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Dr. Devon Burr
Devon M. Burr
Principal Investigator
SETI Institute
515 N Whisman Rd
Mountain View , CA 94043
(650)810-0212
dburr@seti.org
Education
Ph.D. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (2003)
major: Geosciences (advisor: Victor Baker)
minor: Planetary Sciences (advisor: Alfred McEwen)
M.S. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. (1998)
Geology
M.A. St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM. (1996)
Liberal Arts
B.S. United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. (1989)
Political Science Honors Program
Employment History
Principal Investigator (Aug. 2005 – present)
Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute
Eugene M. Shoemaker Fellow (Feb. 2003 – Mar. 2005)
Astrogeology Branch, U.S. Geological Survey
Research and Teaching Assistant (1998-2000)
Departments of Geosciences and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
Graduate Research Assistant (1994-1995)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, NIS-1 ( supervisor: Jane Nordholt)
United States Naval Officer (1989-1994)
Meteorology/Oceanography specialty
Awards
Graduate Student Researcher Program fellowship (2000-2003)
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Best Student Presentation at the Geosciences Department Symposium (Apr. 2002)
University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Fulbright fellowship, (Jan. 2001-Aug. 2001)
National Energy Authority, Reykjavik, Iceland
Outstanding Student Paper (Planetary Sciences Division) (May, 2000)
Spring meeting, American Geophysical Union
Institute for the Study of Planet Earth graduate student grant (2000)
Graduate Student Summer Program (Summer, 1997)
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Iowa Fellow
University of Iowa , Iowa City, IA (Aug. 1996 - May 1998)
Distinguished Graduate; member of various honor societies (May, 1989)
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Academy Exchange Scholar (Aug – Dec., 1987)
United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT
Scientific Service
Panel and external reviewer for various NASA review panels (Mars Data Analysis Program, Mars Fundamental Research Program, Planetary Geology and Geophysics)
Conference session convener (AGU Fall Meetings 2002, 2006; Lunar and Planetary Science Conferences 2004, 2006)
Reviewer for various scientific journals (Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets,
Geophysical Research Letters, Icarus, Remote Sensing of the Environment, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing) and a scientific book publisher (Cambridge University Press)
Mentor for undergraduate student volunteers (2004-5) and for REU summer student (2006)
Publications