Brown, Michael E.

Committee Member — 40 thesises

• Slesnick, Catherine Louise — 1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fenton, Lori Kay — Aeolian Processes on Mars: Atmospheric Modeling and GIS Analysis (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qi, Chunhua — Aperture Synthesis Studies of the Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary Disks and Comets (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schwamb, Megan E. — Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saidel, Morgan — Blown Away: Atmospheric Escape from Highly Irradiated Gas Giants (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pahlevan, Kaveh — Chemical and Isotopic Consequences of Lunar Formation via Giant Impact (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Joanna Margaret — Childhood to Adolescence: Dust and Gas Clearing in Protoplanetary Disks (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiang, Eugene — Circumstellar and circumplanetary disks (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stewart, Sarah Toby — Collisional Processes Involving Icy Bodies in the Solar System (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morton, Timothy Davies — Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ngo, Henry Hoang Khoi — Formation and Migration Histories of Giant Exoplanets in Multi-stellar Systems (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalucha, Hemani — Geochemistry of Mars and Implications for Organic Carbon Preservation - Observations from Rover Data and Terrestrial Analogs (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lane, Benjamin Frederick — High-Precision Infra-Red Stellar Interferometry (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Byrne, Shane — History and Current Processes of the Martian Polar Layered Deposits (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Showman, Adam Peter — I. Dynamics at the Galileo Probe Site on Jupiter and II. Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Ganymede (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mills, Franklin Perry — I. Observations and Photochemical Modeling of the Venus Middle Atmosphere. II. Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Europa and Callisto (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schaller, Emily Lauren — I. Seasonal Changes in Titan’s Cloud Activity. II. Volatile Ices on Outer Solar System Objects (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nguyen, Tyler Minh-Hung — Infrared Action Spectroscopy of Biomolecules for Planetary Science Applications (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bailey, Elizabeth Ann — Interior and Orbital Dynamics at the Innermost and Outermost Reaches of Planetary Systems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dyudina, Ulyana Anatolyevna — Light Scattering in the Clouds on Jupiter (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salyk, Colette Vanessa — Molecular Spectroscopy of Planet-Forming Regions in Circumstellar Disks (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ragozzine, Darin Alan — Orbital Dynamics of Kuiper Belt Object Satellites, a Kuiper Belt Family, and Extra-Solar Planet Interiors (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Batygin, Konstantin — Orbits and Interiors of Planets (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Ian Yu — Probing the Trojan-Hilda-KBO Connection: An Empirical Test of Dynamical Instability Models of Solar System Evolution (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Belyakov, Matthew — Revealing the Early Solar System through Small Body Spectroscopy and Dynamics (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Qicheng — Sampling the Evolution of Solar System Cometoids (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bouchez, Antonin Henri — Seasonal Trends in Titan’s Atmosphere: Haze, Wind, and Clouds (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Margaret Whei-Jie — Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Waszczak, Adam — Solar System Small-Body Demographics with the Palomar Transient Factory Survey (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davis, M. Ryleigh — Spectroscopic Characterization of Icy Moon Surfaces: Compositions, Origins, and Implications from Jupiter to Neptune (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barkume, Kristina Marie — Surface Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Denman, William Thomas Plent — The Birth of PICL: New Laboratory Experiments for Understanding Ocean Worlds (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jiazheng — The Chemistry of Europa and Venus, and Characterization of Earth-Like Exoplanets (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Donovan, Francis Thomas — The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgasser, Adam Jonathan — The Discovery and Characterization of Methane-bearing Brown Dwarfs and the Definition of the T Spectral Class (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Milby, Zachariah — The Optical Aurora of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites; or, What They Do in the Shadows (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spalding, Christopher — The Primordial Origin and Dynamical Sculpting of Close-In Planetary System Architectures (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlichting, Hilke Elisabeth — Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trumbo, Samantha Kathleen — Views of an Ocean World: The Signatures of Internal and External Processes on the Surface of Europa (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))