An up-to-date publications list can be found at this NASA ADS library.
My group and I generally work on projects that require some element of remote-sensing data analysis and some modeling to pull additional information out of the data. We focus especially on high-resolution images and stereo topography. The past/present studies listed below are grouped into four areas, but it’s common for projects to span these categories as well as other adjacent areas of planetary science.
Ice Stability
Several of our investigations have focused on determining the locations of ice or modeling ice stability in environments ranging from the airless surfaces of the Moon and Ceres to the mid-latitudes and polar regions of Mars.
Mars Mid-latitude ice detection through ice-exposing impacts and crater/radar studies.
Double-PSR locations on the Moon.
Simulations of martian ground ice stability
Simulations of Cerean ground ice stability
Climate Records in Martian Ice
We look for climate modulated signals in polar and mid-latitude ice.
Wavelet analysis of ridges in Concentric Crater Fill, and the North Polar Layered Deposits.
SPLD internal stratigraphy
Trough migration paths in the North Polar Layered Deposits
Ice Flow
We assess the potential for flow or viscous deformation of ice to explain current surface features.
Hellas banded terrain
Relaxation of steep mars scarps
Relaxation of Ceres Cryovolcanoes
Flow of Glacier Like Features (GLFs) in the martian mid-latitues
Landscape Evolution
From the sublimation landscapes of the martian south pole to impact gardening of the lunar regolith. We investigate the physical processes that shape landscapes and simulate the evolution of those landscapes and geomorphologic features over time.
Thermal weathering of boulders in airless environments
Automated boulder counting on Mars
Fractal analysis of shorelines on Titan
Evolution of the CO2 landscape of Mars’ south pole
Simulations of thermoelastic stresses to explain martian polar avalanches