Lindsay Keller
Planetary Scientist | NASA
Lindsay Keller
Planetary Scientist
NASA
Phone
281.483.6090
Phone
281.483.6090
Biography
Lindsay Keller is a planetary scientist and manager of the Electron Beam Analysis Labs within the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the Johnson Space Center. Keller completed his National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Johnson and then worked in Atlanta as a materials scientist in the private sector before returning to Johnson in 2000. Currently, Keller’s research group focuses on the atomic-scale minerology and chemistry of comets, meteorites, asteroids and lunar samples. Additionally, Keller is a co-investigator on the OSIRIS-Rex mission to return samples of asteroid Bennu.
Education
Ph.D.
Geology
Arizona State University
1989
M.S.
Soil Science
North Dakota State University
1985
B.S.
Geology
North Dakota State University
1983
Education
Ph.D., Geology, 1989
Arizona State University
M.S., Soil Science, 1985
North Dakota State University
B.S., Geology, 1983
North Dakota State University
Select Publications
Keller, L. P., Snead, C. and McKeegan, K. D. (2017) Giant planet formation and the evolution of oxygen isotopes in the Solar System. LPS XLVIII, #2457.
Keller, L. P., Berger, E. L., Christoffersen, R. and Zhang, S. (2016) Direct determination of the space weathering rates in lunar soils and Itokawa regolith from sample analyses. LPS XLVII, #2525.
Keller, L. P. and Berger, E. L. (2014) A transmission electron microscope study of Itokawa regolith grains, Earth Planets Space, 66, 71-80.
Keller, L. P. and Messenger, S. (2011) On the origins of GEMS grains. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 5336-5365.
Keller, L. P. et al. (2006) Infrared spectroscopy of Comet 81P/Wild 2 samples returned by Stardust. Science, 314, 1728-1731.
Keller, L. P. and S. Messenger (2005) The Nature and Origin of Interplanetary Dust: High Temperature Components, In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk, edited by A. N. Krot, E. R. D. Scott, and B. Reipurth, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, 341, 657-665.
Keller, L. P., S. Messenger, G. J. Flynn, S. Clemett, S. Wirick and C. Jacobsen (2004) The nature of molecular cloud material in interplanetary dust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 2577-2589.
Keller, L. P., S. Hony, J. P. Bradley, J. Bouwman, F. J. Molster, L. B. F. M. Waters, D. E. Brownlee, G. J. Flynn, T. Henning and H. Mutschke (2002) Identification of iron sulphide grains in protoplanetary disks, Nature, 417, 148-150.
Keller, L. P., S. Messenger, and J. P. Bradley (2000) Analysis of a deuterium-rich interplanetary dust particle and implications for presolar materials in IDPs. Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, 105, A5, 10,397-10,402.
Keller, L. P. and McKay, D. S. (1997) The nature and origin of rims on lunar soil grains. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 2331-2340.