Charles Wood

Charles Wood

(Lunar scientist)

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[#Charles Wood Charles Wood]

[#Charles Wood-Lunar Work Lunar Work]

[#Charles Wood-Where & When Where & When]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information Personal Information]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information-Photo Photo]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information-Birth Birth]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information-Death Death]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information-Education Education]

[#Charles Wood-Personal Information-Current Contact Information/Websites Current Contact Information/Websites]

[#Charles Wood-Publications Publications]

[#Charles Wood-Additional Information Additional Information]

Lunar Work

Catalog lunar craters in 1960s.
  Discover and describe lunar basins with Bill Hartmann, 1971
  Crater depths, diameters and morphologies in 1970s
  Lunar popularizer 1990s and beyond 
 
 

Where & When

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
 

• 2005- : Executive Director, Center for Educational Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV 26003
• 2004- : Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, 85719
• 2001-2003: Director of Education, Columbia University - Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ, 85623
• 1991-2000: Director, North Dakota Space Grant & NASA EPSCoR Programs, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
• 1991-1994: Director, Earth System Science Institute, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
• 1990-2000: Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Chair, Dept of Space Studies, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202
• 1985-1989: Chief, Space Shuttle Earth Observations Office NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058
• 1980-1985: Space Scientist, Experimental Planetology Branch NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058
• 1979-1980: Senior Research Associate (Rift Tectonics), National Research Council, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
• 1978-1979: Smithsonian Research Fellow (Volcanology) Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
• 1975-1978: Graduate Research Assistant (Planetary Geology) Department of Geological Science, Brown University, Providence, RI
• 1973-1975: Assistant Professor (Research) Geophysical Observatory, Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• 1969-1973: Graduate Research Assistant (Planetary science) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 8572l
• 1969: Wonderlusting thru Africa, the Near East and Europe
• 1967-1968: Volunteer Teacher, Peace Corps, Kenya
• 1962-1966: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Lunar mapping) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Personal Information

Photo

[/Warner%2034 Warner #201], [/Warner%2035 205 & 207]

Birth

yes
 
 

Death

not yet
 
 

Education

1965 BS (Astronomy); 1972 MS (Geophysics) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  1977 MS (Geology); 1979 PhD (Planetary Geology) Brown University, Providence, RI
 
 

Current Contact Information/Websites

• LPOD
• Chuck Wood's Moon
• The-Moon Wiki
• E-mail: tychocrater@yahoo.com

Publications

• Book The Modern Moon: A Personal View, Charles A. Wood, Sky Publishing Corp., 2003. ISBN 0-933346-99-9.
• Book Volcanoes of North America - United States and Canada, Charles A. Wood & Jürgen Kienle, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Book Astronaut's Guide to Impact Craters, Richard Grieve, Charles A. Wood and others, Lunar & Planetary Institute
• Papers and articles from NASA ADS

Additional Information

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