{"id":3090,"date":"2019-10-18T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?page_id=3090"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:41:43","slug":"accomplishments-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/accomplishments-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Accomplishments 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>December 2017<\/h3>\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"We had four students graduate on Friday, Dec 15, with undergraduate degrees:_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-1-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-1-panel\">\n            We had four students graduate on Friday, Dec 15, with undergraduate degrees:\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-1-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-1-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p><strong>Tyler Dawson<\/strong> (BS \u2014 Physics and Astronomy merged; also the CEFNS Outstanding Senior!); <strong>Andrew Deverse<\/strong> (BS in physics); <strong>Jaylyn Diaz<\/strong> (BSED \u2014 secondary education\/general science); and <strong>Matthew Mikulecky<\/strong> (Physics minor).<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Research Associate Michael Mommert has accepted a job offer_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-2-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-2-panel\">\n            Research Associate Michael Mommert has accepted a job offer\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-2-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-2-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>as tenure-track astronomer at Lowell Observatory, starting sometime this spring. Michael has been a postdoc\/research associate at NAU for 4.5 years, and we\u2019ll sure miss him, but he\u2019s really not moving all that far.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Chad Trujillo_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-3-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-3-panel\">\n            Chad Trujillo\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-3-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-3-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>and Scott Sheppard (Carnegie) helped to confirm the cometary nature of the faint comet C\/2017 U5 (PANSTARRS) as listed in Central Bureau Electronic Telegram 4458 (Dec 3): \u201cImages taken by C. Trujillo and S. S. Sheppard with the Blanco 4.0-m reflector at Cerro Tololo on Nov. 17.2 and 18.2 show an obvious tail extending some 11 arcseconds almost due west of the nuclear condensation (reported as an independent discovery).\u201d<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Dave Schultz (Vice President for Research at NAU, and a faculty member in our department)_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-4-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-4-panel\">\n            Dave Schultz (Vice President for Research at NAU, and a faculty member in our department)\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-4-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-4-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>tells us that he recently was awarded the 15th NASA grant of his career. He intends<br>\nto hire a postdoc (who will be resident in our department, I think) to work on this project. Sorry, we don\u2019t actually know the topic of this project \u2014 more in our next good news summary.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Christopher Edwards was a part of 8 abstracts_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-5-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-5-panel\">\n            Christopher Edwards was a part of 8 abstracts\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-5-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-5-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (held last week). <strong>Christopher Edwards<\/strong> gave a talk and his postdoc <strong>Kristen Bennett<\/strong> gave a poster.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher was also on a panel to discuss student involvement in research, specifically related to NASA, with Jim Green (NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division Director), Lindy Elkins-Tanton (ASU\/SESE Director), Lori Glaze (NASA Goddard Planetary Geology Division Director) and NASA Education experts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3>November 2017<\/h3>\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Mark Loeffler is first author_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-6-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-6-panel\">\n            Mark Loeffler is first author\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-6-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-6-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>on a paper titled: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0019103517304396?via%3Dihub\">Coloring Jupiter\u2019s Clouds: Radiolysis of Ammonium Hydrosulfide (NH4SH)<\/a>\u201d that has been accepted for publication in Icarus.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Mark Salvatore won a mug_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-7-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-7-panel\">\n            Mark Salvatore won a mug\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-7-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-7-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>for sending the 10,017th F2S message to a student in his class.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"David Trilling and Michael Mommert_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-8-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-8-panel\">\n            David Trilling and Michael Mommert\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-8-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-8-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>are named collaborators on a recently accepted proposal that is led by <strong>Chris Doughty<\/strong> in SICCS. The proposal is entitled \u201c<em>Testing methods to detect 3D vegetation structure on exoplanets<\/em>\u201d and was funded by NASA\u2019s Habitable Worlds program. <strong>Ty Robinson<\/strong> has since been recruited to participate in this project as well.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"David Trilling is leading his usual Spitzer team_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-9-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-9-panel\">\n            David Trilling is leading his usual Spitzer team\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-9-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-9-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>(including <strong>Michael Mommert<\/strong>) on a recently accepted proposal to observe the interstellar object 1I\/2017 U1 (\u2018Oumuamua) with the Spitzer Space Telescope. Observations will be made next Monday\/Tuesday\/Wednesday (Nov. 20-22).<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Astronomy graduate students, Annika Gustaffson, Aaron Weintraub, and Colin Chandler,_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-10-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-10-panel\">\n            Astronomy graduate students, Annika Gustaffson, Aaron Weintraub, and Colin Chandler,\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-10-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-10-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>each submitted a proposal to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The proposals contained original research ideas, and were exceptionally well written. Also, a number of physics and astronomy faculty helped to improve these proposals by participating in a series of mock review panels. This whole process was led by <strong>Ty Robinson<\/strong>.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Ty Robinson had a NASA Exoplanets Research Program proposal funded._0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-11-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-11-panel\">\n            Ty Robinson had a NASA Exoplanets Research Program proposal funded.\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-11-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-11-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>The grant will fund research at NAU, UC Santa Cruz, and at NASA Ames Research Center. Studies will focus on modeling the atmospheres and spectra of super-Earth and mini-Neptune exoplanets, and understanding how future NASA missions might be able to study these curious types of worlds.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Ty Robinson also had a paper accepted by The Astrophysical Journal._0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-12-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-12-panel\">\n            Ty Robinson also had a paper accepted by The Astrophysical Journal.\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-12-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-12-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>This manuscript develops physical, analytic descriptions of how refraction and forward scattering impact exoplanet transit observations.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"David Trilling, Ty Robinson, Alissa Roegge, Colin Chandler, Nathan Smith, Mark Loeffler, Chad Trujillo, Lori Glaspie, and Samuel Navarro-Meza_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-13-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-13-panel\">\n            David Trilling, Ty Robinson, Alissa Roegge, Colin Chandler, Nathan Smith, Mark Loeffler, Chad Trujillo, Lori Glaspie, and Samuel Navarro-Meza\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-13-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-13-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>spent an hour with the white board during an \u201castrocookies\u201d gathering to work on what could be learned from interstellar object \u2018Oumuamua. Less than a week later the paper was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters, and it was accepted a few days later; it is now in press.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"John Gibbs, Amir Nourhani and collaborators published_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-14-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-14-panel\">\n            John Gibbs, Amir Nourhani and collaborators published\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-14-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-14-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>a communication in <em>Advanced Materials entitled, <\/em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.201703910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engineering Contactless Particle-Particle Interactions in Active Microswimmers<\/a>\u201c.\u00a0 Other authors were Daniel Brown and Nicholas Pletzer.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Postdoctoral Scholar, Michael Mommert,_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-15-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-15-panel\">\n            Postdoctoral Scholar, Michael Mommert,\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-15-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-15-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>had his proposal \u201cA Python package for small body planetary astronomy\u201d was selected for funding by NASA\u2019s PDART program.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"David Trilling\u2019s face is on the cover of \u201cPine\u201d_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-16-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-16-panel\">\n            David Trilling\u2019s face is on the cover of \u201cPine\u201d\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-16-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-16-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>NAU\u2019s newly-reinstated alumni magazine, and our astronomy department\u00a0is prominently featured inside.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Etude O\u2019Neel-Judy gave an invited talk at the Rice University_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-17-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-17-panel\">\n            Etude O\u2019Neel-Judy gave an invited talk at the Rice University\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-17-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-17-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>physics undergraduate symposium. This is clearly Rice recruiting him to come there for graduate school. Etude won an award for the best theory talk at that undergraduate research symposium.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Lisa Chien writes:_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-18-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-18-panel\">\n            Lisa Chien writes:\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-18-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-18-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>\u201cYesterday after my PHY161 class, a student came up and told me that he just switched his major from computer science to physics, because he loves my class and is very inspired to learn about physics! He then spent another half hour asking me about our department, tips for being a successful physics major, and what PhD in physics\/astronomy is like. That was the highlight of my day!\u201d<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Christopher Edwards writes:_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-19-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-19-panel\">\n            Christopher Edwards writes:\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-19-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-19-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>\u201cThe OREX PSP [Participating Scientist Program] I was on as a Collaborator was selected. This means (based on our reading of the rules) that I\u2019m officially a OSIRIS-REx team member subject to their rules of the road (with no money of course).\u201d<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Postdoctoral Scholar, Maggie McAdam,_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-20-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-20-panel\">\n            Postdoctoral Scholar, Maggie McAdam,\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-20-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-20-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>is a CoI on a newly selected SOFIA program entitled \u201c<em>Determining the Mineralogical Evolution of Asteroid (145) Adeona through Degree of Aqueous Alteration to Support Dawn Extended Mission<\/em>\u201d<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"John Gibbs writes:_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-21-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-21-panel\">\n            John Gibbs writes:\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-21-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-21-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>I had another paper accepted today in the <strong>New Journal of Physics<\/strong> with my former colleague in Germany<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Dave Koerner flew on SOFIA_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-22-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-22-panel\">\n            Dave Koerner flew on SOFIA\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-22-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-22-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>a couple of weeks ago \u2014 ask him for the stories.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"This Washington Post Article_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-23-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-23-panel\">\n            This Washington Post Article\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-23-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-23-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>mentions <strong>Christopher Edwards<\/strong>\u2018 work. The article is primary about a new result that was recently published by <strong>Colin Dundas<\/strong>, who works at USGS here in Flagstaff and has been one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.nau.edu\/~reu\">REU<\/a> mentors.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Former undergraduate student Ryan Blackman_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-24-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-24-panel\">\n            Former undergraduate student Ryan Blackman\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-24-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-24-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>paid us a visit last week. He is now in his fourth year at Yale in their astronomy PhD program, and he\u2019s working on commissioning Debra Fischer\u2019s EXPRES instrument for the DCT. More importantly, Ryan was wearing **socks and shoes**. I guess he\u2019s all grown up.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Former masters student Kyle Pearson_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-25-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-25-panel\">\n            Former masters student Kyle Pearson\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-25-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-25-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>won the UA\/LPL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpl.arizona.edu\/news\/2017\/fall\/spring-2017-gta-award-kyle-pearson\">Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant award for Spring, 2017<\/a>.<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Christopher Edwards, Kristen Bennett, and former REU student Leah Sacks_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-26-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-26-panel\">\n            Christopher Edwards, Kristen Bennett, and former REU student Leah Sacks\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-26-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-26-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>have a paper about dunes on Mars, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1711.10699\">The Thermophysical Properties of the Bagnold Dunes, Mars: Ground-truthing Orbital Data<\/a>\u201c, (also with several USGS Flagstaff people).<br>\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-accordion -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-accordion shortcode-accordion--closed\" style=\"position: relative;\" >\n        <h4 class=\"shortcode-accordion__header\">\n        <button type=\"button\" class=\"shortcode-accordion__trigger\" data-header=\"Dave Koerner, and others, participated in the Navajo Bridget Star Party:_0\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-27-trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"shortcode-accordion-27-panel\">\n            Dave Koerner, and others, participated in the Navajo Bridget Star Party:\n            <span class=\"shortcode-accordion__header__arrow\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"shortcode-accordion__body\" id=\"shortcode-accordion-27-panel\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"shortcode-accordion-27-trigger\" inert>\n        <html><body>\n<p>\u201cThe Navajo Bridge Star Party was a great success! NAU had six telescopes there courtesy of Space grant\u2019s <strong>Kathleen Stigmon<\/strong>, <strong>Mary Lara<\/strong>, <strong>Ed Anderson<\/strong>, and volunteer astronomy majors. Lowell also participated. We also had a number of intrepid AST 201 students making the 2 hour drive in search of extra credit! The event was held at the northwestern border of the Navajo Reservation and had a lot of Navajo participation. Wonderful talks were given by Navajo speakers Sunny Dooley (on Coyote stories), Dr. Henry Fowler (on Navajo math and constellations in hogan construction and weaving) and David Begay (former AST 201 instructor on Navajo Astronomy). Coconino County Supervisor (and Navajo!) Lena Fowler was there as organizer and supporter. 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