Tiffany Kataria (LPL) is investigating the atmospheric
circulation of extrasolar planets, including hot Jupiters, super-Earths,
and terrestrial planets.
Nikole Lewis (LPL)
is investigating the atmospheric structure and dynamics of close-in extrasolar
giant planets (the "hot Jupiters"), focusing especially on planets in
eccentric orbits such as GJ 436b, HAT-P-2b, HD 17156b, and HD 80606b.
Catherine Elder (LPL) is investigating the coupled orbital-thermal
evolution, geophysics, melt segregation, and heat transfer in
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.
Emily Rauscher (LPL) is a Sagan postdoctoral fellow working
with me on the atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters.
Previous students/postdocs and where they are now:
David Choi (Ph.D.
student 2004-2009): Dynamics of
large ovals (Great Red Spot and White Ovals), turbulence, three-dimensional
wind structure, and 5-micron hot spots on Jupiter and Saturn. He is
now a NASA Postdoctoral Scholar at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Yuan Lian (Ph.D. student 2003-2009): Jet formation on the giant planets. Now a research scientist
at Ashima Scientific in Pasadena, CA.
Michael Bland
(Ph.D. student 2002-2008): Conducted numerical investigations of
grooved-terrain formation and "tectonic resurfacing" on Ganymede and
Enceladus; investigated formation of Ganymede's magnetic field and
internal evolution using coupled orbital-thermal models. Currently
a postdoc working with Prof. William McKinnon at Washington University
in St. Louis, Missouri.
Kunio Sayanagi (Ph.D. student 2001-2007):
The influence of giant convective outbursts (e.g., the quasiperiodic
Great White Storms) on Saturn's equatorial jet
and thermal structure; basic dynamics of jet formation,
inverse cascades, and turbulence in 3D. Now an assistant professor
at Hampton University in Virginia.
Curtis Cooper
(Ph.D. student 2000-2006), atmospheric
dynamics, clouds, and chemistry on extrasolar giant planets
and brown dwarfs. Did a NASA Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Alex
Pavlov at the NASA Astrobiology Institute and now a software engineer
at Sandia National Laboratories.
Giuseppe Mitri (postdoctoral scholar 2004-2006), tectonics and
resurfacing of icy moons. Now a research scientist in Italy.
 | Showman group November 2009.
From left to right: Tiffany Kataria, David Choi,
Adam Showman, and Nikole Lewis.
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 | Another group shot, November 2009.
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Pages from history....
 | Showman group November 2004.
From left to right: Mike Bland, Curtis
Cooper, Bill Valine, Adam Showman, Yuan Lian, Kunio Sayanagi, and
Giuseppe Mitri.
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| Curtis during our trip to Ithaca, New York,
June 2004. | Yuan and Curtis fiddling with the camera. |
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| Giuseppe practicing his DPS talk, Nov 2004.
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