James W. Head——遥感科学国家重点实验室2018年系列学术讲座之十九

　　报告人: James W. Head  教授

　　邀请人:   邸凯昌  研究员

　　时间:  2018年7月4日上午10:00  

　　地点:  中科院遥感地球所（奥运园区）A504

　　报告人简介：James W. Head is Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University. From 1968 to 1972 he served in the NASA Apollo Lunar Exploration Program in geologic training of the Apollo Astronauts, the selection of landing sites, the planning of surface exploration, mission operations in Houston, and analysis of the returned samples.  Other research has involved field studies on active volcanoes in Hawaii and at Mt. St. Helens, on submarine volcanic deposits with three deep-sea submersible dives, and during five field seasons in the Antarctic Dry Valleys, and one in the Arctic. He has participated in over 20 missions of NASA, the Soviet Union, Russia, ESA, India, and other countries.  He has advised 30 PhD students, two who became NASA Chief Scientist, and he has published over 750 papers. He is a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the GSA Penrose Medal, the NASA Distinguished Lunar Scientist Medal. He was Convenor of Microsymposium 59, “The Chinese Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Program” in Houston, Texas USA, March 2018 and is host at Brown University to numerous Chinese graduate students and scholars.