Dr. Abigail Keebler has successfully defended her PhD, entitled “From Spectra to Mineralogy: a Remote Sensing Approach to Earth’s Desert Dust Source Regions”

Dr. Samantha Baker has successfully defended her PhD, entitled “Remote Sensing Aqueous Surface Processes on Planets Red and Blue: From Chemical Weathering Mineralogy on Mars to Water Temperature in Alaska’s Riverine Corridors”

Dr. Oak Kanine has successfully defended their PhD, entitled “A Tale of Two Craters: Reconstructing Mars Paleoenvironment Using Orbital and Rover Data at Endeavour and Jezero”

Dr. Sergio Parra has successfully defended his PhD, entitled “Location, Location, Location: Insights from Spatially-Resolved Microbial Habitation and Activity Patterns in Seep Carbonates at Santa Monica Basin, CA.”

Former graduate student, Dr. Ellen Leask, published a paper on a 2 billion year history of Terra Sirenum, Mars, in JGR Planets.

Former postdoc, Dr. Lucia Mandon, published a paper showing more oxidized minerals in part of the Jezero delta relative to the floor or later rocks in JGR Planets.

Graduate student Yu Yu Phua has published a paper showing the hydration state of sulfates and other minerals in Jezero crater and compared them with other regions of Mars in JGR Planets.

Jay Dickson aligned 86,000+ images to make a seamless 5 m/pixel image of Mars, described in Earth and Space Science.

Congratulations to Valeria Kachmar, Erin Pimentel, and Will Lawrence on receiving their Masters degrees today!

Postdoc Dr. Andrew Annex published a paper showing how lavas on Jezero crater’s floor followed topography set by sediments formed under earlier episodes of Lake Jezero, in Geophysical Research Letters.