David Baker  is a W. A. Tarr Award winner and member of Eta Xi Chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon - Earth Science Honor Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.  His senior honors thesis entitled "Morphological Analyses of Mesas and Knobs in the Northwest Fretted Terrain: Deuteronilus Mensae Region, Mars" was supervised by Alexander Stewart and grew out of a summer research internship under Dr. Jim Head at Brown University.  David will continue to pursue his interests in Planetary Geology next year at Brown University.  David will also be participating in the Lunar and Planetary Institute's intern program in Houston this summer.  It's a ten-week program where he will be working with Dorothy Oehler and Carlton Allen of NASA-Johnson Space Center, and searching for evidence for hydrothermal springs on the surface of Mars using the remarkable CTX and HiRISE imagery.

* - photo from St. Lawrence University Web Site
Other photo courtesy of J. Mark Erickson