Dr. Ted Bunch
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Title: Adjunct Professor
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Specialty:Meteoritics and Petrology |
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Dr. Bunch has over forty years of research experience in the investigations of experimentally and naturally shocked materials, asteroid impact craters, Apollo lunar samples, terrestrial mineralogy and petrology, meteorites, origin of life, space habitation osteoporosis, exobiology, space environment hazards, and interplanetary dust particles. During his last ten years at NASA, he developed hypervelocity impact techniques for the Ames Vertical Gun hypervelocity impact experiments on meteorites, carbonaceous materials, and aerogel cosmic particle collectors, in addition to analyses of Martian, Lunar, and asteroid meteorites. He has published over 200 research reports, book chapters, books, and articles including 70 papers on meteorites, 48 on impact craters and hypervelocity collisions, and 32 on the Moon and Mars, in addition to over 244 meeting abstracts. Dr. Bunch is currently a Professor of Geology (adjunct) at Northern Arizona University after serving as Chief of Exobiology at NASA Ames Research Center.
