HENRY B. THROOP Senior Research Scientist
Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St. Suite 400, Boulder, CO 80302
303 546 0032 / 303 546 9687 fax ·  http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ ~ throop ·  throop @ boulder.swri.edu
Birth: November 5, 1972   Hobart, Tasmania, Australia     Citizenship: USA / Australia (dual)

EDUCATION
  · Ph.D. University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences May 2000
           Thesis: Light Scattering and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Rings

           Advisors: L. W. Esposito, J. Bally
  · M.S., University of Colorado, Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences May 1997
  · B.A., Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Physics May 1994

           Budapest Technical University, Hungary, Spring 1993


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  · Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO June 2001-present

           Research Scientist; Senior Research Scientist

  · University of Arizona, Tucson December 2000 - June 2001

           Visiting Scholar

  · Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado May-December 2000

           Research Associate

  · Department of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Summer 2000

           Lecturer

  · Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado 1995-2000

           Research Assistant

  · Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO Spring 1998

           Science Writer

  · Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado 1996-1997

           Teaching Assistant, Scientific Consultant

  · Dept. Astrophysical, Planetary, & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado Fall 1994

           Teaching Assistant

  · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Summer 1994

           Research Assistant

  · Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Summer 1993

           Research Assistant

  · Grant Gale Observatory, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 1993-1994

           Research Assistant


PUBLICATIONS
  · Throop, H. B., and J. Bally 2005. Can photoevaporation trigger planetesimal formation? ApJ 623, L149-L152.
  · U. A. Dyudina, P. D. Sackett, D. D. R. Bayliss, A. D. Del Genio, C. C. Porco, H. B. Throop, H. C. Dones, and S. Seager 2005. Phase Light Curves for Extrasolar Jupiter and Saturn. ApJ 618, 973-986.
  · C. C. Porco, H. B. Throop, M. J. Pantazoupoulou, and T. J. J. Kehoe 2005. Light Scattering in Saturn's Rings, I: Basic Formulation, Ring Thickness, and the A Ring Azimuthal Asymmetry. To be submitted to Icarus.
  · Burns, J. A., D. P. Simonelli, M. R. Showalter, D. P. Hamilton, C. C. Porco, L. W. Esposito, and H. B. Throop 2004. Jupiter's Ring-Moon System. In Jupiter, Cambridge Univ. Press, 241-262.
  · Brooks, S. M, L. W. Esposito, M. R. Showalter, and H. B. Throop 2004. The Size Distribution of Jupiter's Main Ring from Galileo Imaging and Spectroscopy. Icarus, 170 35-57.
  · Throop, H. B., C. C. Porco, R. A. West, J. A. Burns, M. R. Showalter, and P. D. Nicholson 2003. The Jovian Rings: New Results Derived from Cassini, Galileo, Voyager, and Earth-based Observations. Icarus 172, 59-77.
  · C. C. Porco and 27 co-authors 2003. Cassini Imaging of Jupiter's Atmosphere, Satellites, and Rings. Science 299, 1541-1547.
  · Shuping, R. Y., J. Bally, M. Morris, and H. B. Throop 2002. Evidence for Grain Growth in the Protostellar Disks of Orion. ApJ 587, L109-L112
  · DeGioia-Eastwood, K., H. B. Throop, G. Walker, and K. M. Cudworth 2001. The star formation history of Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16. ApJ 549, 578-589.
  · Throop, H. B., J. Bally, L. W. Esposito, and M. J. McCaughrean 2000. Evidence for dust grain growth in young circumstellar disks. Science 292, 1686-1689.
  · Throop, H. B. and L. W. Esposito 1998. Photometry and Evolution of Saturn's G Ring. Icarus 131, 152-166.


INVITED TALKS
   · New Mexico State University Colloquium, 2005.
   · Nice Observatory, France, 2005.
   · `Physics of Dusty Planetary Rings' meeting, Berne, Switzerland, 2005.
   · `Formation and Detection of Planetary Systems' meeting, Aspen, CO, 2005.
   · Center for Star Formation Studies, NASA Ames Research Center, 2001.
   · Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, 2001.
   · Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2000.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & PRESENTATIONS
Approximately 40 talks at AAS, DPS, AGU, Astrobiology, and Gordon conferences.


FUNDING HISTORY

  · Volatile Evolution in Circumstellar Disks 2005

           NASA Exobiology $196K total / 3 years

  · Photo-evaporation and the Formation of Planetesimals 2005

           NASA Origins of Solar Systems $199K total / 3 years

  · Capability Development for Modeling Young Solar System Evolution 2004

           SWRI Internal R&D Program $115K

  · Photometry and Evolution of the Jovian Ring System 1999

           NASA Jupiter System Data Analysis Program $120K total / 2 years

           Throop scientific PI; Esposito institutional PI


OBSERVING PROGRAMS

  · Are There Large Dust Grains in Orion's Circumstellar Disks? 2001

           HST GO 9125, 10 orbits

$70K

  · The Structure and Kinematics of Irradiated Disks and Associated 1999

           High-Velocity Features in Orion (Co-I) HST GO 8324, 11 orbits

$70K



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