The Birth of the Solar System project seeks to discover more members of the class of objects like Sedna and to use the dynamical properties of this population to understand birth environment of the sun. Ongoing surveys use the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea and the Dark Energy Camera in Chile. (Brown, Ngo)

The Trojan Asteroid Populations project is an attempt to understand the formation of the Jupiter trojan asteroids and their connection to other populations in the solar system by looking at the sub-populations within the group. The project uses archival data from large surveys as well as new survey data from the Subaru telescope (Wong, Brown).

The Exploring Implications of Europa's Internal Ocean project is designed to use massive modern ground based telescopes to understand the chemistry off Europa's internal ocean and its interactions with the surface. (Fischer, Brown)

Water in the Outer Solar System: Understanding Populations. We are systematically determining the distribution and history of water on multiple populations of small bodies in the outer solar system. Past work has concentrated on the Kuiper belt (see the H/WTSOSS survey, below) and we are now investigating the Jupiter trojans and outer main belt asteroids to attempt to understand dynamical conncetions between the populations. (Brown)

The Hubble/WFC3 Test of Surfaces in the Outer Solar System (H/WTSOSS) is a large survey designed to connect the surfaces of objects in the Kuiper belt with their dynamical history in order to help piece together the early history of the outer solar system. (Fraser, Brown)

The discovery of large bodies in the outer solar system over the past few years has led to a revolution in our understanding of the formation and evolution of the distant parts of our planetary environment. The large Kuiper belt objects preserve signatures of run away growth, giant impacts, volatile depletion and retention, and heating and differentiation. We continue to exploit ground and space-based telescopes to study every aspect of these fascinating bodies. (Brown)

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2012
Harvard Institute for Theory and Computation Fellow
Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2010
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Academica Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow, Taiwan

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, CfA
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida
Professor, Florida Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2008
Hubble Fellow, University of Arizona
Education Specialist, NASA Airborne Science Program

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2007
Senior Scientist, Arete Associates

Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2004
Keck Observatory
Palomar Adaptive Optics Lead, Caltech Optical Observatories
Adaptive Optics Lead, The Carnegie Observatories

Ph.D., Physics, 2001
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellow, AMNH
Professor, MIT
Professor, UCSD

Ph.D. 2000, Astronomy
Michelson Fellow, CfA
Hubble Fellow, Princeton University
Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center