2017 Fall Department News

We gratefully acknowledge gifts to LPL from donors and corporate partners.

Welcome Erik Asphaug, Steve Kortenkamp, and Tommi Koskinen.

A tribute to Ewen Whitaker by a student at the high school attended by Whitaker.   

Congratulations to James Keane, Sarah Morrison, and Donna Viola, LPL's most recent grads!

James Keane is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Joint Center for Planetary Astronomy at CalTech. He defended his dissertation (Tidal-Rotational Dynamics of Solar System Worlds, from Mercury to Pluto) on May

For the 2017/2018 academic year, twelve students were admitted for graduate studies at LPL.

LPL field trip students traveled to the Page region of northern Arizona to obtain a closer look at the Navajo Sandstone Formation, to learn more about their origin, and to discover how they have been modified since the break-up on Pangaea.

The PTYS 554 class (Evolution of Planetary Surfaces) explored the geology of northern Arizona.

Thanks in part to funding provided by the LPL External Board of Advisors, PTYS graduate students traveled to Hawaii to observe near-Earth object 2012 TC4.

The annual Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Conference is an opportunity for LPLers to share their research.

LPL faculty, students, and staff bring science to the community.