CV - Debra L. Buczkowski

                    Mail Address             Department of Geosciences
                                                      University of Massachusetts
                                                      233 Morrill Building
                                                      611 North Pleasant St.
                                                      Amherst, MA 01003
                    Office Telephone:     (413) 545-0140
                    Department FAX:      (413) 545-1200
                                                             email:                        dbucz@geo.umass.edu

EDUCATION
    University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. candidate, Geosciences (expected graduation May 2005)
                    Dissertation: Analysis of enigmatic structures on Mars and Venus and implications for crustal history
    University of Massachusetts, M.S. Geology (2002)
    Salem State College,  Geology (1998-1999)
    Boston University,  B.A. Astronomy (1992)
   

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
    Research Assistant
        * research in tectonics and structure of Mars and Venus, University of Massachusetts, Sept. 2000 - present
    Teaching Assistant
        * Planetary Geology, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2002, Spring 2004
        * Physical Geology, Salem State College, Spring 1999

RESEARCH
   Planetary Geology
        * structural analysis and numerical modeling of the circular grabens in the polygonal terrain of Utopia Planitia, Mars
        * topographic analysis of quasi-circular depressions (QCDs) around Utopia Planitia, Mars, based on MGS Mars
          Orbiting Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data
        * analytical modeling of structural features radial to Irnini Mons, Venus
        * high resolution kinematic mapping north of Sappho Patera, Venus    
   Structural Geology
        * structural analysis and outcrop-scale mapping of the Moretown Fm., western MA

AWARDS
NASA Graduate Student Research Program fellowship (2003-2004; 2004-2005)
    * Topographic analysis of Quasi-Circular Depressions in the northern lowlands of Mars:  Do they represent buried
       impact craters?
Second Conference on Early Mars (2004)
     * Travel award
Leo M. Hall Memorial Prize (2004)
     * Field studies of Mauna Loa and Kileaua volcanoes,  Hawaii
NASA 12th Annual Summer School for Planetary Sciences (2000)
     * Travel award

PAPERS
 Buczkowski, D.L. (2004), Kinematic analysis of radial structures around Irnini Mons, Venus, J. Structural Geol., submitted.
Buczkowski, D.L., H. V. Frey, J. H. Roark and G. E. McGill (2004), Buried impact craters: A topographic analysis of quasi-circular
     depressions, Utopia Basin, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 2004JE002324, in review.
Buczkowski, D.L. and M.L. Cooke (2004), Formation of double-ring circular grabens due to volumetric compaction over buried
      impact craters: Implications for thickness and nature of cover material in Utopia Planitia, Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 109, E02006,
     doi:10.1029/2003JE002144.
Buczkowski, D.L. and G. E. McGill (2002), Topography within circular grabens: Implications for polygon origin, Utopia Planitia,
     Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(7) doi:10.1029/ 2001GL014100.

ABSTRACTS
 Buczkowski, D.L., H.V. Frey, J.H. Roark and G.E. McGill (2004), Validating ancient age of the buried floor of the northern lowlands,
     Mars, Early Mars Conf. II, abs., Lunar Planet. Inst., Jackson Hole, WY.
Buczkowski, D.L., H.V. Frey, J.H. Roark and G.E. McGill (2004), Topographic analysis of quasi-circular depressions around the
     Utopia  Basin, Mars, LPSC XXXV, abs. 1150 (CD-ROM), Lunar Planet. Inst., Houston, TX.
Buczkowski, D.L., G.E. McGill, and M.L. Cooke (2004), Anomalous radial structures at Irnini Mons, Venus: A parametric study of
     stresses on a pressurized hole, LPSC XXXV, abs. 1561 (CD-ROM), Lunar Planet. Inst., Houston, TX.
Buczkowski, D.L., G.E. McGill, and M.L. Cooke (2003), Radial features around Irnini Mons, Venus: Implications for timing of
     regional compression,  EOS Trans., 84(48), AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Buczkowski, D.L. and G.E. McGill (2003), Utopia Planitia: Observations and models favoring thick water-deposited sediments, Int.
     Conf. Mars VI, abs. 3031 (CD-ROM),Lunar Planet. Inst.,   Pasadena, CA.
Buczkowski, D.L., M.L. Cooke, and G.E. McGill (2003), Double-ringed circular grabens and thickness of cover material in Utopia
     Planitia, Mars, LPSC   XXXIV, abs. 1042 (CD-ROM), Lunar Planet. Inst., Houston, TX.
Buczkowski, D.L. and G.E. McGill (2002), MOLA topography supports drape-folding models for polygonal terrain of Utopia
     Planitia, Mars, LPSC XXXIII, abs. 1020 (CD-ROM), Lunar Planet. Inst., Houston, TX.
Low, P.C., D.L. Buczkowski, W.A. Griffith, J.P. Kopera, J. Lewis, K.H. Mahan, K. Scheltema, G. Weiss and M.L. Williams (2002),
     Relative timing of deformation and magmatism in the Moretown Formation in western  Massachusetts. Abstract for 37th   
     Northeast Geol. Soc. America, Amherst, MA.