Elizabeth Turtle
{{Short description|Planetary scientist (born 1967)}}
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| workplaces = Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Arizona
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| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.)
University of Arizona (Ph.D)
| thesis_title = Finite-Element Modeling of Large Impact Craters: Implications for the Size of the Vredefort Structure and the Formation of Multiple Ring Craters
| doctoral_advisor = H. Jay Melosh
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Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Education
Turtle earned her B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1998.
Research
After earning her Ph.D., Turtle worked at the university in the Department of Planetary Sciences and at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. She joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2006.{{cite web|url= http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~turtle/CV_051021.pdf |title=Elizabeth P. Turtle's CV}}
Turtle was an associate of the imaging team on the Galileo mission{{Cite web|title=Galileo - Overview|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/overview|access-date=2021-03-14|website=NASA Solar System Exploration}} and an associate of the imaging and RADAR teams on the Cassini mission.{{Cite web|title=Overview {{!}} Cassini|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview|access-date=2021-03-14|website=NASA Solar System Exploration}} She also serves as a co-investigator working with the camera on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.{{cite web|url=http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about/team|title=Meet the LROC Team}} She has co-authored many scholarly articles about planetary impact features, surface processes, and planetary imaging and mapping.
Turtle is the Principal Investigator on the Europa Imaging System (EIS) instrument, which was selected for inclusion on the Europa Clipper to the moon Europa.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4598|title=NASA's Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments|website=Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=24 September 2015|date=26 May 2015}} She is also the principal investigator of the Dragonfly spacecraft,[http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2017/171221.asp NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Led Mission to Titan for Further Development] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426185707/http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2017/171221.asp |date=2018-04-26 }}. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - Press release. 21 December 2017. a mission proposal to the 2017 NASA New Frontiers mission solicitation, which was selected on 27 June 2019.{{cite news |title=The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034 (Update) |website=Phys.org |agency=Agence France-Presse (AFP) |date=2019-07-04 |url=https://phys.org/news/2019-07-mission-lifetime-drone-titan.html |access-date=2019-07-05}} The mission entails a relocatable dual-quadcopter lander to investigate the surface composition and meteorology of Titan.
In 2020, Turtle gave a Ted Talk on Titan, titled What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life.{{Citation |last=Turtle |first=Elizabeth "Zibi" |title=What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life |date=2020-08-28 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_zibi_turtle_what_saturn_s_most_mysterious_moon_could_teach_us_about_the_origins_of_life |access-date=2023-11-13}}
Turtle is the primary author on dozens of scientific publications and co-author on many more.{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Elizabeth P Turtle (0000-0003-1423-5751)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1423-5751|access-date=2021-03-14|website=orcid.org|language=en}}
Awards
2008, 2009, 2010, 2015: NASA Group Achievement Awards - Cassini Titan Integration Science Team, Cassini Imaging Science Team, Cassini Titan Orbiter Science Team, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Team, LRO Extended Science Mission Team{{Cite web|title=JHUAPL - , Elizabeth, Turtle - Science Research Portal|url=https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/59|access-date=2021-03-14|website=secwww.jhuapl.edu|archive-date=2021-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418171136/https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/59|url-status=dead}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/zibi-turtle-even-though-it-is-not-always-easy-being-a-planetary-scientist-is-one-of-the-coolest-jobs-on-the-planet/ Zibi Turtle: Even though it is not always easy… being a planetary scientist is one of the coolest jobs on the planet!]
- [https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/59 Elizabeth Turtle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418171136/https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/SpaceScience/staff/ProfileView/59 |date=2021-04-18 }} profile at APL
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Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:Women planetary scientists
Category:20th-century American scientists
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