Geology Faculty Member Nick Warner Receives NASA Grant

Nicholas Warner, assistant professor of geological sciences, has been issued a sub-award from Stony Brook University for collaborative research on a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center grant award to Stony Brook's Andrea (Deanne) Rogers, Associate Professor of Geosciences. The title of the project is Origins, Preservation and Exposure Histories of Rock Units in Noachian Plains. Rogers' award is for three years. Warner's award for the first year of the project is $24,265, with an expected three-year total of $74,700. Warner will be responsible for performing Martian crater statistics and he will also assist with mapping efforts and geomorphological analyses.