Nuclear Planetology

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Team Members

Name

Area of science expertise relevant to this project

Affiliation

Prof.
William Boynton

Team leader and member of nuclear experiments on Mars Odyssey, Messenger and LRO.

Areas of expertise: development of nuclear instruments, nuclear data analysis, physics and chemistry of soil of celestial bodies based on nuclear data (relevant to goals (1), (2) and (4))

University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Dr.
Johannes Brueckner

Team member of nuclear experiments on NEAR, Mars Pathfinder, MER, Mars Odyssey and Rosetta Lander

Areas of expertise: physics of X-ray and gamma-ray detection, nuclear data analysis and geochemical interpretation (relevant to goals (1), (2), (4) and (5))

Max Plank Institute fuer Chemie, Mainz, Germany

Dr.
Maxim Litvak

Team member of nuclear experiments on Mars Odyssey, LRO, MSL, BepiColombo and Phobos-Grunt.

Areas of expertise: development of nuclear instruments, neutron data deconvolution, estimation of seasonal deposition of carbon dioxide on the surface of Mars from neutron data (relevant to goals (1), (3) and (4))

Institute for Space Research, Moscow, Russia

Dr.
Igor Mitrofanov,
team coordinator

Team leader and member of nuclear experiments on Mars Odyssey, LRO, MSL, BepiColombo and Phobos-Grunt.

Areas of expertise: development of nuclear instruments, neutron data deconvolution, estimation of hydrogen content in the soil (relevant to goals (1), (2) and (3))

Institute for Space Research, Moscow, Russia

Prof.
Robert Reedy

Team member of nuclear experiments on Apollo, NEAR, Mars Odyssey and Selene, PI for cosmic-ray interactions

Areas of expertise: theoretical modeling of cosmic-ray-induced nuclear interactions in and emission from planets, accuracy of nuclear data, (relevant to goals (4), (5) and (6))

University of New Mexico, Albuqerque,USA

Prof.
Roald Sagdeev

Team member of nuclear experiment on LRO and Phobos-Grunt.

Areas of expertise: physical process and nuclear interactions in the surface of celestial bodies under bombardment by cosmic rays (relevant to goals (2) and (6))

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Dr.
Jack Trombka

Team member of nuclear experiments on Apollo, NEAR, Mars Odyssey, LRO.

Areas of expertise – analysis of surface composition from the nuclear data, systematic errors and biases of nuclear data deconvolution, methods of imaging in neutron and gamma-ray observations (relevant to goals (1), (2), and (3))

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

Dr.
Claude d’Uston

Team member of nuclear experiments on Mars Odyssey, MER, and Selene, Rosetta Lander, Phobos-Grunt.

Areas of expertise – physics of gamma-ray and neutron detectors, analysis of energy spectra of nuclear lines for estimation of content of elements in the soil (relevant to goals (1), (2), and (5))

CESR, Toulouse, France