Dr. Brian Jackson
Carnegie Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie DTM Astronomy Fellow

Brian


Contact:

Carnegie DTM
5241 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015-1305

Phone: (202) 478-8813
E-mail: "bjackson --AT-- domain", where "domain" is "dtm.ciw.edu"


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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

May 2009 - Present     Mass loss and tidal evolution as a possible origin for close-in rocky extra-solar planets - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
August 2006 - May 2009     Tidal evolution of extrasolar planetary systems with Rick Greenberg and Rory Barnes
August 2004 - August 2006     Studying Titanian haze under Dr. Caitlin Griffith, member of the VIMS instrument team on Cassini mission - LPL, Univ. of AZ, Tucson AZ
June 2004 - August 2004     Synthetic spectroscopy for CIRS instrument on Cassini under Dr. Glenn Orton as SURF fellow - Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena CA
June 2003 - August 2003     IR data reduction of Titan and Saturn under Dr. Glenn Orton as SURF fellow - JPL, Pasadena CA
May 2002 - June 2004     Creation of online catalog of AGN light curves with Jay Dunn and Dr. Michael Crenshaw - Ga State Univ., Atlanta GA

TEACHING

January-May 2010     Instructor of Solar System Astronomy - University of Maryland Astronomy Dept., College Park, MD

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