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Dr. Julianne I. Moses
Professional Background


EDUCATION

Ph.D., Planetary Science, June 1991
Minor: Geophysics
California Institute of Technology

A.B. (Honors), Physics, June 1985
Cornell University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Photochemical modeling – planetary and satellite atmospheres
  • Aerosols – properties, formation, behavior, scattering characteristics
  • Planetary surfaces – composition, atmosphere-surface interactions

CURRENT RESEARCH

Lunar and Planetary Institute, April 1994 to present

  • Investigating stratospheric circulation and the meridional
    distribution of hydrocarbon and oxygen species on the giant
    planets using a two-dimensional photochemistry/transport model
  • Analyzing the possibility and consequences of photochemistry and
    haze production in the atmospheres of the T dwarf Gliese 229B and
    other brown dwarfs
  • Investigating the structure and composition of the upper atmospheres
    of Jupiter and Saturn using ultraviolet stellar and solar occultation
    data from the New Horizons and Voyager spacecraft flybys
  • Determining the important photochemical pathways for hydrocarbon and
    oxygen compounds in giant-planet atmospheres; comparing photochemical
    model results with Cassini, Spitzer, ISO, and ground-based infrared
    data
  • Investigating the seasonal/latitudinal variation of stratospheric
    constituents and temperatures on the giant planets through theoretical
    models and model-data comparisons
  • Determining the reasons for the similarities and differences in the
    stratospheric compositions of all the giant planets
  • Constraining the current rate of influx of external material to the
    giant planets
  • Investigating the consequences of large cometary impacts on Jupiter
    and Neptune
  • Investigating specific problems in tropospheric chemistry on the
    giant planets
  • Investigating auroral chemistry on Jupiter and Saturn

AWARDS AND SERVICE

  • NASA Planetary Systems Science Management Operations Working
    Group (PSS-MOWG) (2007–present)
  • Director, LPI Summer Intern Program for undergraduates (2004–present)
  • Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets (2003–2007)
  • Steering Committee, NASA Outer Planet Assessment Group (2005–2007)
  • PDS Atmospheres Node Advisory Group (1996–present)
  • Committee Member, Giant Planets Panel, NAS/NRC Solar System
    Exploration Survey "Decadal Study" (2001–2002)
  • Nominating Subcommittee, Division for Planetary Sciences of the
    American Astronomical Society (2001–2003)
  • Discipline Leader, International Jupiter Watch, Laboratory and
    Theory Discipline (1998–2003)
  • Advisor, LPI Summer Intern Program (1995–present)
  • Program Committee: Planetary Atmospheres Workshop (2007),
    Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets Workshop (2007), DPS
    meeting (2004), Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (1995–1997,
    2003–2005)
  • Proposal review panels: NASA (1996, 1998, 1999 (2), 2001 (2), 2005,
    2006 (2), 2008); NSF (2003)
  • NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship (Caltech, 1987–1990)
  • Earle C. Anthony Graduate Fellowship (Caltech, 1985–1986)
  • Hartmann Prize in Experimental Physics (Cornell, 1985)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Cornell, 1985)
  • NASA Planetary Geology Undergraduate Research Fellowship (1984)

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