ying to search for geophysical signs of gravitational waves. Harry Hess, the chair of the geosciences department, had mapped the topography of the sea floor and discovered mid-ocean ridges the great chain of submarine mountains that wraps itself twice around the globe like the seams on a baseball. He ha
The paper, "Growth and form of the mound in Gale Crater, Mars: Slope wind enhanced erosion and transport," was published in the May 2013 issue of the journal Geology. The work was supported by grants from NASA, Caltech and the Princeton Department of Geosciences' Harry Hess fellowship.