Ashley Schoenfeld

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Curriculum Vitae:

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Planetary Interiors and Geophysics

Biography

Ashley Schoenfeld is a JPL Postdoc. She received her PhD from UCLA and has been a long-time research intern with JPL. She has worked on the creation of a detailed planetary map identifying and analyzing the geomorphological characteristics of Titan’s surface, with data taken from the Cassini Radar instrument. The results of this mapping campaign have been published in Nature Astronomy, JGR Planets, and Icarus. She is also working with the Radar group to publish a Titan Global Geologic Map with the USGS. In 2018, Ashley was awarded both the NSF Graduate Student Fellowship and the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. Her fellowship work concerned applying Earth-based understanding of rock mechanics and structural geology to Enceladus’ active south pole, as well as the application of convective scaling laws to the Enceladean ocean. She is interested in eventually expanding her research to other ocean worlds, such as Europa and Ceres.

Education

PhD in Geophysics (UCLA)

Professional Experience

JPL Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-Present)

JPL Internship (2014-2023)

NSF Graduate Student Fellow (2018-2023)

JPL Planetary Science Summer Seminar (2019)

Cassini Radar Team Associate Scientist (2016-2018)

Community Service

Peer Reviewer for Icarus, LPSC Session Convener, AGU Session Convener, NASA ROSES Panel Reviewer, AGU Planetary Science Section Student Representative

Research Interests

Surface processes, tectonics, and ocean dynamics of outer solar system moons.

Selected Awards

NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship (NESSF) Awardee (2018)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) Awardee (2018)

EPSS Department Research Award, UCLA (2020)

Division of Physical Sciences Excellence in Outreach Award, UCLA (2021)

Selected Publications

Schoenfeld, A.M., Hawkins, E.K., Soderlund, K.M., Vance, S., Leonard, E.J. and Yin, A. Particle Entrainment and Rotating Convection in Enceladus’s Ocean. Communications Earth and Environment, 4(1), p.28.;

Schoenfeld, A. M., Solomonidou, A., Malaska, M. J., Lopes, R. M. C., Birch, S. P. D., Le Mouélic, S., et al., 2023. Geomorphological map of the Soi crater region on Titan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, e2022JE007499. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007499;

Schoenfeld, A.M., et al., 2021. Geomorphological Map of the South Belet Region of Titan. Icarus, 366, p. 114516.;

Malaska, M.J., Schoenfeld, A.M., et al., 2022. Potential caves: inventory of subsurface access points on the surface of Titan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127(11).;

Moore, K., Courville, S., Ferguson, S., Schoenfeld, A., Llera, K., Agrawal, R., Buhler, P., Brack, D., Connour, K., Czaplinski, E., DeLuca, M., Deutsch, A., Hammond, N., Kuettel, D., Marusiak, A., Nerozzi, S., Stuart, J., Tarnas, J., Thelen, A., Castillo, J., Smythe, W., Landau, D., Mitchell, K., Budney, C., 2021. Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object, Planetary and Space Science, 197, 105137 DOI:10.1016/j.pss.2020.105137;

Lopes, R.M., Malaska, M.J., Schoenfeld, A.M., et al., 2020. A global geomorphologic map of Saturn’s moon Titan. Nature Astronomy, pp.1-6.