Mentoring

Daniel Kurlander (MIT '26)

05/2023 – Current 

Daniel is working on creating a web-based interface to efficiently query and visualize data acquired by the Rosetta mission for Comet 67P. This interface can be found at comet.photos. 

Daniel's incredible work earned him the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data and was also presented at the DPS '23 conference (Link to Abstract). He has also submitted a paper describing how the tool works to The Journal of Open Source Software.

Matthew Moser (Brown University '27)

04/2024 – Current 

Matt is using RoSCo to create a database of surface changes associated with outbursts on Comet 67P. More details about this work can be found here. 

Matt presented his work at the EPSC-DPS 2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, Finland (Link to Abstract) and has also submitted a manuscript describing his results in Nature. Matt's work earned him the Student Research Award from the NASA-Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium as well as Brown University's Advanced Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Pascal Kim (Brown University '28)

01/2025 – Current 

Pascal is using spectral data for the surface of Comet 67P to generate a database of the spatial and temporal distribution of exposed volatiles. This database will be crucial to test existing/future thermal models for cometary surfaces. More details about this work can be found here.

Eads Fouché (Amherst College '25, Brown University '30)

06/2024 – Current 

Eads is using RoSCo to create visualizations mapping surface activity onto the complex bi-lobate shape of Comet 67P. This work will provide a crucial database for modeling sublimation-driven activity on the comet, more details can be found here. 

Eads presented his progress at the AGU '24 conference (Link to Abstract) and is continuing the project as a PhD student at Brown. 

Akemi Takeuchi (University of Maryland '26)

01/2025 – Current 

Akemi is using the Ames Stereo Pipeline's shape-from-shading tool to complete the measurements of sediment re-distribution volumes over comet 67P’s 2015 perihelion passage. More details on this work can be found here.

Katherine Victor (Colgate University '25)

05/2023 – 09/2023 

Katie worked on using the Ames Stereo Pipeline's shape-from-shading tool to generate high-resolution topography maps for select regions on Comet 67P. More details on this work can be found here.

Katie presented her results at the AGU '23 conference (Link to Abstract). 

Adam Issah (Cornell University '25)

01/2023 – 05/2023

Adam assisted with using the Ames Stereo Pipeline's shape-from-shading tool to generate high-resolution topography maps for the Imhotep region on Comet 67P.

Adam's contributions were published in a recent paper. 

Fiona Powers Özyurt (Wellesley College '22)

05/2021 – 05/2023

Fiona assisted with using the Ames Stereo Pipeline's shape-from-shading tool to generate high-resolution topography maps for the Imhotep region on Comet 67P. Fiona also assisted in creating an image degradation pipeline to degrade Rosetta OSIRIS images to resolutions matching previous cometary flybys (see example).

Fiona's contributions were published in a recent paper.