Jim Bell's Research Group Department of Astronomy
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Jim Bell's Research Group Department of Astronomy
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Students, Postdocs, and Research Staff Members:
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Doctoral Students |
Year |
Thesis |
Current Affiliation |
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2011* |
Topic:
MSL Landing site assessment and laboratory calibration of LIBS spectra |
Cornell |
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2011* |
Topic:
Silica- and Sulfur-rich soils and alteration at the Spirit rover landing site |
Cornell |
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2010* |
Topic:
Mineralogy, morphology, and weathering of Martian N. Polar terrains |
Cornell |
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Jason
Soderblom |
2007 |
Properties
of Martian Soils, Rocks, and Atmospheric Dust Derived from Analysis of Hubble
Space Telescope and Mars Exploration Rover Data |
Univ.
Arizona |
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Tim
McConnochie |
2007 |
Observations
of the Martian Atmosphere: THEMIS-VIS Calibration, Mesopheric Clouds, and the
Polar Vortex |
NASA/GSFC |
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2004 |
Spectroscopic
Searches for Water-Alteration Products on Mars |
JPL/Caltech |
*Expected
Date of Graduation
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Postdocs |
Year* |
Research Area |
Current Affiliation |
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Kjartan
Kinch |
2006 |
Analysis
of Martian dust optical and radiative properties |
Copenhagen
University |
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2003 |
Development of
CONTOUR spectrometer calibration and analyis routines |
University of
Central Florida |
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Patrick
Martin |
1998 |
Analysis
of NEAR/NIS infrared spectra of Eros, and VIS-NIR spectra of Mars |
European
Space Astronomy Centre |
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1997 |
Acquisition
and analysis of IRTF near-IR spectral data of Mars |
Rowan
University |
*Last
year in group, if multiple years
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Research Staff |
Year* |
Research Area |
Current Affiliation |
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Emily
Dean |
2009 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead |
Cornell |
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Dale Theiling |
2009 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead |
Cornell |
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Jonathan
Joseph |
2009 |
Lead
Programmer for MER/Pancam data reduction,
calibration, and mosaicking |
Cornell |
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Chase
Million |
2007 |
Analysis
of Mars Odyssey/THEMIS and MRO/CTX and MARCI data sets |
GALEX
Science Center/Caltech |
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Dmitry
Savransky |
2006 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead, Payload Downlink Lead,
database dev. |
Graduate
Student, Princeton |
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Heather
Arneson |
2005 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead, Payload Downlink Lead,
downlink proc. |
Graduate
Student, U. Illinois |
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Miles
Johnson |
2005 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead, Payload Downlink Lead,
database dev. |
Graduate
Student, U. Illinois |
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Min
Hubbard |
2005 |
Analysis
of HST and ISO data; downlink processing of MER/Pancam
images |
GALEX
Science Center/Caltech |
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Jascha Sohl-Dickstein |
2005 |
MER/Pancam Payload Uplink Lead, Payload Downlink Lead, database
dev. |
Graduate
Student, UC Berkeley |
*Last
year in group, if multiple years
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Undergrads |
Year* |
Research
Topic |
Last
Known Affiliation |
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Nathan Williams ('12) |
2009 |
Worked on LRO tectonics targeting and Apollo
Pan/Metric image analysis |
Cornell |
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Shianne Beer ('08) |
2008 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Sarah Morrison ('10) |
2008 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Cornell |
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Lucy Ooi
('09) |
2008 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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James Teague ('09) |
2008 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Ashlee Wilkins ('10) |
2009 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Cornell |
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Nicholas Wirth ('10) |
2008 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Aaron Rubin ('08) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Janet Vertesi
(Ph.D., '08) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Postdoc, UC Irvine |
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Graham Anderson ('07) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Lisa Grossman ('08) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Science Journalist, New Scientist |
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Diego Saenz ('08) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Derek Schaeffer ('07) |
2007 |
Helped to develop data reduction and
processing pipelines for the MRO/MARCI and MRO/CTX instruments; Winner of the
Shelley Prize for outstanding undergraduate research in Astronomy in 2007 |
Graduate Student, UCLA |
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Alex Shapero
('06) |
2006 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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J.R. Skok
('07) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Graduate Student, Brown |
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Tom Ternquist
('08) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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William Versfelt ('07) |
2007 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Ben Holmes ('06) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Chase Million ('06) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
GALEX Science Center/Caltech |
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Adam Fischman
('06) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Alissa Friedman ('05) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Alex Hayes
('03) |
2005 |
Worked on MER/Pancam
and Mini-TES stereo processing pipeline |
Graduate Student, Caltech |
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Ben Herbert ('05) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Kelley Hess ('05) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Graduate Student, U. Wisconsin |
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Kristen Frazier ('07) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Peter Meakin
('07) |
2005 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Dmitry Savransky
('04) |
2004 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Alex Shih ('05) |
2004 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
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Stephanie Gil ('06) |
2004 |
Worked as a member of the
student MER/Pancam Calibration staff |
Graduate Student, MIT |
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Mike Shafer
('04) |
2003 |
Worked on Mars Odyssey/THEMIS computer system
and database |
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Ben Stiglitz ('06) |
2003 |
Worked on data processing software for Mars
Odyssey/THEMIS-VIS analysis |
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Salman Arif ('04) |
2003 |
Worked on testing of MER/Pancam
data compression software |
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Julia Sohnen ('04) |
2003 |
Worked on MER operations planning |
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Yong Shin
('04) |
2003 |
Analyzed Pancam
multispectral filter calibration measurements |
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Matt Siegler ('03) |
2003 |
Analyzed MER/Pancam
compression algorithms and performance |
Graduate Student, UCLA |
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Joshua Neubert ('03) |
2003 |
Analyzed HST multispectral images of Mars |
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Christopher Dodd ('01) |
2002 |
Worked on the analysis of NEAR/NIS imaging
spectroscopy data |
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Jason Neuswanger
('02) |
2001 |
Worked on the development of a new Department
of Astronomy web site |
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Rick Clinite
('03) |
2001 |
Worked on the calibration and analysis of
NEAR/NIS data |
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David Dror
('02) |
2001 |
Worked on calibration and
analysis of ISO/SWS Mars and Deimos data |
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Andrew Cunningham |
2000 |
REU, SUNY/Geneseo: Worked on Pancam mosaic software |
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Taqui Raza |
2000 |
Univ. Buffalo summer intern: Worked on HST and IRTF
data organization |
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Scott Southard ('99) |
2000 |
Worked on HST data
analysis and near-IR spectral analysis software |
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Ben Cichy
('00) |
1999 |
Worked on analysis of HST
imaging dataset, mapping routines |
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Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
('01) |
1999 |
Worked on development of Astro 101/102 lab web pages and HST mapping |
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley |
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Tim Glotch
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2000 |
SpaceGrant intern, Colgate U.: Worked on analysis of HST
spectroscopic data |
Professor, SUNY/Stony Brook |
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Patrick Spann ('02) |
1999 |
Worked on design and calibration of 2001
APEX/Pancam instrument |
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Jennifer Ward |
1999 |
SpaceGrant intern, Colgate U.: Worked on Analysis of Palomar asteroid data |
NASA/Ames Research Center |
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Elizabeth Hays ('99) |
1999 |
Worked on archiving and
organization of NEAR preflight calibration data |
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Richard Zentko ('99) |
1998 |
Worked on image processing
tools for IRTF Mars telescopic data |
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Robert Comstock |
1998 |
REU, Central Washington U.: Worked on Analysis of HST
near-IR data |
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*Last
year in group, if multiple years
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Jim Bell
Professor of Astronomy
Cornell University
Department of Astronomy
402 Space Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-6801
phone: 607-255-5911; fax: 607-255-5907
email: jfb8 at cornell.edu