Education

REU Class of 2012

Jason Alonzo
Cal Poly Pomona
Mentor: Richard Quinn
Project: Preliminary Studies for the ORganices Exposure in Orbit (OREOcube) experiment on the International Space Station

Alex Baldwin
Cal Poly Pomona
Mentor: Jason Rowe
Project: Better, Cleaner, Faster: Code to tackle ATA data in real time

Aaron Castellanos
Cal Poly Pomona
Mentor: Gerry Harp
Project: Can You Hear Me Now? Improving the ATA from telescope observations through data collection and analysis

Heather Chilton
California State University, Fullerton
Mentor: Cynthia Phillips
Project: Temporal Contrast Changes in Dark Slope Streaks on Mars

Allyn Durbin
Villanova University
Mentor: Adrian Brown
Project: Simulating Snowfall: Water deposition on the martian northern ice cap

Rachel Harris
Wellesley College
Mentors: David Des Marais, Niki Parenteau
Project: Hot Tub Time Machine: A glimpse into early earth habitability with acidophilic purple non-sulfur bacteria

Rebecca Nakaba
Bennington College
Mentors: Friedemann Freund, Richard Dahlgren
Project: Mysterious Current: Refinement of Rock Stress Experiments previously conducted in August 2011

Abigail Nastan
The University of Montana, Missoula
Mentor: Nathalie Cabrol
Project: Linking Present Environmental Change on Earth to Rapid Climate Change on Mars at the Noachian / Hesperian Boundary: Implications for habitability

Sarah Peacock
University of Virginia
Mentor: Jean Chiar
Project: Growing Grains in the Perseus Star-Forming Region

Elyse Rankin-Gee
University of California, Los Angeles
Mentor: Oana Marcu
Project: Molecular and Biochemical Responses of Volvox Carteri to Oxidative Stress

Kathryn Steakley
University of Washington, Seattle
Mentor: Peter Jenniskens
Project: Meteor Showers of the February Sky

Ian Szumila
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mentors: Janice Bishop, Lori Fenton
Project: Differing Abundances of Gypsum in the Primary and Secondary Dunes of the Martian Dune Field Olympia Undae