Education

REU Class of 2009

Megan Bagley
University of Wyoming
Mentor: Jean Chiar
Project: Infrared Absorption by Silicates in the Dense Interstellar Medium

Sky Beard
Purdue University, IN
Mentor: Lori Fenton
Project: Determining Yardang Orientation on Mars

James Dillon
James Madison University, VA
Mentors: Richard Quinn, Cindy Taylor
Project: Perchlorate Salts in the Martian Surface Environment – A Re-examination of the 1976 Viking Biology Results

Lisa Genovese
Grand Valley State University, MI
Mentor: Peter Jenniskens
Project: Establishing Meteor Showers and a Search for Their Parent Bodies

Vicente Gonzaga
California State Polytechnic, Pomona
Mentors: Jill Tarter, William Barrott
Project: Measuring Radio Frequency Interference at the Allen Telescope Array

Anthony Harness
Florida Institute of Technology
Mentor: Uma Gorti
Project: Theoretical Modeling of the Gas Structure and Emission Lines of Protoplanetary Disks Around T Tauri Stars

Benjamin Ou-Yang
Cornell University, NY
Mentor: Rachel Mastrapa
Project: Ammonia on Enceladus

Doug Packard
Colgate University, NY
Mentor: Mark Showalter
Project: A New View of an Impact into Saturn’s F Ring

Kaysea Perry
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Mentor: Janice Bishop
Project: Mineralogy of the Libya Montes Region on Mars

Abigail Reiss
San Francisco State University
Mentor: Franck Marchis
Project: Visible-Wavelength Integrated Spectroscopy of Binary Asteroids

Donna Viola
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Mentors: Cynthia Phillips, Devon Burr
Project: Some Observations on Titan’s Fluvial Networks and Channel/Valley Delineation Using Cassini Radar Imagery

Mike Vo
Whittier College, CA
Mentor: Jennifer Blank
Project: Quantitative Determination of Amino Acid and Dipeptide Enatiomers by GC-MS

Bethany Wilcox
University of Colorado
Mentor: Gerry Harp
Project: A PiHI (4.462 GHz) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) on 94 Potentially Habitable Stars

Denise Wood
Iowa State University
Mentors: Jill Tarter, Jeff Scargle
Project: The Search for Signs of Star Tickling – ETI Induced Phase Modulations of Cepheid Variable Stars