Current Grants

• Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers for High-Resolving-Power Emission-line Characterization from Orbital and Remote Missions (NASA: Maturation of Instruments for Solar System Exploration 2017-2020)
• Heliospheric Hydrogen as a Probe of the Heliopause and Interstellar Magnetic Field (NASA: Heliospheric Technology and Instrument Development for Science 2016-2019)
• In the Eye of the Storm: Inner Coma Remote Sensing of Three Jupiter Family Comets (NASA: Solar System Observations 2015-2019)
• All-Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy:  Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV (NASA: Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations 2016-2019)
• An Advanced, Compact, Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer for Planetary Systems (JPL: Research and Technology Development Fund 2015-2018)
• Sounding Rocket Deployment and Advancement of a High Dynamic Range, High Efficiency, Ultraviolet Photon Counting Imager for Astrophysics, Planetary, Earth, and Space Science (JPL: Strategic University Research Partnership 2017-2019)
• Advancing the TRL of a Compact, High Dynamic Range Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (NASA: Maturation of Instruments for Solar System Exploration 2017-2020)
• Coupled Dust and Gas Evolution in the Inner Coma of Comets of Differing Activity Levels (NASA: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships 2018-2021, awarded to Cassandra Lejoly)

Current Graduate Students

Current Students

• Eli Garcia (Undergraduate)
• Daniel Teran (Undergraduate)
• Ricky Maciel (Undergraduate)
• Naomi Yescasa (Undergraduate)
• Will Yingling (Undergraduate)

Former Students

• S. Sona Hosseini (PhD 2015)
• Ricardo Diaz-Silva (PhD 2015)
• Jake Bobula (Masters 2013)
• Frédéric Vincent (PhD 2014)
• Jason Corliss (PhD 2011)
• Olivia Dawson (Masters 2007)
• Toby Neef (Masters 2006)

Current Postdocs

• Derek Gardner (PhD 2017)

Former Postdocs

• Yan Betremieux (JPL)
• Julia Bodnarik (LPL)
• Jason Corliss (LPL)
• Louis Giersch (JPL)
• Jeff Morgenthaler (PSI)
• Frédéric Vincent (Université de Versailles)

Current Staff Scientists

• Jason Corliss (Senior Staff Scientist)

Former Staff Scientists

• Julia Bodnarik (Associate Staff Scientist)

Complete publications list available from: NASA ADS Author Search: Walter Harris

Refereed publications (NASA ADS): Calendar Years 2017 through 2019

Kareta, T., Sharkey, B., Noonan, J., Volk, K., Reddy, V., Harris, W., Miles, R. Physical Characterization of the 2017 December Outburst of the Centaur 174P/Echeclus 2019AJ....158..255K

Noonan, J. W., Reddy, V., Harris, W. M., Bottke, W. F., Sanchez, J. A., Furfaro, R., Brown, Z., Fernandes, R., Kareta, T., Lejoly, C., Teja Nallapu, R., Niazi, H. K., Slick, L. R., Schatz, L., Sharkey, B. N. L., Springmann, A., Angle, G., Bailey, L., Acuna, D. D., Lewin, C., Marchese, K., Meshel, M., Quintero, N., Tatum, K., Wilburn, G. Search for the H Chondrite Parent Body among the Three Largest S-type Asteroids: (3) Juno, (7) Iris, and (25) Phocaea 2019AJ....158..213N

Sarid, G., Volk, K., Steckloff, J. K., Harris, W., Womack, M., Woodney, L. M. 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, A Centaur in the Gateway to the Jupiter-family Comets 2019ApJ...883L..25S

Reddy, V., Kelley, M. S., Farnocchia, D., Ryan, W. H., Thomas, C. A., Benner, L. A. M., Dotson, J., Micheli, M., Brucker, M. J., Bus, S. J., Brozovic, M., Wheeler, L., Abbasi, V., Bauer, J. M., Bonsall, A., Brown, Z. L., Busch, M. W., Chodas, P., Choi, Y.-J., Erasmus, N., Fast, K. E., Faucher, J. P., Fernandes, R. B., Ghigo, F. D., Gilbank, D. G., Giorgini, J. D., Gustafsson, A., Hainaut, O., Harris, W. M., Jao, J. S., Johnson, L. S., Kareta, T., Kim, M.-J., Koschny, D., Kramer, E. A., Landis, R. R., Laurin, D. G., Larsen, J. A., Lee, C. G., Lejoly, C., Lister, T., McMillan, R., Masiero, J. R., Mathias, D., Mommert, M., Moon, H.-K., Moskovitz, N. A., Naidu, S. P., Nallapu, R. T., Niazi, H. K., Noonan, J. W., Polishook, D., Ryan, E. V., Schatz, L., Scotti, J. V., Sharkey, B., Shustov, B. M., Sickafoose, A. A., Silva, M. A., Slade, M. A., Slick, L. R., Snedeker, L. G., Springmann, A., Tholen, D., Trilling, D. E., Vodniza, A. Q., Wainscoat, R., Weryk, R., Yoshikawa, M. Near-Earth asteroid 2012 TC4 observing campaign: Results from a global planetary defense exercise 2019Icar..326..133R

McKay, A. J., Cochran, A. L., DiSanti, M. A., Dello Russo, N., Weaver, H., Vervack, R. J., Harris, W. M., Kawakita, H. Evolution of H₂O production in comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as inferred from forbidden oxygen and OH emission 2018Icar..309....1M