Dr. Hanna Sizemore
Senior Scientist
Currently resides in West Virginia
Targets of Interest: Ceres, Mars
Disciplines/Techniques: Climate, Mapping, Numerical Modeling, Thermal Modeling
Missions: DAWN, Phoenix Mars Lander
Dr. Hanna Sizemore's research focuses on understanding the history and mobility of ice in regoliths. She studies ground ice on Mars, through numerical simulations of ice stability, numerical simulations of thin film migration, and through laboratory investigations of ices and Mars-analog soils. She also studies periglacial geomorphology in extraterrestrial settings. During the Mars Scout Mission Phoenix, she compared ice burial depth and morphology to theoretical predictions to better understand the climate history of the Martian high latitudes. She is currently a guest investigator on the Dawn mission to dwarf planet Ceres, involved in the global geologic mapping and analysis of periglacial features.
Active Projects
Pingo SubTerranean Aquifer Reconnaissance and Reconstruction (Pingo STARR)
NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research Program
Institutional PI
External Partners
- Cornell University
Laboratory Characterization of the Diffusive Properties of Analog Solar System Regolith Materials
NASA Solar System Workings Program
Principal Investigator
External Partners
- Cornell
- TU Braunschweig
