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 David Paige, Associate Professor Planetary Science



David Paige
 
Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:Geology 4710
Telephone:(310) 825-4268
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:dap@mars.ucla.edu
Web Sites: http://www.moon.ucla.edu
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 Courses Taught

 

ESS 9,10,15,153,155,200b,229,250

 Current Research Interests

 The terrestrial planets; the surface, atmosphere, polar caps and climate of Mars; ice deposits on Mercury and the moon; polar caps of Pluto and Triton; remote sensing and spacecraft exploration, astrobiology.

 Education

 

B.S., 1979, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., 1985, California Institute of Technology

 Spacecraft Experiment Teams

 

Co-Investigator, NASA Mars Observer Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer (PMIRR) 1985-1993

 

Co-Investigator, Russian Mars '96 CBET Experiment, 1991-1996

 

Co-Investigator, NASA Mars Climate Orbiter Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer (PMIRR), 1995-2000

 

Principal Investigator, NASA Mars Polar Lander Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor Integrated Payload, 1995-2000

 

Co-Investigator, NASA DS-2 Mars Microprobe Co-Investigator, 1998-2000

 

Co-Investigator, NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) 2000-

 

Principal Investigator, NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, 2004-

 Selected Publications

 

Paige, D. A., The Mars Journal, Mars 1, 1-4, 2005.

 

Paige, D. A., Ancient Mars: Wet in Many Places, Science 307, 1575-1576, 2005.

 

Paige, D. A., J. E. Bachman and K. D. Keegan, ``Thermal and Albedo Mapping of the Polar Regions of Mars Using Viking Thermal Mapperm Observations: 1. North Polar Region'', J. Geophys. Res. 99, 25,959-25,991, (1994)

 

Paige, D. A., and K. D. Keegan, ``Thermal and Albedo Mapping of the Polar Regions of Mars Using Viking Thermal Mapper Observations: 2.South Polar Region", J. Geophys. Res. 99, 25,993-26,013, (1994).

 

McCleese, D. J., R. D. Haskins, J. T. Schofield, R. W. Zurek, C. B. Leovy, D. A. Paige and F. W. Taylor, ``Atmosphere and Climate Studies of Mars using the Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer on Mars Observer'' J. Geophys. Res. 97, 7735-7757, (1992)

 

Hansen, C. J. and D. A. Paige, ``A Thermal Model for the Seasonal Nitrogen Cycle on Triton'', Icarus 99, 273-288, (1992)

 

Paige, D. A., S. E. Wood, and A. R. Vasavada, ``The Thermal Stability of Water Ice at the Poles of Mercury'', Science 258, 643-646, (1992)

 

Hansen, C. J. and D. A. Paige, ``Seasonal Nitrogen Cycles on Pluto'', Icarus 120, 247-265, (1996)

 

Paige, D. A. "Chance of Snowballs in Hell", Nature 369, 182, (1994)

 

Banfield, D., A. Toigo, A. P. Ingersoll and D. A. Paige, "Martian Weather Correlation Length Scales from Viking IRTM T15", Icarus, 119, 130-143 (1996)

 

Tamppari, L.K.; Zurek, R.W.; Paige, D.A. “Viking era water-ice clouds” J. Geophys. Res. 105, 4087-4107, (2000)

 

Vasavada, A.R.; Paige, D.A., Wood, S.E. “Near-surface temperatures on Mercury and the Moon and the stability of polar ice deposits”, Icarus 141, 179-193, (1999)

 

Bass, D. S., K. E. Herkenhoff and D. A. Paige, Variability of Mars’ North Polar Ice Cap. I: Analysis of Mariner 9 and Viking Orbiter Imaging Data, Icarus 144, 382-396 (2000)

 

Bass, D. S. and D. A. Paige, “Variability of Mars’ North Polar Water Ice Cap. II: Analysis of Viking IRTM and MAWD Data”, Icarus 144, 397-409 (2000)

 

D. A. Paige, “Global Change on Mars?, Science 294, 2107-2108, 2001

 

Williams, J.-P., D. A. Paige, and C. E. Manning, “ Layering in the wall rock of Valles Marineris: intrusive and extrusive magmatism”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, (2003)

 Graduate Students

 Andrew Hock
ahock@ucla.edu.edu
 Jean-Pierre Williams
jpierre@mars.ucla.edu

 
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