Alumni Updates
Michael Bland (2008) moved to a position as Research Space Scientist with USGS Astrogeology.
Brian Jackson (2009) is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Boise State University. He was recently a co-author on the paper titled, "Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion" (PLOS ONE, Aug 27, 2014; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105948)
Sarah Hörst (2011) began a new position as Assistant Professor, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences in Fall 2014.
Catherine Neish (2008) is Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology) as of August 2013.
Priyanka Sharma (2012) was one of a group of students (at the time of the work) notified by the President of COSPAR that they were awarded the Paper Award for Young Scientists for the manuscript entitled "Identification and characterization of science-rich landing sites for lunar lander missions using integrated remote sensing observations." The paper was published in the journal Advances in Space Research (2014, vol. 50 (12) pp. 1647-1665; DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2012.05.020). The other student authors are J. Flahaut, J.-F. Blanchette-Guertin, C. E. Jilly, and A. L. Souchon (Wim van Westrenen and David Kring were also co-authors). Priyanka is currently a postdoc at JPL.