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Christopher Parkinson
Assistant Research Scientist

Email: theshire@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-5401
Fax: (734) 647-3083
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Website: http://esse.engin.umich.edu/psl/
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Education:

Ph.D., M.S., Earth and Space Science, York University, Toronto

B.S., Science, York University, Toronto

Research: Hydrodynamic escape from planetary atmospheres; photochemistry in extrasolar gas giant planetary atmospheres


Specializations and Research Interests
  • Hydrodynamic escape from planetary atmospheres, with emphasis on extrasolar gas giants, Titan, and the early Earth, Mars and Venus
  • Enhanced chemistry and transport in the polar mesosphere of Jupiter and mesosphere of Saturn using evidence from the helium airglow observed by Cassini
  • Photochemistry in extrasolar gas giant planetary atmospheres
  • Astrobiology and microphysical cloud modeling with the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at JPL

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments
  • Poste Rouge, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
  • Bourse Postdoctorale Chateaubriand,Paris
  • Visiting Lecture Fellowship,I.A.S., Paris
  • NSERC Visiting Fellow at a government laboratory, Toronto

Professional Service
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS), Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)



Updated: 2007-10-16




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