Kudos to LPL graduate students with new or continuing NESSF (NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship) Awards:

New for 2015

• Hamish Hay, "Tidal Dissipation in the Subsurface Oceans of the Icy Satellites" (advisor: Isamu Matsuyama)
• Sarah Peacock, "Understanding the Early Evolution of M Dwarf Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation" (advisor: Travis Barman)

Renewed for 2015

• Patricio Becerra, "Wavelet Analysis of Martian Polar Stratigraphy from HiRISE Topography" (advisor: Shane Byrne)
• James Keane, "Stability of Asteroidal Regolith During Planetary Close Approaches" (advisor: Isamu Matsuyama)
• Tad Komacek, "Magnetic Effects in Hot Jupiters" (advisor: Adam Showman)
• Cecilia Leung, "Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling of the Martian Hydrological Cycle" (advisor: Alfred McEwen)
• Kelly Miller, "Tracing Sulfur in the Early Solar System with the Rumuruti Chondrites" (advisor: Dante Lauretta)
• Sarah Morrison, "Multiple Planet-Debris Disk Interactions: Probing Planetary System Evolution" (advisor: Kaitlin Kratter)
• Xianyu Tan, “Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs" (advisor: Adam Showman)
• Michelle Thompson, “Understanding Space Weathering of Asteroids and the Lunar Surface: Analysis of Experimental Analogs and Samples from the Hayabusa and Apollo Missions"  (advisor: Tom Zega)