Faculty
J. Taylor Perron
Taylor Perron is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences at MIT. More about Taylor
Postdoctoral Researchers
Hamish Mitchell
Hamish is a postdoc in the Perron Group and a member of the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator. His work explores the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to image landscapes on Earth and other planetary bodies. He uses techniques from remote sensing and planetary science alongside recent advances in computer vision to investigate how landscape geometry is recorded in SAR.
Mauricio Haag
Mauricio is a Molina Postdoctoral Fellow in EAPS. His research investigates how lithology and climate interact to influence erodibility and fluvial erosion. He is also interested in the impacts of extreme weather events on surface processes.
Graduate Students
Max Filter
Max is a PhD student in Brent Minchew’s glaciology group in EAPS. He works with the Perron Group on computer vision techniques for studying landform evolution.
Megan Gillen
Megan is a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. She uses numerical modeling and remote sensing to study how coupled terrestrial-coastal surface processes drive landscape evolution on volcanic ocean islands. Megan also works with the Coastal Systems Group at WHOI.
Ashley Kleinman
Ashley is a PhD student working with Taylor Perron and Jason Soderblom on methods for reconstructing surface sediment characteristics from planetary images. Her main affiliation is with Tanja Bosak’s group, where she studies dormancy as a microbial survival strategy.
Lily Sanborn
Lily is a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program investigating the influence of glacial isostatic adjustment on river evolution and sediment transport during the Holocene. Lily works collaboratively with the Pico group (UCSC). Lily is also a member of the Coastal Systems Group at WHOI, advised by Jeff Donnelly.
Una Schneck
Una is a PhD student investigating how the flow of liquid hydrocarbons has shaped the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. In particular, she is working to understand how to apply existing empirical relationships in terrestrial fluid dynamics and geomorphology to other planetary bodies. She is also interested in the internal dynamics of subsurface oceans at moons like Europa and Enceladus.
Ayako Tsuchiyama
Ayako is a PhD candidate investigating how sediment flux, basement slope, and sea-level cycles determine the shapes of river deltas on Titan, Saturn’s moon, and the implications for river delta visibility in SAR images. She is excited to see seismographs potentially recorded on Titan during the Dragonfly mission, as her primary PhD project is in seismology.
Jaren Yambing
Jaren is a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program working to reconstruct hominin and faunal maritime migrations. His main affiliation is with David McGee’s group, where he studies Southeast Asian paleoclimate using speleothems.
Undergraduate Students
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Undergraduates interested in assisting with our research may contact any of the group members listed above about opportunities.
Staff
Ashley Willis
Ashley is a Senior Financial Assistant in EAPS. She handles budgets and grants for the group.
Kayla Bauer
Kayla joined MIT in June 2019 and works as an Administrative Assistant for six research groups in EAPS. She handles travel reimbursements, purchases, website design and other administrative tasks.
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