2019 Fall Department News

The fall 2019 section of core course PTYS 554 (Planetary Surfaces), led by Professor Shane Byrne, traveled to the Flagstaff (Arizona) region to study cinder cones and lava tubes. Highlights of the field trip included Montezuma's Well, Rattlesnake Canyon, and Meteor Crater on the way to exploring SP crater and

LPL academic advisor Amy Brenton received funding from a University Professional Advising Council (UPAC) travel grant and a College of Science Staff Advisory Council (CoSSAC) professional development grant to attend the annual National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) conference held October 20-23 in Louisville, Kentucky. Amy reports that conference highlights included the

Chenliang Huang joined LPL in August 2019 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Assistant Professor Tommi Koskinen. His research focuses on developing models of the upper atmosphere of extrasolar gas giant planets to interpret existing observations and to prepare for the NASA Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE)