Elizabeth Turtle

Elizabeth Turtle
Fields	Planetary science
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory University of Arizona Planetary Science Institute
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Arizona
Doctoral advisor	H. Jay Melosh

Elizabeth Turtle is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Career

Elizabeth Turtle earned her undergraduate degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. After earning her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1998, Turtle worked at the university in the Department of Planetary Sciences and at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2006.^[1]

Turtle was an associate of the imaging team on the Galileo mission and is currently an associate of the imaging and RADAR teams on the Cassini mission. She also serves as a co-investigator working with the camera on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.^[2] She has co-authored many scholarly articles about planetary impact features, surface processes, and planetary imaging and mapping.

She is the principal investigator on the Europa Imaging System (EIS) instrument, which was selected for inclusion on a planned Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission.^[3]

References

1. "Elizabeth P. Turtle’s CV" (PDF).
2. "Meet the LROC Team".
3. "NASA's Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments". 26 May 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.

External links

• Zibi Turtle: Even though it is not always easy… being a planetary scientist is one of the coolest jobs on the planet!