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

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"

• Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, 2009
• B.S. with Honors in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004

• Orbital evolution of close-in extra-solar planets
• Using orbital properties to constrain physical properties of extra-solar planets
• "Comparative tidovolcanoplanetology" - Comparing rates of tidal heating for different planets to determine its effects
• Geophysical/astrobiological effects of dynamical evolution of extra-solar planets
• Geology of Death Valley National Park, CA

• Carnegie DTM Astronomy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sept 2011 - Present)
• NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow (2009 - present)
• NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship (2008 - 2009)
• Geological Society of America Research Grant (2008 - 2009)

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

CURRICULUM VITAE

PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS ARTICLES

• NASA Press Release on the LPSA Racetrack Playa Survey
• NASA Press Release on the effects of tides on transiting planet surveys
• BBC article about model for the mass loss and tidal evolution of the rocky exoplanet CoRoT-7 b
• Press release from University of Washington about tidal destruction of planets
• Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides - Science Daily
• Tides Have Major Impact on Planet Habitability - U of AZ press release
• Talking About Tides - podcast interview with Simon Mitton about tides and planetary habitability

PHOTOS

FIELD TRIPS

• East Coast Trip: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - 2012 Nov 3 - 4
• East Coast Trip: Chesapeake Bay - 2012 Jun 9 - 10
• Lunar and Planetary Sciences Academy Trip to eastern WA/western ID - 2011 Jun 26 - Jul 1
• East Coast Trip: Geological History of northern VA - 2011 Apr 2-3
• East Coast Trip: Green Bank Observatory, WV - 2011 Sep 24-25

CODES

• Useful IDL routines

TRICKS -- Helpful tricks (LaTeX, etc.) I've collected through trial and error

Last Modified: 2013 Mar 31