Benjamin P. Weiss, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences
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Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, California Institute of Technology
/ description /
Benjamin Weiss studies the evolution and history of the terrestrial planets and small bodies with particular interests in paleomagnetism and geomagnetism, planetary geophysics, meteoritics, and planetary paleoclimate and habitability.
/ personal homepage /
http://web.mit.edu/bpweiss/www/
/ email /
bpweiss@mit.edu
/ mailing address /
Benjamin Weiss
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 54-814
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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617-324-0224 (office)
617-324-1625
/ curriculum vitae /
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/ list of publications /
Bradley, K., Vassilakis, E., and B. P. Weiss A re-assessment of the shallow paleomagnetic inclinations of the western Cyclades, Greece, Bull. Geol. Soc. Greece, submitted
Bradley, K., B. P. Weiss, R. Buick (2013) Records of Paleoarchean geomagnetism, climate, and tectonics across Earth's oldest known erosion surface, , submitted
Lima, E. A., B. P. Weiss, L. Baratchart, D. P. Hardin, E. B. Saff Fast inversion of magnetic fields maps of unidirectional planar geological magnetization, J. Geophys. Res., in press
Weiss, B. P. and L. T. Elkins-Tanton (2013) Differentiated planetesimals and the parent bodies of chondrites, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. , 41, 529-560 / link /
Fu, R. R. and B. P. Weiss (2013) An ancient magnetic field on asteroid Vesta, Meteorite, 19, 28-32 / link /
Suavet, C., B. P. Weiss, W. S. Cassata, D. L. Shuster, J. Gattacceca, L. Chan, I. Garrick-Bethell, J. W. Head, T. L. Grove, and M. D. Fuller (2013) Persistence and origin of the lunar core dynamo, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300341110 / link /
Fernandes, V. A., J. Fritz, B. P. Weiss, I. Garrick-Bethell, and D. L. Shuster (2013) The bombardment history of the Moon as recorded by 40Ar-39Ar chronometry, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 48, 241-269
Bradley, K. E., E. Vassilakis, A. Hosa, and B. P. Weiss (2013) Segmentation of the Hellenides recorded by Pliocene initiation of clockwise block rotation in Central Greece, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 362, 6-19 / link /