Dr. Darby Dyar
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in Massachusetts
Targets of Interest: Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus
Disciplines/Techniques: Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy
Missions: MSL, VERITAS, EnVision
Instruments: ChemCam, Venus Emissivity Mapper (Veritas), Venspec-M (Envision)
Dr. Darby Dyar is a mineralogist and spectroscopist interested in a wide range of problems relating to the evolution of the solar system. She studies the redox state of iron and the abundance of hydrogen in solar system materials using Mossbauer, x-ray absorption, and FTIR spectroscopy.
(left) Dr. Dyar with former student Marie Ozanne with the ChemLIBS instrument in her lab. This instrument was created to simulate spectra obtained by the ChemCam instrument on Mars Science Laboratory. (right) The Mössbauer spedctroscopy laboratory.
Active Projects
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External Partners
- The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Principal Investigator
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External Partners
- Columbia U.
- UC Boulder
- U. Winnipeg
- CMU
- GSFC
- USRA
- DLR
- Illinois U.
- JSC
