Former Students and Post-docs

AKA, the people who deserve all of the credit

Celebrating after Oded Aharonson's thesis defense:
Maureen Long, Keli Karason, Oded, Mark Behn, Margaret Boettcher.

Post-doctoral Fellows

• Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna -- Post-doc 2006-2008; planetary geophysics, tectonics and hydrology
  - Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines.
• Shane Byrne -- Post-doc 2003-2005; planetary geophysics; planetary volatiles and ices
  - Currently Assistant Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona.

• Felix Ng -- Post-doc 1997-2000; mathematical glaciology; ice dynamics, glacier hydrology and glacial geomorphology as applied to Earth and Mars
  - Currently Lecturer in Glaciolgy, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield.

• Shijie Zhong -- Post-doc 1997-2000; geophysics; lithosphere deformation and mantle dynamics modeling of the terrestrial planets
  - Currently Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Colorado.

• Mark A. Wieczorek -- Post-doc 1999-2002; planetary geophysics; internal structure and thermal evolution of the Moon
  - Currently a staff scientist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris.

• Gregory A. Neumann -- Post-doc 1990-1993 (JHU), Research Scientist 1996-2005; planetary geophysics; planetary surfaces and internal structures
  - Currently Geophysicist, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Ph.D's

• Ian Garrick-Bethell-- Ph.D. Planetary Science, 2009; shape, structure and evolution of the Moon
  - Currently Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University.

• Wesley Andres Watters Farfan-- Ph.D. Planetary Science, 2009; analysis of impacts as indicators of planetary thermal state and shallow crustal structure
  - Currently Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University.

• Sarah Stewart Johnson-- Ph.D. Planetary Science, astrobiology 2008; characterization of habitable surface environments on early Mars
  - Currently Post-doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University.

• Erwan Mazarico -- Ph.D. Planetary Geodesy 2008; atmospheric structure of Mars from spacecraft drag
  - Currently NASA Post-doctoral Fellow, Solar System Exploration Division, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

• Oded Aharonson -- Ph.D. Planetary Geophysics 2002; quantitative geomorphology and planetary interior structure and dynamics
  - Currently Associate Professor of Planetary Science, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech.

• Mark Behn -- Ph.D. Marine Geophysics, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, 2002; origin of mid-ocean ridge segmentation
  - Currently Associate Scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

• Laurent MontÉsi -- Ph.D. Geophysics 2002; theoretical tectonics; mechanisms of macroscale fault localization
  - Currently Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

• Trish Campbell -- Ph.D. Planetary Volcanology 1997 (JHU); volcanic edifice evolution on Venus and Earth
  - Deceased, March 2000.

• Susan Sakimoto -- Ph.D. Planetary Volcanology 1995 (JHU); magma ascent and transport on Venus and Earth
  - Currently Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, Notre Dame.

Masters' Students

• Peter James Dennedy-Frank - M.S. Geophysics 2006; Mars' internal dynamics

• Russ Arrell -- M.S. Geosystems 2000; Mars' obliquity cycle
  - Last known to be pursuing a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Princeton.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Todd Mooring, '11
• Christian Ruiz, '09
• Victoria Stolyar, '09
• Nisha Vahora, '08
• Sharon Chao, '08
• Jeremy McGee, '09
• Andrew Mamo -- B.S. Physics, 2004; Senior Thesis on Atmospheric Corrections to MOLA Pulse Spread Observations to Produce an Improved Surface Roughness Map of Mars
  - Now a graduate student in History of Science at Berkeley.

• Bob Colvin -- B.A. Earth Science, Harvard, 2002; Senior Thesis on Correlation of Thermal Inertia and Time Variable Topography in the Polar Regions of Mars

• Mark Little -- B.A. Environmental Science, Harvard, 2001; Senior thesis on Surface Strain on Asteroid 433 Eros from NEAR Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission Altimetry and Imaging
  - Received Ph.D. in geochemistry at Rice, 2007; currently traveling/teaching in China.

• Dan Dwyer -- BS. Physics, 1999; Wrote a data base search to correlate altimetry and spacecraft occultations on Mars; Performed orbital mechanics analysis of the optimal trajectory for a microsatellite concept to measure the flattening of the sun
  - Currently a graduate student in physics at Berkeley.

• Jeff Schott -- B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering 1998; Senior thesis on Membrane Stresses on Mars
  - Currently an engineer at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and pursuing a master's degree at the University of Missouri, Rolla.

Ph.D. Thesis Committees

• Doug Jerolmack - Ph.D. Geophysics, 2006
• An Ngugyen - Ph.D. Geophysics, 2006
• Susan Kern - Ph.D. Planetary Science, 2005.
• Margaret Boettcher - Ph.D. Marine Geology and Geophysics, 2005.
• Mike Braun -- Ph.D. Marine Geology and Geophysics, 2004
• Lindy Elkins Tanton -- Ph.D. Geology and Geophysics, 2002
• Frederik Simons -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 2002
• Eliza Richardson -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 2002
• Jennifer Georgen -- Ph.D. Oceanography, 2001
• Jun Korenaga -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 2000
• Mousumi Roy -- Ph.D. Geology, 1998
• Gunter Siddiqui -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 1998
• Pat McGovern -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 1996
• Yu Jin -- Ph.D. Geophysics, 1996