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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Scott K. Rowland is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Physiology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a diversity of areas such as Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Spaceflight effects on biology, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, and Machine Learning in Materials Science.

Recent publications by Scott K. Rowland include the following papers:

  • Extraformational sediment recycling on Mars, 2020, Geosphere
  • Deep imputation on large-scale drug discovery data, 2021, Applied AI Letters
  • The anatomy of a channel-fed 'a'ā lava flow system, 2022, Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Deposits from giant floods in Gale crater and their implications for the climate of early Mars, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Depositional and Diagenetic Processes of Martian Lacustrine Sediments as Revealed at Pahrump Hills by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, Gale Crater, Mars, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Frequent collaborators in their research include Deirdra M. Fey, Diamond Tachera, K. S. Edgett, K. A. Bennett, and Alberto González Fairén.

Scott K. Rowland has published multiple papers in various scientific venues, with the most frequent publication venues being:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Applied AI Letters
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars.

    J. P. Grotzinger;D. Y. Sumner;L. C. Kah;K. Stack

  • Pahoehoe and aa in Hawaii: volumetric flow rate controls the lava structure

    Scott K Rowland;George Pl Walker

  • FLOWGO: a kinematic thermo-rheological model for lava flowing in a channel

    Andrew J. L. Harris;S. K. Rowland

  • Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Investigation

    Kenneth S. Edgett;R. Aileen Yingst;Michael A. Ravine;Michael A. Caplinger

  • Calculation of lava effusion rates from Landsat TM data

    Andrew J. L. Harris;Luke P. Flynn;Laszlo Keszthelyi;Peter J. Mouginis-Mark

  • Toothpaste lava: characteristics and origin of a lava structural type transitional between pahoehoe and aa

    Scott K. Rowland;George P. L. Walker

  • Assessment of ozone photochemistry in the western North Pacific as inferred from PEM‐West A observations during the fall 1991

    D. D. Davis;J. Crawford;G. Chen;W. Chameides

  • The petrochemistry of Jake_M: A martian mugearite

    E. M. Stolper;M. B. Baker;M. E. Newcombe;M. E. Schmidt

  • The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mast cameras and Descent imager: Investigation and instrument descriptions.

    Michael C. Malin;Michael A. Ravine;Michael A. Caplinger;F. Tony Ghaemi

  • Effusion rate controls on lava flow length and the role of heat loss: a review

    A. J. L. Harris;S. K. Rowland

  • Chemistry, mineralogy, and grain properties at Namib and High dunes, Bagnold dune field, Gale crater, Mars: A synthesis of Curiosity rover observations.

    Bethany Ehlmann;K. S. Edgett;B. Sutter;Cherie Achilles

  • A shallow-dipping dike fed the 1995 flank eruption at Fernandina volcano, Galápagos, observed by satellite radar interferometry

    Sigurjón Jónsson;Howard Zebker;Peter Cervelli;Paul Segall

  • The changing morphology of an open lava channel on Mt. Etna

    John E. Bailey;Andrew J. L. Harris;Jonathan Dehn;Sonia Calvari

  • Caldera morphology in the western Galápagos and implications for volcano eruptive behavior and mechanisms of caldera formation

    Duncan C. Munro;Scott K. Rowland

  • Comparison of free tropospheric western Pacific air mass classification schemes for the PEM‐West A experiment

    S. Smyth;J. Bradshaw;S. Sandholm;S. Liu

  • Slopes, lava flow volumes, and vent distributions on Volcán Fernandina, Galápagos Islands

    Scott K. Rowland

  • Shaler: in situ analysis of a fluvial sedimentary deposit on Mars

    Lauren A. Edgar;Sanjeev Gupta;David M. Rubin;Kevin W. Lewis

  • Volumetric characteristics of lava flows from interferometric radar and multispectral satellite data: the 1995 Fernandina and 1998 Cerro Azul eruptions in the western Galápagos

    Scott K. Rowland;Andrew J. L. Harris;Martin J. Wooster;Falk Amelung

  • Sand Grain Sizes and Shapes in Eolian Bedforms at Gale Crater, Mars

    Catherine M. Weitz;Robert J. Sullivan;Mathieu G. A. Lapotre;Scott K. Rowland

  • Lava flows are fractals

    B. C. Bruno;G. J. Taylor;S. K. Rowland;P. G. Lucey

  • Infrasonic tremor observed at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i

    M. Garcés;A. Harris;C. Hetzer;J. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth S. Edgett
Kenneth S. Edgett Malin Space Science Systems (United States)
Dawn Y. Sumner
Dawn Y. Sumner University of California, Davis
Juergen Schieber
Juergen Schieber Indiana University
Linda C. Kah
Linda C. Kah University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Alberto G. Fairén
Alberto G. Fairén Cornell University
Peter J. Mouginis-Mark
Peter J. Mouginis-Mark University of Hawaii at Manoa
James F. Bell
James F. Bell Arizona State University
Andrew J. L. Harris
Andrew J. L. Harris University of Clermont Auvergne
Bernard Hallet
Bernard Hallet University of Washington
Michael C. Malin
Michael C. Malin Malin Space Science Systems (United States)

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