Dr. Jani Radebaugh has been promoted from Associate to Full Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University.

Professor Radebaugh graduated from LPL in 2005; Alfred McEwen served as her advisor. She then began postdoctoral work with Dr. Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist who specializes in the origins and geologic histories of planetary landscapes from spacecraft images and Earth analogue field studies. Her current investigations include giant sand dunes, mountains, volcanoes, rivers and lakes on Saturn's moon Titan from the Cassini spacecraft and actively erupting volcanoes and mountains on Jupiter's moon Io. Dr. Radebaugh has done field work in the Sahara, Namibia, Arabia, Iran, the Ethiopian Afar Rift, Australia, the Argentine Altiplano, Hawaii and the desert southwestern U.S. She is a regular participant in the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program, which returns samples from around the solar system including the Moon and Mars. Jani is a science contributor for the Discovery Channel's How the Universe Works, has given a TEDx talk on exploration, and is a speaker at the Spacefest Apollo astronaut convention. She is also a member of the LPL External Board of Advisors. You can follow Professor Radebaugh's geologic adventures on Twitter.