Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Student Organization

AWARDS

Jennifer Scully: 2012 1st prize for oral presentation, “ The Geology of Vesta”, 5th Annual LA Basin Earth and Planetary Science Student Symposium, UCLA
Michael Lawson: Harold and Mayla Sullwold Scholarship for Academic Performance and Outstanding Original Research by a Ph.D. candidate, UCLA 2012
Elizabeth Palmer: California Space Grant, Summer 2012
Elizabeth Palmer: Earth & Space Science Department Scholarship, 2011-2012
Elizabeth Palmer:UCLA Chancellor's Prize, 2011-2012

Elizabeth Palmer: et al. "Radar Properties of Comets: Parametric Dielectric Modeling of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" (Icarus, 2012)
Jennifer Scully and Elizabeth Palmer: Reddy, V. et al. (2012) Delivery of dark material to Vesta via carbonaceous chondritic impacts. Icarus, 221, 544-559.
Jennifer Scully: Devevi et al. (2012) Pitted Terrain on Vesta and Implications for the Presence of Volatiles. Science, 338, 246.
Jennifer Scully: Buczkowski, D. L., et al. (2012) Large-scale troughs on Vesta: A signature of planetary tectonics. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18205.
Jennifer Scully: Russell, C. T., et al. (2012) Dawn at Vesta: Testing the Protoplanetary Paradigm, Science, 336, 6082, 684-686.

Pamler, Elizabeth. (2013) "Radar Characteristics of Vesta's Polar Regions using Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer and Bistatic Radar Observations by the Dawn Mission." AGU Talk.

Scully, Jennifer et al. (2012) "Potential transient liquid water flow features in fresh craters on Vesta." AGU Talk.
Scully, Jennifer et al. (2012) "Exploration of Saturnalia Fossa and associated structures in Vesta's northern hemisphere." GSA Talk.
Scully, Jennifer et al. (2012) "Exploration of Saturnalia Fossa and associated structures in Vesta's northern hemisphere." DPS Talk.

Lawson, Michael et al. (2013)"Assessing IRSL contributions to OSL signal contamination with the composition test in tectonic contexts", Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC).
Lawson, Michael et al. (2013) "Development of new chronological approaches for dating sediment using IRSL of K- Feldspar single grains" Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC).
Palmer, Elizabeth. LPSC 2013 (The Woodlands, TX). "Dielectric Properties of the Surface of Asteroid Vesta from Dawn VIR Thermal Observations."

Lawson, Michael et al. (2012) "Improvements to luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments deformed by earthquakes", American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Scully, Jennifer et al. (2012) "Potential transient liquid water flow features in fresh craters on Vesta". GSA Poster.
Palmer, Elizabeth. LPSC 2012 (The Woodlands, TX). "Exploring Surface and Subsurface Volatile Presence on Vesta Using a Bistatic Radar Experiment."
Palmer, Elizabeth. AGU 2012 Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA). "Constraining Ambiguities on Volatile Content in the Vestan Regolith through Dielectric Inversion."

Palmer, Elizabeth. AGU 2011 Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA). "Dielectric Modeling of Comet Nuclei and Asteroids: Implications for Rosetta and Dawn Radar Studies."