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Carrie Anderson

NASA GSRP Fellow
Entered: 2000
Office: 101 Astronomy
Phone: (575)646-4438
Fax: (575)646-1602
 
E-mail: carrande
(append "@nmsu.edu")
 
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M.S.New Mexico State University,2003
B.S. Arizona State University, 2000

Research

My primary scientific interests are aerosol vertical structure within planetary atmospheres. My advisor is Dr. Nancy Chanover, however I am also working with Dr. Jim Murphy. I am currently involved in both a Titan and Mars project (both are part of my Ph.D. dissertation). I am interested in Titan's lower atmospheric haze structure, and in variations in the vertical extent of atmospheric dust on Mars.

Meetings

I have traveled to the annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) for the last five years, and presented posters each time. I presented my Titan work last November at the New Mexico Symposium, as well as at the NASA Harriet G. Jenkins technical symposium in June 2002.

Publications

Titan's Haze Structure in 1999 from Spatially Resolved Narrowband Imaging Surrounding the 0.94 micron Methane Window
Anderson, C.M., N.J. Chanover, C.P. McKay, P. Rannou, D.A. Glenar, J.J. Hillman, and W.E. Blass, 2004, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L17

Probing Titan's Lower Atmosphere with Acousto-Optic Tuning
Chanover, N.J., C.M. Anderson, C.P. McKay, P. Rannou, D.A. Glenar, J.J. Hillman, and W.E. Blass, 2003, Icarus, 163, 150-163

Ratio of sodium to potassium in the Mercury Exosphere
Potter, A.E., C.M. Anderson, R.M. Killen, and T.H. Morgan, 2002, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, NO.E6, 10.1029

I would like to acknowledge generous funding by the NASA Harriet G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship and the NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program.

Future Work

I defended my PhD Thesis, Aerosol Vertical Structure in Earth-Analog Atmospheres, on September 15, 2006. I have accepted a position at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a postdoctoral research fellow in the solar system exploration division, where I will continue to explore current problems in planetary atmospheres. My primary project is to utilize CIRS thermal infrared spectra on board the Cassini orbiter to explore Titan's global distribution of stratospheric aerosols and the tropospheric methane abundance, profile, and saturation state.