Projects

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JPL Planetary Science School 2020
JPL Press Article New Yorker Article LPSC 2021 Abstract AAS PSJ Paper

Other open source work

A Pythonic Wrapper for the SPICE Toolkit
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Frontier Development Lab AI Researcher: Flood prediction
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Numba implementation of 2012 Hapke Photometric Model

HSP mapping products advising

UNet to map Mars
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Ph.D. Dissertation at JHU (in progress)

NASA GSFC Summer 2013 Internship
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Undergraduate Research (2011-2014)

Recent Posts

As many open source developers recently found, Travis CI has stopped providing their service to the open-source community for free. …
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Today I have open-sourced ASAP-Stereo, which I developed to automate the Ames Stereo Pipeline and to make Digital Elevation Models …
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One of my favorite plugins for Google Chrome was the Planet View extension from Planet (formerly known as Planet Labs). This plugin …
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Using SpiceyPy to map the Curiosity rover (MSL). note: Here is a link to a gist jupter notebook of this tutorial In this post, I …
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Publications

The light-toned sedimentary layers that outcrop widely throughout Mars’ Southern Highlands have long been an enigma in uncovering the …
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Data returned from the Cassini–Huygens mission have strengthened Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, as an important target in the …
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The Neptune Odyssey mission concept is a Flagship-class orbiter and atmospheric probe to the Neptune–Triton system. This bold mission …
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In the mid-equatorial region of Arabia Terra, Mars, dozens of moderately-sized impact craters (10-100 km diameter) contain layered …
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Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

California Institute of Technology

Feb 2022 – Present Pasadena California
Mars 2020 Rover Science Team Collaborator, Mastcam-Z Postdoctoral Collaborator. Tactical Science Payload Uplink Lead (sPUL) for geology and multispectral targeting for Mastcam-Z.”
 
 
 
 
 

Attitude Control Student

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

May 2020 – Jul 2020 Remote
Attitude Control Student for JPL Planetary Science Summer School. See PSSS Project page above for more information.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

NASA Frontier Development Lab

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 Mountain View California
Disaster Prevention, Progress and Response (Floods), AI and domain science. Summer internship.
 
 
 
 
 

Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Sep 2016 – Jan 2022 Baltimore Maryland
Planetary Science Ph.D. candidate studying sedimentary deposits on Mars using high resolution remote sensing and topography data.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

CCRi

Jun 2014 – Aug 2016 Virginia
Software Developer on GeoMesa
 
 
 
 
 

NASA Summer Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 Maryland
Produced coverage reports and Maps of Titan by the Cassini CIRS instrument for end of mission science planning.
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate

The University of Virginia

Aug 2010 – May 2014 Charlottesville Virginia
Environmental Sciences B.Sc.

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