2009 Fall Faculty News

On Monday, October 19, Professor Robert Strom received the Geological Society of America's G.K. Gilbert Award at the GSA meeting in Portland. Jay Melosh presented the award.

The G. K. Gilbert Award is presented annually by the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America for outstanding contributions to

Please join us in congratulating Javier Martin-Torres (Associate Staff Scientist) on his receipt of the Earth and Planetary Physics Special Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Physics.

This award was given in recognition of Javier's "contributions to radiative transfer modeling in Earth and planetary atmospheres and outstanding contributions in

I've been an assistant professor at the PTYS/LPL since fall of 2007. I moved from Ireland to the United States in 1998 to pursue graduate studies in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology. After five enjoyable years in Pasadena, I spent two years in both Boston (at the

My research involves trying to understand the gas motions and magnetic field generation in the solar interior. I generally approach this problem using large scale numerical simulations. The Sun is an excellent testbed for hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic theory because of the strict observational constraints provided by helioseismology.

I was a