Wesley S Tucker, PhD
Visiting Lecturer
Planetary Geoscience
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2478 SES
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About
My research focuses on how lithospheric processes are represented by surface features. Surface geology is often driven by heat moving within and escaping from planetary bodies. I use remote sensing observations, spatial analysis techniques, and modeling to connect features we see on terrestrial planets and icy satellites to their thermal states.
Selected Publications
- Tucker, W. S., & Dombard, A. J.(2023). On the more complex wavelength dependency of Airy isostasy in icy shells of ocean worlds. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL106046. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106046
- Tucker, W. S., & Dombard, A. J.(2023). Evidence of topographic change recorded by lava flows at Atete and Aruru Coronae on Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, e2023JE007971. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE007971.
- Dombard, A. J., Tucker, W. S., Joniak, R., & Plotnick, R. E. (2022). Spherical multi-lacunarity reveals possible equatorial-polar differences in crater densities on the dwarf planet ceres. Icarus, 384(115076). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115076
Education
B.Sc. Geology, College of Charleston, 2017
Ph.D. Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, 2023