Curriculum Vitae

 

Shawn P. Wright

 

 

Address/Phone

 

Shawn Wright

Mars Space Flight Facility

Box 876305

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-6305

office: (480) 727-8928

fax: (480) 965-1787

email:    Shawn.P.Wright@asu.edu

            impact_craters@yahoo.com

 

           

Publications

 

S.P. Wright, P.R. Christensen, and T.G. Sharp, Thermal emission spectroscopy of shocked basalt from the Earth and Mars: A review plus new insights, Lun. Plan. Sci. Conf. XXXVII, #1786, 2006.

 

S.P. Wright, M.A. Vesconi, A. Gustin, K.K. Williams, A.C. Ocampo, and W.A. Cassidy, Revisiting the Campo del Cielo, Argentina crater field: A new data point from a natural laboratory of multiple low velocity, oblique impacts, Lun. Plan. Sci. Conf. XXXVII, #1102, 2006.

 

Wright, S.P. and M.S. Ramsey, Thermal infrared data analyses of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications for Mars spaceborne data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, J. Geophys. Res., 111(E1), doi:10.1029/2005JE002472, 2006.

Grant, J. A., et al., including S.P. Wright, Crater gradation in Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 111(E02S08), doi:10.1029/2005JE002465, 2006.

Tornabene, L.L., J.E. Moersch, G. Osinski, P. Lee, and S.P. Wright, Spaceborne visible and thermal infrared lithologic mapping of impact-exposed subsurface lithologies at the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic: Applications to Mars, Met. Plan. Sci., 40, 1835-1858, 2005.

 

Wright, S.P., W.H. Farrand, D. Rogers, and E. Merιnyi, The nature of the Mars Pathfinder "Black Rock" Lithology: Comparisons with SNC Meteorites and OMEGA spectral images of Chryse Planitia, AGU Fall Meeting, P21B-0145, 2005.

 

Ramsey, M.S. and S.P. Wright, Mapping stratigraphy from space: Analysis of thermal infrared data of impact crater ejecta on Mars and Earth from the THEMIS and ASTER instruments, AGU Fall Meeting, P24A-07 Invited, 2005.

 

Wright, S.P., J.L. Bandfield, P.R Christensen, and J.R. Johnson, Removing the shock from the thermal emission spectra of shocked terrestrial and martian basalts, AGU Fall Meeting, P11A-0954, 2004.

 

Wright, S.P., W.H. Farrand, H.E. Newsom, S. Misra, and V.L. Narasimham, Visible, near-, and thermal infrared spectroscopy of shocked and hydrothermally altered basalt from Lonar Crater, India: Implications for current and future Mars data sets, 2nd Conference on Early Mars, #8067, 2004.

 

Wright, S.P. and H.E. Newsom, Thermal infrared spectroscopy of basalt from Lonar Crater, India: Implications for the remote sensing of impact craters on Mars., 7th Mars Crater Consortium, #0709, 2004.

 

Wright, S.P., J.R. Johnson, and P.R. Christensen, Thermal emission spectra of impact glass and shocked Deccan basalt from Lonar Crater, India and implications for remote sensing of Mars, LPSC XXXV, #2072, 2004.

 

Ashley, J.W. and S.P. Wright, Iron oxidation products in martian ordinary chondrite finds as possible indicators of liquid water exposure at Mars Exploration Rover landing sites, LPSC XXXV, #1750, 2004.

 

Wright, S.P. and M.S. Ramsey, Thermal infrared remote sensing of terrestrial impact craters as analogs for Mars, 6th workshop of the Mars Crater Morphology Consortium, Flagstaff, Arizona, October 2003.

 

Wright, S.P., Thermal infrared data analysis of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications for Mars spaceborne data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, Ms. Sc. Thesis, 105 pp., University of Pittsburgh, August 2003.

 

Wright, S.P. and M.S. Ramsey, End member analyses of spaceborne thermal infrared data of Meteor Crater, Arizona and application to future Mars data sets, Solar System Remote Sensing Symposium, LPI Contribution No. 1129, Sept. 2002 (extended abstract).

 

Cassidy, W.A. and S.P. Wright, Small impact craters in Argentine loess: A step-up from modeling experiments, Bridging the Gap: Modeling vs. Observations, #8004, 2003.

 

Wright, S.P. and M.S. Ramsey, Spaceborne thermal infrared data analysis of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Analog for THEMIS data of a small impact crater in Syrtis Major, LPSC XXXIV, #1495, 2003.

 

 

Education

 

Arizona State University (Fall 2003 – present)

            Department of Geological Sciences

            Advisor: Philip R. Christensen

            Dissertation Research: Using laboratory instrumental analyses of terrestrial and martian basaltic impactites for insight into

                                                remote thermal infrared data of Mars from rovers and orbiters

           

University of Pittsburgh (Fall 2001 – Summer 2003)

            Department of Geology and Planetary Science

            Degree/Date: M.S. in August 2003

            Advisor: Dr. Michael S. Ramsey

            Thesis Title:      Thermal infrared data analysis of Meteor Crater, Arizona:

Implications for Mars spaceborne data from the

Thermal Emission Imaging System

 

Sul Ross State University (Fall 1998 – Fall 2000)

            Department of Earth and Physical Sciences

Degree/Date: B.S. in Geology, Chemistry Minor in December 2000.

            Advisor: Dr. James Whitford-Stark

 

Angelo State University (Fall 1996 – Spring 1998)

            Department of Physics, Department of Mathematics (A.A. Mathematics)

            Advisor: Dr. Mark Sonntag

 

Employment/Teaching Experience

 

Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University (Fall 2003 - present)

            Teaching Assistant,       Remote Sensing in Geology (Fall 2004)

Hydrogeology (Spring 2004)

Volcanology (Fall 2003)

                                                Subduction Zones (Fall 2003)

 

Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh

            Teaching Assistant for Freshman Planetary Science (Fall 2001 – Summer 2003)

 

Department of Earth and Physical Sciences, Sul Ross State University

            Teaching Assistant, Field Geology (Summer 2001)

            Laboratory Instructor for Freshman Geology (Fall 2000 – Spring 2001)

            Laboratory Instructor for Freshman Astronomy (Spring 1999 – Spring 2001)

            Planetarium Director (Spring 1999 – Spring 2001)

 

Department of Physics, Angelo State University

            Planetarium Assistant (Spring 1997 – Summer 1998)

 

Honors/Organizations

 

  • Lloyd M. Carr Memorial Scholarship (Fall 1997, Spring 1998)
  • Bill Winter Environmental Science Scholarship (Fall 1998, Spring 1999)
  • David M. Rohr Geology Scholarship (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
  • Texas Space Grant Consortium Scholarship (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)
  • American Southwest Conference All-Academic Baseball Team,

                  Sul Ross State University (Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001)

  • Member, Geological Society of America (2000 – present)
  • Member, Sigma Gamma Epsilon National Honor Society

                  for the Earth Sciences (1999 – present)

  • Treasurer, Sigma Gamma Epsilon Delta Rho Chapter (2000 – Spring 2001)
  • Member, The Meteoritical Society (2002 – present)
  • Member, American Geophysical Union (2002 – present)
  • Member, Geological Society of America, Planetary Sciences Division (2003 – present)
  • University Graduate Scholar scholarship, Arizona State University (Fall 2003 – Spring 2006)

 

 

  

Field Experience

 

  • Summer 2000: Completed Field Geology 3601 at Sul Ross State University: six weeks of completing seven geologic mapping exercises in the West Texan Chihuahuan Desert    [ http://www.sulross.edu/~geology/3601/fieldcamp.html ]
  • Summer 2001:  was a Teaching Assistant for the same course the following year
  • various field trips and mapping exercises for geology courses in and around the Davis Mountains and Permian Basin from 1998-2001
  • Summer 2002: Ground-truthing of thermal infrared satellite images of Meteor Crater, AZ rim and ejecta blanket
  • Fall 2003: Geologic mapping of paleobasins, source regions for Cherry Conglomerate, and Tertiary basalts near Cherry, Arizona
  • Summer 2004: Ejecta mapping of Meteor Crater, AZ for insight into ASTER VNIR and TIR data
  • January 2005: Geologic mapping and sample collection of shocked basalt and impact melts at Lonar Crater, India
  • August/September 2005: Fieldwork and magnetic gradient data collection to find buried iron meteorites at the Campo del Cielo, Argentina crater field
  • October 2005: Mapping a'a and pahoehoe lava flows in the Snake River Plain and Crater of the Moon, Idaho
  • January 2006: Geologic mapping of ejecta–pre-impact contact and shocked basalt sample collection at Lonar Crater, India

 

Computer Expertice

 

  • familiar with: C++, Pascal, Microsoft Office, GIS Pathfinder, ArcMap GIS
  • webmaster for Geology 0871 – Intelligent Life in the Universe (University of Pittsburgh)
  • webmaster for Geology 0870 - The Planets (University of Pittsburgh)
  • ESRI certified, January 19th, 2003.
  • Used ENVI, ERDAS Imagine, ArcView GIS, GPS Pathfinder Office software extensively
  • Currently learning UNIX, ISIS, Vanilla, Davinci

 

 

 

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