Baylor Geosciences to Host Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna

The Department of Geosciences presents an O.T. Hayward Distinguished lecture by Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna on "Robotically exploring silicic volcanoes from the surface of the Moon" at the Baylor Sciences Building, Room D.109 on Tuesday, April 9th at 11:15 am. 

Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna is a planetary geologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She received her BS in Space Sciences from Florida Institute of Technology in 1999, her MS in Geological Sciences at Brown University in 2010, and her PhD in Geological Sciences from Brown University in 2013. Dr. Donaldson Hanna was a postdoctoral researcher within the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics sub-department at the University of Oxford before receiving a UK Space Agency Aurora Research Fellowship to continue her research at Oxford for an additional 3.5 years. While at Oxford, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church College and was awarded the early career Winton Capital Geophysics Award from the Royal Astronomical Society.