MEET OUR TEAM
Mike Thorpe
Science Principal Investigator
NASA JSC | JETS| Texas State University |
Liz Rampe
Principal Investigator
NASA Johnson Space Center |
Joe Tamborski
Co - Investigator
Old Dominion University |
Kirsten Siebach
Co - Investigator
Rice University |
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Digging Iceland Geology for Mars Analog Research Science
DIGMARS is a NASA funded Solar System Workings (SSW) project that explores Iceland as a terrestrial analog for Mars.
DIGMARS brings together a diverse set of skills and expertise contributing to their overall research seeking to understand how lakes in Iceland, a basalt dominated terrain, can inform scientists about surface and groundwater processes of early Mars, particularly places like Gale and Jezero craters. 2021 Field Season
The first field season for this project targeted Lake Sandvatn, a small name in southwest Iceland. Here, we deployed a thermal drone and conducted boat surveys to identify areas of potential groundwater discharge. Once we fixed in on these locations, we then drilled into the sediments and collected cores and groundwater to sample the composition of sediments at this unique interface.
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Meet Our CollaboratorS
Kennda Lynch
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Juergen Thieme
Brookhaven National Lab
Przemek Dera
University of Hawaii
Candice bedford
Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Joel Hurowitz
Stony Brook University
Roy Christofferson
NASA Johnson Space Center
Gunnar Gudjonsson
Iceland Space Agency
Valerie TU
NASA Johnson Space Center| JETS
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Nick Tosca
University of Cambridge
Daniel Leeb
Iceland Space Agency
Ryan Ewing
Texas A&M University
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Meet Our students
Audrey Putnam
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Ross Kovtun
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MD. Opu Sarker
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MarLO Wilcox |
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Graduate Student
Rice University |
Graduate Student
Rice University |
Graduate Student
Old Dominion University |
Undergraduate Student
Rice University |
