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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

2004-                 Affiliate Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, 85719

2001-2003        Director of Education, Columbia University - Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ, 85623

1991-2000        Director, North Dakota Space Grant & NASA EPSCoR Programs, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202

1991-1994        Director, Earth System Science Institute, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202

1990-2000        Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Chair, Dept of Space Studies, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202

1985-1989        Chief, Space Shuttle Earth Observations Office  NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058

1980-1985        Space Scientist, Experimental Planetology Branch NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX  77058

1979-1980        Senior Research Associate (Rift Tectonics), National Research Council, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD  

1978-1979        Smithsonian Research Fellow (Volcanology) Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

1975-1978        Graduate Research Assistant (Planetary Geology) Department of Geological Science, Brown University, Providence, RI

1973-1975        Assistant Professor (Research) Geophysical Observatory, Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1969-1973        Graduate Research Assistant (Planetary science) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 8572l

1967-1968        Volunteer Teacher, Peace Corps, Kenya

1962-1966        Undergraduate Research Assistant (Lunar mapping) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ  

EDUCATION   

1965  BS (Astronomy); 1972  MS (Geophysics) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1977  MS (Geology); 1979 PhD (Planetary Geology) Brown University, Providence, RI

RESEARCH INTERESTS & FUNDING

Lunar & planetary science, volcanology, global change, remote sensing, informal science education, Internet education.  Grant total as P.I. >$4,000,000

PUBLICATIONS

2003    The New Moon: A Personal View, Sky Publishing Co, Cambridge.

1990    Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada (C.A. Wood and J. Kienle), Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.

1988    Astronaut's Guide to Terrestrial Impact Craters (R. Grieve, C. Wood and others), Lunar & Planetary Inst., Houston, TX.

Plus 41 peer reviewed papers, about 250 total papers, conference publications, abstracts and oral presentations at national and international meetings. More than 60 monthly lunar columns in Sky & Telescope since 1998.