PTYS/LPL Faculty

Kuiper 536
Jack Holt
Professor, EDO Director
Ph.D., 1997, California Institute of Technology
Years with LPL: 2018
Earth, Planetary Analogs, Planetary Geophysics, Planetary Surfaces
View LPL Evening Lecture from October 10, 2018, The Slow, the Fast, and the Buried: Probing Glaciers on Earth and Mars
Current Spacecraft Involvement
SHARAD radar sounder instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Co-I
Current Graduate Students
- Nicole Bardabelias (M.S., Geosciences)
- Brandon Tober (Ph.D., Geosciences)
Former Students
- Stefano Nerozzi, 2019, Ph.D., UT Austin
- Eric Peterson, 2018, Ph.D., UT Austin
- Dan Lalich, 2017, Ph.D., UT Austin
- Cassie Stuurman, 2017, M.S., UT Austin
- Katherine Shover, 2016, M.S., UT Austin
Current Postdocs
Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: J. W. Holt
Recent refereed publications: Years 2019 through 2020
Cook, Claire W., Bramson, Ali M., Byrne, Shane, Holt, John W., Christoffersen, Michael S., Viola, Donna, Dundas, Colin M., & Goudge, Timothy A. 2020, Icarus. Sparse subsurface radar reflectors in Hellas Planitia, Mars
Smith, Isaac B., Hayne, Paul O., Byrne, Shane, Becerra, Patricio, Kahre, Melinda, Calvin, Wendy, Hvidberg, Christine, Milkovich, Sarah, Buhler, Peter, Landis, Margaret, Horgan, Briony, Kleinböhl, Armin, Perry, Matthew R., Obbard, Rachel, Stern, Jennifer, Piqueux, Sylvain, Thomas, Nicolas, Zacny, Kris, Carter, Lynn, Edgar, Lauren, Emmett, Jeremy, Navarro, Thomas, Hanley, Jennifer, Koutnik, Michelle, Putzig, Nathaniel, Henderson, Bryana L., Holt, John W., Ehlmann, Bethany, Parra, Sergio, Lalich, Daniel, Hansen, Candice, Hecht, Michael, Banfield, Don, Herkenhoff, Ken, Paige, David A., Skidmore, Mark, Staehle, Robert L., & Siegler, Matthew 2020, Planetary and Space Science. The Holy Grail: A road map for unlocking the climate record stored within Mars' polar layered deposits
Petersen, Eric Ivan, Levy, Joseph S., Holt, John W., & Stuurman, Cassie M. 2020, Journal of Glaciology. New insights into ice accumulation at Galena Creek Rock Glacier from radar imaging of its internal structure
Lalich, D. E., Holt, J. W., & Smith, I. B. 2019, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets). Radar Reflectivity as a Proxy for the Dust Content of Individual Layers in the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits
Nerozzi, S. & Holt, J. W. 2019, Geophysical Research Letters. Buried Ice and Sand Caps at the North Pole of Mars: Revealing a Record of Climate Change in the Cavi Unit With SHARAD
Spikes, Kyle T., Tisato, Nicola, Hess, Thomas E., & Holt, John W. 2019, Geophysics. Comparison of geophone and surface-deployed distributed acoustic sensing seismic data
- Mapping the Moon and Worlds Beyond - July 16, 2019
- UA Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars - February 14, 2019
Available files | Size | Created |
---|---|---|
![]() | 373.23 KB | December 16, 2018 |
Semester | Course | Day/Time | Location | Resources |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall 2021 | PTYS 595B-002 | T 2:00-3:00p.m. | Kuiper 309 | |
Spring 2020 | PTYS/GEOS 549-001 | TTH 2:00-3:15p.m. | Kuiper 330 |
Syllabus Course Page |