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Email: mcguire@geosci.uchicago.edu
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Department of the Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago

Work:

Current Work:

Previously, I worked in Bielefeld, Germany, where I built robots for the Earth, and in Madrid, Spain, where I built computer vision systems for Astrobiology. I moved to Saint Louis in 2005, and I was a Senior Research Fellow at the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. In Saint Louis, I worked on the CRISM hyperspectral imager on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, particularly on correcting CRISM's images and spectra for atmospheric effects; I also worked on landing site selection for the Phoenix Mars Lander 2007. Beginning in 2008, I have been in Berlin as a Humboldt Research Fellow for part of each year at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and at DLR-Berlin. In 2009, I moved to the University of Chicago. My current scientific interests include: climate science, methane hydrates, ice & hydration spectroscopy, martian polar regions, as well as computer vision & robotics.
Results From Current Workgroups (2005-):
  • "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Updates"
  • "Gallery: Featured Images from MRO/CRISM"
  • "Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists", Wired, November 2009.
  • "The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Testing a Novelty-Detection Algorithm on Two Mobile Exploration Systems at Rivas Vaciamadrid in Spain and at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah", International Journal of Astrobiology (2009, accepted) open-access preprint version.
  • "New Evidence for a Magmatic Influence on the Origin of Valles Marineris, Mars", J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2009).
  • "Claritas Rise, Mars: Pre-Tharsis Magmatism?", J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2009).
  • "Testing the Cyborg Astrobiologist at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS), Utah", European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), Potsdam, Germany 13-18 September (May 2009, submitted).
  • "Phonecams may boost hunt for life on Mars", New Scientist, May 2009.
  • "Association of phyllosilicates and the inverted channel in Miyamoto crater, Mars", Geophysical Research Letters, (2009)
  • "An improvement to the volcano-scan algorithm for atmospheric correction of CRISM and OMEGA spectral data", Planetary and Space Science (2009). open access preprint version
  • "The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Teaching Computers to Find Uncommon or Novel Areas of Geological Scenery in Real-time", European Space Agency International Conference on Comparative Planetology: Venus - Earth - Mars ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, May 2009.
  • "MRO/CRISM Retrieval of Surface Lambert Albedos for Multispectral Mapping of Mars with DISORT-based Radiative Transfer Modeling: Phase 1 -- Using Historical Climatology...", Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, December 2008. open access preprint version
  • "Geomorphologic and Mineralogic Characterization of the Northern Plains of Mars at the Phoenix Mission Candidate Landing Sites", J. Geophysical Research, September 2008.
  • "Water 'widespread' on early Mars", work of the CRISM science team, in BBConline, July 2008
  • "Hydrated Silicate Minerals on Mars Observed by the CRISM Instrument on MRO", Nature, July 2008.
  • "CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 3", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.
  • "CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 2", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.
  • "CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 1", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.
  • "Undergraduate paves way for NASA Mars mission", Washington University Record profile of Tabatha Heet and her work with the Phoenix Mars Lander 2007 mission team, July 2007.
  • "CRISM Tracks Unearthly Processes on the Martian South Polar Cap ", MRO/CRISM press release, March 2007.
  • "The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Porting from a Wearable Computer to the Astrobiology Phone-cam", International Journal of Astrobiology (2007).
    • open access preprint version
  • "CRISM Uncovering Clues of Martian Surface Composition", MRO/CRISM press release, February 2007.
  • "Seasonal Frost on Mars, at Terra Sirenum", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2006.
  • "CRISM Opens Its Eyes", work of the CRISM & MRO teams, described in Astrobiology Magazine, October 2006.
  • "NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details Of Mars, Young And Old", NASA/JPL and APL press releases, October 2006.
  • "APL-Built Mineral-Mapping Imager Begins Mission at Mars With Cover Removed, CRISM Set to Take First Images", APL press release, September 2006.
  • "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Successfully Concludes Aerobraking", NASA/JPL press release, August 2006.
  • "Pace Quickens for NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars", NASA/JPL press release, June 2006.
  • "CRISM reaches the Red Planet", CRISM/APL press release, March 2006.
  • "Retrieval of Surface Lambert Albedos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM Data", LPSC'2006 (Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), League City, Texas (March 2006).
  • "CRISM joins Mars' Water Detectives", work of the CRISM & MRO teams, described in Astrobiology Magazine, August 2005.
  • Users' Manual for software for the Retrieval of Lambertian Albedos from CRISM Multispectral Data (password-protected site), May 2007.

    • Work-Related Links:

  • My one-page CV (PDF format)
  • My Resume (a shorter, easily-printable version of my CV, with publication list)
  • My CV
  • Selected Publications (Grouped by Research Field and by Refereed/Unrefereed Type)
  • Selected Publications (Grouped by Research Field)
  • All Publications (Grouped by Refereed/Unrefereed Type)
  • My Google/Scholar Web Hits, with some citation analysis
  • My Refereed Journal Articles at the Web of Knowledge , with some citation analysis
  • My http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints, with some citation analysis
  • History of Citations and Downloads of my http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints
  • My ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) papers, with some citation analysis
  • History of Citations and Downloads of my ADS papers, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu
  • My Entries in scopus.com
  • My Entries at eprintweb.org
  • My Entries in the Scientific Commons
  • My Entries in the Computer Science Bibliography Collection
  • Past & Upcoming Scientific Talks
  • TV & Radio & (e)Newspaper Coverage

    • Recent Work:

    In Spain, I worked on building cyborg vision systems for exploring the prairies, mountains, and deserts of the Earth, searching for interesting geological and biological features. See the Cyborg Astrobiologist's first results at a geological site (open-access preprint version) with such an interest-map exploration system. These vision systems will later be transplanted onto crawling, flying, digging and swimming robots to goto Mars and Jupiter's possibly-watery moon, Europa , in order to search for other-worldly life.

    In Bielefeld, I worked on building better vision systems for robots, with the Neuroinformatics group, led by Helge Ritter.

    Results From Recent Workgroups (2001-2007):

  • "Magnetometer survey of the proposed Sirente meteorite crater field, central Italy: Evidence for uplifted crater rims and buried meteorites", Meteoritics & Planetary Science (The Journal of the Meteoritical Society), 2007.
  • "Constraints on the Interactions between Dark Matter and Baryons from the X-ray Quantum Calorimetry Experiment", Physical Review D (2007).
  • "The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance", International Journal of Astrobiology (2005). open access preprint version
  • "AI developed for Mars explorers" in BBConline, June 2005.
  • "Space suits with geology skills built in", in New Scientist, June 2005.
  • "Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Cyborg Astrobiologist", interview with David Geer, May 2005.
  • "Ordenadores y algoritmos de visión: Un cibergeólogo para la exploración de Marte", in the Spanish Science Magazine, Investigacion y Ciencia, July 2005.
  • "The Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience", International Journal of Astrobiology (2004).open-access preprint version
  • "Rover data makes return a must", in BBConline, December 2004.
  • "Cyborg geologist explores Spain", in Nature News Online, November 2004.
  • "Gafas 'inteligentes' para explorar el suelo marciano", in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo about the Cyborg Astrobiologist research program, March 2004.
  • "Schäfere Sinne für Marsforscher", in the German newsmagazine Focus, February 2004.
  • "AI to help Martian exploration" in BBConline, February 2004.
  • Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System, ICINCO'2005 (International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics), Barcelona, Spain (September 2005).
  • Cyborg Systems as Platforms for Computer-Vision Algorithm-Development for Astrobiology, project summary and publications (2002- ).
  • Neural Architectures for Robot Intelligence, Reviews in the Neurosciences (2003)
  • Multi-Modal Human-Machine Communication for Instructing Robot Grasping Tasks , International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2002)
    • Recent Results From Previous Workgroups (my contributions were largely before 2001):
  • Efficient Simulation of Adaptive Optics Technologies for the Euro50 Telescope, Worskhop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Backaskog Castle, Sweden, Emerging Optoelectronic Applications. (2004).
  • Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Constraints on the Mid-Infrared Exozodiacal Dust Emission around Vega, Astrophysical Journal Letters (2004)
  • Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images With Large Telescope in Arizona, February 2003.
  • Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images (more pics), February 2003.
  • A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Proper Motion Search for Brown Dwarfs, Astronomical Journal (2002)
  • Threshold Disorder as a Source of  Diverse and Complex Behavior in Random Nets, Neural Networks (2002)

    • Non-Work:

  • My Sporting Endeavors
  • Pictures of the Steward Observatory Trombone Quartet at the 1999 Holiday Party (taken by Sharon Thomas)
  • Passion?
  • My Dad, Charles Robert McGuire, Jr.
  • www.explodingdog.com

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