Congratulations to Cecilia Leung, Hamish Hay, and Nathanial Hendler, LPL's newest alumni!

Cecilia defended her dissertation, Regional Atmospheric Dynamics of Water on Mars, on January 7. Regents' Professor Alfred McEwen served as her advisor. Cecilia is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at JPL, working with Dr. Leslie Tamppari.

On March 6, Hamish defended his dissertation, A Tale of Tides: Icy Satellites, Subsurface Oceans, and Tightly-Packed Planetary Systems. Hamish's advisor was Associate Professor Isamu Matsuyama. Hamish will begin a postdoctoral appointment at JPL with Dr. Robert Pappalardo.

Nathanial Hendler made department history by being the first LPL student to defend a dissertation via remote, on May 20. His dissertation was titled Evolution of Protoplanetary Dust-Disk Sizes. Nathanial was advised by Associate Professor Ilaria Pascucci.