Alumni

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

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.

Erwan Mazarico -- Ph.D. Planetary Geodesy 2008; atmospheric structure of Mars from spacecraft drag.
- Currently NASA Postdoctural 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 Assistant 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 Scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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.

Peter James Dennedy-Frank - M.S. Geophysics 2006; Mars' internal dynamics
Russ Arrell -- M.S. Geosystems 2000; Mars' obliquity cycle
- Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Princeton.

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.