PTYS/LPL Alumni Directory
PTYS majors or other majors with PTYS faculty as dissertation chair. Help us keep this list up-to-date; email updates to: LPL-UA@arizona.edu
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| Lastname, Firstname | Degree | Year | Advisor(s) | Dissertation/Thesis | Current Position | Current Institution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wacker, John | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1982 | Wilkening | Composition of Noble Gases in the Abee Meteorite, and the Origin of the Enstati… | Laboratory Fellow | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Walters, Jada | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2024 | Klein | Pressure Anisotropy-Driven Instabilities in Solar and Astrophysical Plasmas | ||
| Wang, Yiping | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1993 | Yelle | Energy balance and solar heating in Neptune's upper Atmosphere | ||
| Wegryn, Eric | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2000 | Tomasko | The Dusty Atmosphere of Mars: A Study of the Properties of Martian Aerosol Dust… | Astronomy Instructor | West Valley College |
| Weirich, John | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2011 | Swindle | Improvements to Argon-Argon Dating of Extraterrestrial Materials | Senior Scientist | Planetary Science Institute |
| West, Robert | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1977 | Tomasko | Spacially Resolved Photometry of Jupiter in the 6190, 7250, and 8900 Methane Ba… | Senior Research Scientist | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Wilbur, Zoe she/they |
Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2024 | Barnes | New Insights into Lunar Basaltic Magmatism: A Study of Volatiles, Vesicles, and… | ||
| Wilking, Bruce | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1981 | Rieke | Start Formation in the Rho Ophiuchi Dark Cloud | Professor Emeritus, Physics and Astronomy | University of Missouri (St. Louis) |
| Williams, Lance | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 1993 | Jokipii | A Single-Fluid, Self-Consistent Formulation of Particle Transport and Fluid Dyn… | Director | Konfluence Research Institute |
| Withers, Paul | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2003 | Bougher | Tides in the Martian Atmosphere, and Other Topics | Professor of Astronomy; Chair of Astronomy | Boston University |
| Wood, David | Ph.D. Planetary Sciences | 2000 | Strom | Effects of Airbursts on the Surface of Venus | Professor of Astronomy and Interim Chair of Natural Sciences | San Antonio College |
| Wood, Charles | M.S. Geosciences | 1972 | Sumner | Reconnaissance Geology and Geophysics of the Pinacate Craters, Sonora, Mexico |