HERBERT  V.  FREY

Herbert.V.Frey@nasa.gov      301-614-6468 (voice)


CURRENT POSITION:
Chief, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Planetary geology and geophysics, overland altimetry/topography, Crustal magnetic anomalies, early planetary crustal evolution, comparative planetology

EDUCATION:     1968 - BA (Astronomy), Haverford College, Haverford, PA
      1977 - PhD (Astronomy), University of Maryland, College Park, MD
[Thesis:  Crustal Evolution in the Early Earth:  Basin-forming Impacts,
Crustal Dichotomy, and Plate Tectonics]
	
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
	1977 - 1979	Research Associate, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and Astronomy
Program, University of Maryland College Park
	1979 - 1989	Staff Scientist, Geophysics Branch, NASA/GSFC
	1979 - 1979	Associate Editor (Planetology) IUGG Quadrennial Report
	1981 - 1991	Assistant Project Scientist, Crustal Dynamics Project, NASA/GSFC
	1988 - 1991	Investigations Manager, Crustal Dynamics Project, NASA/GSFC
	1989 - 1989	Program Manager (acting), Geodynamics Program, NASA Headquarters
	1989 - 1989	Convenor, Coolfont Workshop on NASA Solid Earth Science
	1989 - 1992	Staff Scientist, Geodynamics Branch, NASA/GSFC
	1992 - 1994	Study Scientist, Gravity and Magnetic Earth Surveyor (GAMES)
	1996 -		Manager, Solid Earth & Natural Hazards Program Support Office
	2001 -	2001	Chairman, Mars Data Analysis Program Review Panel
	2001 - 2004	Manager, Mars Data Analysis and Mars Fundamental Research Programs
(NASA HQ)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2005 Solomon, S.C., O. Aharonson, J.M. Aurnou, W.B. Banerdt, M.H. Carr, A.J. Dombard, H.V. Frey, M.P. Golombek, S.A. Hauck II, J.H. Head III, B.M. Jakosky, C.L. Johnson, P.J. McGovern, G.A. Neumann, R.J. Phillips, D.E. Smith and M.T. Zuber, New perspectives on ancient Mars, Science 307, 1214-1220.
2005 Buczkowski, D.L., H.V. Frey, J.H. Roark and G.E. McGill, Buried impact craters, a topographic analysis of quasi-circular depressions, Utopia Basin, Mars, J. Geophys. Res. 110, E03007, doi:10.1029/2004JE002324, 2005.
2002 Frey, H.V., R.J. Roark, K.M. Schockey, E.L. Frey and S.E.H. Sakimoto, Ancient lowlands on Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, 1384, doi:10.1029/2001GL013832.
2001 Bradley, B.A., S.E.H. Sakimoto, H. Frey and J.R. Zimbelman, The Medusae Fossae Formation, Mars: new views f rom Mars Global Surveyor data, J. Geophys. Res. (Planets) vol, ppp-ppp.
2000 Purucker, M., D. Ravat, H. Frey, C. Voorhies,T. Sabaka and M. Acuna, An altitude-normalized magnetic map of Mars and its interpretation, Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 2449-2452.
1999 Frey, H.V., S.E.H. Sakimoto and J.H. Roark, Discovery of a 450 km diameter, multi-ring basin on Mars through analysis of MOLA data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1657-1660.
1999 Sakimoto, S.E.H., H.V. Frey, J.B. Garvin and J.H. Roark, Topography, roughness and slope properties of the Medusae Fossae Formation from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Data, J. Geophys. Res. (Planets) 104, 24141-24144.
1998 Frey, H.V., S.E.H. Sakimoto and J.H. Roark, The MOLA topographic signature of the crustal dichotomy boundary zone on Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4409-4412.
1996 Frey, H.V., B.G. Bills, R.S. Nerem and J.H. Roark , The isostatic state of martian topography, Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, 721-724.
1995 Stockman, S.A. and H.V. Frey, Noachian and Hesperian modification of the original Chryse impact basin topography, Geophys. Res. Lett. 22, 1269-1272.