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Peter J. Mouginis-Mark
Peter J. Mouginis-Mark is an Emeritus Researcher at the Hawai‘i Institute Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), University of Hawaii (UH). For more than 40 years, he has studied volca...view morePeter J. Mouginis-Mark is an Emeritus Researcher at the Hawai‘i Institute Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), University of Hawaii (UH). For more than 40 years, he has studied volcanoes in the Solar System and on Earth. He has conducted field work not only in Hawai‘i, but also such diverse places as the Galapagos Islands, Reunion Island, Chile, Java, Iceland, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. He has served as Geology Program Manager at NASA Headquarters, and the Director of HIGP and Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, both at UH. He was Principal Investigator for an international 14-year NASA study to use satellites to study active volcanoes on Earth, and has been a leader for 13 NASA week-long planetary volcanology field workshops in Hawai‘i. Pete has published more than 125 peer-reviewed research papers, of which 35 have focused on Martian volcanism.view less