LPI Announces Planetary Science Interns
March 15, 2011
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is pleased to announce the arrival of the 2011 class of the LPI Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science. The LPI’s highly competitive intern program offers undergraduates the opportunity to experience cutting-edge research in lunar and planetary science, working one-on-one with scientists at the LPI and the NASA Johnson Space Center on a project of current interest in planetary science. This year’s program will run from June 6 through August 12. The students below were selected from an applicant pool of more than 250 students, and we welcome them to the Institute as they begin what promises to be a very rewarding summer!
For more information about the program, visit the summer intern webpage.
| Student: Rachel Barnett, University of New Mexico Advisors: John Jones and Dave Draper (JSC) Project: Parental Liquid Composition of the Martian Meteorite NWS6162 Shergottite |
Student: Kelly Nickodem, University of Notre Dame Advisors: Kevin Righter, Lisa Danielson and Cin-Ty Lee (JSC) Project: Core-Mantle Partitioning of Volatile Elements and the Origin of Volatiles in the Earth |
| Student: Kevin Michael Cannon, Queen’s University Advisor: Brad Sutter (JSC) Project: Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM) Instrument Data Base Development: Evaluating Evolved Gas Release Interactions from the Thermal Decomposition of Volatile Bearing Mineral Mixtures |
Student: Spenser Pantone, Weber State University Advisor: Paul Spudis (LPI) Project: The Mini-RF Experiment on the LRO Mission: Fully Polarimetric SAR Images of the Moon |
| Student: Mattias Pär Karl Ek, University of Gothenburg Advisor: David Mittlefehldt (JSC) Project: Investigation of Orthopyroxene Compositions in Diogenites |
Student: Kathryn Elizabeth Powell, Rice University Advisor: Pat McGovern (LPI) Project: Basin-Ringing Olivines on the Moon: What Are They and How Did They Get There? |
| Student: Julia Gorman, University of Rochester Advisors: Julianne Gross and Allan Treiman (LPI) Project: Discovery of Spinel Rich Rocks (Mg,Fe)Al2O4 on the Moon, Detected by the M3 Near-IR Mapping Spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft |
Student: Lee Saper, Brown University Advisors: Carlton Allen and Dorothy Oehler (JSC) Project: Landing Sites for Future Mars Missions |
| Student: Samantha Jacob, University of Hawaii at Manoa Advisors: Celestine Mercer and Allan Treiman (LPI) Project: Varying Degrees of Vesicularity in Agglutinates from Lunar Meteorites |
Student: Lillian Schaffer, University of Houston Advisor: David Kring (LPI) Project: Basin-Epoch Impact Melts from the Moon |
| Student: Erica Ruth Jawin, Mt. Holyoke College Advisor: Walter Kiefer (LPI) Project: The Relationship Between Radar Scattering and Surface Roughness at Lunar Volcanic Domes |
Student: Yifan Wang, Imperial College London Advisor: John Shebalin (JSC) Project: Modeling Spontaneous Magnetic Field Generation in Planetary Cores |
Last updated June 7, 2011
