Publications

James W. Head, III, Professor of Geological Sciences
Planetary Geosciences Group

Papers:

Dickson, J. L., C. I. Fassett, and J. W. Head, Amazonian-Aged Valley Networks in a Climatic Microenvironment on Mars: Melting of Ice Deposits on the Interior of Lyot Crater, Geophysical Research Letters 36, L08201, DOI:10.1029/2009GL037472, 2009

Dickson, J. L., J. W. Head, D. R. Marchant; Kilometer-scale ice accumulation and glaciation in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars: Evidence for crater-filling events in the Late Amazonian at the Phlegra Montes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Special Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) Issue, in press, 2009. 

Fassett, C. I., J. L. Dickson, and J. W. Head, Small, young, glaciofluvial valleys and possible eskers on Mars, J. Geophys. Res., in review, 2009.

Head^, J. W., D. R. Marchant and M. A. Kreslavsky, Formation of gullies on Mars: Link to recent climate history and insolation microenvironments implicate surface water flow origin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:13258-13263, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803760105, 2008.

Head, J. W., D. R. Marchant, J. L. Dickson, A. M. Kress, and D. M. Baker, Northern Mid-Latitude Glaciation in the Amazonian Period of Mars: Criteria for the Recognition of Debris-Covered Glacier and Valley Glacier Landsystem Deposits in the 30^o-50^o N Latitude Band,  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Special Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) Issue, in press, 2009. 

Kadish, S. J. , N. G. Barlow, and J. W. Head, Latitude Dependence of Martian Pedestal Craters: Evidence for a Sublimation-Driven Formation Mechanism JGR-Planets 2008JE003318R, 2009.

Levy, J. S., J. W. Head and D. R. Marchant, Concentric crater fill in Utopia Planitia: History and interaction between glacial “brain terrain” and periglacial mantle processes, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.018, 2009.

Levy, J. S., J. W. Head, J. L. Dickson, C. I. Fassett, G. A. Morgan, and S. C. Schon, Identification of Gully Debris Flow Deposits in Protonilus Mensae, Mars: Characterization of a Water-Related, Energetic Gully-Forming Process, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Special Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) Issue, in press, 2009. 

Abstract:

Head, J. W., J. N. Huffman, A. S. Forsberg, D. M. Hurwitz, A. T. Basilevsky, M. A. Ivanov, J. L. Dickson and P. Senthil Kumar, Testing geoscience data visualization systems for geological mapping and training, European Planetary Science Congress, Sept 21-26, 2008, Münster, Germany,Vol. 3, EPSC2008-A-00432, 2008.

David H. Laidlaw, Professor of Computer Science

Daniel Keefe, Daniel Acevedo, Jadrian Miles, Fritz Drury, Sharon Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw. Scientific Sketching for Collaborative VR Visualization Design. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(4):835-847, July-August 2008. (pdf) (bibtex: Keefe-2008-SSF).

Joseph LaViola, Andrew Forsberg, David H. Laidlaw, and Andries van Dam. Virtual Reality-Based Interactive Scientific Visualization Environments. Springer-Verlag London Limited, pages 225-250, 2008. (pdf) (bibtex: LaViola-2008-VRB).