Department of Planetary Sciences
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
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Graduate Program

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Mandy Proctor

B.S. in Astronomy, 2002, University of Maryland


John, Mandy, Mike and Matt (the class of 2002)

Contact:

Lunar and Planetary Lab
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Office: Space Sciences 324
Phone: (520) 621-1507
Email: aproctor

I am working with Steve Howell of NOAO hunting planets! We have observations of Cygnus and are looking for planetary transits. The first planet I actually find will be nicknamed "Mandy X." Keep an eye out for it!

With LPL since: 2002

Current Projects:
*Extrasolar Planets
*Orbital Evolution
*Resonances and Tides

Publications:
*Proctor, A.L., R. Greenberg and D.P. Hamilton. Pumping Europa's Eccentricity: Toward development of scenarios for tidal evolution of the Laplace resonance, in preparation.
*Proctor, A.L., et al. Burrell-Optic-Kepler Survey (BOKS) for Variability in the Kepler Field, in preparation.

Current LPL PhD Advisor:
* Bill Hubbard
* Steve Howell (of NOAO)

Outside Interests:
My main outside interests are nearly all outdoors activities. I love hiking, I play ultimate frisbee, golf, softball, tennis and volleyball. I am also in love with running. I am training for the San Diego Marathon in June!

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