Team Members
Dr. David A. Kring (USRA-LPI), Principal Investigator
Dr. Eileen Stansbery (Johnson Space Center), JSC Scientific and Exploration Lead
Science Team
Dr. Phil Bland (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Jeremy W. Boyce (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Gareth Collins (Imperial College London)
Prof. Ian A. Crawford (Birkbeck College, London)
Dr. Daniel Durda (Southwest Research Institute)
Prof. Amy L. Fagan (Western Carolina University)
Dr. Everett Gibson (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Cyrena Goodrich (USRA-LPI)
Prof. Juliane Gross (Rutgers University)
Dr. Harald Hiesinger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Dr. Gary R. Huss (University of Hawaii)
Dr. Katherine Joy (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Dr. Lindsay Keller (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Walter Kiefer (USRA-LPI)
Dr. P. Senthil Kumar (National Geophysical Research Institute, India)
Prof. Thomas Lapen (University of Houston)
Prof. Myriam Lemelin (Université de Sherbrooke, Québec)
Dr. Patrick McGovern (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Keiji Misawa (National Institute for Polar Research)
Dr. David Mittlefehldt (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Kazuhide Nagashima (University of Hawaii)
Dr. Alexander Nemchin (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Marc Norman (Australian National University)
Prof. Robert Pidgeon (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Kevin Righter (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Minako Righter (University of Houston)
Dr. Matthew A. Siegler (Planetary Science Institute)
Dr. Justin Simon (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Julie D. Stopar (USRA-LPI)
Prof. Timothy D. Swindle (Univ. Arizona)
Prof. G. Jeffrey Taylor (University of Hawaii)
Dr. Allan Treiman (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Carolyn H. van der Bogert (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Prof. Richard Walker (Univ. Maryland)
Dr. Martin Whitehouse (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Dr. Ryan Zeigler (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Michael Zolensky (Johnson Space Center)
Exploration Partners
Mr. Timothy Cichan (Lockheed Martin Company)
Mr. John Gruener (JSC)
Ms. Barbara Janoiko (Johnson Space Center)
Mr. Kurt Klaus (USRA-LPI)
Mr. Chris Looper (Johnson Space Center)
Mr. Scott Norris (Lockheed Martin Company)
Mr. William Pratt (Lockheed Martin Company)
Mr. Jerry Sanders (Johnson Space Center)
Education Team
Ms. Suzanne Foxworth (JSC)
Mr. Andrew Shaner (USRA-LPI)
Postdoctoral Researchers (Past and Present)
Dr. Thomas J. Barrett (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Jeremy Bellucci (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Dr. Katherine Bermingham (University of Maryland) – then to Rutgers University
Dr. Timmons Erickson (USRA-LPI) - then to the NASA Johnson Space Center
Prof. Amy L. Fagan (USRA-LPI) – then to Western Carolina University
Dr. Marion Grange (Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia)
Dr. Juliane Gross (USRA-LPI) – then to the American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Debra Hurwitz (USRA-LPI) – then to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Institute
Dr. Kathrine Joy (USRA-LPI) – then to the University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Dr. Georgiana Kramer (USRA-LPI) – then a Visiting Scientist at the LPI
Dr. Katherine Kretke (Southwest Research Institute and USRA-LPI)
Dr. Véronique Le Roux (Rice University) – then to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dr. Simone Marchi (USRA-LPI and Southwest Research Institute) – then to the Southwest Research Institute
Dr. Amanda Nahm (USRA-LPI) – then to the University of Texas, El Paso
Dr. Takafumi Niihara (USRA-LPI) – then to the University of Tokyo
Dr. Teemu Öhman (USRA-LPI) – then to the Arctic Planetary Science Institute, Finland
Dr. Ross Potter (USRA-LPI) – then to Brown University
Dr. Tabb C. Prissel (USRA-LPI and NASA JSC) – then to the NASA Johnson Space Center
Dr. Katharine Robinson (USRA-LPI) – then to the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Dr. Martin Schmieder (USRA-LPI) – then to HNU Neu-Ulm University, Germany
Dr. Barry Shaulis (USRA-LPI) – then to the University of Arkansas
Dr. Joshua Snape (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Dr. Axel Wittmann (USRA-LPI) – then to Washington University
Graduate Student Researchers (Past and Present)
Donald Barker (University of Houston)
Sky Beard (University of Arizona)
Steve Braun (University of Houston)
David Burney (University of Notre Dame)
Jesse Davenport (University of Notre Dame)
Patrick Donohue (University of Notre Dame)
Amy Fagan (University of Notre Dame)
Miriam Galenas (University of Maryland)
Connor Hilton (University of Maryland)
Patrick Lowe (University of Notre Dame)
Katie O’Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Ruby Patterson (University of Houston)
Ross Potter (USRA-LPI)
Sarah Roberts (University of Notre Dame)
Katherine Robinson (University of Hawaii)
Barry Shaulis (University of Houston)
Sam Simmons (University of Houston)
Kellen Springer (University of Houston)
Fiona Thiessen (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Emily Worsham (University of Maryland)
Lunar Exploration Student Interns
2008 Program
Tomas Kohout (University of Helsinki)
Anna Losiak (Michigan State University)
Katie O’Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Kevin Thaisen (University of Tennessee)
Shoshana Weider (University College London)
2009 Program
Daniel Eldridge (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Megan Ennis (University of Tennessee)
Amy Fagan (University of Notre Dame)
Jarmo Korteniemi (University of Oulu, Finland & University of Münster, Germany)
Trevelyn Anne Lough (University of Buffalo)
James Pogue (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Simon Porter (Arizona State University)
Kaitlin Singer (North Carolina State University & University of Tennessee)
Joshua Snape (University College London)
Lesley Werblin (Mount Holyoke College)
2010 Program
Jean-Francois Blanchette-Guertin (University of British Columbia)
Patrick Donohue (University of Notre Dame)
Jessica Flahaut (ENS Lyon)
Zachary Gallegos (University of New Mexico)
Noah Hammond (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Christine Jilly (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Ross Potter (Imperial College London)
Priyanka Sharma (University of Arizona)
Audrey Souchon (University of Paul Sabatier Toulouse III)
2011 Program
David Blair (Purdue University)
Sarah Crites (University of Hawai'i)
Myriam Lemelin (Université de Sherbrooke)
Daniela Nowka (Freie Universität Berlin)
Agata Przepiorka (Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Stephanie Quintana (Colorado School of Mines)
Carolyn Roberts (SUNY at Buffalo)
Kirby Runyon (Temple University)
Claudia Santiago (University of Texas-El Paso)
Tiziana Trabucchi (University of New Brunswick)
2012 Program
Jessica Barnes (Open University)
Renee French (Northwestern University)
Joshua Garber (University of California, Davis)
Wil Poole (University College London)
Phillipa Holly Smith (Open University)
Yunsheng Tian (University of Toronto)
2013 Program
Natalie Curran (The University of Manchester)
Jasmeet Dhaliwal (University of California, San Diego)
Amber Gullikson (Northern Arizona University)
Mark Leader (University of Texas, Austin)
Nicola Potts (The Open University)
Rushal Rege (Columbia University)
Exploration Science Student Interns
2015 Program
Shelby Bottoms (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Abigail Calzada-Diaz (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Mark Leader (University of Texas, Austin)
Dayl Martin (University of Manchester)
Francesca McDonald (University of Manchester)
Sean O'Hara (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sarinya Paisarnsombat (University of New Brunswick)
Edgar Steenstra (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Christian Venturino (University at Buffalo)
2016 Program
Elyse Allender (University of Cincinnati)
Natasha Almeida (Birkbeck College London)
John Cook (University of Houston)
Jessica Ende (University of Tennessee)
Oscar Kamps (Utrecht University)
Sara Mazrouei-Seidani (University of Toronto)
Csilla Orgel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Thomas Slezak (Brigham Young University)
Assi-Johanna Soini (University of Helsinki)
2018 Program
Samantha Bell (University of Manchester, UK)
Valentin Bickel (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Ellen Czaplinski (University of Arkansas, USA)
Benjamin Farrant (University of Manchester, UK)
Elise Harrington (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Casey Honniball (University of Hawai’i, USA)
Sabrina Martinez (Tulane University, USA)
Alexander Rogaski (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA)
Hannah Sargeant (The Open University, UK)
Gavin Tolometti (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
2019 Program
Venkata Satya Kumar Animireddi (Andhra University, India)
Natasha Barrett (University of Alberta, Canada)
Sarah Boazman (University College London, UK)
Aleksandra Gawronska (Miami University, USA)
Cosette Gilmour (York University, Canada)
Samuel Halim (University of London, UK)
Harish (Physical Research Laboratory, India)
Kathryn McCanaan (University of Manchester, UK)
Jahnavi Shah (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
2020 Program
Jordan Bretzfelder (University of California, Los Angeles)
Indujaa Ganesh (University of Arizona)
Nandita Kumari (Stony Brook University)
Antonio Lang (University of Buffalo)
2021 Program
Katelyn Frizzell (Rutgers University)
Megan Kopp (Boston College)
Gayantha Loku Kodikara (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Kristen Luchsinger (New Mexico State University)
Alissa Madera (Rutgers University)
McKayla Meier (University of Idaho)
Tyler Paladino (Idaho State University)
Ruby Patterson (University of Houston)
Christian Tai Udovicic (Northern Arizona University)
Frank Wroblewski (University of Idaho)
2022 Program
Arthur Goodwin (University of Manchester)
Kashauna Mason (Texas A&M)
Eloy Peña-Asensio (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Jennifer Sutherland (Intitut Laue-Langevin, TU Berlin)
Prateek Tripathi (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)
2023 Program
Matilda Boyce (University of Western Australia)
Alex Camon (Université de Sherbrooke)
Thomas Früh (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Stephanie Halwa (University of Manchester)
Gabriela Ligeza (University of Basel)
Undergraduate Student Researchers
Adeene Denton (Rice University)
Charis Hall (University of Houston)
Robert Hoffmann (Rice University)
Lillian Schaffer (University of Houston)
Laura Seifert (University of Arizona)
Sam Simmons (University of Houston)
Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater
2010 Student Participants
Jeffrey Balcerski (Case Western Reserve University)
David Blair (Purdue University)
Matthew Chojnacki (University of Tennessee)
Patrick Donohue (University of Notre Dame)
Sarah Drummond (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Joshua Garber (University of California-Davis)
Michelle Hopkins (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Matthew Huber (University of Vienna)
Steven Jaret (Harvard University)
Anna Losiak (University of Vienna)
Analisa Maier (University of Colorado)
Julie Mitchell (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
Lissa Ong (University of Arizona)
Lillian Ostrach (Arizona State University)
Katie O’Sullivan (University of Notre Dame)
Ross Potter (Imperial College London)
Stuart Robbins (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Bhairavi Shankar (University of Western Ontario)
Erin Shea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kelsi Singer (Washington University)
Michael Sori (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sebastian Sturm (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Malte Willmes (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Michael Zanetti (Washington University)
2011 Student Participants
Shoshanna Cole (Cornell University)
Kathleen Craft (Virginia Tech University)
Sarah Crites (University of Hawaii)
Tenielle Gaither (Northern Arizona University)
Christine Jilly (University of Hawaii)
Myriam Lemelin (Université de Sherbrooke)
Margaret Rosenburg (California Institute of Technology)
Laura Seward (University of Central Florida)
Eugenie Song (University of Washington)
Joshua Snape (University College London)
Matthieu Talpe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kevin Thaisen (University of Tennessee)
Michael Veto (Arizona State University)
Matthew Wielicki (University of California Los Angeles)
Felicity Williams (Open University)
Emily Worsham (University of Maryland)
2014 Student Participants
Corwin Atwood-Stone (University of Arizona)
Aaron Boyd (Arizona State University)
Jessie Brown (University of New Brunswick)
Laura Corley (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Natalie Curran (University of Manchester)
Connor Davis (Western University)
Katrina Korman (Temple University)
Aviva Maine (Northern Arizona University)
Francesca McDonald (University of Manchester)
Stephanie Montalvo Delgado (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez)
Raquel Nuno (Arizona State University)
Seda Oezdemir (University of Vienna)
Kathryn Rathbun (University of Iowa)
Nisa Rhodes (University of Texas at El Paso)
Hannah Susorney (Johns Hopkins University)
David Weiss (Brown University)
2016 Student Participants
Samuele Boschi (Lund University)
Christy Caudill (University of Western Ontario)
Mitali Chandnani (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Nicholas DiFrancesco (Stony Brook University)
Shannon Hibbard (Temple University)
Kynan Hughson (University of California Los Angeles)
Mallory Kinczyk (North Carolina State University)
Audrey Martin (University of Tennessee)
Ellinor Martin (Lund University)
Mélissa Martinot (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Cameron McCarty (University of Tennessee)
Kathryn Powell (Washington University)
Adam Sarafian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Douglas Schaub (Stony Brook University)
Katherine Shirley (Stony Brook University)
2018 Student Participants
Lauren Angotti (Case Western Reserve University)
Michael Bouchard (Washington University in St. Louis)
Benjamin Byron (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Neeraja Chinchalkar (Auburn University)
Sietze De Graaff (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Thomas Déhais (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Lori Glaspie (Northern Arizona University)
Joshua Hedgepeth (University of Western Ontario)
Madison Hughes (Washington University in St. Louis)
Pim Kaskes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Jane MacArthur (University of Leicester)
Maree McGregor (University of New Brunswick)
Catherine Ross (University of Texas at Austin)
Kaitlyn Stacey (University of Texas at Dallas)
Stephanie Suarez (University of Houston)
Christina Verhagen (Rutgers University)
2022 Student Participants
Emily Bamber (University of Texas at Austin)
Alistair Blance (The Open University)
Jordan Bretzfelder (University of California Los Angeles)
Juliette Faucher (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Abigail Flom (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Katelyn Lehman Franco (Southern Methodist University)
Emma Harris (Imperial College London)
Elisha Jhoti (University of California Los Angeles)
Kristen Laferriere (Purdue University)
Anna Martin (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Melissa Meyer (Brown University)
Ian Pamerleau (Purdue University)
Anders Plan (Lund University)
Emily Roberts (Texas A&M University)
Sourabh Shubham (University of Maryland, College Park)
Karlis Slumba (University of Central Florida)
Natalie Zimmermann (Stony Brook University)
Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Exercises at Meteor Crater
2021 Student and Postdoctoral Participants
Jordan Bretzfelder (University of California, Los Angeles)
Frédéric Diotte (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Krystyna Doran (Rutgers University)
Katelyn Frizzell (Rutgers University)
Thomas Früh (University of Münster, Germany)
Aleksandra Gawronska (Miami University, Ohio)
Cosette Gilmour (York University, Canada)
Elise Michelle Harrington (University of Oslo)
Elisha Jhoti (University of California, Los Angeles)
Stefano Lannini Lelarge (University of Pisa, Italy)
Alissa Madera (Rutgers University)
Maree McGregor (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Aaron Morrison (University of Missouri)
Tyler Paladino (Idaho State University)
Ruby Patterson (University of Houston)
Leah Sacks (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Jahnavi Shah (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Tara Sweeney (University of Texas, El Paso)
Bennett Wilson (York University, Canada)
Bidgong Zhang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Short Course and Field School at the Sudbury Impact Structure
(Coordinated with the Canadian Lunar Research Network)
2012 Student and Postdoctoral Participants
Katherine Armstrong (Portland State University)
Marlene Bamberg (University of Potsdam)
Chloe Beddingfield (University of Tennessee)
Tenielle Gaither (Northern Arizona University)
Miriam Sharp (University of Maryland)
David Baker (Brown University)
Matthew Huber (University of Vienna)
Debra Hurwitz (USRA-LPI)
Steve Jaret (Stony Brook University)
Georgiana Kramer (USRA-LPI)
Yutaro Kuriyama (University of Tokyo)
Michael Lucas (University of Tennessee)
Cameron Mercer (Arizona State University)
Christopher Mount (Northern Arizona University)
Catherine Neish (NASA Goddard)
Lillian Ostrach (Arizona State University)
Ross Potter (USRA-LPI)
Andrew Ryan (Arizona State University)
Nicholas Swartz (Temple University)
Olivia Thomson (University of Puerto Rico)
Michael Veto (Arizona State University)
Matthew Wielicki (UCLA)
Shawn Wright (Auburn University)
Michael Zanetti (Washington University)
Plus another 8 Canadian student participants, for a total class size of 32.
2013 Student and Postdoctoral Participants
Nadja Drabon (Stanford University)
Amy Fagan (USRA-LPI)
Jenna Fleck (Johns Hopkins University)
Neva Fowler-Gerace (University of Toronto)
Alexandria Gaucher-Loksts (University of Ottawa)
Audrey Horne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Jane MacArthur (University College London)
Aviva Maine (Northern Arizona University)
Samantha Peel (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Jessica Pickett (Queen’s University)
Sarah Roberts (University of Notre Dame)
Lauren Schurmeier (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Jennifer Scully (University of California Los Angeles)
Joshua Snape (The Open University)
Vivian Sun (Brown University)
Kevin Thaisen (University of Minnesota-Duluth)
David Trang (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Nathan Williams (Arizona State University)
Plus another 13 Canadian student participants, for a total class size of 31.
2017 Student and Postdoctoral Participants
Michael Bouchard (Washington University in St. Louis)
Sietze Jan de Graaff (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Leticia De Marchi(Auburn University)
Scott Eckley (The University of Texas at Austin)
Sierra Ferguson (Arizona State University)
John Gemperline (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Madison Hughes (Washington University in St. Louis)
Carol Hundal (Wellesley College)
Pim Kaskes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Ari Hirsh Dickman Koeppel (The City College of New York)
Katrina Korman (Temple University)
Margaret Landis (University of Arizona)
Ebberly MacLagan (University of Alberta)
Xiaochen Mao (Washington University in St. Louis)
Martin Schmieder (USRA-LPI)
Kaitlyn Stacey (University of Texas at Dallas)
Jesse Tarnas (Brown University)
Plus another 14 Canadian student participants, for a total class size of 31.
Field Training and Research Program at the Zuni-Bandera Volcanic Field
2015 Student Participants
Jessica Ende (University of Tennessee)
Keenan Golder (University of Tennessee)
Jane MacAurther (University of Leicester)
Ryan Nickerson (Washington University)
Kirby Runyon (Johns Hopkins University)
Nicole Thomas (University of New Mexico)
Field Training and Research Program in the San Francisco Volcanic Field
2022 Student and Postdoctoral Participants
Thomas Barrett (USRA-LPI)
Megan Borel (University of Florida)
Nandita Kumari (Stony Brook University)
Rudi Lien (University of Oregon)
Kaushik Pradhan (University of Texas, El Paso)
Eleni Ravanis (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Sourabh Shubham (University of Maryland)
Divyareshimi Thottungal Ravy (University of Manchester)
Former Science, Exploration, and Education Team Members
Dr. Paul Abell (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Oleg Abramov (USGS-Flagstaff)
Dr. Carleton Allen (Johnson Space Center)
Ms. Jaclyn Allen (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Jacob Bleacher (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dr. Donald Bogard (Johnson Space Center and USRA-LPI)
Dr. David Draper (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Dean Eppler (Johnson Space Center)
Mr. Josh Hopkins (Lockheed Martin Company)
Dr. Friedrich Hörz (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Ellen Howell (Univ. Arizona)
Dr. John Jones (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Gary Lofgren (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. David McKay (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Wendell Mendell (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Clive Neal (University of Notre Dame)
Dr. Debra Needham (Marshall Space Flight Center)
Dr. Michael Nolan (Univ. Arizona)
Dr. Laurence Nyquist (Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Virgil (Buck) Sharpton (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Stephanie Shipp (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Jonathan Snow (University of Houston)
Dr. Paul Spudis (USRA-LPI)
Dr. Patrick A. Taylor (USRA-LPI)
Lunar Consortium for Higher Education
Dr. William Ambrose (University of Texas, Austin)
Ms. Miriam Barquero-Molina (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Alan Dutton (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Dr. Robert Gregory (Southern Methodist University)
Dr. Mark Helper (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Alison Henning (Rice University)
Dr. Jose Miguel Hurtado Jr. (University of Texas, El Paso)
Prof. Thomas Lapen (University of Houston)
Dr. John Lassiter (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University)
Dr. Alan Levander (Rice University)
Dr. Jung-Fu Lin (University of Texas, Austin)
Dr. Jingbo Louise Liu (Texas A&M University, Kingsville)
Dr. Megan Elwood Madden (University of Oklahoma)
Dr. Rhiannon Mayne (Texas Christian University)
Dr. Julia Smith Wellner (University of Houston)
Dr. David Sparks (Texas A&M University)
Dr. Roger Steinberg (Del Mar College, Corpus Christi)
Dr. Michael Tice (Texas A&M University)
Dr. Davin Wallace (Rice University)
Dr. James Whitford-Stark (Sul Ross State University, Alpine)
Space Flight Resource Management Training for Science Operations
Dr. Cherie Achilles (University of Maryland & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dr. Barbara A. Cohen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Ms. Angela Garcia (NASA Johnson Space Center)
Dr. Casey Honniball (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Prof. José Hurtado (University of Texas – El Paso)
Dr. Zachary R. Morse (Howard University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dr. Kirby Runyon (Johns Hopkins APL)
