Paul Spudis

In 1976 he earned a B.S. in geology at the Arizona State University. Following his graduation he spent several months working with Dr. Ronald Greeley at Ames Research Center studying various aspects of Lunar and Martian geology, before transitioning to an internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during the Mars landing of that year. The following year he went to Brown University to study planetary geology, with a focus on the Moon. A year later he earned his master's degree and moved back to Arizona where he started working for Dr. Greeley who had just joined the faculty at Arizona State University. In 1982 he earned a PhD in geology at the university.

After graduation, he went to work for the U.S. Geological Survey. In the following years he spent in lunar studies and promoting the idea of lunar exploration. He became a principal investigator at the NASA Office of Space Science, Solar System Exploration Division, planetary geology program. He later joined Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston as a staff scientist.

Eventually Spudis joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and became senior staff scientist. He returned to the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston in 2008 and was a senior staff scientist there.

He served as a member of a 1991 White House committee, the Synthesis Group, in Washington D.C. In 1994 he was the deputy leader of the Clementine mission science team. He also served on numerous science advisory committees. At Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory he developed an imaging radar system for the Indian mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1. He was a member of the 2004 Presidential Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy. He was a team member of the Mini-RF experiment on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.

Spudis was born in Kentucky to Mattie Wren.

He was married to Anne M. Seaborne until his death.

Spudis died on 29 August 2018 of complications from lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/ |title=29 Lunar scientist and exploration advocate Paul Spudis passes away |date=August 2018 |author=Foust, Jeff |website=Space News |access-date=29 August 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.space.com/41680-paul-spudis-moon-exploration-expert-dies.html |title=With the passing of Paul Spudis, we lost one of the biggest Moon-exploration experts |date=30 August 2018 |author=David, Leonard |work=Space.com |access-date=30 August 2018}}

In 2016 the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded him the Columbia Medal.{{cite web |url=http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/08/paul-spudis-dies-at-age-66 |title=Paul Spudis dies at age 66 |website=Astronomy Magazine|date=30 August 2018 }}{{cite AV media |title=2016 Columbia Medal acceptance speech – Paul Spudis |date=2016-04-19 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlqJ-EVblTs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/AlqJ-EVblTs |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|medium=video |via=YouTube |quote=American Society of Civil Engineers 2016 Columbia Medal acceptance speech and technical talk by Paul D. Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute |df=dmy-all}}{{cbignore}}

The inner main-belt asteroid 7560 Spudis is named in honor of Paul Spudis.{{cite web |url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=7560%20Spudis |title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser |first=Alan |last=Chamberlin |website=NASA.gov |access-date=8 March 2017 |df=dmy-all}}

Spudis, a crater on the Moon, is named after him. This crater is next to the famous Shackleton crater on the south polar region of the Moon, which has been an area of particular interest for future lunar landing missions.

{{Reflist}}

Complete bibliography at {{cite web |url=http://www.spudislunarresources.com/Bibliography/Biblio.htm |title=Bibliography |website=spudislunarresources.com |series=Spudis’ personal website}}

;Books:

• {{cite book |first=Paul D. |last=Spudis |title=The geology of multi-ring impact basins: The Moon and other planets |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1993}}
• {{cite book |first=Paul D. |last=Spudis |title=The Once and Future Moon |url=https://archive.org/details/oncefuturemoon0000spud |url-access=registration |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1996 |isbn=1-56098-634-4}}

• {{cite book |first1=Ben |last1=Bussey |author1-link=Ben Bussey |first2=Paul D. |last2=Spudis |title=The Clementine Atlas of the Moon |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-521-81528-2}}

• {{cite book |first1=Anne |last1=Spudis |first2=Paul D. |last2=Spudis |title=Moonwake: The Lunar Frontier |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |year=2005 |isbn=1-4257-0091-8}}

• {{cite book |first=Paul D. |last=Spudis |title=Blogging the Moon: The Once and Future Moon Collection |publisher=Apogee Prime Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-926837-17-8}}

• {{cite book |first=Paul D. |last=Spudis |title=The Value of the Moon: How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources |year=2016 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |isbn=978-1588345035}}, {{ISBN|978-1588345035}}

;Papers:

• {{cite conference |first1=Graham |last1=Ryder |author1-link=Graham Ryder |first2=Paul D. |last2=Spudis |title=Volcanism prior to the termination of the heavy bombardment: Evidence, characteristics, and concepts |year=1979 |conference=Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust |pages=132–134}}

• {{cite conference |first1=Paul D. |last1=Spudis |first2=Graham |last2=Ryder |author2-link=Graham Ryder |title=Apollo 17 impact melts and the geology of the Taurus-Littrow highlands |year=1980 |conference=Conference on Multiring Basins |pages=86–88}}

• Spudis, P. D., 1985. A Mercurian chronostratigraphic classification. In Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program - 1984. Technical Memorandum 87563. Washington, DC: NASA, pp. 595-597.

• {{cite conference |author1=Spudis, P.D. |author2=Asmar, S.W. |author3=Bussey, D.B.J. |author4=Duxbury, N. |author5=Friesen, L.J. |author6=Gillis, J.J. |author7=Hawke, B.R. |author8=Heiken, G. |author9=Lawrence, D. |author10=Manifold, J. |author11=Slade, M.A. |author12=Smith, A. |author13=Taylor, G.J. |author14=Yingst, R.A. |display-authors=6 |year=2002 |conference=Lunar Exploration Manned and Unmanned |title=The Future of Solar System Exploration, 2003-2013 |editor=Sykes, M. |series=Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 272 |pages=77–88}}

• {{cite journal |author1=Sorensen, T.C. |author2=Spudis P.D. |year=2005 |title=The Clementine Mission – A 10 year perspective |journal= Journal of Earth System Science|volume=114 |issue=6 |pages=645–668|doi=10.1007/BF02715950 |bibcode=2005JESS..114..645S |s2cid=128900357 |doi-access=free }}

• {{cite book |author1=Aldridge, E. "Pete" (Chair) |author2=Fiorina, C.S. |author3=Jackson, M.P. |author4=Leshin, L.A. |author5=Lyles, L.L. |author6=Spudis, P.D. |author7=Tyson, N.D. |author8=Walker, R.A |author9=Zuber, M.T. |display-authors=6 |title=A Journey to Inspire, Innovate, and Discover |date=June 2004 |publisher=President's Commission on Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy}}

• {{cite book |author=Spudis, P.D. |year=2011 |chapter=Chapter 12. The Moon: Port of Entry to Cislunar Space |title=Toward a Theory of Space Power: Selected Essays |editor1=Lutes, C.D. |editor2=Hays, P.L. |department=Institute for National Strategic Studies |publisher=National Defense University |location=Washington DC}}

• {{cite journal |author1=Spudis, P.D. |display-authors=etal |year=2010 |title=Initial results for the north pole of the Moon from Mini-SAR, Chandrayaan-1 mission |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=37 |issue=6 |pages=L06204 |doi=10.1029/2009GL042259|bibcode=2010GeoRL..37.6204S |doi-access=free }}

• {{cite conference |author1=Spudis, P.D. |author2=Lavoie A.R. |year=2011 |title=Using the Resources of the Moon to Create a Permanent Cislunar Space Faring System |conference=Space 2011 Conference and Exposition |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |location=Long Beach, CA |id=AIAA 2011-7185 |page=24}}

• {{cite conference |first1=Tony |last1=Lavoie |first2=Paul D. |last2=Spudis |title=The Purpose of Human Spaceflight and a Lunar Architecture to Explore the Potential of Resource Utilization |url=http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2016-5526 |conference=AIAA SPACE 2016 |date=9 September 2016 |series=SPACE Conferences and Exposition |id=AIAA 2016-5526 |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |access-date=8 March 2017 |via=arc.aiaa.org (Atypon) |doi=10.2514/6.2016-5526 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829002951/https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2016-5526 |archive-date=29 August 2019 |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }}

• {{cite web |url=http://www.spudislunarresources.com/index.htm |title=Dr. Paul D. Spudis' personal web site}}

{{External links|date=March 2017}}

• {{cite web |url=http://blogs.airspacemag.com/moon/ |title=The Once and Future Moon blog |website=Smithsonian Air and Space magazine}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/spudis/ |title=Lunar and Planetary Institute}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.spudislunarresources.com/Opinion_Editorial/PDS_profile.htm |title=Earth and Sky profile}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.spudislunarresources.com/Bibliography/p/102.pdf |title=Using the Resources of the Moon to Create a Permanent Cislunar Space Faring System}}

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