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Alexey Pankine

Education
  • B.S. in Physics, Moscow State University (1994)
  • Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology (2001)
Research Interests
  • Analysis of water vapor behavior and transport in the Mars North Polar region on seasonal and interannual scales
  • Water vapor retrievals over cold Mars North polar cap using TES data
  • Modeling gas dynamics of water vapor plumes on Enceladus
Professional Experience
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech (2007-present)
  • Project Scientist, Global Aerospace Corporation (2001-2007)
  • Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology (1994-2001)
  • Research Assistant, Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia (1992-1994)
Selected Awards
  • NSF SBIR Phase 1 "Radiometer-radiosonde" (2005)
  • Fellow of the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) (2002, 2004)
Selected Publications
  1. Nock, K.T., Aaron, K.M., Heun, M.K., Pankine, A.A., "Aerodynamic and Mission Performance of a Winged Balloon Guidance System." AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 44(6), 1923-1938, 2007.
  2. Pankine, A.A., Ingersoll, A.Pl, 2004, Interannual variability of Mars global dust storms: an example of self-organized criticality? Icarus, 270, 514-518.
  3. Pankine, A.A. and 7 co-authors, 2004, Directed aerial robot explorers for Planetary exploration, Advances in Space Research, 33, 1825-1830.
  4. Heun, M.K., Schlaifer, R.S., Aaron, K., Pankine, A.A., Nock, K.T., Leonard, N.E., Belbruno, E.A., bhatta, P., 2003, Biological analogs and emergent intelligence for control of stratospheric balloon constellations. Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, 2564, 393-407.
  5. Pankine, A.A., Ingersoll, A.P., 2002, Interannual variability of Martian global dust storms, simulations and a low-order model of the general circulation, Icarus, 155, 299-323.
  6. Pankine, A.A., Ingersoll, A.P., 1999, ejecta pattern of the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Icarus, 138, 157-163.

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