Elise Harrington

Right now, I'm a Ph.D Candidate at the University of Oslo, Norway, where I'm using remote sensing techniques to study salts on Mars.

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I've worked for ESA as a Young Graduate Trainee at the European Astronaut Centre, where I applied my background in planetary science to support the astronaut training programs in geology.

 

I completed an M.Sc in Earth and Planetary Science under Catherine Neish at the University of Western Ontario Canada. We explored applications of synthetic aperture radar for remotely mapping salt diapirs in the Canadian Arctic (paper coming soon!).

 

I completed an Honours B.Sc in Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University in June, 2016.  My research thesis was with Glyn Williams-Jones, and we performed thermorheological modeling of various lavas to constrain formation mechanisms of Venusian canali.

 

I've had multiple summer internship opportunities, including the Exploration Science Summer Internship with Dr. Kring at the Lunar and Plantary Institute in 2018, the Misasa International Student Internship Program in 2015, where we worked with the geochemistry team on a project to analyze compositional variation between three enstatite chondrites, and the LPI Summer internship program in 2014 where I worked on a remote sensing project of Venus' surface under Allan Treiman. 

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In Fall 2012, I went on an academic exchange to the University of Leeds, England.