My research pairs orbital remote sensing with fieldwork in places that look, and sometimes behave, like Mars. In these environments we test instruments, collect samples, and learn how habitats and alteration minerals appear from the ground, from drones, and from orbit.
Hyperspectral imaging of fumarolic alteration
Tripod-mounted hyperspectral imaging and sampling of fumaroles, sulfur deposits, and acid-altered ground at one of Iceland's most active geothermal fields.
Altiplano field campaign
Fieldwork above 4,000 m in the Chilean Altiplano, among volcanoes, salars, wetlands, and fields of penitentes, the blade-like snow and ice formations that form under intense high-altitude sunlight.
A Mars-analog salar
A high-altitude salt flat in the Atacama region whose gypsum-rich deposits serve as an analog for ancient Martian paleolake basins and the habitats they may have hosted.
A volcano in eruption
The 2022 Meradalir fissure eruption: an active spatter cone, fresh lava flows, and still-glowing crust.
Sampling an active geothermal field
Gridded sampling across steaming ground, colorful hydrothermal deposits, and altered rock in the geothermal area near Roosevelt Hot Springs in southwestern Utah.
