Wolong Nature Preserve near Chengdu, China

Nathaniel E. Putzig

Research Scientist
Southwest Research Institute, Department of Space Studies
1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302
Office: 720 240 0130
Mobile: 303 250 7060
E-mail: nathaniel @ putzig.com
Personal site
Resume

Research

Analysis of subsurface radar data from the SHARAD and MARSIS instruments (MRO and Mars Express).

CU Doctoral Research

University of Colorado Dissertation: Thermal inertia and surface heterogeneity on Mars (2006). 195 pp.
Research focused on modeling thermal inertia, a surface material property, as derived from Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (MGS-TES) observations.
Mars thermal inertia maps

Recent Publications

Apparent thermal inertia and the surface heterogeneity of Mars, Icarus, 191 (November 2007)
Thermal behavior of horizontally mixed surfaces on Mars, Icarus, 191 (November 2007)
Effects of surface heterogeneity on the apparent thermal inertia of Mars , LPSC37 (March 2006)
Thermophysical properties of the Phoenix Mars landing site study regions , LPSC37 (March 2006)
Global thermal inertia and surface properties of Mars from the MGS mapping mission, Icarus 173 (February 2005)
Mars thermal inertia from THEMIS data, LPSC35 (March 2004)

Field Image Gallery

Meteor Crater Trip pictures added 2005/09/13
Volcanology Workshop pictures added 2005/08/20

CU class-related pages

Weekly Schedule
Academic Plan
The Life Cycle of Martian Dust Storms - my Planetary Atmospheres final project
Extrasolar Planets Seminar web page (Spring 2002)
Titan Seminar web page (Fall 2002) - now redirects to Dr. Esposito's class page

Other links

LaTeX Tools
NASA Planetary Photo Journal's Mars thermal inertia map
James' Terraforming the Red Planet web site
Read about Mariner 4 - our first successful visit to Mars, launched in 1964 on November 28, exactly one week before I was.
A metric units prefix mnemonic

Listen to Mars from Gustav Holst's The Planets