Paul Withers

Journal Club Presentations

• Was the formation of a 20km diameter lunar crater observed in June, 1178 AD? Also a 4K PDF plan, 2000.
  660K PDF

• Longitudinal structure in the martian upper atmosphere as discovered by MGS, 1999.
  10K PDF

• Sodium in the lunar atmosphere, 1999.
  73K PDF

Class Papers As Undergraduate and Graduate Student

• Angle of repose-limited shapes of asteroids, 1999, Planetary Surfaces, Melosh. Also a 7K text prepaper.
  221K PDF

• Separating the effects of topography and composition in the Clementine UVVIS dataset, 1999, Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces, McEwen.
  1460K PDF

• Atmospheric escape processes and subsequent isotope fractionation, with emphasis on the D/H ratios of the terrestrial planets, 1998, Terrestrial Planets, Drake and Melosh.
  158K PDF

• Na and K in the lunar atmosphere, 1998, Terrestrial Planets, Drake and Melosh.
  48K PDF

• Thermodynamics and microphysics of clouds on Jupiter, 1998, Chemistry of the Solar System, Lewis.
  26K PDF

• Stratosphere-troposphere exchange of ozone observed by data assimilation, 1998, Part III project, Lary.
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• The stability of wave-like pulsar winds, 1997, Part III long vacation project performed at the Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Caltech as part of the SURF program, Melatos.
  208K PDF

• Laser guide stars for adaptive optics, 1997, Part II Literature Review, Haniff.
  58K PDF

Class Presentations As Graduate Student

• Our Ancestors, 2001, Lecture given in NATS 101, Lunine.
  12K HTML

• Notes and slides on The Effects of Volcanism on Climate, 2000, Volcanology, Kring.
  18K PDF notes and 3250K PDF slides

• Progress report on separating topographical and compositional information in the Clementine UVVIS data, 1999, Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces, McEwen.
  490K PDF

• Physical principles of remote sensing - Scattering techniques, 1999, Remote Sensing of Planetary Surfaces, McEwen.
  42K PDF

• Geochemistry of surface-atmosphere interactions on Venus, 1999, Physical Geochemistry, Ganguly.
  333K PDF

• Evolution of the D/H ratio on Venus, 1998, Terrestrial Planets, Drake and Melosh.
  7K PDF

Field Trips

• The San Andreas fault system, Southern California, Spring 2002
  325K PDF

• Playas and Pleistocene lakes, New Mexico, 2001.
  1.6M PDF and 120K and 160K gif figures.

• Putting the "Death" in Death Valley, Death Valley, 2000.
  292K PDF

• Economic geology of Death Valley, Death Valley, 2000.
  304K PDF

• Hydrothermal activity and travertine deposits in Valles Caldera, K/T Boundary, 2000.
  2019K PDF

• Uplift of the Colorado Plateau, Havasu Canyon, 1999.
  6K PDF

• Faults and folds on the Colorado Plateau, Canyonlands, 1999.
  7K PDF

• Cinder cones, Canyon de Chelly, 1998.
  67K PDF

Other

• Successful application for faculty position in Boston University Astronomy Department, 2010
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• Ranked in top 10% of ESA astronaut applicants in 2008, invited to next stage of screening, but unable to attend due to a travel conflict
  Initial decision
  Specific invitation
  ESA announcement 1
  ESA announcement 2

• Research Plan used when looking for a job after completion of my PhD, 2003
  11K PDF

• PhD Defence Talk on "Weather in the Martian Atmosphere - And Other Topics", 24th March, 2003
  1.9M PDF

• Talk given to the LPL Atmospheres Lunch Group on Upper Atmospheric Density Profiles, March 2003
  1.5M PDF

• Job application for Daly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard's Earth and Planetary Science Department, 2003 - rejected
  38K PDF

• Job application for Princeton/GFDL Postdoctoral Fellowship with John Wilson, 2002 - rejected
  30K PDF

• Job application for Harvard/SAO CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002 - rejected
  44K PDF and 43K PDF

• Job application for a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship with Michael Mendillo, 2002 - rejected
  52K PDF

• Job application for an NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Michael Allison, 2002 - withdrawn
  34K PDF and 537K PDF

• Job application for a Harvard Junior Fellowship, 2002 - rejected
  8K PDF

• Received University of Arizona's Kuiper Memorial Award, 2002
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• Entry in the Daily Telegraph's Young Science Writer of the Year contest, February 2002
  8K PDF

• Nomination letter for Meteoritical Society/Geological Society of America Planetary Sciences Best Student Paper Award, January 2002
  4K PDF

• Who wants to be Department Head? Script for one of the Christmas Skits at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 2001
  127K PDF

• Application for the University of Arizona College of Science Galileo Circle $5K Graduate Scholarship, 2001 - Winner!
  14K PDF

• French translation to satisfy LPL's foreign language requirement
  13K PDF

• Poster for Mars Odyssey Mars Orbit Insertion LPL Open Evening: Shallow Ridges in the Martian Northern Plains, 2001 October 24
  7M PDF

• Report to the Open University on Atmospheric Structure Reconstruction using the Beagle 2 Accelerometer, 2001
  639K PDF

• Presentation to the Open University on Atmospheric Structure Reconstruction using the Beagle 2 Accelerometer, 2001
  103K PDF

• Submission to Eos on Giordano Bruno - rejected as already published, June 2001
  9K PDF

• Presentation at a MOLA Team meeting, Brown, April 2001.
  1.3M PDF

• Graeme Waddington has some interesting comments on the text of Gervase of Canterbury relevant to the age of Giordano Bruno. This was posted on CCNet on 2001.03.28. I couldn't think of a better place on my webpages to put this.
  9K text

• Pete Lanagan thinks I'm too famous.
  17K PDF

• Application for University of Arizona's Herbert E. Carter Graduate Interdisciplinary Fellowship, January 2001 - rejected March 2001.
  Biographical sketch (5K text), Personal Statement (5K text), and Cover Letter (4K PDF)

• Presentation for orals exam at University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory - Understanding the martian upper atmosphere with the MGS Accelerometer, 2000.
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• Abstract for orals exam at University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory - Understanding the martian upper atmosphere with the MGS Accelerometer, 2000.
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• Abstract for orals exam at University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory - Meteor storm evidence against the recent formation of lunar crater Giordano Bruno, 2000.
  21K PDF

• Presentation at NASA GSFC Graduate Student Summer Program (GSSP) on enigmatic ridges in martian northern plains, 2000.
  8.5M PDF

• Funding proposal to NASA GSFC Graduate Student Summer Program (GSSP) on whether slopes on Mars were once flat, 2000 - accepted.
  9K PDF

• Entry in the Daily Telegraph's Young Science Writer of the Year contest, 2000 - highly commended.
  8K PDF

• Naming contest for NASA's Deep Space 2 mission, 9K text winning entry and press releases, 5K HTML Arizona Daily Star article, and 15K jpeg Arizona Daily Star image, 1999.

• Application to JPL Planetary Sciences Summer School, 1999 - accepted.
  47K PDF

• Script for one of the Christmas Skits at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 1998.
  5K PDF

• Part of an application for a Fulbright scholarship, 1998 - Not funded.
  38K PDF

• My undergraduate transcript and commentary for American readers, 1998
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• Articles published in that reputable journal, the Drain of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1998.
  391K PDF and 40K PDF

• Short report submitted to Caltech SURF program on the stability of wave-like pulsar winds, 1997.
  130K PDF

• Funding proposal to Caltech SURF program on the stability of wave-like pulsar winds, 1997 - Proposal funded.
  71K PDF

• Entry in the Daily Telegraph's Young Science Writer of the Year contest, 1997 - unsuccessful.
  56K PDF