It's time for a change. After about a decade leading this wonderful organization, I've just retired, and Mark Marley has taken over as Director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Head of the Department of Planetary Sciences. It's been a great decade for me, and I'm satisfied with where
2021 Spring Department News
Thanks to the generous gifts from friends, family, and colleagues, the Showman Distinguished Visiting Lectureship, established in memory of LPL Professor Adam Showman, has been fully endowed. This fund will allow us to bring guest lecturers to the UArizona campus in Adam's memory, in perpetuity.
The first Adam
Congratulations to Abhinav Nishant and Laura Seifert, recipients of the Hitachi Electron Microscopy Scholarship for 2021/2022. Hitachi High Technologies established this award as part of their partnership with the University of Arizona in support of the Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility. Hitachi recognizes the need for advanced
This year's recipient of the LPL Staff Excellence Award is Keara Burke, Image Processing Engineer with the OSIRIS-REx mission. Keara began working with OSIRIS-REx as an undergraduate on a project that had her counting rocks. In 2019, after completing her degree in Systems Engineering, she went on to co-lead the
For years, the Kuiper Space Sciences Building has had an enigmatic object on the wall of the lobby, just inside of the front entrance. It isn't very colorful, so many haven't even noticed it, but it represents a creative mixture of art and science from the early days of LPL
Heather Enos has retired from LPL. Heather served as Deputy Principal Investigator and Project Planning and Control Officer for the OSIRIS-REx mission. She began her career at LPL in 1997 with the Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer program. Heather has held key management roles in many other missions, including
Dr. Manpreet Singh joined LPL in March 2021 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Research Scientist Dr. Federico Fraschetti. Manpreet studies interplanetary and astrophysical collisionless shock waves and particle acceleration.
Manpreet is from Batala (Punjab, India). He obtained his B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) in 2010 from Government College
LPL Associate Professor Christopher Hamilton is a National Science Foundation (NSF)-Fulbright Arctic Scholar currently working from the University of Iceland to document the products and impacts of Icelandic flood lava eruptions. On February 21, 2021, an earthquake swarm began on the Reykjanes Peninsula, near the capital of Reykjavik, and on