic evolution of Martian Terrain Units | Associate Professor - Northern Arizona University |
| Carl Allen | 1979 | PhD | Strom | Volcano Ice Interactions on the Earth and Mars | Astromaterials Curator - Johnson Space Center |
| Janet McLarty-Schroeder | 1998 | Masters | Strom | Development, assessment, and applications of PtyS 109L: exploration and discovery in planetary science | Professor - Cerritos College |
| Martha Leake | 1981 | PhD | Strom | The Intercrater Plains of Mercury and the Moon: Their Nature, Origin, and Role in Terrestrial Planet Evolution | Professor - Valdosta State University |
| Bruce Cordell | 1977 | PhD | Strom | Tectonism and the Interior of Mercury | Dean, Natural Sciences Division - Fullerton College |
| Doug Dawson | 1998 | PhD | Strom | Modeling the cratering record of Venus | Technical Staff - LPL |
| Larry Crumpler | 1983 | PhD | Strom | Io: Models of Volcanism and Interior Structure | Research Curator, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |
| Barbara Cohen | 2000 | PhD | Swindle | Geochemistry and 40Ar-39Ar Geochronology of Lunar Meteorite Impact Melt Clasts | Lunar Scientist - NASA/MSFC |
| Erich Karkoschka | 1990 | PhD | Tomasko | Saturn's atmosphere in the visible and near infrared | Senior Staff Scientist - LPL |
| Mark Lemmon | 1994 | PhD | Tomasko | Properties of Titan's haze and surface | Associate Professor - Texas A&M University |
| Clifford Stoll | 1980 | PhD | Tomasko | Polarimetry of Jupiter at Large Phase Angles | Author |
| Eric Wegryn | 2000 | PhD | Tomasko | The Dusty Atmosphere of Mars: A study of the properties of Martian aerosol dust using Imager for Mars Pathfinder and Hubble Space Telescope observations | Adjunct Professor - Ohlone College |
| Robert West | 1977 | PhD | Tomasko | Spatially Resolved Photometry of Jupiter in the 6190, 7250, and 8900 Angstrom Methane Bands | Research Scientist - JPL |
| John Wacker | 1982 | PhD | Wilkening | Composition of Noble gases in the Abee Meteorite and the Origin of the Enstatie Chondrites | |
| Kevin Housen | 1981 | PhD | Wilkening | The Stochastic Evolution of Asteroidal Regoliths and the Origin of Brecciated and Gas-Rich Meteorites | Scientist - Boeing |
| Yiping Wang | 1993 | PhD | Yelle | Energy balance and solar heating in Neptune's upper atmosphere | |
| David Tholen | 1984 | PhD | Zellner | Asteroid Taxonomy from Cluster Analysis of Photometry | Faculty Astronomer - Univ. of Hawaii |
| Jonathan Gradie | 1978 | PhD | Zellner | An Astrophysical Study of the Minor Planets in the Eos and Koronis Asteroid Families | Staff Scientist - STI, Inc./TerraSys |