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Isaac Smith, student

Isaac Smith
Graduate student seeking a PhD

Telephone: 512-471-0468
email: isaac@ig.utexas.edu

 

Isaac's CV

Career goal: To become a professor and continue research in the Planetary Sciences.

photo of Isaac Smith, graduate student

Subject of Thesis:
Involving ice morphology on the Northern Layered Deposits of Mars

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

Presentations:
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, Evidence for spiral trough migration on the northern polar layered deposits, Mars, presented at ISSI 2009, Bern, Switzerland.

Awards:
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.


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