Ongoing Research Projects

Paul Abell	Detailed Spectroscopic Investigation of Comet - Asteroid Transition Objects, Extinct Comets, and Their Possible Source Regions Transfer of Processed Hayabusa Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS) Data of Asteroid (25143 Itokawa to the NASA Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Archive
Natalia Artemieva	Planetary Impact Ejecta and the Physico-Chemical Evolution of Expansion Plumes: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Matt Balme	In-Situ Studies of Terrestrial Dust Devils and Ambient Meteorology: Application to Mars' Climate Transverse Aeolian Ridges on Mars: Age, Orientation and Sediment Source
Susan Benecchi
Leslie Bleamaster, III	Volcano-Tectonism of the Beta-Alta-Themis Province, Venus Arabia Terra Dichotomy Boundary: Structurally Controlled Degradation and Modification Geologic Investigations of Hellas Planitia and the Circum-Hellas Highlands: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Topography, Crater Morphology, and Layered Deposits Geologic Mapping Along the Arabia Terra Dichotomy Boundary
Mary Bourke	Wind Regime, Sediment Transport and the Age of Dunefields in the Northern Polar Sand Seas on Mars Rock Breakdown on Earth and Mars: Further Investigations Using a Combined Field and Experimental Approach Volatile-Rich Aeolian Deposits: A Field-Based Analogue Study The Geomorphology and Evolution of the North Polar Sand Seas on Mars Pseudokarst on Mars: The Evolution of the Hebrus Vallis and Haphaestus Fossae Systems in Utopia Planitia
Mary Chapman
David Crown	Distribution, Morphology and Age of Martian Debris Aprons Impact Craters as Stratigraphic Markers: Age Constraints on Martian Geologic Activity Planets Are Places Too: Professional Development Workshops for Elementary and Middle School Teachers Geologic Investigations of the Martian Highlands: Mapping the NW Hellas Rim and Northern Circum-Hellas Highlands Geologic Mapping of Reull Vallis and SE Hesperia Investigations of Terrestrial and Planetary Lava Flows Investigations of Ice-Driven Degradation Styles on Mars
Donald R. Davis	Muses-C Project Extended Mission The Asteroid/Dust Subnode of the Small Bodies Discipline Node of the NASA Planetary Data System
Deborah Domingue Lorin	What Shapes a Spectrum? Looking Beyond the Mineralogy
Mark Everett
William C. Feldman	Science Team Support for the MESSENGER Mission Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) Instrument Suite-Mission Operations for Extended Mission II
Robert W. Gaskell	Global Topography of Selected Saturnian Satellites Support of OBIRON (OnBoard Image Registration for Optical Navigation) Shape, Topography and Internal Structure of Mercury From MDIS Data High Resolution Shape and Topography of Eros From NEAR Imaging Data
Cyrena A. Goodrich
Lijie Han	Numerical Modeling of Convection in Europa's Icy Shell With Salinity and its Impact on Surface Features
William K. Hartmann	Small Impact Crater Statistics: A Tool for Analysis of Geologic Processes in Martial Volatile-rich Formations Chronology and Analysis of Recent and Ancient Martian Geological Features and Processes High Resolution Stereo Camera Experiment Onboard the European Space Agency Mars Express Mission
Keith Holsapple	The Analysis and Interpretation of the Deep Impact Event
Rossman P. Irwin III
Anton Ivanov	Mars Express / Extended Mission / Data processing Analysis of Polar Processes for the Mars Odyssey THEMIS Investigation
Sumita Jayaraman	Continued Observations of Earth's Resonant Ring Creating the Spitzer Zodiacal Database Traversing the Trailing Dust Cloud in the Earth's Resonant Ring - Part 3
Steve Kortenkamp	Investigation of a new resonant mechanism for accretion of interplanetary dust from Earth
Kimberley Kuhlman	Investigation of the Spatial Relationships of Bacteria Within Rock Varnish Simulation of Space Weathering Effects on the Moon
Melissa Lane	Analysis and Characterization of Phosphates Using Multiple Spectral Techniques Investigation of Salts on the Martian Surface Using THEMIS Data: Determining Mineralogy, Geologic Setting, and Age
Scott Mest
Joseph Michalski	A systematic study of volcanic and hydrovolcanic features in Iceland on on Mars: Closing the gap between field, laboratory and remote sensing bodies Effects of shock metamorphism on phyllosilicate spectroscopy Analysis of sulfate-bearing deposits at global, regional and local scales: Testing hypothesis of formation
Jeff Morgenthaler	GALEX Observations of Comet 8P/Tuttle
Beatrice Mueller	Archiving of ground-based data of NASA mission targets, comets 9P/Tempel 1 and 19P/Borrelly Observations of Current and Past NASA Cometary Mission Targets Post-Encounter Follow-Up Observations of NASA Mission Targets, Comets 9P/Tempel 1, 19P/Borrelly, and 81P/Wild 2
Eldar Noe Dobrea	Focused Investigations of the Geologic State of Aqueous Alteration on Mars
David P. O'Brien	Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems Collisional and Dynamical Processes in the Solar System Chemical and Dynamical Modeling of Terrestrial Planet Formation The Primordial Excitation and Clearing of the Asteriod Belt: Implications of Current Outer Planet Migration Models
Asmin Pathare	The Recent Mass Balance History of the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits
Elisabetta Pierazzo	Impacts and environmental catastrophes: Investigating the effects of impact events on the climate system
Karly Pitman
Thomas H. Prettyman	DAWN Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) Investigation, Phase E Analysis of Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Neutron Spectroscopy data: Constraints on Geochemistry, Atmospheric Processes and the Water Cycle Determining the Mars Polar Energy Balance by Combining Nuclear Spectroscopy with Thermal Observations
Robert C. Reedy	High-Quality Elemental Maps of the Moon from Analyses of Advanced Orbital Gamma-Ray Data
J. Alexis Rodriguez	Types and Origins of the Martian Outflow Channels Hydrogeologic Significance of the Association of Chasmata, Chaotic Terrains and Surface Flow Landforms
Nalin Samarasinha	Modeling Coma Morphologies of Comets 9P/Tempel 1 and 19P/Borrelly: Placing Spacecraft Data into Context Determination of Densities of Comets from Rotational and Orbital Evolutions
Matthew Staid	Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) Remote Sensing of Lunar Mare Craters Using Clementine and ROLO Spectral Data
Mark V. Sykes	Dawn Science Team Photometric Mapping of Vesta's Southern Hemisphere Determining Albedos and Sizes for Irregular Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn High Latitude Dust Bands in the Main Asteroid Belt: Fingerprints of Recent Breakup Events The Large Particle Emission History of Rosetta Target P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko A New Source of Interplanetary Dust: Type II Dust Trails The Spitzer Asteroid Catalog Thermophysical Mapping of 25143 Itokawa
Edward F. Tedesco	U.S. Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite Science Team Support International Space Science Institute Program Entitled: Light Scattering Phenomena in Small Body Surfaces
Nicholas Tosca	Clay-Bearing Assemblages from Alteration of Synthetic Martian Basalt: An Experimental Study
Pasquale Tricarico	A Distributed Computing System Supporting Near Earth Asteroids Research
Stuart J. Weidenschilling	Circumstellar Dust as an Indicator of Planetary Formation Turbulence and Planetesimal Formation Collisional Evolution of Circumstellar Debris Disks
Cathy Weitz	Geologic Mapping of a Proposed Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site in Southwestern Melas Chasma Distribution and Formation of Gray Hematite in Eastern Valles Marineris Geologic History of Light-Toned Layered Deposits at Valles Marineris Phase E HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Rebecca Williams	Characterizing the Paleo-Fluvial Environments of Fine-Scale Martian Network Systems Assessing the Preservation of Fluvial Pathways in the Terrestrial Geologic Record: Analogs for the Investigation of Martian Raised Channels Fluvial Investigations Using Imagers Aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Morphological Investigations of Martian Fluvial Landforms with THEMIS
Charles A. Wood	Cassini RADAR Team Participation
R. Aileen Yingst	Optimizing science return from lunar mobile robotic missions: Testing rover field methodologies Optimizing lunar science return from lunar mobile robotic missin by testing rover field methodologies Geologic Mapping of the SPA West Quadrangle of the Moon (Lunar Quadrangle 29)