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Gerald Schubert, Distinguished Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Physics |
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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 2810
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| Telephone: | (310) 825-4577 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | schubert@ucla.edu |
| Web Site: | http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~schubert/ |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 200B
ESS 202
ESS 208 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics, structure of planetary interiors, mantle convection in the Earth and planets, tectonics and deformation of crusts and lithospheres, chemistry of upper atmospheres, and planetary atmospheres and surfaces, i.e.; physics of the planets, the present states and evolutionary paths of their atmospheres, surfaces and interiors.
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Education |
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| | B.E.P., 1961, Cornell University
M.A.E., 1961, Cornell University
Ph.D., 1964, University of California, Berkeley |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Interior of Europa, G. Schubert, F. Sohl, and H. Hussmann, in Europa, edited by R. Pappalardo, W. McKinnon, and K. Khurana, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, in press, 2009. |
| | Titan’s interior structure, C. Sotin, G. Mitri, N. Rappaport, G. Schubert, and D. Stevenson, in Titan After Cassini/Huygens, Springer-Verlag, in press, 2009. |
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The propagation of tsunami-driven gravity waves into the thermosphere and ionosphere, M. P. Hickey, G. Schubert, and R. L. Walterscheid, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2009. |
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Saturn’s rotation period from its atmospheric planetary-wave configuration, P.L. Read, T.E. Dowling, and G. Schubert, Nature, 460, 608-610, 2009. |
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Core formation in giant gaseous protoplanets, R. Helled and G. Schubert, Icarus, 198, 156-162, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.08.002. |
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Treatise on Geophysics (11 volumes). G. Schubert, Editor-in-Chief. Elsevier, 2007. |
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Venus atmosphere dynamics: A continuing enigma, G. Schubert, S. W. Bougher, C. C. Covey, A. D. Del Genio, A. S. Grossman, J. L. Hollingsworth, S. S. Limaye, and R. E. Young, in Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 176, L. W. Esposito, E. R. Stofan, and T. E. Cravens, eds., pp. 101-120, 2007. |
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Saturn’s gravitational field, internal rotation, and interior structure, J. D. Anderson and G. Schubert, Science, 317, 1384-1387, doi: 101126/science.1144835, 2007. |
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Lithospheric structure in the eastern region of Mars’ dichotomy boundary, C. A. E. Milbury, S. E. Smrekar, C. A. Raymond, and G. Schubert, Planet. Space Sci., 55, 280-288, 2007. |
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Enceladus: Present internal structure and differentiation by early and long-term radiogenic heating, G. Schubert, J. D. Anderson, B. J. Travis, and J. Palguta, Icarus, 188, 345-355, 2007. |
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Interior structure, composition and mineralogy of the terrestrial planets, F. Sohl and G. Schubert, in Treatise on Geophysics (Editor-in Chief, G. Schubert), vol. 10, Planets and Moons. Editor T. Spohn, Elsevier, 2007. |
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Instabilities in a fluid layer with phase changes, P. Roberts, G. Schubert, K. Zhang, X. Liao, and F. Busse, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 165, 147-157, 2007. |
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Constraints on the location, magnitude, and dimensions of Ganymede’s mass anomalies, by J. Palguta, G. Schubert, K. Zhang, and J. D. Anderson, Icarus, 201, 615-625, 2009. |
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Geodynamics, second edition, D. L. Turcotte and G. Schubert, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 456 pp., 2002. |
| | Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets, G. Schubert, D.L. Turcotte, and P. Olson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2001. |
| | Geodynamics, D. L. Turcotte and G. Schubert, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 450 pages, 1982. |
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Graduate Students |
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| | Colleen Milbury
colleen.milbury@ucla.edu |
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Researchers |
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| | Ravit Helled
r.helled@ucla.edu |
| | Flora Paganelli
flora.paganelli@jpl.nasa.gov |
| | Helen Parish
hparish@ess.ucla.edu |
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