Mid-latitude water ice
Where the shallow ice actually sits, how stable it really is, and what fresh impact craters reveal that climate models miss.
More on the ice workPh.D. Candidate · Planetary Science
Reading Mars with heat and ice.
School of Earth and Space Exploration · Arizona State University
I work on mid-latitude water ice on Mars, the planet's surface thermophysics, and the science education that brings it all to people who don't have a PDS login.
Mars…
Three threads!!!
Remote sensing, thermal modeling, and science education — the tools and questions I spend my time on.
Surface thermophysics
One night-time temperature curve, hiding particle size, induration, and layering meters down. Forward models & MCMC retrievals.
More on the thermal workScience education
Real PDS datasets, in middle-school classrooms and on museum floors. The format hurdle is bigger than the science one.
See the programsLately
Recent activity
March 2025
LPSC 56 poster: small-scale surface structure at sub-kilometer scale
Thermophysical modeling as a precursor to determining depth to ice in the mid-latitudes. See all presentations →
January 2025
Invited talk at Middlebury College
Mars — A Brief History of Exploration and Present-day State of Ice and Climate, delivered virtually as part of the J-term course Geology of Rocky Planets.
December 2024
Executive Secretary, Lucy in the L4 Trojans PSP Proposal Review
Served as Executive Secretary for the Lucy mission proposal review panel.
July 2024
Mars Polar Science & 10th International Conference on Mars
Talk at the 8th International Conference on Mars Polar Science (Whitehorse, Yukon) and poster at the 10th International Conference on Mars (Pasadena, CA). See all presentations →