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Mackenzie Day is a planetary geomorphologist who focuses on the behavior of terrestrial and extraterrestrial dunes. A recent member of the Mars Science Laboratory team, Day has used orbital and ground-based remote sensing to study active dune fields in Gale crater, and other regions of Mars. On Earth, Day studies the preservation of aeolian dunes in rock, and has recently identified preserved dune-dune interactions in sandstones on the Colorado Plateau. She continues to draw parallels between modern and ancient aeolian systems, as well as between terrestrial and planetary systems, all of which are subject to the same underlying physics.
Currently a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, Day recently accepted a faculty position at UCLA and will begin as an Assistant Professor in Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences in July 2018. Day is actively looking for students and post-docs to join her lab group. For more information contact Day at daym@uw.edu |
Research Themes
TerrestrialDune-dune interactions preserved in aeolian sandstones on the Colorado Plateau: Jurassic Navajo, Page, and Entrada Sandstones
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MartianAeolian-driven landscape change: reconstructing windy worlds using geomorphic wind-indicators
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ExperimentalWind tunnel erosion of a scale-model crater: experiments supporting wind-carved central crater mounds
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