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Samuel Birch

Research Associate

photo of Samuel BirchSamuel Birch
B.A., UC Berkeley (2014)
Ph.D., Cornell University (2017)
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sb2222@cornell.edu

Sam’s research is focused on exploring and modeling the evolution of the surfaces of planets, moons and small bodies in the outer solar system, and deciphering what those surfaces tell us about their past. Sam does this using a combination of data analyses, theory, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations.

Publications / Abstracts:

[7] S.P.D. Birch, A.G. Hayes, O.M. Umurhan, Y. Tang, J-B. Vincent, N. Oklay, D. Bodewits, B. Davidsson, R. Marschall, J.M. Soderblom, J.M. Moore, P.M. Corlies, and S.W. Squyres. Migrating Scarps as a Significant Driver for Cometary Surface Evolution. GRL, in press (2019).

[6] S.P.D. Birch, A.G. Hayes, V. Poggiali, J.D. Hofgartner, J.I. Lunine, M.J. Malaska, S. Wall, R.M.C. Lopes, and O. White. Raised Rims around Titan’s Sharp-Edged Depressions. GRL 45, 5846-5854 (2018).

[5] S.P.D. Birch, A.G. Hayes, P. Corlies, E.R. Stofan, J.D. Hofgartner, R.M.C. Lopes, R.D. Lorenz, J.I. Lunine, S.M. MacKenzie, M.J. Malaska, C.A. Wood, and the Cassini RADAR Team. Morphological evidence that Titan’s southern hemisphere basins are paleoseas. Icarus 310, 140-148 (2017).

[4] S.P.D. Birch, Y. Tang, A.G. Hayes, R.L. Kirk, D. Bodewits, H. Campins, Y. Fernandez, R. de Freitas Bart, N.W. Kutsop, H. Sierks, J.M. Soderblom, S.W. Squyres, and J-B. Vincent. Geomorphology of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. MNRAS (2017).

[4] S.P.D. Birch, Y. Tang, A.G. Hayes, R.L. Kirk, D. Bodewits, H. Campins, Y. Fernandez, R. de Freitas Bart, N.W. Kutsop, H. Sierks, J.M. Soderblom, S.W. Squyres, and J-B. Vincent. Geomorphology of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. MNRAS (2017).

[3] S.P.D. Birch, A.G. Hayes, W.E. Dietrich, A.D. Howard, C.S. Bristow, M.J. Malaska, J.M. Moore, M. Mastrogiuseppe, J.D. Hofgartner, D.A. Williams, O.L. White, J.M. Soderblom, J.W. Barnes, E.P. Turtle, J.I. Lunine, C.A. Wood, C.D. Neish, R.L. Kirk, E.R. Stofan, R.D. Lorenz, and R.M.C. Lopes. Geomorphologic Mapping of Titan’s polar terrains: Constraining Surface Processes and Landscape EvolutionIcarus 282, 214-236 (2017).

[2] S.P.D. Birch, A.G. Hayes, A.D. Howard J.M. Moore, and J. Radebaugh. Alluvial Fan Morphology, Distribution and Formation on Titan. Icarus 270, 238-247 (2016).

[1] S.P.D. Birch, M. Manga, B. Delbridge, and M. Chamberlain, Penetration of spherical projectiles into wet granular material, Phys. Rev. E 90, 032208 (2014).