Curriculum Vitae
updated July 2026
updated July 2026
2020, PhD University of Maryland, College Park Geology Dept. Advisor: Nicholas Schmerr
2013, BA Boston University Major: Geophysics and Planetary Sciences Minor: Mechanical Engineering
2023-| Assistant Research Professor, University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
2022-2023| Geophysicist, USGS Earthquake Science Center
2020-2022 |Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA
2020- | Dragonfly Science Team Associate
2015- | InSight Science Team Collaborator
2015-2020 |Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maryland College Park, MD
2016 | NASA Intern, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
2014-2015 |Lecturer and Grader, Rutgers University
2013-2014 |Technical Assistant, Columbia Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
2011-2013 |Undergraduate Research Assistant, Boston University Center for Space Physics
2012| NASA PGGURP Intern, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
2010-2012 |Undergraduate Research Assistant, Boston University, Earth Sciences Department
2022| Seismological Society of America Early Career Travel Grant
2018-2020 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)
2015-2020 | Dean’s Fellowship - University of Maryland
2019 | Seismological Society of America (SSA) Travel Grant
2019 | Goldhaber Travel Grant- University of Maryland
2017 | Best Pre-Candidate Graduate Student Talk - University of Maryland
2017, 2018, 2019 | ESSIC Travel Grant - University of Maryland
2013 | Center for Space Physics Prize - Boston University
2010-2013 | Dean's List - Boston University
Marusiak, A.G, D. DellaGiustina, B. Avenson, .... S.H. Bailey (accepted, SSR). "A Broadband Seismometer for Planetary Exploration of Airless Bodies"
D. DellaGiustina, B. Avenson, D. Kim, A.G. Marusiak, ... S.H. Bailey (accepted, SSR). "An Optical Short-period Seismometer for Planetary Exploration."
Rodriguez, L. E, Weber, J. M., Cable, M., L, …. Marusiak, A.G., … Ono, M., (2025) “A roadmap for the Exploration of Enceladus” JGR: Planets.130, e2024JE008907. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008907
Weber, J. M., Rodriguez, L.E., Cable, M. L., … Marusiak, A.G, … Perl, S. M (2025) “Architectures and Instruments for Enceladus Exploration” JGR: Planets. 130, e2024JE008908. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008908
Bryant, A., Panning, M. P., Marusiak, A. G., (2024) “Long Period Seismology on Titan in the Presence of a Methane Clathrate Lid.” Earth and Space Sciences. doi:10.1029/2024EA003703
R.L. Ballouz, H. Agrusa, O.S. Barnouin, …, A. Marusiak, …, and Y. Tang. (2024) “Shaking and Tumbling: Short- and Long-Timescale Mechanisms for Resurfacing of Near-Earth Asteroid Surfaces from Planetary Tides and Predictions for the 2029 Earth Encounter by (99942) Apophis”. PSJ.
Schurmeier, L. R., Brouwer, G. E., Kay, J. P., Fagents, S.A, Marusiak, A.G., Vance, S. (2024) “Impact Crater Relaxation Caused by An Insulating Methane Clathrate Crust on Titan” PSJ. 5 21.1 doi:10.3847/PSJ/ad7018
DellaGiustina, D.N., Ballouz, R.L., Walsh, K.J, Marusiak, A.G, Bray, V.J, and Bailey, S.H. (2024) “Seismology of Rubble-pile Asteroids in Binary Systems” MNRAS
Marusiak, A.G., Tharimena, S., Panning, M.P., Stähler, S, Vance, S.D, Boehm, C., Van Driel, M. (2023) “Estimating the 3D structure of the Enceladus ice shell from flexural and Crary waves”. EPSL, 603, 117984, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117984
Fernando, B., Daubar, I., Irving, J., Johnson, C., Marusiak, A., Baker, M., Stanley, S. (2022) “Inclusion of early-career researchers in space missions”. Nature Astronomy. 6, 1339–1341, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01861-2
Marusiak, A.G, Vance, S.D., Panning, M.P., Bryant, A., Hesse, M., Carnahan, E., Journaux, B. (2022) "The effects of methane clathrates on the thermal and seismic profile of Titan’s icy lithosphere". Planetary Science Journal, 3 ,167, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac787e
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P, Vance, S.D, Nunn, C., Stähler, S., Tharimena, S. (2022) “Seismic detection of euroquakes originating from Europa's silicate interior” Earth and Space Science, 9, e2021EA002041. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002041
Marusiak, A.G., N. C. Schmerr, B. Avenson, D. DellaGiustina, S. H. Bailey, V. J. Bray, …, R. Weber (2022) "The Detection of Seismicity on Icy Ocean Worlds by Single Station and Small-Aperture Seismometer Arrays" Earth and Space Sciences, 9, e2021EA002065. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002065
Marusiak, A. G., Vance, S., Panning, M.P., Běhounková M. , Byrne, P. K., C,G., Daswani, M. M., et al. (2021). “Exploration of Icy Ocean Worlds Using Geophysical Approaches.” The Planetary Science Journal 2 (4): 150. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac127
Marusiak, A.G., Nicholas C. Schmerr, Danielle DellaGiustina, Brad Avenson, S. Hop Bailey, Veronica J. Bray, Juliette I. Broadbeck, Chris Carr, Peter H. Dahl, Namrah Habib, Erin Pettit, Natalie Wagner, Renee Weber. (2021) The Deployment of the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) in Northwest Greenland: An Analog Experiment for Icy Ocean World Seismic Deployments. Seismological Research Letters. DOI: 10.1785/0220200291.
Stähler, S., Khan, A., Banerdt, B., Lognonne, P., … A.G Marusiak, …Smrekar,S., (2021) Seismic Detection of the Martian Core. Science 448 (July): 443–48. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi7730
Maguire, R., Schmerr, N., Pettit, E., Riverman, K., Gardner, C., DellaGiustina, D., ... Marusiak, A. G.,...and Bailey, H.: (2021) Geophysical constraints on the properties of a subglacial lake in northwest Greenland, The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-321.
Moore, K., Courville, S., Ferguson, S., Schoenfeld, A., Llera, K., Agrawal, R., … Marusiak, A., … Budney, C. (2021) Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object. Planetary and Space Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.105137
Marusiak, A.G., Nicholas C. Schmerr, Danielle DellaGiustina, S. Hop Bailey, Veronica J. Bray, Erin Pettit, Peter H. Dahl, Brad Avenson, Chris Car,Natalie Wagner, Renee Weber. (2020) The Deployment of the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) on Gulkana Glacier, Alaska. Seismological Research Letters DOI: 10.1785/0220190328
Marusiak, A.G., Schmerr, N.C., Banks, M.E., Daubar, I.J., (2020.) Terrestrial Single-Station Analog for Constraining the Martian Core and Deep Interior: Implications for InSight. Icarus 335, 113396. DOI 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113396
Nunn, C., Garcia, R., Nakamura, Y., Marusiak, A. G., Kawamura, T., Sun, D., … Zhu, P. ( 2020) Lunar Seismology: A Data and Instrumentation Review. Space Science Reviews DOI: 10.1007/s11214-020-00709-3
Panning, M. P, Pike, T., Lognonne, P., Banerdt W., Murdoch, N.,… Marusiak, A.,…Warren, T., (2020) On-deck seismology: Lessons from InSight for future planetary seismology. JGR Planets. DOI: 10.1029/2019JE006353
Garcia, R., Khan, A., Drilleau, M., Margerin, L., Kawamura, T.,...Marusiak, A G.., … Zhu, (2019) Lunar Seismology: An Update on Interior Structure Models. Space Science Reviews. 215: 50. DOI: 10.1007/s11214-019-0613-y
Mendillo, M., Marusiak, A.G., Withers, P., Morgan, D., Gurnett, D., (2013). A new semiempirical model of the peak electron density of the Martian ionosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 5361-5365 DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057631.
Mendillo, M., Narvaez, C., Marusiak, A.G., (2013). Are ionospheric storms the same during different solar cycles? Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics 118, 6795-6805. DOI:10.1002/2013JA019102
M. Knapmeyer, A.G. Marusiak, A. Horleston, B. Knapmeyer-Endrun, C. Nunn (2022) Seismology Across the Solar System. Article for the Centennial of the Deutche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft e.V. (DGG).
S. D. Vance, M. Behounkova, B. G. Bills, P. Byrne, O. Cadek, J. Castillo-Rogez … A. G. Marusiak …S. Wang. (2020) Distributed Geophysical Exploration of Enceladus and Other Ocean Worlds. A White Paper for the NRC Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.a07234f4
S. D. Vance, B. G. Bills, K. Hughson, T. Hurford, S. Kedar, A. G. Marusiak, …G. Tobie. (2020) Planetary Seismology: The Solar System’s Ocean Worlds. A White Paper for the NRC Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.ca102d2f
The scientific rationale for deployment of a long-lived geophysical network on the Moon. R. Weber, C. N. Neal, R. Grimm, … A.G Marusiak, … M. Zuber. DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.674dcfdf
P. Lognonné, N. Schmerr, D. Antonangeli, S.H. Bailey, B. Banerdt, M.E. Banks ... A.G. Marusiak .... R. Yamada. (2020) Seismology on Artemis III: Exploration and Science Goals. A White Paper for Artemis Science
UCLA, 27 January 2026, “Lunar Environment Monitoring Station for Artemis III”.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 14 July 2025. "Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) for Artemis III Deployed Instruments."
University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 23 April 2024. "Lunar Seismology: Apollo's Legacy and the new Artemis Era"
Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW) Lecture Series. 5 June 2023. Season 3, Episode 4 Exploring Ocean Worlds Through Analogs: Combined approaches to clathrates. “Clathrate effects on geophysical properties and detection”
Georgia Tech, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 12th January 2033. Exploration of Icy Ocean Worlds using Seismology.
University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. 7th December 2022. Exploration of Planetary Bodies using Seismology
Penn State University, 17th November 2022. Exploration of Planetary Bodies using Seismology
University of Colorado, Boulder. 9th November 2022. Exploration of Icy Ocean Worlds using Seismology
ETH Zurich, Planetary Geophysics Seminar, May 9th 2022. Detecting Seismicity on Icy Ocean Worlds: Lessons from fieldwork and modeling
Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington, Earth and Planetary Lab, General Seminar Series. May 2nd 2022. Detecting Seismicity on Icy Ocean Worlds: Lessons from fieldwork and modeling
The University of Iowa, Department of Earth and Environmental Seminar. 23 February, 2022. Seismic Investigations for Planetary Exploration.
JPL/Caltech High-Performance Computing Seminar, 16th February 2022. Using Gattaca to create synthetic seismograms for planetary exploration.
Auburn University Department of Geosciences Colloquium, 8th February 2022. Exploration of Planetary Bodies using Seismology.
UC Santa Cruz Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminar, 4th February 2022. Planetary Seismology on Icy Ocean Worlds
Texas A&M Geology and Geophysics Dept. Seminar 24th January 2022. Seismic Investigations for Planetary Investigations
Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW) Lecture Series, Season 2 Episode 2, Geophysics and Habitability. June 21 2021. Geophysical Exploration of Potentially Habitable Worlds
JPL Postdoc Seminar Series, May 27th 2021. Preparing for Icy Ocean World Seismology: Event Detection and Internal Structures
UCLA Geophysics, Seismology, and Tectonics Seminar, April 28th 2021. Preparing for Icy Ocean World Seismology: Modeling and Field Methods
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Webinar. 25th September 2019 "Seismology in the Solar System: The InSight Mission to Mars"
Potomac Geophysical Society, Sept. 12th, 2019. "Seismology in the Solar System: The InSight Mission to Mars"
Geological Society of Washington, February 6th, 2019. "Investigating Icy Worlds: How Greenland can help us Understand Ocean Worlds"
Public Lecture at Thule Air Force Base, August 19th 2018. "Investigating Icy Worlds: How Greenland can help us Understand Ice Covered Worlds"
Marusiak, A.G, Benna, M,....S.H. Bailey (2025). GAGE/ SAGE (invited) LEMS-A3: The Lunar Environmental Monitoring Station an Artemis III Deployed Instrument for the Seismic Exploration of the Lunar South Pole
Marusiak, A. G., M.P Panning, Bryant, A. (2024) JPGU (Invited). " The Influence of Methane Clathrates on Seismic Velocity Structure: Implications for Dragonfly"
Marusiak, A. G. (2024). Flight Ready Seismometers for the Moon and Beyond. UASI Symposium 2024
Marusiak, A. .G, DellaGiustina, D., Bailey, S.H, … Ballouz, R. (2023) Seismic Technology for Artemis Geophysical Station (STAGS): sensors to advance Artemis science objectives. AGU Fall Meeting
Marusiak, A.G, Kaven, J. O., Hopp, C., Nakata, N., Robertson, M., (2022) Induced Seismicity Template Matching and Location Determination at Geothermal Monitoring Sites in Nevada. AGU Fall Meeting
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, S.D., Stähler,S., Tharimena, S. (2022) Detection of Seismic Events Originating from Europa's Silicate Interior: Implications for Interior Dynamics. AbSciCon.
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, S.D., Stähler,S., Tharimena, S. (2022) Detection of Seismic Events Originating From Europa's Silicate Interior. SSA Meeting.
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, A. Bryant, S.D., Carnahan E., Hesse, M.A., Journaux, B.R. (2022) Methane Clathrate Effects on Seismic Propagation Within Titan. LPSC LIII
Marusiak, A.G, M. Baker, I.J Dauber, J. Irving, B. Fernando, S. Stanley, InSight DIWG, InSight’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (2022), LPSC LIII
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, S.D., Stähler,S., Tharimena, S. (2021) Can a Seismometer Detect Events from Europa’s Silicate Interior? Yes, if … AGU Fall Meeting. doi:10.1002/essoar.10508980.1
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, S.D., Carnahan E., Hesse, M.A., Journaux, B.R. (2021) Effects of Methane Clathrates on Thermal and Seismic Profiles LPSC LII, abstract 1151.
Marusiak, A.G, Panning, M.P., Vance, S.D. (2020) The Influence and Detectability of Methane Clathrates on Seismic Velocity Structure: Applications to Titan and Icy Ocean Worlds. AGU Fall Meeting.
Marusiak, A.G., Schmerr N.C. , Avenson, B., Bailey, S. H., Bray, V. J., DellaGiustina, D. N., …. Weber, R. C. (2020). Cluster Analysis of Thermal Icequakes Using using the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS): Implications for Ocean World Seismology, LPSC LI, Abstract 1424.
Marusiak, A.G., Schmerr, N. C., Bailey, H., DellaGiustina, D., Bray, V. J., Weber, R., ….Wagner N.(2019). Ambient Seismicity on Europan Analogs using the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS). AGU Fall Meeting.
Marusiak, A. G., Schmerr, N. C., Bailey, S. H., DellaGiustina, D. N., Bray, V. J., Dahl, P., … Weber, R. C. (2019). Location of Seismicity with a Small Aperture Seismometer Array: Implications for Seismology with an Ocean World Lander. In 50th LPSC. Woodlands, TX, Abstract 1546.
Marusiak, A. G., Schmerr, N., DellaGiustina, D., Bailey, H., Bray, V., Broadbeck, J., … Avenson, B. (2018). The Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) in Greenland: Testing Instrument Performance on an Icy World Analog. AGU Fall Meeting 2018. Washington D.C
Marusiak A. G, N. C. Schmerr, R. C. Weber, D. N. DellaGiustina, S. H. Bailey, V. J. Bray, E. C. Pettit, C. Carr, N. Wagner, P. Dahl, B. Avenson, M. Siegler, (2018). SIIOS in Alaska - Active Source Comparative Test for Europan Lander Seismometers, LPSC XLIX, Houston, TX.
Marusiak, A.G., Schmerr, N.C., Banks, M.E., Daubar, I.J., (2017). Terrestrial Single-Station Analog for Constraining the Martian Deep Interior., LPSCXLVIII, Houston. TX.
Marusiak, A.G., Schmerr, N.C., Banks, M.E., Daubar, I.J., (2016). Terrestrial Single-Station Analog for the Detection of the Martian Core, LPSCXLVII, Houston. TX.
2017 | University of Maryland, College Park, MD Teaching Assistant for GEOL 110: Introduction to Geology Lab
2016, 2017 | University of Maryland, College Park, MD Teaching Assistant for GEOL 200: Earth’s Fury
2015 | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Grader, Volcanoes and Earthquakes
2014 | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Teaching Assistant, Geochemistry
2010-2014| Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth Teaching Assistant for Astronomy (Bristol, RI 2010), Astrophysics (Baltimore, MD 2013, Lancaster, PA 2014)
2025- Associate Editor JGR: Planets
2023 - Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) Science Co-Lead
2017-2019 College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Graduate Student Council, Geology Dept. Representative
Review Panels:
NASA Panel Reviewer (x4)
NASA Panel Exec Secretary (x3)
Journal Reviews:
MNRAS
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Planetary Science Journal (x3)
GRL (x3)
Icarus (x3)
Planetary Data Systems
JGR Planets (x3)
Earth and Space Sciences
Conferences:
2021, 2022 AGU Session Primary Convener
2022 SSA Session Co-lead
2022 AbSciCon, Session Co-convener
2022 Future Leaders of Ocean Worlds (FLOW) Communications Chair, Conference Chair
2019, 2022 Judge, Dwornik Award at LPSC
2021 AGU OSPA Judge
2019 AGU Session Co-Convener
2024 | Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Public Lecture Series
2024 | Tucson Astronomy Association public lecture
2024 | UA's Sands Club Eclipse Day
2020| Visiting Expert for Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ, Virtual Camp
2016-2019| Volunteer for Geology Department at University of Maryland, Maryland Day Open House
2019-2020| Skype A Scientist
2019| Two Scientists Walk into a Bar, Denizens Brewing Co.
2019| Expert-Is-In Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
2018| Volunteer for IRIS at USA Science & Engineering Festival
On Artemis and LEMS
2026| FOX 10 Phoenix, 30 March 2026. Artemis and Arizona
2026| KVOI 1030AM The Voice. The Morning Voice. February 2026
2024| UA Press Release Humans will again set foot on the moon; this time, they'll have UArizona science in tow April 2024
On Lunar Exploration
2023| KNX News 97.1 FM Los Angeles radio interview. American Spacecraft could be causing Moonquakes September 2023
2023 | CNN: Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module causing tremors on the Moon September 2023, Jackie Wattles
2023 | CNN: India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon August 2023, Jackie Wattles
On Planetary Seismology:
2022 | Scientific American article: Seismic Missions Could Reveal the Solar System’s Underworlds July 2022, Jonathan O'Callaghan
On InSight:
2019| Interview on 21 WPTA Fort Wayne, Indiana. May 20 2019.
On SIIOS deployment:
2021 | SRL press release: Icy Ocean Worlds Seismometer passes further testing in Greenland March 17 2021. Becky Ham
2020 | IRIS Science Highlight: Exploring icy worlds using seismology September 30th, 2020. Dr. Alka Tripathy-Lang and Dr. Wendy Bohon
2019 | AGU Podcast: 3rd Pod from the Sun: Special Release, Deviations from the Norm August 12th, 2019
2019 | Europa: The Search for Life Matthew E. Wright. UMD College of Computer, Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
2018 | AGU Guestgrammer (on instagram) for SIIIOS project Sept 20-24th 2018
2017 | UAF scientists use Gulkana Glacier for NASA research KTVA 11 - The Voice of Alaska. (2017). Retrieved January 29, 2018, from
2017 | A glacier in Interior Alaska is a testing ground for equipment intended for use in Space. Rosen, Yereth. Anchorage Daily News. 18 September (2017)
On NESSF Award:
2018 | Irene Ying. Three UMD Graduate Students Receive 2018 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
On Coronavirus and Early-Career Impacts:
2020 | Meghan Bartels. Coronavirus prevention measures take their toll on astronomy. Space.com 18 March 2020.
2023| NASA's PI Launchpad
2019| JPL's Planetary Science Summer School
2018| AGU's Sharing your Science Communications Workshop
2017| POLENET/SCAR-SERCE Glacial Seismology School
2024-| Artemis III Deployed Instrument LEMS: Science Team Member
2020-2024 | NASA Mission Dragonfly: Science Team Associate
2015-2022 | NASA Mission InSight: Science Team Collaborator
2020-| Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW) and Future Leaders of Ocean Worlds (FLOW) member
2018- | Seismology Society of America
2018- | American Geophysical Union
2016- | Geological Society of America, Planetary Sciences Division
2015-| Earth Science Women's Network
2017-2018 | International Space Science Institute (ISSI): An International Reference for Seismological Data Sets and Internal Structure Models of the Moon: Young Scientist
2015-2020 | Geological Society of Washington
2018-2020 | Potomac Geophysical Society
Expert Level: MATLAB, SAC, Adobe Creative Suite
Proficient Level: Python, Obspy, InstaSeis, AxiSem, Salvus, HPC computing