Jeffrey Plescia

Dr. Jeffrey Plescia’s research focuses on analysis of lunar impact craters, specifically the rheology of impact melt flows, the secondary cratering processes and implications for ejecta and cratering chronology, and the geophysics of terrestrial impact craters. He is also interested in the evolution of lunar volcanism and morphology of lunar volcanic vents. Dr. Plescia was a member of the international team that conducted the ICDP-USGS deep drilling project at the Chesapeake Bay crater. He also conducted field investigations at other impact sites in the United States, Canada, and Australia and conducted the search for U.S. and Soviet robotic spacecraft on the lunar surface. Dr. Plescia currently works with the LROC imaging experiment on the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.