Research topics:

  • Current cratering on Mars and the Moon
  • Seasonal and short-term variability of impact rates
  • Seismic detectability of impacts
  • Small crater morphology
  • Albedo effects around new impacts and landed missions
  • Secondary cratering statistics and chronology issues
  • Dust devil tracks: lifetimes and dust deposition rates on Mars
  • Dust mobility and albedo
  • Europa geology, cratering and mass wasting
  • Machine Learning-driven detection of geological features
  • Rockfalls and boulder tracks on Mars
  • Numerical modeling of impact crater formation
  • Impact cratering laboratory experiments
  • Cratering on small airless bodies/asteroids

People:

  • Postdoctoral researchers: Aleksandra Sokołowska (2023-present), Andrea Rajšić (2024-present)
  • Graduate student advisory committees: Fiona Nichols-Fleming (2019-2023), Matthew Jones (2021-2023), Alyssa Pascuzzo (2021), Meg Wilson (2021-2023), Melissa Meyer (2021-2022), Carol Hundal (2022), Janie Levin (2022-present), Riley Havel (2022-present), Marouchka Froment (external at IPGP, France; 2023), Julia Miller (2023-present)

  • Undergraduate researchers: Annabelle Gao (2020-2023), Daniel Wexler (2020-2022), Daniel Zhou (2021), Joseph Pate (2021-2022), Tyreese Bernard (2022), Ariyana Bonab (2023-present), Ian Haut (2023-2024), Sierra Khan (2024-present), (2024-present), Sahil Gupta (2024-present)

  • Undergraduate senior theses: Eashan Das (2021; reader), Annabelle Gao (2023; advisor)