John Spencer's Research Page

Vita

Publications: Publication list, recent preprints, etc.

My PhD Dissertation: The Surfaces of Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto: An Investigation using Voyager IRIS Thermal Infrared Spectra. U. Arizona, 1987. Full text and figures are available here.

Selected PowerPoint presentations describing my research

My 1-D thermophysical model, written in IDL, now downloadable for public use.

Research Projects

• June 2005 Io Volcano Workshop, Boulder
  

• Io studies, from the ground and HST. Leader, International Jupiter Watch Satellite Discipline, 1993-2000.
  
  
• Condensed O2 in the Solar System
  
  
• Thermal and volatile modeling.

• Co-I and Deputy Geology/Geophysics Imaging Node Leader, New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. I talk about the mission on the Pluto Portal Web site. I'm also working on finding KBO flyby targets for New Horizons

• Science team associate, Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) on the Cassini spacecraft, with responsibility for thermal observations of the icy Saturnian satellites.

• Through 2002: Co-I, Photopolarimeter/Radiometer on the Galileo spacecraft, with responsibility for thermal observations of the Galilean satellites.

• Mid 1990's: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact with Jupiter.
  
  

Miscellania

IRTF filter housing info, for Ralph and Jim.

How to write CD-ROMs with long file names