Rocking out at the Plymouth Notch Post Office.  Photo by Lauren Giebler.
  Vacationing in Vermont
(Calvin Coolidge Historic Site)

Nathaniel E. Putzig

Senior Research Scientist
Southwest Research Institute, Department of Space Studies
System Scientist for CO-SHARPS, the Colorado SHARAD Processing System
Semiczar for SwRI Colloquia
1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302
Office: 720 240 0130
Mobile: 303 250 7060
E-mail: nathaniel @ putzig.com
Publications
SwRI wiki page
Resume
Personal site

Subsurface radar research

Analysis of subsurface radar data from the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) on the Mars Express orbiter.
Selected publications:

Subsurface structure of Planum Boreum from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar soundings. Icarus 204, 443-457 (December 2009)
      See also JPL press release (September 2009) and downloadable radar-unit maps
Shallow Radar Soundings of the Northern Lowlands of Mars. 2009 GSA Meeting (October 2009)
Shallow Radar Soundings of the Southern Highlands of Mars. 2009 AGU Fall Meeting (December 2009)

Thermophysical research

Analysis of thermal inertia, a surface material property, as derived from thermal modeling and observations by the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) and the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Spectrometer (THEMIS).
See the maps of Mars thermal inertia at the University of Colorado.
Selected publications:

Thermophysical analysis of the North Polar Erg on Mars. Planetary Dunes Workshop, Alamogordo, New Mexico (May 2008)
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)
Global thermal inertia and surface properties of Mars from the MGS mapping mission. Icarus 173 (February 2005)
Mars thermal inertia from THEMIS data. LPSC 35 (March 2004)

Field Image Gallery

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

Other links

Read about Mariner 4 - our first successful visit to Mars, launched in 1964 on November 28, exactly one week before I was.
Listen to Mars from Gustav Holst's The Planets
The Life Cycle of Martian Dust Storms - CU Planetary Atmospheres final project.
I was really bored one day, so I crafted this handy metric-units prefix mnemonic.
Here are a few LaTeX tools to share.