Current Grants

NASA Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Community Participation Program - Giant Exoplanet Models (PI: T. Robinson)

NASA FGO Precursor Science - Directly-Imaged Exoplanet Biosignatures (PI: J. Krissansen-Totton, UW)

NASA Astrobiology Institute / Nexus for Exoplanet System Science - Virtual Planetary Laboratory (PI: V. Meadows, UW)

NASA Habitable Worlds - Habitability Signatures for Directly-Imaged Exoplanets (PI: T. Robinson)

Current Spacecraft Involvement

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Coronagraph Community Participation Program

OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer

Former Spacecraft Involvement

Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Concept - Science and Technology Definition Team

Large UltraViolet-Optical-InfraRed Surveyor (LUVOIR) Concept - Exoplanet Science Team

Exo-C Concept - Exoplanet Science Team

Current Graduate Students

Student Collaborations/Advising

• James Windsor (NAU)
• Amber Young (NAU)
• Schuyler Borges (NAU)

Current Postdocs

• Zarah Brown
• Arnaud Salvador

Complete publications list available from: NASA ADS Author search: Tyler D. Robinson and Google Scholar: Tyler Robinson

Yang, Huanzhou, Komacek, Thaddeus D., Toon, Owen B., Wolf, Eric T., Robinson, Tyler D., Chael, Caroline, & Abbot, Dorian S. 2024, The Astrophysical Journal. Impact of Planetary Parameters on Water Clouds Microphysics

Borges, Schuyler R., Jones, Gabrielle G., & Robinson, Tyler D. 2024, Astrobiology. Detectability of Surface Biosignatures for Directly Imaged Rocky Exoplanets

Strauss, Ryder H., Robinson, Tyler D., Trilling, David E., Cummings, Ryan, & Smith, Christopher J. 2024, The Astronomical Journal. Exoplanet Analog Observations of Earth from Galileo Disk-integrated Photometry

Young, Amber V., Robinson, Tyler D., Krissansen-Totton, Joshua, Schwieterman, Edward W., Wogan, Nicholas F., Way, Michael J., Sohl, Linda E., Arney, Giada N., Reinhard, Christopher T., Line, Michael R., Catling, David C., & Windsor, James D. 2024, Nature Astronomy. Inferring chemical disequilibrium biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-like exoplanets

Hall, Sawyer, Krissansen-Totton, Joshua, Robinson, Tyler, Salvador, Arnaud, & Fortney, Jonathan J. 2023, The Astronomical Journal. Constraining Background N<SUB>2</SUB> Inventories on Directly Imaged Terrestrial Exoplanets to Rule Out O<SUB>2</SUB> False Positives

Gialluca, Megan T., Robinson, Tyler D., Rugheimer, Sarah, & Wunderlich, Fabian 2023, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Corrigendum: "Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope" (2021, PASP, 133, 054401)

Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob, Meadows, Victoria S., Crisp, David, Line, Michael R., & Robinson, Tyler D. 2023, The Planetary Science Journal. Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet: A Validation of Transmission Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Retrieval Methodologies for Terrestrial Exoplanets

Jaiswal, Bhavesh & Robinson, Tyler D. 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Scattering transparency of clouds in exoplanet transit spectra

Windsor, James D., Robinson, Tyler D., et al. 2023, The Planetary Science Journal.  A Radiative-convective Model for Terrestrial Planets with Self-consistent Patchy Clouds

Robinson, Tyler D. & Salvador, Arnaud 2023, The Planetary Science Journal. Exploring and Validating Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Solar System Analog Observations

Lincowski, Andrew P., Meadows, Victoria S., Crisp, David, Robinson, Tyler D., Luger, Rodrigo, Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob, & Arney, Giada N. 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Erratum: "Evolved Climates and Observational Discriminants for the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System" (2018, ApJ, 867, 76)

Ryan, Dominick J. & Robinson, Tyler D. 2022, The Planetary Science Journal. Detecting Oceans on Exoplanets with Phase-dependent Spectral Principal Component Analysis

Tang, Shih-Yun, Robinson, Tyler D., Marley, Mark S., Batalha, Natasha E., Lupu, Roxana, & Prato, L. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. Impact of Water-latent Heat on the Thermal Structure of Ultra-cool Objects: Brown Dwarfs and Free-floating Planets

Mayorga, L. C., Robinson, Tyler D., Marley, Mark S., May, E. M., & Stevenson, Kevin B. 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. Variable Irradiation on 1D Cloudless Eccentric Exoplanet Atmospheres

Tribbett, Patrick D., Robinson, Tyler D., & Koskinen, Tommi T. 2021, The Planetary Science Journal. Titan in Transit: Ultraviolet Stellar Occultation Observations Reveal a Complex Atmospheric Structure

Gialluca, Megan T., Robinson, Tyler D., Rugheimer, Sarah, & Wunderlich, Fabian 2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope

Morgan, Rhonda, Savransky, Dmitry, Turmon, Michael, Mennesson, Bertrand, Dula, Walker, Keithly, Dean, Mamajek, Eric E., Newman, Patrick, Plavchan, Peter, Robinson, Tyler D., Roudier, Gael, & Stark, Chris 2021, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. Faster Exo-Earth yield for HabEx and LUVOIR via extreme precision radial velocity prior knowledge

Romero-Wolf, Andrew, Bryden, Geoffrey, Seager, Sara, Kasdin, N. Jeremy, Booth, Jeff, Greenhouse, Matt, Lisman, Doug, Macintosh, Bruce, Shaklan, Stuart, Vess, Melissa, Warwick, Steve, Webb, David, Ziemer, John, Gray, Andrew, Hughes, Michael, Agnes, Greg, Arenberg, Jonathan W., Bradford, S. Case, Fong, Michael, Gregory, Jennifer, Matousek, Steve, Rhodes, Jason, Willems, Phil, D'Amico, Simone, Debes, John, Domagal-Goldman, Shawn, Hildebrandt, Sergi, Hu, Renyu, Kiessling, Alina, Lewis, Nikole, Rizzo, Maxime, Roberge, Aki, Robinson, Tyler, Rogers, Leslie, Savransky, Dmitry, & Stark, Chris 2021, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. Starshade rendezvous: exoplanet sensitivity and observing strategy

Checlair, Jade H., Villanueva, Geronimo L., Hayworth, Benjamin P. C., Olson, Stephanie L., Komacek, Thaddeus D., Robinson, Tyler D., Popović, Predrag, Yang, Huanzhou, & Abbot, Dorian S. 2021, The Astronomical Journal. Probing the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Missions to Spectrally Constrain the Frequency of Earth-like Planets

Doughty, Christopher E., Abraham, Andrew J., Windsor, James, Mommert, Michael, Gowanlock, Michael, Robinson, Tyler, & Trilling, David E. 2020, International Journal of Astrobiology. Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet

Behr, Patrick R., Tribbett, Patrick D., Robinson, Tyler D., & Loeffler, Mark J. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Compaction of Porous H<SUB>2</SUB>O Ice via Energetic Electrons

Smith, Adam J. R. W., Feng, Y. Katherina, Fortney, Jonathan J., Robinson, Tyler D., Marley, Mark S., Lupu, Roxana E., & Lewis, Nikole K. 2020, The Astronomical Journal. Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 μm Feature in Reflected Light

Tolento, Juan P. & Robinson, Tyler D. 2019, Icarus. A simple model for radiative and convective fluxes in planetary atmospheres

Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob, Robinson, Tyler, & Arney, Giada 2019, The Journal of Open Source Software. coronagraph: Telescope Noise Modeling for Exoplanets in Python

Chandler, Colin Orion, Kueny, Jay, Gustafsson, Annika, Trujillo, Chadwick A., Robinson, Tyler D., & Trilling, David E. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Six Years of Sustained Activity in (6478) Gault

Glenar, David A., Stubbs, Timothy J., Schwieterman, Edward W., Robinson, Tyler D., & Livengood, Timothy A. 2019, Icarus. Earthshine as an illumination source at the Moon

Co-Creator of Engage science outreach curriculum

Science Communication Fellow, Pacific Science Center (2009–2013)

• Tyler Robinson: What the Astrobiology Center Will  Bring to Students & Researchers - October 9, 2024
• Tyler Robinson: The Larger Scope of Astrobiology in Research - October 14, 2024

• LPL Evening Lecture on October 19, 2022 - Finding Other Earths with Next Generation Telescopes