Fall Semester Planetary Science

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 2011

AST 106 Introduction to the Solar System, MHC Spring 2007

GEOL/AST 23/223 Planetary Science MHC Fall 2010

GEOL/AST 30/330 Mars Seminar Hampshire CollegeFall 2010

AST 30/330 Moon Seminar MHC Fall 2009

AST 105 Mars: Missions Fall 2010

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).

LPSC 2011
Five College Astronomy students and staff at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas, in March of 2011. Shown cw from left: Darby Dyar, Elly Speicher, Erica Jawin (MHC '12), Liz Brown (MHC '11), Samantha Peel (MHC '12), Marco Carmosino (HC '11), and Maggie McAdam (MHC '10). Also attending but not pictured: Sara Cadieux (MHC '08), Jay Dickson (HC '02), Elizabeth Sklute (MHC '06), Selby Cull (HC '05), Dan Moriarity (UM '10), and Ben Lane (AC '11).