Bruce G. Bills  
			Bruce.G.Bills@nasa.gov	858-822-0767

CURRENT POSITION

	Geophysicist, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory
	Visiting Research Geophysicist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

RESEARCH AREAS

	Planetary geodynamics, geodetic paleolimnology, 
      orbital, rotational and climatic interactions


EDUCATION  

	1973 – B.S. (mathematics/physics) Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
	1981 – Ph.D. (planetary science) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
		Thesis: A Harmonic and Statistical Analysis of the Topography of 
		            the Earth, Moon and Mars

PREVIOUS POSITIONS 
 
1977-1979	Senior Engineer, Tracking and Orbit Determination Group, 
        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA	
      1979-1984	Senior Scientist, Planetary Dynamics and Geophysics Group, 
        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
      1984-1990	Staff Scientist, 
        Lunar and Planetary Institute,   Houston, TX
	1990-1992	Supervisory Geophysicist, Geodynamics Branch,
	  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
      1992-present	Geophysicist, Geodynamics Branch,
	  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
1991-1998	Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
	  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1998-present	Visiting Research Geophysicist
			  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS  

1994	Bills, B.G., D.R. Currey, and G.A. Marshall,
Viscosity estimates for the crust and upper mantle from patterns
  of lacustrine shoreline deformation in the eastern Great Basin,
    J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,059-22,086.
1999	Adams, K.D.,  S.G. Wesnousky,  and B.G. Bills,
  Isostatic rebound, active faulting, and potential geomorphic effects
    in the Lake Lahontan Basin, Nevada and California
      Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 111, 1739-1756.
2003	Comstock, R.L., and B.G. Bills (2003),
  A solar system survey of forced librations in longitude,
    J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 108, 5100. 
2004	Egbert, G.D., R.D. Ray, and B.G. Bills,
  Numerical modeling of the global semidiurnal tide in 
    the present day and in the last glacial maximum,
      J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 109, C03003. 
2005	B.G. Bills,
  Free and forced obliquities of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter,
    Icarus, 175, 233-247	
2005	B.G. Bills, and R.L. Comstock,
  Spatial and temporal patterns of solar eclipses by Phobos on Mars,
    J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 110, E04004.
2005	B.G. Bills, and R.L. Comstock,
  Forced obliquity variations of Mercury,
    J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 110, E04006.
2005	Bills, B.G., G.A. Neumann, D.E. Smith, and M.T.Zuber,
  Improved estimate of tidal dissipation within Mars from 
    MOLA observations of the shadow of Phobos,
      J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 110, E07004.