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Miriam . Riner Faculty

Miriam Riner
Assistant Researcher,
SOEST Young Investigator


Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2008

Email: mariner@higp.hawaii.edu
Office: POST 515A
Phone Number: (808) 956-3109
Fax Number: (808) 956-6322

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
1680 East-West Road, POST 602
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA


Research Interests:
UV spectroscopy of terrestrial planets, Early magmatic history of the Moon and Mercury, Asteroid regolith processes, Remote sensing of planetary surface composition

Publications (partial listing):

Riner M.A., Lucey P.G., Desch S.J. and McCubbin F.M. (2009) Nature of opaque components on Mercury: Insights into a Mercurian magma ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036128

Masursky H., Batson R., Borgeson W., Carr M., McCauley J., Milton D., Wildey R., Wilhelms D., Murray B., Horowitz N., Leighton R., Sharp R., Thompson W., Briggs G., Chandeysson P., Shipley E., Sagan C., Pollack J., Lederberg J., Levinthal E., Hartmann W., McCord T., Smith B., Davies M., de Vaucouleurs G., and Leovy C., Television Experiment for Mariner Mars 1971 Icarus, Vol 12, P. 10-45, 1970,


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