Dr. Julie Rathbun

Professional Experience

• 2010-present Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
• 2001-2019 Professor of Physics at the University of Redlands
• 2014 Tasting Room Associate, Red Newt Cellars
• Summer 2012 Visiting Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Service & Outreach Activities

• 2016-present Member, Professional Climate and Culture Subcommittee of the AAS Division of Planetary Science (2017-present, chair)
• 2014-2018 Membmer, NASA Outer Planet Assessment Group Steering Committee
• 2016-2017 Member, University of Redlands President's Council on Diversity and Inclusivity, chari of ad hoc committee on faculty searches/hiring
• 2012-2016 Satellite Discipline Leader to the International Outer Planet Watch
• 2016, Science Organizing committee for Io-Jupiter Interaction Workshop
• 2016, 2009 Member, University of Redlands Physics Department Search Committee
• 2012, 2010, 2008 DPS meeting Local Organizing committee member and webmaster
• 2009-2012, Physics Department Chair
• 2011 DPS meeting Science Organizing Committee member
• 2007-2009 Member, Dean Search and retention Task Force (chair, 2008-2009)
• 2004-2009 Member, Liberal Arts Foundation Assesment Task Force
• 2004-2005, 2002-2003 Member, Faculty/Student Life Committee
• 2002 Member, Chemistry Department Search Committee
• 2000-2001 Participated in Lowell Observatory's Astronomy Outreach Program for Navajo and Hopi Schools
• 2000 Helped write StarTales, published daily by Lowell Observatory
• 1999 Articles written for Lowell Observer Nesletter
• 1997-1998 Articles written for Sciencenter newsletter
• 1997-1999 Organized guided guided tours of the Sciencenter's Sagan Memorial Planet Walk
• 1997-1999 member, Sciencenter Exhibits Committee
• 1996-1999 Coordinator for Astronomy program for Focus for Teens, a 4H program for high school students
• 1995-1997 Coordinator for Astronomy activities for Expanding Your Horizons program for junior high school girls

Grants Awarded:

• Diversity and Inclusion in the Planetary Science Workforce, NASA unsolicited; Julie Rathbun, PI
• Europa-Thermal EmissionImaging System (E-THEMIS); Europa Instrument Investigation; Phil Christensen, PI
• Studying Jupiter's magnetospheric response to Io's volcanic activity; NSF AST Program 2016-2022; Jeffrey Morgenthaler, PI
• Active volcanoes on Io from ground-based observations of Jupiter and mutual satellite occultations; NASA Planetary Data Analysis, Restoration, and Tools Program 2016-2019; Julie Rathbun, PI
• Dynamic Processes on the Galilean Satellites; NASA Solar System Observations Program 2016-2019; John Spencer, PI
• Quantitative measurements of active Ionian volcanoes: Global distribution and temporal variability using Galileo NIMS, PPR, ground-based, and New Horizons data; NASA Outer Planets Research Program 2013-2016; Julie Rathbun, PI
• The Ins and Outs of the Io Plasma Torus: A Comparison of Two Decades of Io Plasma Torus and Io Volcanic Data; NASA Outer Planets Research Program 2013-2016; Jeffrey Morgenthaler, PI
• Io in the Near Infrared: observations from New Horizons and comparison to Galileo PPR and NIMS; NASA Jupiter Data Analysis Program 2009-2012; Julie Rathbun, PI
• Studying the Galilean satellites with Galileo and ground-based data: Io's volcanoes from the ground and incorporating Galileo PPR data into ArcGIS; NASA Outer Planets Research program 2008-2010; Julie Rathbun, PI
• Geologic Mapping of Io: GIS Database & Regional mapping; NASA Outer Planets Research program 2008-2011; David Williams, PI
• Io Volcanism, and Galilean Satellite Surface Temperatures; NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program 2007-2010; John Spencer, PI
• Modeling volcanism on Io using groundbased and Galileo data; NASA Outer Planets Research Program 2006-2009; Julie Rathbun, PI
• Io Volcanism, and Galilean Satellite Surface Temperatures; NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program 2004-2007; John Spencer, PI
• Mutual occultations between the Galilean satellites: Two-dimensional imaging of Ionian volcanoes, particularly Loki which may erupt predictably; NASA Planetary Astronomy Program 2002-2005; Julie Rathbun, PI

Invited talks:

• October 2018 - Keck Institude for Space Studies Short Course on Tidal Heating, California Institute for Technology
• April 2016 - Io-Jupiter Interaction Workshop, Sao Jose de Campos, Brazil
• October 2015, 2017 - Joshua Tree National Park Night Sky Festival
• January 2015 - Geology Department Colloquium, Bringham Young University
• December 2014 - American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco
• December 2014 - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Ithaca College
• November 2014 - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, West Virginia University
• September 2014 - Acadia National Park Night Sky Festival
• February 2014 - Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, University of Wyoming
• January 2010 - President's Hight Table, University of Redlands
• February 2009 - Planetology Seminar, University of California at Los Angeles
• March 2007 - Guest lecture, San Bernardino County Museum
• April 2006 - Women in Science and Mathematics lecture, Buffalo State College
• November 2005 - Geology Department colloquium, State University of New York at Buffalo
• December 2001 - American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco
• June 2001 - Keynote speaker for 16th Annual Greater Verde Valley Astronomy Festival

Refereed Publications:

• Rathbun, J.A., Lopes, R.M.C., Spencer, J.R., The global distribution of active Ionian volcanoes and implications for tidal heating models, AJ, 156, id.207, 2018.
• Rathbun, J.A., Participation of women in spacecraft science teams, Nature Astronomy, 1, 0148, 2017.
• dePater, I., Laver, C., Davies, A. G., deKleer, K., Williams, D. A., Howell, R. R., Rathbun, J. A., Spencer, J. R., Io: Eruptions at Pillan, and the time evolution of Pele and Pillan from 1996 to 2015, Icarus, 264, 198-212, 2016.
• Conrad, A., deKleer, K., Leisenring, J., LaCamera, A., Arcidiacono, C., Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Defrere, D., de Pater, I., Hinz, P., Hoffman, K.-H., Kurster, M., Rathbun, J., Schertl, D., Skemer, A., Skrutskie, M., Spencer, J., Veillet, C., Weigelt, G., Woodward, C. Spatially Resolved M-band Emission from Io's Loki Patera-Fizeau Imaging at the 22.8 m LBT, Astronomical Journal, 149, id. 175, 2015.
• Tsang, C.C.C., Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J.R., Hesman, B.E., Abramov, O. Io's hot spots in the near-infrared detected by LEISA during the New Horizons flyby, JGRE, 119, 2222-2238, 2014.
• Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J.R., Lopes, R.M., Howell, R.R. Io's active volcanoes during the New Horizons era: Insights from New Horizons imaging, Icarus, 231, 261-272, 2014.
• Abramov, O., Rathbun, J.A., Schmidt, B.E., Spencer, J.R. Detectability of thermal signatures associated with active formation of 'chaos terrain' on Europa, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 384, 37-41, 2013.
• Rathbun, J.A., Rodriguez, N.J., Spencer, J.R. Galileo PPR observations of Europa: Hotspot detection limits and surface thermal properties, Icarus, 210, 763-769, 2010.
• Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J.R. Ground-based observations of time-variability in multiple active volcanoes on Io, Icarus, 209, 625-630, 2010.
• Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J.R. Loki, Io: New groundbased observations and a model describing the change from periodic overturn. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L17201, doi:10.1029/2006GL026844, 2006.
• Matson, D.L., Davies, A.G., Veeder, G.J., Rathbun, J.A., Johnson, T.V., Castillo, J.C. Io: Loki Patera as a Magma Sea, J. Geophys. Res. 111, E09002, doi:10.1029/2006JE002703, 2006.
• Porco, C. C., Helfenstein, P., Thomas, P. C., Ingersoll, A. P., Wisdom, J., West, R., Neukum, G., Denk, T., Wagner, R., Roatsch, T., Kieffer, S., Turtle, E., McEwen, A., Johnson, T. V., Rathbun, J., Veverka, J., Wilson, D., Perry, J., Spitale, J., Brahic, A., Burns, J. A., DelGenio, A. D., Dones, L., Murray, C. D., Squyres, S. Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus. Science, 311, 1393-1401, 2006.
• Milazzo, M.P., Keszthelyi, L.P., Radebaugh, J., Davies, A.G., Turtle, E.P., Geissler, P., Klaasen, K.P., Rathbun, J.A., and McEwen, A.S. Volcanic Activity at Tvashtar Catena, Io. Icarus, 179, 235-251, 2005.
• Williams, D.A., Keszthelyi, L.P., Schenk, P.M., Milazzo, M.P., Lopes, R.M.C., Rathbun, J.A., and Greeley, R. The Zamama-Thor region of Io: Insights from a synthesis of mapping, topography,and Galileo spacecraft data. Icarus, 177, 69-88, 2005.
• Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J.R., Martin, T.Z., Barnard, L., and Travis, L.D. Mapping of Io's Thermal Radiation by the Galileo Photopolarimeter- Radiometer (PPR) Instrument. Icarus, 169, 127-139, 2004.
• Rathbun, J.A. and Squyres, S.W. Hydrothermal systems associtated with Martian impact craters, Icarus, 157, 362-372, 2002.
• Rathbun, J.A., Spencer, J. R., Davies, A.G., Howell, R. R., and Wilson, L. Loki, Io: A periodic volcano. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(10), 10.1029/2002GL014747, 2002.
• Figueredo, P., Chuang, F.C., Rathbun, J.A., Kirk, R.L., and Greeley, R. Geology and Origin of Europa's "Mitten" Feature.J. Geophys. Res., 107(E5), 10.1029/2001JE001591, 2002.
• Howell, R.R., Spencer, J.R., Goguen, J.D., Marchis, F., Prange, R., Fusco, T., Blaney, D.L., Veeder, G.J., Rathbun, J.A., Orton, G.S., Grocholski, A.J., Stansberry, J.A., Kanner, G.S., and Hege, E.K. Ground-based observations of Volcanism on Io in 1999 and early 2000, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 33,129-33,140, 2001.
• Spencer, J.R., Rathbun, J.A., Travis, L.D., Tamppari, L.K., Barnard, L., Martin, T.Z., McEwen, A.S., Io's thermal emission from the Galileo Photopolarimeter-Radiometer. Science, 288, 1193-1198, 2000.
• Rathbun, J.A., Janes D.M., and Squyres, S.W. Formation of Beta Regio, Venus: Results from measuring strain. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 1917-1927, 1999.
• Rathbun, J.A., Musser, G.S. and Squyres, S.W., Ice diapirs on Europa: Implications for liquid water. Geophys. Res. Lett, 25, 4157-4160, 1998.