Planetary Volatiles Laboratory

This week, PhD student Diana Hayes takes a look at how we communicate with spacecraft dispersed throughout the solar system. Given the numbe...

  One of the best parts about being an advisor is that you get to see growth in your trainees. Not only is is satisfying to see those studen...

    Whenever you are doing research, it's important to control the chaos. That could be keeping notes and reference papers organized, ke...

Writing is a key part of being a researcher of any kind. It's not enough to do the work, take the data or make the discovery. It's n...

Public speaking: it's a critical part of communicating your science. But, apocryphally, most people would rather do almost anything else...

It's an interesting exercise to look back from time to time. Can you make out the pathway that brought you to where you are today? No ma...

 Ahh, summertime! You'd be surprised by the number of people who think us academics just get four months of vacation. Instead, it's ...