CV (abridged)
Education:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
2001 Ph.D. Multidisciplinary Science: Astrophysics and the Origin of Life
Dissertation: Geochemistry of the Apollo Landing Sites and Evidence for Lunar Impacts Before 3.9 Ga Ago
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
1998 M.S. Physics and Astronomy
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1993 B.S. Astronomy (Honors Degree)
1993 B.S. Physics (Honors Degree)
1993 Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) Certificate
Honors and Awards:
AAUW American Fellowship
Harry F. Meiners Fellowship
Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship
Rensselaer Founders' Award for Excellence
Walter Eppenstein Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Wisconsin Alumni Association Outstanding Senior Student Award
Selected Abstracts and Publications:
Zellner N. E. B., Delano J. W., Swindle T. D., Barra F., Olsen E. and
Whittet D. C. B. (2009) Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar
Ages of
Lunar Impact Glasses for an Increase in the Impact Rate ~800 Ma Ago, Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta,
73,
4590-4597, 10.1016/j.gca.2009.04.027.
Zellner N. E. B., Delano J. W.,
Swindle T. D., Barra F., Olsen E. and Whittet D. C. B. (2009) Apollo 17
regolith, 71501,262:
A record of
impact events and mare volcanism in lunar glasses, Meteorit. Plan. Sci.,
44(6), 839-852.
Delano J. W.,
Zellner N. E. B., Barra F., Olsen E., Swindle T. D., Tibbetts N. J., and
Whittet D. C. B. (2007) An integrated
approach to
understanding Apollo 16 impact glasses: Chemistry, isotopes, and shape,
Meteorit. Plan. Sci., 42, 6, 993-1004.
Zellner
N. E. B., J. W. Delano, T. D. Swindle, F. Barra, E.
Olsen, D. C. B. Whittet (2006)
Did a Transient Increase in the
Impact Flux Occur 800 Ma Ago?,
LPSC XXXVII,
1745.pdf.
Zellner N. E. B., Gibbard S., Marchis F., DePater I., and Gaffey
M. J. (2005) Near-IR Imaging
of Asteroid 4 Vesta, Icarus,
177/1, 190, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2005.03.024.
Delano J. W., N. E. B. Zellner, T. D. Swindle, F. Barra, E. Olsen, and D.
C. B. Whittet (2005) What is the Tycho Component
at Apollo 17?, MetSoc, 5022.pdf.
Zellner N. E. B., T. D. Swindle, F.
Barra, J. W. Delano, N. Tibbetts, D. C. B. Whittet, and P. D. Spudis (2005) Chemical and
Isotopic Analyses of Apollo 16 Glasses: An Integrated Approach, LPSC XXXVI,
1199.pdf.
Zellner, N. E. B.,
J. W. Delano, T. D. Swindle, F. Barra, E. Olsen, D. C. B. Whittet, and P. D. Spudis
(2005) Earth-Moon
Impacts
at ~300 Ma and ~500 Ma Ago,
LPSC XXXVI,
1204.pdf.
Zellner N. E. B., P. D. Spudis, J.
W. Delano, and D. C. B. Whittet (2002) Impact Glasses from the Apollo 14
Landing
Site and Implications for Regional Geology, J. Geophys. Res., 107(E11),
5102, doi:10.1029/2001JE001800.
Johnson J. J., Anderson C. M., Bjorkman K. S., Code A.
D., Fox G. K., Weitenbeck A. J., Babler B. L.,
Meade M. R.,
Zellner N. E. B., and Lupie O. L. (1999) HR4049: Temporal
Variations in the Structure of the
Circumstellar Material, M.N.R.A.S., 306, 531.
Fox G. K., Code A. D., Anderson C. M.,
Babler B. L., Bjorkman K. S., Johnson J. J., Meade M. R., Nordsieck
K. H.,
Weitenbeck A. J., and Zellner N. E. B. (1998) Solar System Observations
by the Wisconsin Ultraviolet
Photo-Polarimeter
Experiment. III. The First Ultraviolet Linear Spectropolarimetry of the Moon,
M.N.R.A.S.,
298,
303.
Bjorkman K. S., Miroshnichenko A. S.,
Bjorkman J. E., Meade M. R., Babler B. L., Code A. D., Anderson
C. M.,
Fox G. K., Johnson J. J., Weitenbeck A. J., Zellner N. E. B., and Lupie O. L.
(1998) The First
Ultraviolet and Optical Spectropolarimetry of the B[e] Star HD 50138, Ap.J.,
509, 904.
Clayton G. C., Bjorkman K. S., Nordsieck K. H.,
Zellner N. E. B., and Schulte-Ladbeck R. E. (1997) Evidence
for a
Bipolar Geometry in R Coronae Borealis?, Ap.J., 476, 870.
Fox G. K., Code A. D., Anderson C. M.,
Babler B. L., Bjorkman K. S., Edgar R. J., Johnson J. J., Lupie O. L.,
Meade M. R., Nordsieck K. H.,
Sanders W. T., Weitenbeck A. J., and Zellner N. E. B. (1997) Solar System
Observations by the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment. I. The
First Ultraviolet Linear
Spectropolarimetry of Mars, A.J., 113, 1152.