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My geological research concerns thermal emission spectroscopy and its
potential for mineral identification. The minerals I am studying
include oxides, carbonates,
and sulfates, phosphates, and chlorides.
To learn more about thermal infrared (vibrational) spectroscopy and how
the ASU TES lab is gearing their research toward understanding the surface composition
of Mars, visit the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES)
Home Page.
The TES instrument is orbiting Mars aboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft
. 
Launch occurred on November 7, 1996. The spacecraft arrived at Mars on
September 11, 1997.
The THEMIS instrument is orbiting Mars aboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft . Launch occurred on April 7, 2001. The spacecraft arrived at Mars on October 23, 2001.
Here is a list of my publications.
Other Things In Which I'm Interested
My non-academic interests include Sports (like softball, soccer, and hang gliding) and Travel.
Miscellaneous Junk
All men dream; but not equally. Those that dream at night
in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that
it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men;
for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -Tennyson
All men dream; but not equally. Those that dream at night
in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that
it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men;
for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -Tennyson
- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges in it.
- If a hermit crab doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
- War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.