Dr. Shawn Wright

Senior Research Scientist I

Institute of Meteoritics

MSC03 2050

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone: 505-277-3842

Fax: 505-277-3577

Email: spwright /at/ unm /dot/ edu

Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2009

M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 2003

B.S., Sul Ross State University, 2000

Research interests: Impact cratering in the inner solar system; fieldwork at several terrestrial impact sites such as Santa Fe in north-central New Mexico; geologic history and composition of the surface of Mars and the Moon through remote sensing/spectroscopy, lander/rover measurements, sample analysis, and terrestrial analogs; comparison of shergottite data to remote data for insight into bias of Martian meteorite spallation/delivery, including shock pressure; the agreement or lack thereof of models, experiments, and observations (field data) of the impact process

Recent Publications

S.P. Wright, P.R. Christensen, and T.G. Sharp (2010) Thermal emission spectroscopy of shocked basalt from Lonar Crater, India: Implications for Mars orbital and lander data, J. Geophys. Res., in review.

Vesconi, M., S.P. Wright, M. Spagnuolo, R.W. Jacob, C. Cerrutti, L. Garcia, E. Fernandez, W.A. Cassidy (2010) Comparison of four meteorite penetration craters in the Campo del Cielo, Argentina crater field, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, in review.

Ruff, S. W., P. R. Christensen, D. L. Blaney, W. H. Farrand, J. R. Johnson, J. R. Michalski, J. E. Moersch, S. P. Wright, and S. W. Squyres (2006), The rocks of Gusev Crater as viewed by the Mini-TES instrument, J. Geophys. Res., 111, E12S18, doi:10.1029/2006JE002747.

Wright, S.P. and M.S. Ramsey, Thermal infrared data analyses of Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications for Mars spaceborne data from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, J. Geophys. Res., 111(E1), doi:10.1029/2005JE002472, 2006.

Grant, J. A., et al., including S.P. Wright, Crater gradation in Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 111(E02S08), doi:10.1029/2005JE002465, 2006.

Tornabene, L.L., J.E. Moersch, G. Osinski, P. Lee, and S.P. Wright, Spaceborne visible and thermal infrared lithologic mapping of impact-exposed subsurface lithologies at the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic: Applications to Mars, Met. Plan. Sci., 40, 1835-1858, 2005.