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Present and Past Activities of Alumnae/i
from the Planetary Geosciences Group
(Please e-mail updates)

PhD Graduates

Jennifer Anderson
Assistant Professor of Geoscience, Winona State University, Minnesota

Irene Antonenko
Staff Scientist/Consultant, Planetary Institute of Toronto
past positions: Lecturer, Dept. of Geology, University of Toronto; Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Geography, University of Winnipeg; Science/Community Liaison, SeaWiFS and the SIMBIOS Projects, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Ray Arvidson
Department Chair and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis

Olivier Barnouin-Jha
Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins

Duane Bindschadler
Manager, Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), Jet Propulsion Laboratory
past positions: Research Associate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); Magnetometer Team, Galileo Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Janice Bishop
Principal Investigator, SETI Institute
past positions: Humboldt Fellow, DLR, Berlin, Germany; NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrobiology Group, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA

Bethany Bradley
Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Dan Britt
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida
Mars Pathfinder, Imaging Instrument Program, University of Arizona
past positions: Associate Professor, Planetary Science, University of Tennessee; Co-Investigator and Science Team member, Deep Space One mission to comet 19P/Borrelly; Project Manager, Co-Investigator, and Deputy Imaging Team leader for the camera, Mars Pathfinder lander; Postdoctoral Researcher, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona

Mark Cintala
Staff Scientist, Johnson Space Center
past positions: Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University; Postdoctoral Researcher, National Research Foundation (through NASA JSC); Postdoctoral Researcher, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas

Geoffrey Collins
Associate Professor of Geology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Christopher Cooper
Member of Technical Staff, Frontier Technology, Beverly, MA

David Crawford
Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

Andrew Elmore
Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland
past positions: Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA

Carolyn Ernst
Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins

Caleb Fassett
Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University, Providence, RI

Erich Fischer
McKinsey and Associates, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kate Fishbaugh
Geologist, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
past positions: Postdoctoral Discipline Scientist, International Space and Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland; Visiting Scientist, Niels Bohr Insitute, University of Copenhagen

Jeremy Fisher
Research Associate, Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
past positions: Postdoctoral Researcher, Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire; Visiting Fellow, Global Environment Program, Watson Institute, Brown University

James Garvin
NASA Chief Scientist
previous positions: Staff Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center; Mars Exploration Program Scientist, NASA Headquaters

Martha Gilmore
Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
past position: Research Associate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars 2001 Progam

John Grant
Geologist, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
past positions: Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, State College of New York, Buffalo;
NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program Manager, NASA Headquarters

Eric Grosfils
Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Pomona College, CA

Wendy Hale
Senior Geologist, New Ventures, Amoco Production Company

B. Ray Hawke
Planetary Scientist, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii

Paul Helfenstein
Senior Research Associate, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University

Ken Jones
Visual Effects Supervisor, CIS Hollywood
Staff Scientist, Image Processing Applications and Development, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Susan Keddie
Staff Scientist, SAIC, Washington, DC

Rachel Klima
Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University, Providence, RI

Lin Li
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN
past postion: Post doctoral Researcher, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California at Davis

Kari Magee
Technical Systems Manager, The Planetary Society
past positions: Galileo Project, Sterling Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Cassini SOA/PDT System Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Sarah Milkovich
Postdoctoral Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ralph Milliken
Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Scott Murchie
CRISM Principal Investigator, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University;
Staff Scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
past position: Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute

John Mustard
Professor, Brown University
previous position: Keck Associate Professor (Research), Brown University

Sarah Noble
Currently at NASA Headquarters and Johnson Space Center
past positions: Postdoctoral Researcher, Johnson Space Center; Geological Society of America's Congressional Science Fellow

Gerald Wes Patterson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins

Noah Petro
Postdoctoral Researcher, Goddard Space Flight Center

Louise Prockter
MDIS Instrument Lead Scientist, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins
past position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins

Patrick Russell
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

David Senske
Manager, Science Research and Analysis Program Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Deputy Project Scientist, 2001 Mars Odyssey Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
past positions: Deputy Manager, Science Research and Analysis Program Office; National Research Council Research Associate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Galileo Imaging Team, Sterling Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mark Settle
Program Manager, Earth Sciences Division, NASA Headquarters
Chief, Remote Sensing Laboratory, ARCO Research
Manager, Hughes Information Systems

Virgil "Buck" Sharpton
Professor of Geophysics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
past positions: Research Associate, Canadian Division of Geology and Geophysics;
Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Science Institute

Nicole Spaun
Forensic Scientist, Department of Justice

Matthew Staid
Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute;
Co-founder and President, VineView Imaging

Ellen Stofan
Proxemy Research, Washington, D.C.
past positions: Staff Scientist and Magellan Deputy Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; SIR-C Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; New Millennium Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Seiji Sugita
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Jessica Sunshine
Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland
past positions: Staff Scientist, SETS Technology Incorporated; Senior Staff Scientist, SAIC, Chantilly, VA

Bradley Thomson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
past position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lunar and Planetary Institute

Stefanie Tompkins
Program Manager, Strategic Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
past position: Senior Staff Scientist, SAIC, Chantilly, VA.

Carolyn van der Bogert
Research Associate, Institut für Planetologie, Westfäliche Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
past position: Research Scientist, Gemological Institute of America, New York, NY

Richard Vorder Bruegge
Forensic Scientist, Department of Justice
past position: Staff Scientist, SAIC and NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Cathy Weitz
Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ
past positions: 2000-2004 - Program Scientist, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Express, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC; Mars 2003 Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters

James Whitford-Stark
Professor, Department of Geology, Sul Ross State University

Robert Wichman
Space Grant Research Associate, University of North Dakota

Charles Wood
Director, Center for Educational Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit University
past positions: Staff Scientist, Johnson Space Center; Chair, Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota; Director of Education for Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ

Kelly Wrobel
Exxon-Mobil, Houston, Texas

Aileen Yingst
Director, Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
past position: Science Director at Space Explorer's Inc.

Maria Zuber
Head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
past positions: Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; Geophysicist, Geodynamics Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; National Research Council Research Associate, Geodynamics Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

MS Graduates

M. Lee Allison
Director and State Geologist, Arizona
past positions: State Geologist and Director of the Kansas Geological Survey; Director and State Geologist, Utah Geological Survey

Carl Baum, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Center for Children's Environmental Toxicology; Director, Medical Toxicology; Director; Yale Lead Program
past position: Assistant Professor, Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill.

Jeff Burt
Engineer/Scientist, Boeing Corporation
Hughes Aerospace, Washington, D.C.

Nicholas Carras
Anesthesiologist, New York
past positions: M.D., Surgical Resident, University of Rochester

Eric Christiansen
Professor, Brigham Young University
Co-Author of "Exploring the Planets"

Jason Dahl
Assistant Professor of Geology, Bemidji State University

Willam J. Ehmann
Director of the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at Plattsburgh State University of New York (SUNY)
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Paul Fischer
Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Lisa Gaddis
Staff Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Astrogeology, Flagstaff, AZ

Brian Kortz
Hydrogeologist, Fuss & O'Neill, Providence, RI

Karen Jager Kortz
Faculty and Honor Program Coordinator, Community College of Rhode Island

Emily Stewart Lakdawalla
Science and Technology Coordinator, The Planetary Society
past position: Myra Frank and Associates, Environmental Consulting, Los Angeles, CA

Shawn McColley
past position: Malin Space Science Systems

Lillian Ostrach
Graduate Student, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Betina Pavri
Dawn Payload Systems Engineer; Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
past position: Member of Technical Staff, Loral Infrared and Imaging Systems, Lexington, MA

Patricia Grizzaffi Rogers
Discipline Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Office of Space Science, Planetary Science Branch, Washington D.C.

David Shean
Malin Space Science Systems
past position: Researcher, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Boston University

Paul Spudis
Staff Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas

Benjamin Webb
Phelps Dodge Mining Co.

Steven A. Yon
Director of Research, Innercool Therapies

 

Last updated June 2008