Brett W. Denevi (born 1980) is a Planetary Geologist at the

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

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. She is currently serving as the Deputy Principal Investigator for the

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. In 2014, Asteroid 9026 was named Denevi in her honor. She is the recipient of seven

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group achievement awards and in 2014 she was awarded a NASA Early Career Fellowship. In 2015, she received a Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award.

Career

She obtained her B.A. in

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in 2002 from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

, and her Ph.D. in Geology and

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in 2007 from the

University of Hawaiʻi The University of Hawaiʻi System is a public college and university system in Hawaii. The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, ...

. From 2007 to 2010 she was part of

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

, where she served as the Deputy Instrument Scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System on board the

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spacecraft at Mercury leading the in-flight calibration and co-leading the Geology Discipline Group. Dr. Denevi was also a Participating Scientist on the

Dawn mission ''Dawn'' is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: 4 Vesta, Vesta and Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres. In the fulfillment of that miss ...

at Vesta investigating pitted terrain and the presence of volatiles. She is a Planetary Geologist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. In an interview, she described her career as "following the traditional path". She also emphasized the need to "saying yes to the opportunities that you come across".

Family

She has two children.

Awards

Publications

*Denevi, B. W., M. S. Robinson, A. K. Boyd, D. T. Blewett, R. L. Klima (2016) The distribution and extent of lunar swirls, Icarus, 273, 53–67, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.017. *Denevi, B. W., M. S. Robinson, A. K. Boyd, H. Sato, B. W. Hapke, B. R. Hawke (2014) Characterization of space weathering from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ultraviolet observations of the Moon, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119, 967–997, doi:10.1002/2013JE004527. *Denevi, B. W., C. M. Ernst, H. M. Meyer, M. S. Robinson, S. L. Murchie, J. L. Whitten, J. W. Head, T. R. Watters, S. C. Solomon, L. R. Ostrach, C. R. Chapman, P. K. Byrne, C. Klimczak, P. N. Peplowski (2013) The distribution and origin of smooth plains on Mercury, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 118, 1–17, doi:10.1002/jgre.20075. *Denevi, B. W., Blewett, D. T., Buczkowski, D. L., Capaccioni, F., Capria, M. T., De Sanctis, M. C., Garry, W. B., Gaskell, R. W., Le Corre, L., Li, J. -Y., Marchi, S., McCoy, T. J., Nathues, A., O'Brien, D. P., Petro, N. E., Pieters, C. M., Preusker, F., Raymond, C. A., Reddy, V., Russell, C. T., Schenk, P., Scully, J. E. C., Sunshine, J. M., Tosi, F., Williams, D. A., Wyrick, D., (2012), Pitted Terrain on Vesta and Implications for the Presence of Volatiles, Science, 338, 246–249. *Denevi, Brett W., Koeber, Steven D., Robinson, Mark S., Garry, W. Brent, Hawke, B. Ray, Tran, Thanh N., Lawrence, Samuel J., Keszthelyi, Laszlo P., Barnouin, Olivier S., Ernst, Carolyn M., Tornabene, Livio L., (2012), Physical constraints on impact melt properties from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images, Icarus, 219, 665–675. *Denevi, Brett W., Robinson, Mark S., Solomon, Sean C., Murchie, Scott L., Blewett, David T., Domingue, Deborah L., McCoy, Timothy J., Ernst, Carolyn M., Head, James W., Watters, Thomas R., Chabot, Nancy L., (2009), The Evolution of Mercury's Crust: A Global Perspective from MESSENGER, Science, 324, 613–618. *Denevi, B. W., Lucey, P. G., Sherman, S. B., (2008), Radiative transfer modeling of near-infrared spectra of lunar mare soils: Theory and measurement, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 113. *Denevi, B. W., Robinson, M. S., (2008), Mercury's albedo from Mariner 10: Implications for the presence of ferrous iron, Icarus, 197, 239–246. *Denevi, B. W., Lucey, P. G., Hochberg, E. J., Steutel, D., (2007), Near-infrared optical constants of pyroxene as a function of iron and calcium content, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 112.

References

External links

*Exploring Space Lecture Series at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The New Moon. Recent Advances in Lunar Science
presented by Brett Denevi.
Brett Denevi blog publications for the LROC initiative
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