John F. Mustard is a planetary scientist and professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. He specializes in using remote sensing and

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technology to examine and analyze planetary bodies. Mustard investigates the formation and evolution of rocky planets such as Mars, Mercury, the Moon and the Earth.

Career

Mustard was initially fascinated with the work of marine biologists such as

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, but he chose to study in earth sciences. He earned his B.Sc. in geology from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

in 1983, and continued his studies in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown University obtaining an M.Sc. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1990. Shortly thereafter he became an assistant professor of research until joining regular faculty. He was a founding member of the Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University in 2000, that has since become the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). He has served on a number of departmental administrative, strategic and search committees and among his university service he has served on the Provost Search Committee (2014) and Academic Priorities Committee (2013-2019). He has served on

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and

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committees, most recently as a member of the Space Studies Board and as a member of the Mars Architecture Strategy Working group 2019-2020. He is currently Co-Director along with

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(University of Toronto) of the Earth 4D program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mission involvement

• Earth Observer 1 (Science Team Member) • OMEGA: Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activité (science collaborator)Bibring, J-P., A. Soufflot, M. Berthé, Y. Langevin, B. Gondet, P. Drossart, M. Bouyé et al. "OMEGA: Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activité." In Mars Express: the scientific payload, vol. 1240, pp. 37-49. 2004. • CRISM: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (Deputy Principal Investigator)Pieters, Carle M., Joseph Boardman, Bonnie Buratti, Alok Chatterjee, Roger Clark, Tom Glavich, Robert Green et al. "The Moon mineralogy mapper (M³) on chandrayaan-1." Current Science (2009): 500-505. • M3: Moon Mineralogy Mapper (Science Team Member)

Honors

• Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011 • Awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Public Service 2012 • Elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union 2014

References

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