2015 Fall Department News

During August 2015, Dr. Christopher Hamilton led two back-to-back research campaigns in Iceland to investigate terrestrial analogs to planetary volcanism. The month-long field season brought together a diverse group of students, post-doctoral researchers, early career scientists, and senior faculty from eleven different institutions, with diverse backgrounds in Earth and Planetary Sciences

On Saturday, September 12, 2015, Bennuval! landed at the Fox Theatre in downtown Tucson. The event, fully titled "Bennuval! An evening of Space, Art, and Music," was created by Professor Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, and his Xtronaut Enterprises as a celebration of science and art as creative human

Mike Sori joined LPL in September 2014, working as a post-doctoral research associate on viscous flow modeling with Dr. Shane Byrne and Dr. Christopher Hamilton. His current research focuses on two specific areas. The first is quantifying the importance of ice flow in the evolution of topography at the poles of Mars

Daniella DellaGiustina works as the Lead Image Processing Scientist for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. She holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Arizona, and an M.S. in Computational Physics from the University of Alaska. She got her start at LPL as an undergraduate in the Arizona Space

Staff Scientist Carl Hergenrother is a member of the OSIRIS-REx science and operations team. Originally from northern New Jersey, he began his undergraduate career at the University of Arizona in 1991 and ultimately earned a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences. Soon after arriving at the UA, he began working with LPL

Beginning November 6, LPL Director Tim Swindle is serving as a local break host for National Public Radio's (NPR)  Science Friday program. Tim will interview local scientists as KUAZ, Tucson's NPR affiliate, upgrades its local science coverage, with a segment called Arizona Science. Conversations are posted online

Bratfest 37: Brat to the Future was held on Saturday, October 3, and 1.21 gigawatts of fun was had by all who attended! We stuffed ourselves full of brats, corn, potato salad, cheesecakes and many local brews. If our calculations are correct, the corn grill even hit