Extraterrestrial Mineralogy Web Site

(Will include Mössbauer, optical, and reflectance spectra, photos of terrestrial analogs, and general information about minerals on planetary surfaces once it is set up.)

Mössbauer Spectra
(Room temperature spectra of common and uncommon rock-forming minerals)

Darby's Courses:

AST 100/101, MHC Spring 2009

AST 106 Introduction to the Solar System, MHC Spring 2007

GEOL/AST 23/223 Planetary Science MHC Fall 2008

GEOL/AST 30/330 Mars Seminar MHC Fall 2008

AST 105 Mars: Missions Fall 2007

Student Theses supervised by Darby:

Five College Astronomy Department students at the 33rd annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2002. Rear (l-r) Sara Stiltner (MHC '02), Darby Dyar, and Leah Makuch (U Mass '02). Seated: Katie Peek (MHC '2), Jes Therkelsen (AC '02), and Jay Dickson (HC '02).

Jay Dickson, Hampshire College, 2002
Katie Peek, Mount Holyoke College, 2002
Leah Makuch, University of Massachusetts, 2002
Jes Therkelsen, Amherst College, 2002

Maria Hunter, Mount Holyoke College, 2004
Abigail Daane, Mount Holyoke College, 2004
Vanessa O'Connor, Smith College, 2005
Erin Dopfel, Mount Holyoke College, 2006
Jared Howenstine, University of Massachusetts, 2006
Yarrow Rothstein, Mount Holyoke College, 2006
Elizabeth Sklute, Mount Holyoke College, 2006
Claire Bendersky, Mount Holyoke College, 2007
Catherine Walker, Mount Holyoke College, 2007
Madison Barkley, Mount Holyoke College, 2007
Shannon Graham, Mount Holyoke College, 2007
Sarah Beth Cadieux, Mount Holyoke College, 2008
Erica A. Emerson, Mount Holyoke College, 2008
Amy Langford, Mount Holyoke College, 2008
Jonathan Tucker, Amherst College, 2009

Mickey poster