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David Paige, Associate Professor Planetary Science |
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| 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
The Mars Journal |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 9,10,15,153,155,200b,229,250 |
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Current Research Interests |
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| | 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. |
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Education |
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B.S., 1979, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., 1985, California Institute of Technology
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Spacecraft Experiment Teams |
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| | 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- |
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Selected Publications |
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| | 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) |
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Graduate Students |
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| | Andrew Hock ahock@ucla.edu.edu |
| | Jean-Pierre Williams jpierre@mars.ucla.edu |
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