Dr. Jamie Molaro
Research Scientist
Currently resides in California
Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Airless Bodies, Small Bodies, Moon, Enceladus, Europa, Icy Satellites
Disciplines/Techniques: Physical Weathering, Surface Processes, Geomorphology, Numerical Modeling, Thermal Modeling, Education/Public Outreach (EPO)
Dr. Molaro has extensive experience in thermal and mechanical numerical modeling, an early background in terrestrial fieldwork and instrumentation, and is an expert on the properties of rocks and regolith on airless body surfaces. Her work focuses on physical weathering processes and thermal metamorphism, and their role in landscape evolution across the solar system. See personal webpage for CV and more info.
Active Projects
Microstructural evolution of solar system ices through sintering
NASA Solar System Workings Program
Principal Investigator
External Partners
- JPL
- U. Ariz
The effect of thermal cycling on the mechanical properties of rock and ice
NASA Solar System Workings Program
Principal Investigator
Timescales for boulder evolution from thermal fatigue and impacts on asteroid (101955) Bennu
NASA New Frontier Data Analysis Program
Principal Investigator
External Partners
- U Ariz
- SLU
- GSFC
- JHU/APL
- Smithsonian
