A Graduation Celebration!
It’s May, so that means many planetary science graduate students are donning caps and gowns. Let’s take a moment to pause and congratulate all of the women who’ve earned a Master’s or Ph.D. in Planetary Science (or a related field) this academic year. Graduates, well done! We at the Women in Planetary Science blog salute you!
Here are some of the graduates for the 2010-2011 academic year. If you aren’t listed, we apologize! Please add your name, degree received and date, institution, and title of your thesis/dissertation as a comment to this post. To all graduates: feel free to provide a comment about what you’ll be doing next.
Again, congratulations to all the planetary science MS and Ph.D. graduates!!!
- Kristin Block, MS in Planetary Sciences, 2011, U. of Arizona. “Fulgurite Classification, Petrology and Implications for Planetary Processes.”
- Stephanie M. Brown, MS in Earth and Planetary Science, 2011, MIT. “An Experimental Approach to Thermal and Solar Weathering of Mercury’s Crust.”
- Jennifer Buz, MS in Earth and Planetary Science, 2011, MIT. “Recent Lunar Magnetism.”
- Selby Cull, Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2010, Washington University.
- Abigail Fraeman, MA in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2011, Washington University. Awarded as part of Ph.D. track.
- Sarah Hӧrst, Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences, 2011, U. of Arizona. “Post-Cassini Investigations of Titan Atmospheric Chemistry.”
- Jennifer Meyer, Ph.D. in Planetary Science, 2011, MIT. “Tidal Heating and Tidal Evolution in the Solar System.”
- Margaret Root, MS in Geology, 2011, U. of Oklahoma. “The Effect of Obliquity Change on Gas Hydrate Stability Zones on Mars.”
- Erin Ryan, Ph.D. in Astrophysics, 2011, U. of Minnesota. “Asteroid Constraints on Planet and Planetesimal Formation in the Solar System.”
- Michelle Selvans, Ph.D. in Planetary Science, 2011, Caltech.
- Alessondra Springmann, MS in Earth and Planetary Science, 2011, MIT. “Terrestrial Magma Ocean Solidification and Formation of a Candidate D” Layer.”
- Jenny Suckale, Ph.D. in Planetary Science, 2011, MIT.
Congratulations, all! Hooray!
M.A. in Earth & Planetary Sciences, 2011, Johns Hopkins University
Awarded as part of Ph.D. track/advancement to candidacy
Congratulations everyone!
Laura Kerber, PhD in Geological Sciences, 2011, Brown University. “The Dispersal of Pyroclastic Ash on Mercury and Mars.”
Maitrayee Bose, PhD in Physics, 2011, Washington University in St. Louis. The title of my thesis is “Isotopic and Elemental Compositions of Stardust and Protosolar dust grains in Primitive Meteorites”.
Christina R. Richey, PhD in Physics (In Astro- and Solar-System Physics Lab), 2011, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Ices Under Conditions Relevant to Interstellar and Planetary Environments.”
Awesome, Christina! Congratulations!