Ryan B. Anderson
Graduate Student
Cornell University Department of Astronomy
406 Space Sciences Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-6801
Cell: (734) 657-8085; email: rba9@cornell.edu
Education:
Ph.D.: 2011, Cornell University; Astronomy & Space Sciences – Planetary Science
M.S.: 2009, Cornell University; Astronomy & Space Sciences – Planetary Science
B.S.: 2006, University of Michigan; Honors Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Fellowships/Awards:
2008-2011 – NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellow
2008 – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship – Honorable Mention
Spring 2007 – Cornell Astronomy Dept. Patten Fellow
Fall 2006 – NASA Space Grant Fellow
Research Experience:
• 2008 – 2009 – Detailed geologic and thermophysical unit mapping of the Gale crater Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) landing site; Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) of planetary surface analogs to support the ChemCam instrument on MSL
• 2008 – Developed tools to search for, calibrate, map-project and mosaic MARCI images; Compiled data used by the MSL camera team at the 3rd MSL Landing Site Workshop
• 2007 – Developed tools to generate OMEGA mineral composition maps of Mars, studied potential landing sites for Mars Science Laboratory, studied hydrated minerals in N. Meridiani
• 2006 – NASA Academy – Goddard Space Flight Center: Extracting Oxygen from Lunar Regolith via Vacuum Pyrolysis
• 2006 – NASA Academy – Goddard Space Flight Center: Trajectory and Mission Architecture for Enceladus Mission Concept Study
• 2005-2006 – U. Michigan: Simulation of a Low-Resource Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatograph Instrument with Planetary Science Applications
• 2005 – Lunar and Planetary Institute: Determination of Fill Thickness in Ancient Martian Impact Basins
• 2004 – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Mapping Molecular Clouds Using Spitzer’s Infrared Array Camera
• 2003 – U. Michigan: High Resolution Spectroscopy of a Flare on Barnard’s Star
Recent Professional Activities:
MER Operations: Pancam Payload Downlink Lead – 2007 – Present
Poster presentation at fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union – December 15-19, 2008
Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) teaching workshop October 16 & 17, 2008
American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Meeting – October 10-15, 2008
3rd Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Selection Meeting – September 15-17, 2008
MSL camera team meeting – September 13 & 14, 2008
NASA Planetary Volcanology Field Workshop: Big Island, Hawaii – July 26 – August 2, 2008
Field work at Mars Analog locations: Great Sand Dunes National Park (June 12 & 13), Bissett Mine tailings, Gypsumville, East German Creek, Mafekang Quarry – Manitoba, Canada (June 14-18)
MRO MARCI/CTX team meeting – June 9 & 10, 2008
Oral presentation at 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) – March 10-14, 2008
2nd Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Selection Meeting – October 23-25, 2007
7th International Conference on Mars – July 9-13, 2007
Presented Enceladus Mission Concept Report to the Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) – Nov 8, 2006
Enceladus Focus Group and American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Meeting – October 7-13, 2006
Poster Presentation at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) – March 13-17, 2006
Poster Presentation at AAS Conference – January 8-13, 2005
Recent Publications:
Anderson, R.B.; Bell, J.F. III; Milliken, R.E., Geologic and Thermophysical Unit Mapping of the Proposed Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site and Traverse Path in Gale Crater, LPSC XXXX, 2009
Anderson, R.B.; Bell, J.F. III, Stratigraphy of Phyllosilicates and Sulfates in Northern Meridiani Planum, Mars, AGU Fall Meeting 2008
Bell, J.F. III; Anderson, R.B.; Kressler, K; Wolff,M.J.; Cantor, B., Color Mosaics and Multispectral Analyses of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Color Imager (MARCI) Observations, AGU Fall Meeting 2008
Anderson, R.B.; Bell, J.F. III, OMEGA Regional Maps of Hydrated Minerals in Northern Meridiani Planum, Mars, LPSC XXXIX, 2008
Anderson, R. B.; Kiefer, W. S.; Frey, H. V.; Roark, J. H., Morphometry of Large Martian Impact Structures and Implications for Resurfacing Processes on Mars, LPSC XXXVII, #2018, 2006
Paulson, D.B., Allred, J., Anderson, R.B., Cochran, W.D., Hawley, S.L. & Yelda, S. Optical Spectroscopy of a Flare on Barnard’s Star, ASP, 118, 840, pp. 227-235 (2006)
Anderson, R.B., Megeath, S.T., Meyers, P.C. Mapping Molecular Clouds Using Spitzer’s InfraRed Array Camera, AAS 205, #140.02, 12/2004.
