Undergraduate Summer Interns

2009 Students

Laura Bayley

Lauren Hunkins

Publications:

Bayley, L., Parente, M., and Bishop, J. (2009) Multi-Resolution Color Segmentation of HiRISE Images at Mawrth Valles, Mars, NASA summer internship poster symposium, Ames Research Center.

Hunkins, L., Parente, M., and Bishop, J. (2009) Textural Features for HiRISE Image Classification, NASA summer internship poster symposium, Ames Research Center.

2008 Students

Alicia Muirhead

Elena Amador

Publications:

Muirhead A.C., Bishop J.L. & McKeown N.K. (2009) The VNIR spectral properties of iron oxide/oxyhidroxide mixtures and application to iron oxides in the Mawrth Vallis region of Mars. Lunar Planet Science Conf abs. # 1652.

Amador E.S., Bishop J.L., McKeown N.K., Parente M. & Clark J.T. (2009) Detection of Kaolinite at Mawrth Vallis, Mars: Analysis of Laboratory mixtures and development of remote sensing parameters. Lunar Planet Science Conf abs. # 2188.

McKeown, N. K., Bishop, J. L., Cuadros, J., Amador, E. & Silver, E. (2008) Characterization of phyllosilicate units at Mawrth Vallis: comparison of CRISM observations and intimate phyllosilicate mixtures. First Workshop on Martian Phyllosilicates: Recorders of Aqueous Processes, Paris, France, Abstract #7033.

2007 Students

Trevor Clark	Drew Honma
Nancy Garcia (with Nancy McKeown)	Heather Makarewicz

Publications:

Bishop J. L., Garcia N., Dyar M. D., Parente M., Murad E., Mancinelli R. L., Drief A., and Lane M. D. (2008) Maghemite as an astrobiology indicator on the Martian surface: Reduction of iron oxides by early organic compounds to generate magnetic phases, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 10, EGU2008-A-11557.

Clark J.T., L. B.J., Parente M., Brown A.J. & McKeown N.K. (2008) Constraining sulfate abundances on Mars using CRISM spectra and laboratory mixtures. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIX, abs. #1540.

Honma A., L. B.J., McKeown N.K., Brown A.J. & Parente M. (2008) Constraining phyllosilicate abundances on Mars using CRISM spectra and laboratory mixtures. Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIX, abs. #1457.

Makarewicz, H., Parente, M., and Bishop, J. (2008) Automated Gaussian and Lorentzian Modeling of CRISM spectra for Improved Detection of Minerals in Libya Montes, NASA summer internship poster symposium, Ames Research Center.