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Bridge to Mars: Planetary Geophysics Lab Colorado School of Mines Department of Geophysics |
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Jeff Andrews-Hanna Assistant Professor Dept of Geophysics Green Center, Rm 280K Home News People Research Publications Opportunities Teaching Contact |
"If you want to gear the planets that revolve around the Sun, We'll do the job up nicely, and we'll only call it fun, And if you want a bridge to Mars, or a ten-foot shaft to hell, We're the engineers of a thousand years and we'll do the job right well!" (Colorado School of Mines "Fight" Song) 
Pictured (L-R): Yaser Kattoum, Dave Horvath, Jeff Andrews-Hanna, Ezgi Karsozen, and Brian Davis Welcome to the Planetary Geophysics Lab in the Department of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines. We focus on the study of the geology, geophysics, and geodynamics of the planets. Active areas of research include the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of Mars, Martian groundwater flow, the crustal structure of Mars and the Moon, and the structure of impact basins. I am in Green Center room 280K on the Colorado School of Mines campus. Please feel free to drop by and say hello! NOTE: Interested graduate and undergraduate students should contact me to discuss opportunities in planetary science at Mines, or check here for more information. TRAVEL SCHEDULE: No updates at this time.  Three puzzles and an enigma: Conjunction of the Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and the Colorado School of Mines "M" on December 1st, 2008. The Moon, Venus, and the moons of Jupiter represent some of the diverse questions in planetary geophysics. The "M" represents one question: What possessed a bunch of geologists and engineers to carry a ton of whitewashed stones up a mountain to build a giant glowing "M" 100 years ago? (Image credit: J. Andrews-Hanna) NEWS AND NOTES: 4/28/12 The first two installments of my Tolkien-esque trilogy of papers on the formation of Valles Marineris are now published in JGR-Planets. This trilogy has it all... a mountain of doom (Tharsis), a ring of power (the dichotomy), only the hobbits are missing. The formation of Valles Marineris - 1 The formation of Valles Marineris - 2 Stay tuned for the final installment... 4/20/12 Check out my paper with MIT student Junlun Li on the density of Mars' south polar layered deposits here 4/14/12 See my Early Mars Conference abstract with post-doc Alejandro Soto on the formation of the Gale Crater sedimentary deposit at the MSL landing site here 4/11/12 See my comments in this Nature News article 4/8/12 See my LPSC talk highlighted on the AGU Blog here 2/6/12 Check out the 2012 LPSC abstracts by our group: Climate and hydrology of the MSL landing site (J Andrews-Hanna) link Gravity anomalies of lunar basins (J Andrews-Hanna) link The South Tharsis Ridge Belt on Mars (E Karasozen) link Lunar basin ring structures seen in gravity (Y Kattoum) link 12/17/11 Kelsey Zabrusky officially graduated today, becoming the first PGL alumnus. Undergrad researcher Ryan Isherwood also graduated. Congrats Kelsey and Ryan! 6/24/11 Big congratulations to PGL student Kelsey Zabrusky for winning the Dwornik award for best oral presentation at the 2011 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference! See her abstract here 5/23/11 Congratulations to PGL student Kelsey Zabrusky for her succesfull MS thesis defense today! 4/25/11 Congratulations to PGL student Brian Davis for placing 1st in the CSM Graduate Research Fair poster competition! 4/25/11 Check out the paper in Science Express by Roger Phillips and co-authored by Brian Davis on the discovery of a vast reservoir of CO2 ice buried in the south polar layered deposits of Mars. For more news and notes from our group, check out the News page. |