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.