Isaac Smith
Graduate student seeking a PhD
Telephone: 512-471-0468
Office number: 2.254
Career goal: To become a professor and continue research in the Planetary Sciences.
Title of Thesis: Spiral Troughs of Mars: Formation, Evolution and Links to Climate from Subsurface Mapping and Process Modeling
Academic Supervisor: Dr. Jack Holt
UTIG Supervisor: Dr. Jack Holt
Prior Education:
M.S., Physics, University of Missouri - St. Louis
B.S., Physics, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
Publications:
Phillips, R. J., B. J. Davis, ---, I. B. Smith, et al, Massive CO2 Ice Deposits Sequestered in the South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars, Science, Vol 332, p. 838-841, doi: 10.1126/science.1203091.
Smith, I.B. and J.W. Holt, 2010, Onset and Migration of Spiral Troughs on Mars Revealed by Orbital Radar, Nature, v. 465, p. 450-453, DOI: doi:10.1038/nature09049
Presentations:
I. B. Smith, J.W. Holt, SHARAD Radar investigations into the initiation of spiral troughs on Planum Boreum, Mars, Abst. P53F-03, 2010, presented at American Geophysical Union Conference December 2010, San Francisco California
I. B. Smith, J.W. Holt, and R.J. Phillips, New Insights into Spiral Trough Migration on the Northern Polar Layered Deposits from SHARAD Observations, Abst. P13B-1278, presented at American Geophysical Union Conference December 2010, San Francisco California
I. B. Smith, J. W. Holt, D. Mohrig, W. Kim, P. Choudary, Quantitative Radar Stratigraphy of the Uppermost North Polar Layered Deposits, Mars, and Processes Controlling Spiral Trough Migration, #2431, presented at LPSC 2010, Houston, TX.
I. B. Smith, J. W. Holt, S. W. Christian, A. Safaeinili, Evidence for spiral trough migration and evolution from SHARAD Radar observations of stratigraphy within the northern polar layered deposits, Mars, presented at LPSC 2009, Houston, TX.
I. B. Smith, J. W. Holt, New Insights into Spiral Trough Migration on the Northern Polar Layered Deposits from SHARAD, presented at SHARAD Science Team meeting, Rome, Italy, September 2009
I. B. Smith, J. W. Holt, Evidence for spiral trough migration on the northern polar layered deposits, Mars, presented at ISSI 2009, Bern, Switzerland.
Awards:
Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Student Paper Award (Graduate Poster) at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2012
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, 2010 -
AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Paper Award, Fall 2009
Gail White Fellowship, Fall 2008
About Isaac:
Isaac is interested in planetary sciences and currently works with Dr. Jack Holt by studying morphology of the northern ice sheet on Mars.
He participated in the 2008-2009 ICECAP Antarctic Field campaign in
hopes of finding analogs between terrestrial ice sheets and those
found on Mars.