Research

Model of sedimentary fan building on Mars. After Limaye et al., 2023.

Our research on Mars is motivated by 1) a desire to test our understanding of sedimentological and geomorphological processes under varied environmental conditions, and 2) to constrain the past and present potential habitability of the planet. In most projects, we test hypotheses about Mars’ surface with remote sensing observations and numerical simulation results.
In the past, we have investigated the origin of the Hypanis Fan system and tested ideas about size-dependent crater preservation bias in fluvial stratigraphy. We are interested in most problems involving fluvial and deltaic processes and stratigraphy on the surface of Mars.

Group publications in this theme

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2. Limaye, A. B., Adler, J. B., Moodie, A. J., Whipple, K. X., & Howard, A. D. (2023). Effect of Standing Water on Formation of Fan-Shaped Sedimentary Deposits at Hypanis Valles, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. doi: 10.1029/2022GL102367
3. Wu, C., Kim, W., Herring, R., Cardenas, B., Dong, T., Ma, H., Moodie, A. J., Tsai, F. T. C., Li, A., & Nittrouer, J. A. (2023). Pace of meandering and avulsion set river sinuosity near coast on Earth and Mars. Nature Geoscience. doi: 10.1038/s41561-023-01231-1