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Despite my avowed love for Bielefeld(ers) and building robots for the Earth, and for Madrileños and building computer vision systems for Astrobiology, I have moved to Saint Louis, and I am now a Senior Research Fellow at the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. In Saint Louis, I am working on the CRISM hyperspectral imager on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, particularly on correcting CRISM's images and spectra for atmospheric effects; I have also worked on landing site selection for the Phoenix Mars Lander 2007. My current scientific interests include: ice & hydration spectroscopy, martian polar regions, as well as computer vision & robotics.

Results From Current Workgroups (2005-):

"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Updates"

"Gallery: Featured Images from MRO/CRISM"

"Water 'widespread' on early Mars", work of the CRISM science team, in BBConline, July 2008

"Hydrated Silicate Minerals on Mars Observed by the CRISM Instrument on MRO", Nature, July 2008.

"CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 3", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.

"CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 2", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.

"CRISM's Global Mapping of Mars, Part 1", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2007.

"Undergraduate paves way for NASA Mars mission", Washington University Record profile of Tabatha Heet and her work with the Phoenix Mars Lander 2007 mission team, July 2007.

"CRISM Tracks Unearthly Processes on the Martian South Polar Cap ", MRO/CRISM press release, March 2007.

"CRISM Uncovering Clues of Martian Surface Composition", MRO/CRISM press release, February 2007.

"Seasonal Frost on Mars, at Terra Sirenum", MRO/CRISM featured image, December 2006.

"CRISM Opens Its Eyes", work of the CRISM & MRO teams, described in Astrobiology Magazine, October 2006.

"NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details Of Mars, Young And Old", NASA/JPL and APL press releases, October 2006.

"APL-Built Mineral-Mapping Imager Begins Mission at Mars With Cover Removed, CRISM Set to Take First Images", APL press release, September 2006.

"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Successfully Concludes Aerobraking", NASA/JPL press release, August 2006.

"Pace Quickens for NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars", NASA/JPL press release, June 2006.

"CRISM reaches the Red Planet", CRISM/APL press release, March 2006.

"Retrieval of Surface Lambert Albedos from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CRISM Data", LPSC'2006 (Lunar and Planetary Science Conference), League City, Texas (March 2006).

"CRISM joins Mars' Water Detectives", work of the CRISM & MRO teams, described in Astrobiology Magazine, August 2005.

Users' Manual for software for the Retrieval of Lambertian Albedos from CRISM Multispectral Data (password-protected site), May 2007.

Work-Related Links:

My Official Web Page at Work

My one-page CV (PDF format)

My Resume (a shorter, easily-printable version of my CV, with publication list)

My CV

Selected Publications (Grouped by Research Field and by Refereed/Unrefereed Type)

Selected Publications (Grouped by Research Field)

All Publications (Grouped by Refereed/Unrefereed Type)

My Google/Scholar Web Hits, with some citation analysis

My Refereed Journal Articles at the Web of Knowledge , with some citation analysis

My http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints, with some citation analysis

History of Citations and Downloads of my http://arxiv.org Web E-Prints

My ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) papers, with some citation analysis

History of Citations and Downloads of my ADS papers, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu

My Entries in scopus.com

My Entries at eprintweb.org

My Entries in the Scientific Commons

My Entries in the Computer Science Bibliography Collection

Past & Upcoming Scientific Talks

TV & Radio & (e)Newspaper Coverage

Recent Work:

In Spain, I worked on building cyborg vision systems for exploring the prairies, mountains, and deserts of the Earth, searching for interesting geological and biological features. See the Cyborg Astrobiologist's first results at a geological site (open-access preprint version) with such an interest-map exploration system. These vision systems will later be transplanted onto crawling, flying, digging and swimming robots to goto Mars and Jupiter's possibly-watery moon, Europa , in order to search for other-worldly life.

In Bielefeld, I worked on building better vision systems for robots, with the Neuroinformatics group, led by Helge Ritter.

Results From Recent Workgroups (2001-2005):

"The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Porting from a Wearable Computer to the Astrobiology Phone-cam", International Journal of Astrobiology (2007).

open access preprint version

"Constraints on the Interactions between Dark Matter and Baryons from the X-ray Quantum Calorimetry Experiment", Physical Review D (2007).

"Magnetometer survey of the proposed Sirente meteorite crater field, central Italy: Evidence for uplifted crater rims and buried meteorites", Meteoritics & Planetary Science (The Journal of the Meteoritical Society), 2007.

"The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Scouting Red Beds for Uncommon Features with Geological Significance", International Journal of Astrobiology (2005). open access preprint version

"AI developed for Mars explorers" in BBConline, June 2005.

"Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Cyborg Astrobiologist, interview with David Geer, May 2005.

"Ordenadores y algoritmos de visión: Un cibergeólogo para la exploración de Marte", in the Spanish Science Magazine, Investigacion y Ciencia, July 2005.

"The Cyborg Astrobiologist: First Field Experience", International Journal of Astrobiology (2004).open-access preprint version

"Rover data makes return a must", in BBConline, December 2004.

"Cyborg geologist explores Spain", in Nature News Online, November 2004.

"Gafas 'inteligentes' para explorar el suelo marciano", in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo about the Cyborg Astrobiologist research program, March 2004.

"Schäfere Sinne für Marsforscher", in the German newsmagazine Focus, February 2004.

"AI to help Martian exploration" in BBConline, February 2004.

Field Geology with a Wearable Computer: First Results of the Cyborg Astrobiologist System, ICINCO'2005 (International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics), Barcelona, Spain (September 2005).

Cyborg Systems as Platforms for Computer-Vision Algorithm-Development for Astrobiology, project summary and publications (2002- ).

Neural Architectures for Robot Intelligence, Reviews in the Neurosciences (2003)

Multi-Modal Human-Machine Communication for Instructing Robot Grasping Tasks , International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2002)

Recent Results From Previous Workgroups (my contributions were largely before 2001):

Efficient Simulation of Adaptive Optics Technologies for the Euro50 Telescope, Worskhop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Backaskog Castle, Sweden, Emerging Optoelectronic Applications. (2004).

Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Constraints on the Mid-Infrared Exozodiacal Dust Emission around Vega, Astrophysical Journal Letters (2004)

Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images With Large Telescope in Arizona, February 2003.

Astronomers Get Ultrasharp Images (more pics), February 2003.

A Near-Infrared Wide-Field Proper Motion Search for Brown Dwarfs, Astronomical Journal (2002)

Threshold Disorder as a Source of  Diverse and Complex Behavior in Random Nets, Neural Networks (2002)

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