[Seds-announce] Announcing Canada's first Graduate Program in Planetary Science

[Melissa Battler]

Hello all, 

Please forward to any potentially interested students. This is a fantastic program, and our location at Western provides a really exciting environment to work in. Contact me (or Oz) for more info; details below. Note that we also have an excellent undergrad Planetary Science program.

Cheers!
Melissa

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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Departments of Earth
Sciences and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, it is
my pleasure to announce the new collaborative Graduate Program in Planetary
Science. We hope that this will be the first of many such programs in
Canada. Details of the program can be found here: http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/planetsci/grad_program.htm.
With over 20 faculty involved in the Planetary Science Research Group
(PSRG) at Western, there are many areas of study to choose from. Our focus is
on 6 main research fields:

Planetary
     Surfaces.Planetary
     Interiors.Planetary
     Atmospheres.Cosmochemistry.Astrobiology.
Planetary
     Dynamics/Astronomy.

 

Some specific available projects include:

·        
Earliest signs of life on
Earth and Mars, Supervisor: Dr. Neil R. Banerjee.
MSc or PhD. [neil.banerjee at uwo.ca]

·        
Spacecraft trajectory
analysis near Mars' small moon Phobos, Supervisor:
Dr. Paul Wiegert. MSc. [pwiegert at uwo.ca]

·        
Observational determination
of asteroid properties, Dr. Paul Wiegert. MSc and
PhD.

·        
Theoretical study of
meteoroid stream dynamics, Dr. Paul Wiegert. MSc
and PhD.

·        
Impact crater lakes on Earth
and Mars, Supervisor: Dr. Gordon Osinski. MSc or
PhD. [gosinski at uwo.ca]

·        
Isotopic dating and
microstructural analysis of impact processes and planetary evolution using
terrestrial and lunar samples. Supervisor: Dr. Des
Moser. [desmond.moser at uwo.ca]

·        
Impact cratering processes
on the Moon through the study of Lunar meteorites and terrestrial analogues, Supervisors: Dr. Gordon Osinski and Dr. Des Moser. MSc or PhD.
[gosinski at uwo.ca]

·        
Planetary atmospheres, with
emphasis on Earth's middle atmosphere using lidar (laser radar), Supervisor: R. J. Sica. MSc or PhD projects. [sica at uwo.ca]

 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions.

 





Best Regards,

Oz





 

Dr. Gordon "Oz" Osinski

Assistant Professor, Depts. of Earth Sciences, Physics & Astronomy

Deputy Director, Planetary Science Research Group

University of Western Ontario

1151 Richmond Street

London, ON, N6A 5B7

Tel: 1-(519)-661-4208 (office)

Tel: 1-(519)-437-9251 (cell)

Fax: 1-(519)-661-3198

E-mail: gosinski at uwo.ca

Website: http://www.uwo.ca/earth/people/faculty/osinski.html
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Melissa Battler, B.Sc Geology, M.Sc (in prog.)
Planetary Science Research Group
Outreach & Promotions
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada

web: http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/planetsci/

phone: 519-661-2111 x 87985
e-mail: mbattle at uwo.ca
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