Nicholas G. Heavens, Ph.D. Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Tel: (757) 637-3118 Hampton University, 21 E

Nicholas G. Heavens, Ph.D. Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Tel: (757) 637-3118 Hampton University, 21 E. Tyler St., Room 215 Fax: (757) 727-5090 Hampton, VA, 23669 E-mail: nicholas. [email protected]

EDUCATION:

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (PASADENA, CA) Ph.D. in Planetary Science, 2010 Thesis: “The Impact of Mesoscale Processes on the Atmospheric Circulation of Mars”

M.S. in Planetary Science, 2007.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (CHICAGO, IL) S.B. in Geophysical Sciences with Honors and General Distinction in the College, 2005. Thesis: “Climatology of Heat and Moisture Transport in the Lower Troposphere of the Red Sea”

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

HAMPTON UNIVERSITY (HAMPTON, VA), 2012-present Research Assistant Professor of Planetary Science Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Supervising Collaborator: Kunio M. Sayanagi

CORNELL UNIVERSITY (ITHACA, NY), 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Associate Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Advisor: Natalie M. Mahowald

. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (PASADENA, CA), 2005-2010 Graduate Research Assistant Division of the Geological and Planetary Sciences Advisors: Mark I. Richardson and Yuk L. Yung

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (CHICAGO, IL), 2004-2005 Undergraduate volunteer Department of Geophysical Sciences Advisor: Gidon Eshel

THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE (PASADENA, TX), 2004 Lunar and Planetary Institute Summer Intern Advisor: Laurel Kirkland

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER (MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA), 2000 Associate Advisor: Ron Reisman

TEACHING EXPERIENCE :

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (PASADENA, CA), 2007-2010 2007-2010: Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Division of the Geological and Planetary Sciences

Courses: Introduction to the Solar System; Atmospheric Radiation; Fundamentals of Planetary Surfaces. Substitute lecturer for Introduction to the Solar System, Atmospheric Radiation, and Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres.

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

LASTSAT PRODUCTIONS (BROOKLYN, NY), 2011 Technical Advisor, Pioneer One (web series)

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (PASADENA, CA), 2007-2008 Co-Chair, Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Science.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (CHICAGO, IL)., 2004-2005 Co-President, University of Chicago Geounion.

Reviewer (and Publisher, 2003-2005) for Aubade (literary magazine) (2001-2005)

THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES AND RECORDS CENTER (PHILADELPHIA, PA), 2000-2003 University Archives Summer Research Fellow.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2011: NASA Group Achievement Award for the Mars Climate Sounder Team 2010: NASA Group Achievement Award for the Mars Climate Sounder Team 2010: First Prize, American Meteorological Society Applied Meteorology and Climatology Student Presentation Competition 2005: Elected as an Associate Member of Sigma Xi (University of Chicago) 2005: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa (University of Chicago) 2004: Student Marshal (University of Chicago) 2001-2005: University Scholarship (University of Chicago) 2001-2005: Knight Ridder National Merit Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE American Meteorological Society American Geophysical Union Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society European Geosciences Union Reviewer for: Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Icarus, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, NASA Mars Data Analysis Program, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)

Co-Convener, “Global Freezes and Thaws Prior to the Cenozoic,” AGU Fall Meeting 2011; Co-Convener, “Continental Input into the Atmosphere and Ocean, Present and Past”, AGU Fall Meeting 2012.

PUBLICATIONS:

Manuscripts Under Review

N.G. Heavens, Shields. C.A., and Mahowald, N.M., Sensitivity of a Deep Time Climate Simulation to Aerosol Prescription, submitted to Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

N.G. Heavens, Mahowald, N.M., Soreghan, G.S., Soreghan, M.J., Shields, C.A., 2012, Glacial-Interglacial Variability in Tropical Pangaean Precipitation during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age: Simulations with the Community Climate System Model, Climate of the Past Discussions, 8, 1915-1972. N.G. Heavens, Mahowald, N.M., Ward, D.S., Studying and Projecting Global Change with Earth System Models, submitted to Nature Education Knowledge.

Refereed Journal Articles

[14] P. Hayne, Paige, D.A., Schofield, J.T., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl, A., Heavens, N.G., and McCleese, D.J., Carbon dioxide snow clouds on Mars: south polar winter observations by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., 117, E08014, doi:10.1029/2011JE004040. [13] R.T. Clancy, Sandor, B.J., Wolff, M.J., Smith, M.D., Lefèvre, F., Madeleine, J.-B., Forget, F., Murchie, S.L., Seelos, F.P., Seelos, K.D., Nair, H.A., Toigo, A.D., Humm, D., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl, A., and Heavens, N.G., Extensive MRO CRISM Observations of 1.27 µm O2 Airglow In Mars Polar Night and Their Comparison to MRO MCS Temperature Profiles and LMD GCM Simulations, J. Geophys. Res. doi:10.1029/2011JE004018, 117, E00J10, doi:10.1029/2011JE004018.

[12] N.M. Mahowald, Ward, D.S., Kloster, S., Flanner, M.G., Heald, C.L., Heavens, N.G., Hess, P.G., Lamarque, J.-F. and Chuang, P.Y., 2011, Aerosol impacts on climate and biogeochemistry, Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, 36, 45-74. [11] N.G. Heavens, Richardson, M.I., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D.M., McCleese, D.J., Abdou, W.A., Benson, J.L, Schofield, J.T., Shirley, J.H., and Wolkenberg, P.M., 2011c, The vertical distribution of dust in the martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: Observations by the Mars Climate Sounder and analysis of zonal average vertical dust profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E04003, doi: 10.1029/2010JE003691. [10] N.G. Heavens, McCleese, D.J., Richardson M.I., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl, A., and Schofield, J.T., 2011b, The Structure and Dynamics of the Martian Lower and Middle Atmosphere as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 2. Implications of the Zonal Average Thermal Structure and Aerosol Distributions for the Mean Meridional Circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E01010, doi: 10.1029/2010JE003713. [9] N.G. Heavens, Richardson, M.I., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D.M., McCleese, D.J., Abdou, W.A., Benson, J.L, Schofield, J.T., Shirley, J.H., and Wolkenberg, P.M., 2011a, Vertical distribution of dust in the martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: High altitude tropical dust maximum at northern summer solstice, J. Geophys. Res, 116, E01007, doi: 10.1029/2010JE003692. [8] D.J. McCleese, N.G. Heavens, Schofield , J.T., Abdou, W.A., Bandfield, J.L., Calcutt, S.B., Irwin, P.G.J., Kass, D.M., Kleinboehl, A., Leovy, C.B., Lewis, S.R., Paige, D.A., Read, P.L., Richardson, M.I., Shirley, J.H., Taylor, F.W., Teanby, N., and Zurek, R.W., 2010, The Structure and Dynamics of the Martian Lower and Middle Atmosphere as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 1. Seasonal variations in zonal mean temperature, dust and water ice aerosols, J. Geophys. Res. 115, E12016, doi: 10.1029/2010JE003677.

[7] N.G. Heavens, Benson, J.L., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl, A., Abdou, W.A., McCleese, D.J., Richardson, M.I., Schofield, J.T., Shirley, J.H., and Wolkenberg, P.M., 2010b, Water ice clouds over the Martian tropics during northern summer, Geophys. Res. Lett, 37, L18202, doi:10.1029/2010GL044610. (Featured in “Our choice from the recent literature”, Nature Geoscience, 3(10), 976.) [6] N.G. Heavens, Richardson M.I., Lawson W.G., Lee C., McCleese D.J., Kass D.M., Kleinböhl A., Schofield J.T., Abdou W.A., Shirley J.H., 2010a, Convective instability in the martian middle atmosphere, Icarus, 208, 574-589, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.023. [5] C. Lee, Lawson W.G., Richardson M.I., Heavens N.G., Kleinboehl A., Banfield D., McCleese D.J., Zurek R., Kass D., Schofield J.T., Leovy C.B., Taylor F.W., and Toigo A.D., 2009, Thermal tides in the Martian Middle Atmosphere as Seen by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., 114, E03005, doi:10.1029/2008JE003285. [4] D.J. McCleese, Schofield J.T., Taylor F.W., Abdou W.A., Aharonson,O., Banfield D., Calcutt S.B., Heavens N.G., Irwin P.G.J., Kass D.M., Kleinböhl A., Lawson W.G., Leovy C.B., Lewis S.R., Paige D.A., Read P.L., Richardson M.I., Teanby N., and Zurek R.W., 2008, Intense Polar Temperature Inversion in the Middle Atmosphere on Mars, Nature Geosci.,1, 745-749, doi:10.1038/ngeo332. [3] N.G. Heavens, Richardson M.I., and Toigo A.D., 2008, Two Aerodynamic Roughness Maps Derived from MOLA Data and Their Effects on Boundary Layer Properties in a Mars GCM, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E02014, doi:10.1029/2007JE002991.

[2] G. Eshel and Heavens N., 2007, Climatological evaporation seasonality in the Northern Red Sea, Paleoceanography, 22, PA4201, doi:10.1029/2006PA001365.

[1] N.G. Heavens, 2004, Empire of the Air: Meteorological Intellectual Property in the United States, 1850-2003, accepted by Chicago Scholarly Review (journal became defunct before publication)

Non-refereed publications N.G. Heavens, 2011, Sunshine on a Cloudy Forecast (Perspective), Science, 333, 1832- 1833.

N.G. Heavens, Mind over Magma by Davis A. Young, J. Geology, 113, 237, March 2005. (book review). Conference Presentations (as first author) N.G. Heavens, Mahowald, N.M., Soreghan, G.S., and Soreghan, M., Fundamentals of Glacial-Interglacial Variability in Tropical Pangaean Aridity during the Late Paleozoic, AGU Fall Meeting 2011, PP13D-1860. N.G. Heavens, Mahowald, N.M., and Soreghan, G.S., Data Analysis, Modeling, and Interpretation of Low Latitude Dust Deposits from the Late Paleozoic, Dust Workshop 2011: Processes and Quaternary History of Dust Dynamics, 31 October-3 November 2011, Bremen, Germany (invited talk). N.G. Heavens, Richardson, M.I., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D.M., McCleese, D.J., Abdou, W., Benson, J.L., Schofield, J.T., Shirley, J.H., and Wolkenberg, P.M., The Vertical Distribution of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder, Fourth International Workshop on the Mars Atmosphere, 8-11 February 2011, Paris, France (poster). N.G. Heavens, Richardson, M.I., Kleinboehl, A. Kass, D. and McCleese, D.J., The Vertical Distribution of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere: The Haze in the Clear Season and the Haze After the Storm, AGU Fall Meeting 2010, P52A-06 (oral). N.G. Heavens, The Vertical Distribution of Dust in the Atmosphere, Mars Engineering Dust Workshop, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena and Arcadia, CA, 18-19 March 2010, 5e (invited talk). N.G. Heavens, Richardson, M.I., McEwan, I.J., and Busch, M.W., Martian dust storm hazards: Improving characterization and forecasting, 18th Conference on Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 90th AMS Annual Meeting, J8.6. (oral) (Won First Prize, American Meteorological Society Applied Meteorology and Climatology Student Presentation Competition) N.G. Heavens, Liang M.-C., Lin L., Li K.-F., Tung K.K., and Yung, Y.L., Assessing Low Frequency Variability in North Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures in Global Climate Models, AGU Fall Meeting 2009, GC32A-08 (oral). N. G. Heavens, Richardson M. I., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl A., McCleese D. J., The Vertical Distribution of Dust in Mars’ Atmosphere during Northern Spring and Summer: The Perspective from the Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Dust Cycle Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, 15-17 September 2009 (oral). N. G. Heavens, Richardson M. I., Kleinböhl A., McCleese D. J., and the Mars Climate Sounder Science Team, Martian Airborne Dust during the Clear Season, AGU Fall Meeting 2008, P41B-1380. N. G. Heavens, Richardson M. I., and McCleese D. J., and the MCS Science Team, A New Perspective on the Vertical Distribution of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere During Northern Summer from Mars Climate Sounder: Elevated Maxima over the Tropics, Third International Workshop on the Mars Atmosphere, Williamsburg, VA, 10-13 November 2008, 9066. N. G. Heavens, Richardson M. I. McCleese D. J. Kleinböhl A. and the Mars Climate Sounder Science Team, A New Perspective on the Vertical Distribution of Dust in the Martian Atmosphere During Northern Summer from Mars Climate Sounder: Zonally- averaged profiles, Third International Workshop on the Mars Atmosphere, Williamsburg, VA, 10-13 November 2008, 9065 (oral, invited). N. Heavens, McEwan, I.J., Busch, M.W., Newman C.E., and Richardson M.I., Modeling and Implications of Exotic Martian Radio Emission, 39th Annual Meeting of Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, 17.05 (oral). N.G. Heavens, Richardson M.I., and Newman C.E., 2007, Using Mars Orbital Camera Dust Devil Observations to Develop Schemes for Representing Dust Devils in Mars General Circulation Models, 7th International Mars Conference, 3218.

N.G. Heavens, Richardson M.I. and Toigo A.D., 2007, Two Aerodynamic Roughness Maps Derived from MOLA Data and Their Effects on Boundary Layer Properties in a Mars GCM, 7th International Mars Conference, 3208.

N.G. Heavens and Yung Y.L., 2006, Regime Change in the Pacific Ocean and the Relative Intensities of Multi-Decadal and Quasi-Centennial Variability, AGU Fall Meeting 2006, Eos Trans. AGU Fall Meeting 2006, PP51C-1146. N.G. Heavens, Richardson M.I., and Newman C.E., 2006, Forecasting Martian Dust Devils, 60.04, 2006 DPS Meeting, Pasadena, CA.

N.G. Heavens, Kirkland L.E., and Adams P.M., 2005, Mars Analog Field Infrared Spectroscopy at Alunite, Clark County, NV: Comparison with EDXS, LPSC XXXVI, 1936. N.G. Heavens and Kirkland L.E., 2004, Field Experience for Mars via Infrared Spectrometers, Lunar and Planetary Science Institute Summer Intern Conference XX (oral).