PTYS/LPL Alumni Directory
PTYS majors or other majors with PTYS faculty as dissertation chair. Help us keep this list up-to-date; email updates to: mary@lpl.arizona.edu
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| Lastname, Firstname | Degree | Year | Advisor(s) | Dissertation/Thesis | Current Position | Current Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacFarlane, Joseph | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1983 | Hubbard | Theoretical Predictions for the Phase Stability of Dense Binary Mixtures | President/Senior Scientist | Prism Computational Sciences |
| Maleszewski, Chet | M.S. Planetary Sciences | 2018 | Byrne | |||
| Maloney, Philip | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1987 | Black (J.H.) | Global Properties of Molecular Clouds and the Interstellar Medium in Galaxies | Senior Research Associate (Retired) | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Malvin, Daniel | M.S. Planetary Sciences | 1987 | Drake | Experimental Partitioning of Siderophile Elements in the Systems Iron-Nickel-Su… | ||
| Marcialis, Robert | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1990 | Lebofsky, Hubbard | The Pluto-Charon System as Revealed During the Mutual Events | ||
| Marley, Mark S. he/him/his |
Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1990 | Hubbard | Nonradial Oscillations of Saturn: Implications for Ring System Structure | Director, Department Head | LPL, University of Arizona |
| Marsh, Celinda | M.S. Planetary Sciences | 2007 | Lauretta | Thermal Processing in Ordinary Chondrites: Development of the Fast Electron Mic… | Budget Examiner | U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| Mastrapa, Rachel | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2004 | Brown | Water ice and radiation in the solar system | Research Scientist | SETI, NASA AMES Research Center |
| McCormack, John | Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences | 1996 | Hood | A Three-Dimensional Mechanistic Ozone Transport Model: Applications to Midlatit… | Program Scientist | NASA, Heliophysics Division |
| McEvoy, Erica | Ph.D. Applied Mathematics | 2017 | Jokipii | A Numerical Method for the Simulation of Skew Brownian Motion and its Applicati… | NLP/Machine Learning Engineer | Booz Allen Hamilton |
| McFarlane, Elisabeth | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1994 | Drake | Differentiation in the Early Earth: An Experimental Investigation | ||
| McGraw, Allison | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2023 | Reddy | Asteroid-Meteorite Linkages through Infrared Spectroscopy | Physics Laboratory Manager | Texas A&M, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy |
| McLarty-Schroeder, Janet | M.S. Planetary Sciences | 1998 | Strom | Development, Assessment, and Applications of Planetary Sciences 109L: Explorati… | Professor, Department Chair | Cerritos College, Physics, Astronomy and Engineering Department |
| Melendrez, David | M.S. Geosciences | 1991 | Baker | Remote Sensing of Potential Lunar Resources | Engineer, Imagery Integration lead, NASA Orion Program | NASA, ARES Division |
| Meng, Huan | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2015 | Rieke | Planet Formation in the Terrestrial Zone | ||
| Merline, William | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1995 | McMillan | Observations of small-amplitude oscillations in the radial velocity of Arcturus | Staff Scientist (Retired) | Southwest Research Institute (Boulder) |
| Milazzo, Moses | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2005 | McEwen | Remote Sensing of Thermally Induced Activity on Io and Mars | Scientist/Consultant | Other Orb |
| Miller, Kelly | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2016 | Lauretta | The R Chondrite Record of Volatile Rich Environments in the Early Solar System | Research Scientist | Southwest Research Institute |
| Minton, David | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2009 | Malhotra | Dynamical History of the Asteroid Belt and Implications for Terrestrial Planet … | Associate Professor, Planetary Systems and Surfaces | Purdue University, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
| Molaro, Jamie | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2015 | Byrne | Stress, on the Rocks: Thermally Induced Stresses in Rocks and Microstructures o… | Research Scientist | Planetary Science Institute (CA) |
| Moores, John | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2008 | Smith (Peter) | Effects of Insolation on Habitability and the Isotopic History of Martian Water | Science Advisor to President of Canadian Space Agency; Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Associate Professor, Earth and Space Science and Engineering | York University |
| Moro-Martin, Amaya | Ph.D. Astronomy | 2004 | Malhotra | Signatures of Planets in Circumstellar Debris Disks | Associate Astronomer/Associate Research Scientist | STScI/Dept. Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University |
| Morrison, Sarah | Ph.D. Planetary Science | 2017 | Kratter | The Dynamics and Implications of Gap Clearing via Planets in Planetesimal (Debr… | Assistant Professor | Missouri State University, Dept. of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science |
| Musselwhite, Don | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1995 | Drake | Experimental Geochemistry of Iodine, Argon and Xenon: Implications for the Outg… | Lecturer (Geology and Physics) | University of Houston (Downtown) |