Kudos to LPL graduate students with new or continuing NESSF (NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship) Awards:

New for 2014

• Diana Bolser,  “Microstructural and synthetic studies of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions: Insights into early nebular chemistry"  (Dept. of Chemistry; advisor: Tom Zega)
• Tad Komacek, "Magnetic effects in hot Jupiters" (advisor: Adam Showman)
• Cecilia Leung, "Mesoscale meteorological modeling of the martian hydrological cycle" (advisor: Alfred McEwen)
• Kelly Miller, "Tracing sulfur in the early Solar System with the Rumuruti chondrites" (advisor: Dante Lauretta)
• Xianyu Tan, “Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs" (advisor: Adam Showman )
• Michelle Thompson, “Understanding space weathering of asteroids and the lunar surface: Analysis of experimental analogs and samples from the Hayabusa and Apollo missions"  (advisor: Tom Zega)

Renewed for 2014

• Patricio Becerra, "Wavelet Analysis of Martian Polar Stratigraphy from HiRISE Topography" (advisor: Shane Byrne)
• James Keane, "Stability of Asteroidal Regolith During Planetary Close Approaches" (advisor: Isamu Matsuyama)
• Jamie Molaro, "Thermal Stress Weathering in the Inner Solar System" (advisor: Shane Byrne)
• Sarah Morrison, "Multiple Planet-Debris Disk Interactions: Probing Planetary System Evolution" (advisor: Renu Malhotra)