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85
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23550
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754
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321

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Kevin Zahnle is affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans various subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Zahnle's publication record includes contributions to a variety of scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zahnle include:

  • "The Archean atmosphere" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Revealing the Mysteries of Venus: The DAVINCI Mission" (2022, The Planetary Science Journal)
  • "JWST Observations of K2-18b Can Be Explained by a Gas-rich Mini-Neptune with No Habitable Surface" (2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • "Origin-of-life Molecules in the Atmosphere after Big Impacts on the Early Earth" (2023, The Planetary Science Journal)
  • "Rapid timescale for an oxic transition during the Great Oxidation Event and the instability of low atmospheric O 2" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their frequent co-authors include Nicholas F. Wogan, David C. Catling, Natasha E. Batalha, Shang-Min Tsai, and Joshua Krissansen-Totton, indicating collaborative research efforts across the planetary sciences and related disciplines.

In recognition of their contributions, Kevin Zahnle was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Cratering Rates in the Outer Solar System

    Kevin Zahnle;Paul Schenk;Harold Levison;Luke Dones

  • The 1908 Tunguska explosion - Atmospheric disruption of a stony asteroid

    Christopher F. Chyba;Christopher F. Chyba;Paul J. Thomas;Kevin J. Zahnle

  • Annihilation of ecosystems by large asteroid impacts on the early Earth

    Norman H. Sleep;Kevin J. Zahnle;James F. Kasting;Harold J. Morowitz

  • Carbon dioxide cycling and implications for climate on ancient Earth

    Norman H. Sleep;Kevin Zahnle

  • Biogenic methane, hydrogen escape, and the irreversible oxidation of early Earth.

    David C. Catling;David C. Catling;Kevin J. Zahnle;Christopher P. McKay

  • Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Ernesto Pecoits;Stefan V. Lalonde;Dominic Papineau

  • Environmental Perturbations Caused by the Impacts of Asteroids and Comets

    Owen B. Toon;Kevin Zahnle;David Morrison;Richard P. Turco

  • The Archean atmosphere

    David C. Catling;Kevin J. Zahnle

  • Emergence of a habitable planet

    Kevin Zahnle;Nick Arndt;Charles Cockell;Alex Halliday

  • Evolution of a steam atmosphere during earth's accretion

    Kevin J. Zahnle;James F. Kasting;James B. Pollack

  • Photochemistry of methane and the formation of hydrocyanic acid (HCN) in the Earth's early atmosphere

    Kevin J. Zahnle

  • The loss of mass‐independent fractionation in sulfur due to a Palaeoproterozoic collapse of atmospheric methane

    KJ Zahnle;MW Claire;DC Catling;DC Catling

  • QUANTITATIVELY ASSESSING THE ROLE OF CLOUDS IN THE TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM OF GJ 1214b

    Caroline V. Morley;Jonathan J. Fortney;Eliza M.-R. Kempton;Mark S. Marley

  • Why O2 is required by complex life on habitable planets and the concept of planetary "oxygenation time".

    David C. Catling;Christopher R. Glein;Kevin J. Zahnle;Christopher P. McKay

  • Atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars and in the Atacama

    D. C. Catling;D. C. Catling;Mark Claire;K. J. Zahnle;R. C. Quinn;R. C. Quinn

  • The evolution of solar ultraviolet luminosity

    Kevin J. Zahnle;James C. G. Walker

  • Environmental Effects of Large Impacts on Mars

    Teresa L. Segura;Owen B. Toon;Anthony Colaprete;Kevin Zahnle

  • Earth’s Earliest Atmospheres

    Kevin Zahnle;Laura Schaefer;Bruce Fegley

  • Habitable Zone Limits for Dry Planets

    Yutaka Abe;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Norman H. Sleep;Kevin J. Zahnle

  • Thermal Emission and Albedo Spectra of Super Earths with Flat Transmission Spectra

    Caroline V. Morley;Jonathan J. Fortney;Mark S. Marley;Kevin Zahnle

  • Cratering rates on the Galilean satellites.

    Kevin Zahnle;Luke Dones;Harold F Levison

  • Cratering rates in the outer solar system.

    K. J. Zahnle;H. F. Levison;L. Dones;P. M. Schenk

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Catling
David C. Catling University of Washington
Norman H. Sleep
Norman H. Sleep Stanford University
Mark W. Claire
Mark W. Claire University of St Andrews
Mark S. Marley
Mark S. Marley University of Arizona
Jonathan J. Fortney
Jonathan J. Fortney University of California, Santa Cruz
James F. Kasting
James F. Kasting Pennsylvania State University
David Crisp
David Crisp California Institute of Technology
Sushil K. Atreya
Sushil K. Atreya University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low American Museum of Natural History

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