Shawn P. Wright

· Teaching Assistant, GLG 490/598 – Remote Sensing in Geology

· Teaching Assistant, GLG 470/598 – Hydrogeology

· Teaching Assistant, GLG 420/598 – Introductory Volcanology

· Teaching Assistant, GLG 490/598 – Subduction Zones

Curriculum Vitae - for mailing address, phone, publications, honors/organizations, etc.

NEW! Shawn recently joined the Impact Field Studies Group and the Mars Crater Consortium

NEW! Shawn is presiding this Mars: Inside and Out Poster session at AGU

Research Description:

My research concerns the remote sensing applications of impact craters and focuses on using remote, field, and laboratory thermal infrared data of impact crater materials (such as shocked lithologies, impact glasses, and impact melts) to better understand the surface composition of the terrestrial planets. Mars and basalt have been a recent, popular topic, but I prefer to travel to and study terrestrial craters as analogs for Mars. Previously, ASTER thermal infrared data of Meteor Crater, Arizona was used as a proxy for examining similar (small, simple, and well-preserved/”fresh”) impact craters on the surface of Mars with THEMIS thermal infrared (and visual and near infrared, if available) data. For more information, here is a link to the IVIS Project Page and my Master of Science thesis is now available here.

More details concerning recent research using Lonar Crater, India as a terrestrial analogue for Mars is coming soon.

Lonar Crater, India research links:

Fall 2004 AGU abstract on “removing the shock” from shocked shergottite Los Angeles

Early Mars abstract (pdf) on spectroscopy of Lonar Crater impactites

Mars Crater Consortium abstract (pdf) on thermal infrared spectroscopy of Lonar Crater impactites

Extended abstract (pdf) submitted for LPSC XXXV (March 2004)

Earlier/other Research Links:

Jim Ashley’s extended abstract about the implications for the analyses of Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites (OC’s) at the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) landing sites – Gusev Crater and Meridiani.

Extended abstract submitted for the 6^th Mars Crater Consortium workshop (October 2003)

Extended abstract submitted for oral presentation at LPSC XXXIV (2003)

Poster presented at the Mars Infrared Spectroscopy Workshop (June 4^th-6^th) at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, TX