Peter Englert
Email: penglert@hawaii.edu
Department: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
Major Research Area: Planetary Exploration and Technology
Prospective Student Project:
Mars Surface Process Analog Studies in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Kent David Kobayashi
Email: kentko@hawaii.edu
Department: Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences
Major Research Area: Controlled Environment Agriculture, Artificial lighting and Hydroponic vegetables, space farming Prospective Student Project:
Effects of Different Types of Artificial Lighting on Growing Food Crops. Growing Crops in Simulated Martian Soil
Tyler Robbins Ray
Email: raytyler@hawaii.eduPeter Sadowski
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Major Research Area:
3D Printing / Wearable Sensors
Prospective Student Project: Possibly a New Sampling Mechanism for the Upcoming Venus Mission.
Peter Sadowski
Email: peter.sadowski@hawaii.edu
Department: Information and Computer Science
Major Research Area: Machine Learning
Philip von Doetinchem
Email: philipvd@hawaii.edu
Department: Physics & Astronomy
Major Research Area: Cosmic Rays, Dark Matter, Particle Physics
Prospective Student Project:
Studies of Atmospherical backgrounds for Cosmic Antiparticle Searches, Silicon Detector Calibration, Data Visualization.
Ralf I. Kaiser
Email: ralfk@hawaii.edu
Department: Chemistry
Major Research Area: Planetary Science, Astrobiology, KBO, Mars, Moon, Icy moons
Prospective Student Project: https://www.uhmreactiondynamics.org/
Eric Gaidos
Email: gaidos@hawaii.edu
Department: Earth Sciences
Major Research Area: Planetary Science, Exoplanet Astronomy, Astrobiology
Rui Sun
Email: ruisun@hawaii.edu
Department: Chemistry
Major Research Area: Reaction Dynamics
Gary S Varner
Email: varner@hawaii.edu
Department: Physics and Astronomy (and Cooperating Faculty, Electrical Engineer)
Major Research Area:
Instrumentation for Particle Astrophysics Research Prospective Student Project: PUEO ultra-high energy neutrino suborbital mission, Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope; many aspects of the instrument development including ASIC and circuit board design, software and firmware development, field deployment work can make excellent HSGS projects.
Klaus D Sattler
Email: sattler@hawaii.edu
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Major Research Area: Nanoscience
Prospective Student Project:
Design and Production of Ultralight Nanomaterials for Space-Related Applications
Trevor C. Sorensen
Email: sorensen@hsfl.hawaii.edu
Department: Hawaii Space Flight Labatory
Prospective Student Project: The Future of Space Mission Operations Using a Multi-nodal Archi Trevor's Project Description-tcs (click to view)