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Jim Bell is an Associate Professor in the Cornell
University Astronomy
Department. He received his B.S. from Caltech
in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii
in 1992, performing research on Mars surface mineralogy
and climate variations using infrared and optical
telescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory. He worked as
a National Research Council postdoctoral research
fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center in California
prior to coming to Cornell.
His studies primarily focus on the geology, chemistry,
and mineralogy of planets, asteroids, and comets
using data obtained from telescopes and spacecraft
missions. He has published approximately 25 first-authored
and approximately 80 co-authored research papers
in peer reviewed science journals, authored or co-authored
more than 330 abstracts and scientific conference
presentations, is a frequent contributor to popular
astronomy magazines and radio shows, and is currently
working on a book about the Mars Exploration Rover
mission. He has been a member of the science teams
of the NASA Mars Pathfinder, NEAR, Comet Nucleus
Tour (CONTOUR), Mars '05 Reconnaissance Orbiter,
and Mars 2003 Mars Exploration Rover missions and
has been an HST Guest Observer since 1993. |
