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 Jonathan Aurnou, Assistant Professor of Planetology and Geophysics

Ph.D., 1999, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., 1996, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., 1993, State University of New York, Binghamton

Aurnou, J. M., Planetary core dynamics and convective heat transfer scaling, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 101: 327-345, 2007.

Zuber, M. T., O. Aharonson, J. Aurnou, and 9 additional authors, The geophysics of Mercury: Current status and anticipated insights from the MESSENGER Mission, Space Science Reviews, doi 10.1007/s11214-007-9265-4, 2007.

Aurnou, J. M., M. H. Heimpel and, J. Wicht, The effects of vigorous mixing in a convective model of zonal flow on the Ice Giants, Icarus, 190: 110-126, 2007.

Tarter, J., P. Backus, P. Mancinelli, J. Aurnou, and 30 additional authors, A re-appraisal of the habitability of planets around M dwarf stars, Astrobiology, 7: 30 – 65, 2007.

M. H. Heimpel and J. M. Aurnou, Turbulent convection in rapidly rotating spherical shells: A model for equatorial and high latitude jets on Jupiter and Saturn, Icarus, 187: 540 – 557, 2007.

Hauck, S. A., J. M. Aurnou and, A. J. Dombard, Sulfur’s impact on core evolution and magnetic field generation on Ganymede, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), doi:10.1029/2005JE002557, 2006.

M. Heimpel, J. Aurnou, J. Wicht, Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model, Nature, 438: 193-196, 2005.

M. Heimpel, J. Aurnou, F. Al-Shamali and N. Gomez Perez, A numerical study of dynamo action as a function of spherical shell geometry, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236: 542-557, 2005.

S. Solomon, O. Aharonson, J. M. Aurnou and 17 others, New perspectives on ancient Mars, Science, 307: 1214-1220, 2005.

Brito, D., Aurnou, J.M., and Cardin P., 2004, Turbulent viscosity measurements relevant to planetary core-mantle dynamics, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 141, 3–8.

F.M. Al-Shamali, M.H. Heimpel, and J.M. Aurnou, 2004, Varying The Spherical Shell Geometry In Rotating Thermal Convection, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 98, 153–169.

Aurnou, J.M., 2004, Secrets of the deep, Nature, 428, 134-135.

Aurnou, J.M., and M.H. Heimpel, 2004, Zonal jets in rotating convection with mixed mechanical boundary conditions, Icarus, 169, 492-498.

J.M. Aurnou, S. Andreadis, L. Zhu and P.L. Olson, 2003, Experiments on convection in Earth’s core tangent cylinder, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 212, 119-134.

P.L. Olson, I. Sumita, J.M. Aurnou, 2002, Diffusive magnetic images of upwelling patterns in the core, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (B12), 2348, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000384.

Aurnou, J.M. and P.L. Olson, 2001, Experiments on Rayleigh-Benard convection, magnetoconvection and rotating magnetoconvection in liquid gallium, J. Fluid Mech., 430, 283-307.

Aurnou, J.M. and P.L. Olson, 2001, Strong zonal winds from thermal convection in a rotating spherical shell, Geophys. Res. Letts., 28, 2557-2559.

Sumita, I. and J.M. Aurnou, 2000, Thermal convection in rotating systems and applica-tions to planetary cores, Rec. Research Devel. Geophysics, 3, 169-180.

Aurnou, J.M., and P.L. Olson, 2000, Control of inner core rotation by electromagnetic, gravitational and mechanical torques, Phys. Earth Planet. Ints., 117, 111-121.

Olson, P.L., and J.M. Aurnou, 1999, A polar vortex in the Earth's core, Nature, 402, 170-173.

Aurnou, J.M., Brito, D., and P.L. Olson, 1996, Mechanics of inner core super-rotation, Geophys. Res. Letts., 23, 3401-3404.