Catherine D NeishDr. Catherine Neish is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. She is an expert in the use of remote sensing observations to study the geology of planetary surfaces, with a particular emphasis n impact cratering and volcanism. Dr. Neish obtained her graduate training in planetary sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona (2008). She then held two postdoctoral research positions at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as well as an Assistant Professorship at the Florida Institute of Technology. To date, Dr. Neish has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 19 as first author, and wrote an invited book chapter on planetary radar for the Encyclopedia of the Solar System (3rd Edition). Dr. Neish is involved in NASA spacecraft missions as a Co-Investigator, including Cassini, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Dragonfly. She has been awarded the Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science from the American Geophysical Union, for significant contributions to planetary science from a young scientist (2014), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2015), and an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Science (2017). Read More Read Less