UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

05/14/2026

Please join us in congratulating Kiana McFadden, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Thermal Modeling of Main Belt and Mars-Crossing Asteroids: Improved Constraints on Physical Properties from Extended WISE/NEOWISE Observations.

Congratulations, Kiana!

📸: Kiana is pictured with her Ph.D. advisors, Dr. Amy Mainzer and Dr. Jessica Barnes.

05/13/2026

Please join us in congratulating Kana Ishimaru, who today successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation, Probing the Alteration Histories of Primitive Carbonaceous Materials from the Asteroid to the Atomic Scale.

📸: Kana is pictured with her Ph.D. advisor, Dr. Jessica Barnes.

05/05/2026

Congrats to all! LPL is proud of our alums! More information about the DPS prize winners can be found here: https://dps.aas.org/news/aas-division-for-planetary-sciences-announces-2026-prize-winners/

05/04/2026

Kudos to Kayla!

05/01/2026

Congratulations, 2026 Galileo Scholars!

04/30/2026

Congratulations, Lucas! 🥳

04/29/2026

A research team at LPL demonstrated that ground-penetrating radar mounted on drones can map the thickness of rocky debris covering glaciers on Earth. These results could help future astronauts locate accessible water locked in buried ice on Mars.

U of A researchers launched drones equipped with ground-penetrating radar over debris-covered glaciers in Alaska and Wyoming that resemble buried ice deposits found on Mars.

04/29/2026

Kudos to LPL graduate student Cole Meyer! 🎉

04/28/2026

Kudos to Dingshan!

04/14/2026

Congratulations, Beau and Jeremy!