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Michael A. Mischna

Education

B.S. (Honors) in Atmospheric Science, Cornell University (1997)
M.S. in Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University (1999)
M.S. in Geophysics and Space Physics, UCLA (2002)
Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics, UCLA (2004)

Research Interests

Martian Climate: Climate evolution, orbital cycles, surface ice distribution through time, surface/regolith interactions, present climate
Atmospheric Evolution: Giant Impacts, volatile contribution/retention following impacts, origin and evolution of Earth's early atmosphere, differences between terrestrial atmospheres
Planetary Atmospheres: Planetary weather and climate, radiative transfer, photochemistry, comparative climatology, spacecraft observations of weather

Projects

Phoenix
The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled for launch in August 2007, is specifically designed to measure volatiles (especially water) and complex organic molecules in the arctic plains of Mars.

MSL - Mars Science Laboratory
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is scheduled to land a rover to Mars in 2012, with the goal of assessing the past and present habitability of the area it explores on Mars.

Selected Awards

UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences Waggoner Fellowship (2003-2004)
UCLA Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics Fellowship (1999-2001)
CalSpace Fellowship (1999-2000)
UCLA Graduate Fellowship (1999)
Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship (1998-1999)
Penn State/Earth and Mineral Sciences Wilson Graduate Fellowship (1997)
American Meteorological Society/Industry Graduate Fellowship (1997)
American Meteorological Society/Industry Undergraduate Scholarship (1995)

Selected Publications

Mischna, M.A., S. Lee, M. Allen and R.J. Terrile, Use of evolutionary computation for isolating surface emissions from orbit, Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2009.
Johnson, S.S., M.A. Mischna, T.L. Grove and M.T. Zuber, Sulfur-induced greenhouse warming on early Mars, J. Geophys. Res. 113 E08005, doi:10.1029/2007JE002962, 2008.
Mischna, M. A. and M. I. Richardson, A reanalysis of water abundances in the martian atmosphere at high obliquity, Geophys. Res. Lett. 32 L03201, doi:10.1029/2004GL021865, 2005.
Richardson, M. I. and M. A. Mischna, The long-term evolution of transient liquid water on Mars, J. Geophys. Res. 110 E03003, doi:10.1029/2004JE002367, 2005.
Mischna, M.A., M.I. Richardson, R.J. Wilson and D.J. McCleese, On the orbital forcing of martian water and CO2 cycles: A general circulation model study with simplified volatile schemes. J. Geophys. Res., 108(E6) 5062, doi:10.1029/2003JE002051, 2003.
Mischna, M.A., J.F. Kasting, A. Pavlov and R. Freedman, Influence of carbon dioxide clouds on early martian climate. Icarus, 145, 546-554, 2000.
Mischna, M.A., Bell, J.F., III, James, P.B. and Crisp, D. Synoptic measurements of martian winds using the Hubble Space Telescope. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25:5, 611-614, 1998.

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