Projects
I tend to have my hands in a little bit of everything these days!
My research projects usually involve highly varied methods of data and sample analysis.
Links to the available data for my past projects can be found here!
Interpreting Telescopic Observations of the Moon and Mercury
Postdoc Project
This is an ongoing project that aims to compare laboratory analogs for airless body surfaces with previously obtained telescopic observations. More will be coming on this soon!
Space Weathering on Carbon-Rich, Fe-Poor Materials: Coordinated Analyses via Infrared Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy
Dissertation Work
Relevance to Mercury and Carbonaceous Asteroids
This is an ongoing project utilizing simulated environment systems and Mercurian surface analogs. The VNIR+MIR spectra for this project are published here and the main findings from this work can be found in chapter 3 and 4 of my thesis.
The spectroscopy manuscript is published in the Planetary Science Journal, and the microscopy manuscript is almost ready for submission.
Morphological and Spectral Characterization of Lunar Regolith Breakdown due to Water Ice
Pre-Candidacy Work
This work is now published in the Planetary Science Journal! If you want to learn more about how water ice may be impacting the regolith in permanently shadowed regions on the Moon, check out the link to my paper and all the data and programs used to perform our analyses.
