David M. Blair — Curriculum Vitæ
Education
Telephone: +1 765 631 6389
Email: [email protected]
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Purdue University
550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47905, USA
Ph.D. Planetary Geophysics, Purdue University (Expected 2015)
▷▷ Advisor: Prof. Andy Freed / Committee: Profs. H. Jay Melosh, Marc Caffee, and Brenda Bowen
B.S. Geological Sciences, Minor in Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2008)
▷▷ Advisor: Prof. Steven A. Hauck II
Selected
Honors
▷▷ Guest Lecturer, Geosciences in the Cinema (asteroid impacts unit) (EAPS 106), Purdue University (April 2013)
▷▷ Creator and Instructor, Purdue EAPS Illustrator Workshop: basic use of Adobe Illustrator (March 2013)
▷▷ Reviewer, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. “Volcanism and Tectonism Across the Inner Solar System” (2013)
▷▷ Treasurer (2013–2014) and Webmaster (2011–2013), EAPS Graduate Student Association, Purdue University
Selected Conference
& Meeting Presentations
Publications
▷▷ NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (2013–2015)
▷▷ Purdue Doctoral Fellowship (2009–2013)
▷▷ Outstanding Presentation, 2013 Graduate Student Expo, Purdue Univ. EAPS Dept. (2013)
▷▷ Outstanding Poster, 2012 Graduate Student Expo, Purdue Univ. Dept. of Earth and Atmos. Sci. (2012)
▷▷ Honorable Mention: Graduate Oral Presentation, Dwornik Award, 41st Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf (2010)
Service &
Teaching
Workshops and Field Training
▷▷ iSALE Short Course & Developer Workshop, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (August 2013)
▷▷ 1st session of the Meteor Crater Field Camp, Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona, USA (October 2010)
▷▷ NASA’s 22nd Planetary Science Summer School, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, USA (August 2010)
▷▷ Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association Geology Field Camp, Montana, USA (Summer 2007)
Freed, A. M., et al. (2014), The Formation of Lunar Mascon Basins [...], JGR Planets, doi:10.1002/2014JE004657.
Lemelin, M., et al. (2014), High-priority lunar landing sites for in situ and sample return studies of polar volatiles,
Planet. Space Sci., doi:10.1016/j.pss.2014.07.002.
Xiao, Z., et al. (2014), Cooling fractures in impact melt deposits [...], JGR Planets, doi:10.1002/2013JE004560.
Melosh, H. J., et al. (2013), The Origin of Lunar Mascon Basins, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1235768.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2013), The origin of graben and ridges in Rachmaninoff, Raditladi, and Mozart basins, Mercury,
JGR Planets, doi:10.1029/2012JE004198.
Freed, A. M., et al. (2012), On the origin of graben and ridges within [...] Mercury’s northern plains, JGR,
doi:10.1029/2012JE004119.
Klimczak, C., et al. (2012), Deformation associated with ghost craters in volcanic smooth plains units on Mercury
[...], JGR, doi:10.1029/2012JE004100.
Watters, T. R., et al. (2012), Extension and contraction within volcanically buried impact craters and basins on
Mercury, Geology, doi:10.1130/G33725.1.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2012), Science Concept 4 [...], in A Global Lunar Landing Site Study [...], edited by D. A. Kring
and D. D. Durda, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX. [link]
Blair, D. M., et al. (2015), Determining the Structural Stability of Lunar Lava Tubes, LPSC 46.
Johnson, B. C., et al. (2015), The Formation of Lunar Multi-Ring Basins, LPSC 46.
Sood, R., et al. (2015), Earhart: A Large, Previously Unknown Lunar Nearside Crater [...], LPSC 46.
Milbury, C., et al. (2015), The Effect of Pre-Impact Porosity on the Gravity Signature of Lunar Craters, LPSC 46.
Blair, D. M. (August 2014), The Princess and the Pea: [...] Lava-Filled Impact Craters, JPL (invited talk), Pasadena, CA, USA.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2014), Modeling the Geophysical History of [...] Orientale Basin, LPSC 45, #2105.
Byrne, P. K., et al. (2013), The Origin of Mercury’s Northern Volcanic Plains, GSA 45, no. 7, p.851.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2013), Gravity anomalies of the Orientale and Caloris basins, LMI V, #3041.
Chappaz, L., et al. (May 2013), Lava tube detection [...], GRAIL/LOLA STM, Providence, RI, USA.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2013), Modeling the Origin of the Orientale Basin Mascon, LPSC 44, #2821.
Johnson, B. C., et al. (2013), The Origin of Lunar Mascon Basins, Part I [...], LPSC 44, #2043.
Byrne, P. K., et al. (2013), Tectonic Complexity within [...] Crater and Basins on Mercury, LPSC 44, #1261.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2012), Thermally Induced Graben in Peak-Ring Basins [...] on Mercury, LPSC 43, #2501.
Lemelin, M., et al. (2012), Finding Volatiles on the Lunar Surface [...], LPSC 43, #1067.
Blair, D. M., et al. (February 2012), Graben in Peak-Ring Basins, MESSENGER STM 25, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Kring, D. A., et al. (2011), Asymmetrical Distribution [...] at Barringer Meteorite Crater [...], LPSC 42, #1746.
Blair, D. M., et al. (2010), [...] the Formation of a Ring of Graben in Central Raditladi basin, Mercury, LPSC 41, #1762.