Maria T. Zuber

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Maria T. Zuber, 2012

Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958 in Norristown , Pennsylvania ) is an American planetologist and geophysicist .

Life

Maria T. Zuber studied until 1980 geology and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania , moved in 1983 to the Brown University , where he was in 1986 with the work Unstable deformation in Layered Media: Application to Planetary Lithospheres doctorate ( Ph.D. ). From 1986 to 2010 she held various positions at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA operates. From 1991 to 1992 she was Associate Research Professor, from 1993 to 1995 Associate Professor and from 1995 Full Professor of Geophysics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . At the same time, she was Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1995 to 1998 . She has been EA Griswold Professor of Geophysics since 1998 and Vice President for Research at MIT since 2013.

Zuber is one of the leading scientists in the field of planetary geophysics, especially the study of topography, the gravitational field and the interior of celestial bodies. She was or is involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of NASA missions to the moon, Mars, Mercury and asteroids. From 1990 she prepared experiments as part of the Mars Observer Mission with the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). From 1993 to 1995 she was involved in the Clementine Mission to the Moon and from 1994 on both the Mars Global Surveyor and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission . From 1999 to 2016 she headed the geophysical investigations of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury and from 2001 the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. From 2004 she was deputy director of experiments with the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) as part of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission.

In 2008 she was the first woman to take over the scientific management of a NASA mission that lasted until 2017 - the GRAIL mission. Since 2016 she has been involved in a leading role in the preparation of the Psyche mission, which aims to investigate the metal asteroid (16) Psyche .

In addition to many other awards, she received the Carl Sagan Memorial Award in 2007 , the Harry H. Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2012 and the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 2019 . In 2004 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2005 she was accepted into the American Philosophical Society . In 2007 she became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . She is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. In 2008 she received an honorary doctorate from Brown University. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society .

The asteroid (6635) Zuber was named after her.

Fonts (selection)

  • Maria T. Zuber: Compression of oceanic lithosphere: An analysis of intraplate deformation in the Central Indian . In: Journal of Geophysical research: Solid Earth . tape 92 , B6, 1987, pp. 4817-4825 , doi : 10.1029 / JB092iB06p04817 .
  • Maria T. Zuber, David E. Smith, Frank G. Lemoine, Gregory A. Neumann: The Shape and Internal Structure of the Moon from the Clementine Mission . In: Science . tape 266 , 1994, pp. 1839-1843 .
  • David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber, Gregory A. Neumann, Frank G. Lemoine: Topography of the Moon from the Clementine lidar . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . tape 102 , E1, 1997, pp. 1591-1611 .
  • Maria T. Zuber, David E. Smith et al .: Observations of the North Polar Region of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter . In: Science . tape 282 , no. 5396 , 1998, pp. 1053-2060 , doi : 10.1126 / science.282.5396.2053 .
  • David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber et al .: The Global Topography of Mars and Implications for Surface Evolution . In: Science . tape 284 , no. 5419 , 1999, pp. 1495-1503 , doi : 10.1126 / science.284.5419.1495 .
  • Maria T. Zuber et al .: The Shape of 433 Eros from the NEAR-Shoemaker Laser Rangefinder . In: Science . tape 289 , 2000, pp. 2097-2101 .
  • Maria T. Zuber et al .: Internal Structure and Early Thermal Evolution of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor Topography and Gravity . In: Science . tape 287 , no. 5459 , 2000, pp. 1788–1793 , doi : 10.1126 / science.287.5459.1788 .
  • David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber et al .: Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter: Experiment summary after the first year of global mapping of Mars . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . tape 106 , E10, 2001, p. 23.689-23.722 .
  • Maria T. Zuber: The crust and mantle of Mars . In: Nature . tape 412 , 2001, p. 220-227 .
  • Roger J. Phillips, Maria T. Zuber et al .: Ancient Geodynamics and Global-Scale Hydrology on Mars . In: Science . tape 291 , 2001, p. 2587-2591 .
  • David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber et al .: Initial observations from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) . In: Geophysical Research Letters . tape 37 , 2010, p. L.18204 , doi : 10.1029 / 2010GL043751 .
  • David E. Smith. Maria T. Zuber et al .: Gravity Field and Internal Structure of Mercury from MESSENGER . In: Science . tape 336 , 2012, p. 214-217 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1218809 .
  • Maria T. Zuber et al .: Gravity Field of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission . In: Science . tape 339 , 2013, p. 668-671 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1231507 .

Web links

Commons : Maria Zuber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Maria T. Zuber Short biography at MIT
  • CV at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter Z. (PDF; 117 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Member History: Maria T. Zuber. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zuber, Maria T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American planetary researcher and geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Norristown , Pennsylvania