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Research Associate Professor, Geology & Geophysics
Professional Service
- NASA's Extraterrestrial Materials Group (exMAG) Meteorite Subcommittee.
Role: Collaborator.
Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) representative that collaborates with the Subcommittee, which makes findings on Antarctic meteorite recovery and curation, etc. and reports to NASA.
01/2021 - 01/2029
- NASA's Antarctic Meteorite Allocation Panel (AMAP).
Role: Panelist.
Appointed for three year service. AMAP makes findings about the allocation of requested samples and presents these to NASA.
01/2020 - 01/2024
Internal Service
- Assigned to various GG committees, such as Awards, Undergrad Affairs, Grad Affairs, Outreach.
committee member,
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022.
Department service.
- Academic Senator from career-line CMES .
Senator,
08/2020 - 05/2023.
University service.
Outreach
- Led a "Find the meteorites" activity for Clark Planetarium’s "Fly me to the Moon, 50 years since Apollo 17" celebration. The day at CP had over 1000 visitors.
12/10/2022 - present
- Gave a lecture to the Utah Astronomy Club entitled "Shooting stars and meteor over Utah".
10/12/2022 - present
- Presented a lecture titled "Shooting stars and the meteor over Utah" at the Clark Planetarium. About 60 people attended the lecture. Also did some suspect meteorite ID after the lecture.
10/08/2022 - present
- Had a table and presented a "Find the Meteorite" activity, as well as conversed with undergrads at the STEM Success Fair at SLCC Taylorsville.
09/08/2022 - present
- Presentations on the Antarctic Search for Meteorites plus "Find the meteorite" activity for the SLCC PACE program (Partnership for Accessing College Education).
06/10/2022 - present
- Presentation on the Antarctic Search for meteorites to Granite district HS seniors (excepted to the U).
03/22/2022 - present
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