February 23, 2022
NASA has selected University of Chicago associate professor of geophysical sciences, Edwin Kite, to join the Mars Curiosity rover mission as a participating scientist. Kite, along with fourth-year Ph.D. student Sasha Warren, hopes to expand the rover science team’s understanding of climate history on Mars.
Kite and Warren will use their time gathering evidence of fractures, veins, and deformation features to distinguish between proposed explanations for water flow paths above and under the ground surface at the mound in the middle of Gale Crater that Curiosity is exploring.
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February 09, 2022
Cindy (Xi) Chen successfully defended her Ph.D thesis on January 10th titled “Tracing planetary differentiation processes using Zr and Hf isotopic variations”. Cindy’s committee was Nicolas Dauphas, Andrew Campbell, Andrew Davis, and Jacob Waldbauer.
What’s next for Dr. Chen? She will start a position as a research scientist in an analytical lab working for the pharmaceutical industry in North Carolina. Congrats again!
February 06, 2022
Associate Professor Edwin Kite and graduate student Sasha Warren will join the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover Science Team in April. Kite's work as a Participating Scientist will focus on linking rover observations with models of timing and flow of surface and subsurface waters. Both Kite and Warren will also contribute to daily operational work on the mission.