Dr. James W. Rice, Jr., Astrogeologist NASA Ames Research Center
Ph.D. Arizona State Univ.
Conducted Mars Geologic Analog Investigations on Scientific Expeditions to
Antarctica and Arctic.
Education:
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1997, Dissertation Title: Aqueous Sedimentary Basins On Mars M.S. Northeast Louisiana University, 1994, Thesis Title: Geologic Mapping Of The Darvel and Montevallo Regions of ChrysePlanitia, Mars B.S. University of Alabama, 1984 Employment: 1995-1997 Lecturer and Lab Instructor of Geology and Astronomy, Adjunct Faculty Maricopa County Community College System. 1989-1994 Organization: NASA Graduate Student Fellowship/Arizona State University Position: Astrogeologist
     
Tasks: Photogeological analysis of selected regions of
Arizona (McDowell Mountains, Parker Dune Field, and Lower Gila and Salt
Rivers) and Pinacates Volcanic Region of Mexico. These studies included
field investigations to verify ground truth, collect samples, and confirm
aerial photographic observations of various landforms such as alluvial
fans, barchan dune fields, volcanic constructs and lava flows, and fluvial
geomorphic assemblages. Conducted research and analysis of ancient
sedimentary deposits on Mars, to be used for selection of future landing
sites to satisfy geological and exobiological science issues. The NASA
Planetary Geology research involves extensive use and analysis of orbital
imagery data sets of Mars. Conducted geological field work in Antarctica
as a member of the first joint NASA-Russian Science Expedition to the
Bunger Hills Oasis. Extensive aerial photographic research was conducted
to plan sample traverses and assess regional geology of this region of
Eastern Antarctica. During this expedition I was also a member of the
SCUBA Diving Team. This involved underwater exploration and sampling of
the ice-covered lakes in this area of Antarctica. Assisted in completion
of the Mars Landing Site Catalog. Co-Author of 1:15,000,000 scale
geologic map of Callisto, a Jovian satellite, and conducted global crater
density calculations of geologic units for this moon. This map is in
press for the U.S.G.S.
1988-1993 Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Headquarters Position: Astrogeologist      Tasks: Co-Investigator with Dave Scott conducting research on: Martian Lacustrine Basins and Reassessment of Fluvial History. Conducted research on Martian drainage morphology and basin analysis. Assisted Scott and Tanaka on 1:5,000,000 scale geologic map of the Elysium Region of Mars. Worked with Scott on photogeological analysis of Viking Orbiter images of Northern plains features (polygonal terrain, whorls, mottled terrain, dunes, etc.), southern cratered highlands and valley networks on Mars. Conducted a study on possible Martian pingos in association with paleolake basins. Computer assisted image searches were utilized for this aspect of the investigation. Analyzed Landsat imagery of Antarctica Dry Valleys and Utah's Lake Bonneville Region. This research was conducted to assess these regions viability as candidate analog field sites for Martian geomorphic process studies. Worked with Dr. Masursky on Martian nomenclature study; proposed and had approved by the IAU, nomenclature for channels and craters on Mars. 1987 Organization: SRS Technologies (NASA Contractor) Position: Astrogeologist       Tasks: Conducted research and analysis for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Manned Mars Mission Study. Duties ranged from evaluating potential landing sites, Martian dust storm analysis, surface science requirements, mission operations and planning integration. This work also involved delivery of oral presentations to NASA managers and contractors on a regular basis.
Professional Service:
Convener of Mars Polar Conference, 1998. Organizing Committee Member: 2001 Mars Surveyor Landing Site Workshop, January, 1998. Geological Field Team Member: NASA Scientific Expedition to Devon Island, High Arctic Northwest Territories, Canada, 1997 Field Season. Geological Field Team Member of Marsokhod Rover Tests in Northern Arizona, November, 1996. Science Advisory Committee Member: Mars The Next Frontier for potential Television Series to be produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting System, 1996. Convener for Field Trips to the Channeled Scabland for Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, September, 1995. Geological Field Team Member: Channeled Scabland, Washington, June, 1995. Convener of NASA Conference and Field Trips entitled: Paleolacustrine Basins: Earth and Mars. Field Trips to Paleolake Bonneville Region, Utah, September, 1992. Geological Field Team Member and SCUBA Diving Team Member: First Joint U.S./Russian Scientific Expedition to The Bunger Hills Oasis, Eastern Antarctica, 1991-1992 Field Season. Publications: Journal Papers Rice, J.W., Jr., 1997, Ice Covered Lakes and Streams on Mars: Terrestrial Polar Analogs and Processes, submitted, 7th International Permafrost Conference, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Parker, T.J. and J.W. Rice, Jr., 1997, Sedimentary Geomorphology of the Ares Vallis Site, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 102, No. E11, p. 25,641-25,656. Rice, J.W., Jr. and K.S. Edgett, 1997, Catastrophic Flood Sediments in Chryse Basin, Mars, and Quincy Basin, Washington: Application of Sandar Facies Model, Mars Pathfinder Special Issue, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 102, No. E2, p. 4185-4200. Wharton, R.A., Crosby, J.M., McKay, C.P., and Rice, J.W., Jr., 1995, Paleolakes on Mars, Journal of Paleolimnology, 13, p. 267-283. Scott, D.H., Chapman, M.G., Rice, J.W., Jr., and Dohm, J.M., 1992, New Evidence of Lacustrine Basins on Mars: Amazonis and Utopia Planitiae, Proceedings of Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXII, p. 53-62. Scott, D.H. , Rice, J.W., Jr., and Dohm, J.M., 1991, Martian Lacustrine Basins and Reassessment of Fluvial History: Exobiologic Implications, Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 21, p. 189-198. U.S. Geological Survey Maps Rice, J. W., Jr., and R. A. DeHon, 1996, Geologic Map of the Darvel Quadrangle, Maja Valles Region, Mars, 1:500,000 scale, U. S. Geol. Surv. Misc. Inv. Series Map I-2432. Scott, D. H., J. M. Dohm, and J. W. Rice, Jr., 1995, Map Showing Channels and Possible Paleolake Basins, U.S. Geol. Surv. Misc. Inv. Series Map I-2461. Bender, K.R., Rice, J.W., Jr., Wilhelms, D., and Greeley, R., Geologic Map of Callisto, U.S. Geol. Surv. Misc. Inv. Series Map, 1:15,000,000 scale, in press. Edited Volumes Golombek, M. P., K. S. Edgett, and J. W. Rice, Jr., eds., 1995a, Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, LPI Tech. Rept. 95-01, Part 1, 63pp., Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Golombek, M. P., K. S. Edgett, and J. W. Rice, Jr., eds., 1995b, Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, LPI Tech. Rept. 95-01, Part 2, 47pp., Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Dissertation Rice, J.W., Jr., 1997, Aqueous Sedimentary Basins on Mars, Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Thesis Rice, J. W., Jr., 1994, The Geologic Mapping of the Darvel and Montevallo Regions of Chryse Planitia, Mars, M.S. Thesis, 53 p., Northeast Louisiana Univ., Monroe, Louisiana. Abstracts Rice, J.W., Jr., P. Lee, J. Schutt, and A. Zent, 1997, Periglacial Geomorphic Investigations: Devon Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, submitted to AGU 1997 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Rice, J. W., Jr., 1996, Elysium Basin, Mars: Intermittent or Perennial Lake from Noachian to Amazonian Time, in Conference on Early Mars: Geologic and Hydrologic Evolution, Physical and Chemical Environments, and the Implications for Life, edited by S. M. Clifford, A. H. Treiman, H. E. Newsome, and J. D. Farmer, LPI Contribution No. 916, p. 68-69, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J. W., Jr., 1996, Getting the First Crack at Noachian Clasts and Sediments: A Pathfinder's Propsectus, in Conference on Early Mars: Geologic and Hydrologic Evolution, Physical and Chemical Environments, and the Implications for Life, edited by S. M. Clifford, A. H. Treiman, H. E. Newsome, and J. D. Farmer, LPI Contribution No. 916, p. 69-70, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1996, Candidate Parent Craters for the Martian Meterorite ALH84001, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, v. 28, no. 3, p. 1058. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1995, The Geologic Mapping of the Ares Vallis Region, in Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, edited by M. P. Golombek, K. S. Edgett, and J. W. Rice, Jr., LPI Tech. Rept. 95-01, Part 1, p. 24, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr. and Edgett, K.S., 1995, Facies on Mars: A Model for the Chryse Basin Outflow Sediments Based on Analog Studies of Icelandic Sandar and the Ephrata Fan of the Channeled Scabland, Washington, in Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, edited by M. P. Golombek, K. S. Edgett, and J.W. Rice, Jr., LPI Tech. Rept. 95-01, Part 1, pp. 24-25, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., and K.S. Edgett, 1995, A Sojourner's Prospectus: Provenance of Flood-Transported Clasts at the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site, in Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop II: Characteristics of the Ares Vallis Region and Field Trips in the Channeled Scabland, Washington, edited by M.P. Golomek, K.S. Edgett, and J.W. Rice, Jr., LPI Tech. Rept. 95-01, Part 1, pp. 25-26, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Edgett, K.S. and J.W. Rice, Jr., 1995, Very Young Volcanic, Lacustrine, and Fluvial Features of the Cerberus and Elysium Basin Region, Mars: Where to Send the 1999 Mars Surveyor Lander, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXVI, p. 357-358, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J. W., Jr., 1994, Maja Valles and the Chryse Outflow Complex Sites, in Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop, edited by M. P. Golombek, LPI Tech. Rept. 94-04, p. 36, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J. W., Jr., 1994, Marte Valles Site, in Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop, edited by M. P. Golombek, LPI Tech. Rept. 94-04, p. 36, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1994, Polar Beach Processes, Lunar Planetary Science Conference XXV, p.1123-1124, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J. W., Jr., 1993, The Martian Valley Networks: Origin by Niveo-Fluvial Processes, Workshop on Early Mars , edited by S. Squyres, MSATT LPI Tech Report 93-03: p. 22-23, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1992, Antarctic Lakes (Above and Beneath the Ice Sheet): Analogs for Mars, in MSATT Workshop on the Polar Regions of Mars: Geology, Glaciology, and Climate History, LPI Tech. Rept. 92-08, Part I, p. 23-24, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1990, Mars Rover and Sample Return Landing Site at Maja Valles, Mars, NASA Landing Site Catalog, R. Greeley (Ed.), p. 51-53, NASA Reference Publication 1238. Rice, J.W., Jr., 1989, The Geology of the Maja Valles Region, Mars (MTM 20052), Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XX, p. 898-899, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas. Rice, J.W., Jr., Archibald, S.M., DeHon, R.A., 1989 , Lower Maja Valles, NASA TM 4130, p. 325. Articles Edgett, K.S., J.W. Rice, Jr., M.P. Golombek, 1996, Scientists, Educators Prepare for Mars Pathfinder Mission, Eos Transactions, AGU v. 77, no. 2, p. 9-10. |
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