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Member Since 1989
Mark Simons
Professor, California Institute of Technology
Chair, Earth and Planetary Sciences Medals Committee
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Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor
2021 - Present
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
1996
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelors
1989
Mark's AGU Research
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Observation and Coordination Needs for Current, Near‐Future, and Next Generation Earth‐Observing SAR Systems
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
04 may 2026
Inferring tectonic plate rotations from InSAR time series
PLATE MOTION, CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION, AND INTERSEISMIC STRAIN ACCUMULATION III ORAL
geodesy | 19 december 2025
Toward Independently Measuring Global Tectonic Deformation with L-band Satellite InSAR Time Series
PLATE MOTION, CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION, AND INTERSEISMIC STRAIN ACCUMULATION III ORAL
geodesy | 19 december 2025
Early results from NISAR SAR interferometry: Palos Verdes landslide complex, California
RECENT ADVANCES IN SAR AND INSAR PROCESSING, BIG DATA ANALYSIS, AND EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS I ORAL
geodesy | 17 december 2025
From Lima to Santiago, Mapping and Bayesian Inference of Interseismic Loading Along the Peru-Chile Megathrust
SUBDUCTION ZONE DEFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS II POSTER
geodesy | 16 december 2025
Revealing the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Enceladus' Plume Composition with Ultraviolet Stellar Occultations: Investigations of Habitability with a Future Orbiter
ENCELADUS: AN OCEAN WORLD ODYSSEY I POSTER
planetary sciences | 16 december 2025
Solid Earth Science from the NISAR Mission: First Fringes
NASA-ISRO SAR MISSION STATUS AND EARLY RESULTS ORAL
union sessions | 16 december 2025
Integrating Long-term InSAR monitoring into Local Groundwater Management: Insights from the Hollywood Basin, California
TRANSFORMING GROUNDWATER SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT WITH REMOTE SENSING AND GEOPHYSICS I ORAL
near surface geophysics | 16 december 2025
Volunteer Experience
2026 - 2027
Chair
Earth and Planetary Sciences Medals Committee
2019 - 2021
Member
Planetary Sciences Awards Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Planetary Sciences Fred Whipple Award Committee
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Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2018
Citation
For seminal scientific advances and leadership of the community in the study of crustal deformation and gravity observations.
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William Bowie Lecture
Received December 2016