Cat Ripingill joined LPL in June 2016 as a Program Coordinator with OSIRIS-REx, after a long career in hotel and restaurant management. Cat is a native of Arizona and grew up just outside of Tucson in a small town called Mammoth.

Welcome, Lynn Carter and Vishnu Reddy!

Pluto became a trending topic thanks to New Horizons and research by Matsuyama and Keane.

Vivien Parmentier joined LPL in December 2015 as a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Adam Showman. Vivien is a theorist who works on cloud formation in hot Jupiter atmospheres, planets that are highly irradiated by their stars.

Welcome to the Spring 2016 LPL Newsletter. This has been one of those periods of transition, a time for looking back with pride, and some sadness, and looking forward with optimism for great things to come.