Norbert Schorghofer Serves as Hawai’i Space Grant Mentor

Norbert Schorghofer of the Institute for Astronomy and NASA Astrobiology Institute has served as a Hawai’i Space Grant mentor to Fellows studying geologic processes on the surface of the planet Mars. He is first author on a newly published paper in Icarus about slope streaks on Mars, which includes two co-authors from CalTech and co-author Lisa Tatsumi, a Hawai’i Space Grant Fellow (Spring and Fall 2006). The complete reference is: Schorghofer, N., Aharonson, O., Gerstell, F. F., and Tatsumi, L. (2007) Three Decades of Slope Streak Activity on Mars, Icarus, v. 191, p. 132-140..