Research Space Scientist
Astrogeology Science Center
Email:
ttitus@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
928-556-7201
Fax:
928-556-7014
ORCID:
0000-0003-0700-4875
Location
2255 North Gemini Drive
Flagstaff
, AZ
86001
US
Supervisor:
Chris H Okubo
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As part of a NASA-funded study of diurnal thermal imaging at a Mars analog site, we conducted simultaneous oblique thermal imaging and in situ temperature measurements within two regions of interest on the Pisgah lava field, near Ludlow, California. Both regions of interest contained either cave or cave-like alcoves. Data released in this report was collected from 03/23/2010 to 03/25/2010. The experiment was conducted at Pisgah lava field, which is located about 175 miles northeast of Los Angeles on Bureau of Land Management lands. Consisting of Quaternary basaltic lava and a cinder cone superimposed on alluvial deposits and lacustrine sediments of Lavic Lake playa (Dibblee, 1966), the flow is approximately 21,000...
Categories: Data;
Tags: California,
Ludlow,
Pisgah Crater,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
USGS:609aa8a3d34ea221ce36e98c, All tags...
air temperature,
boundaries,
infrared imaging,
planetary sciences,
soil temperature, Fewer tags
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Photogrammetry techniques to quantify fine-scale topography of sand ripples with a bi-modal grain size distribution were applied to a small region of interest at Grand Falls dune field, Arizona.
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Sand covers a significant portion of the Earth’s surface, including the Grand Falls area of Coconino County, AZ. The vadose zone (unsaturated zone) in a soil is of particular interest because it is broadly applicable to desert soils, which are seldom saturated and usually dry. In the absence of strong geothermal heating, the near-surface soil temperature profile is expected to exhibit maximum variation (for a given diurnal period) at the surface, with the diurnal variations becoming successively damped with depth. The temperature at a given depth is the result of diffusive heat transport vertically within the soil column. Water vapor also is expected to be transported via diffusion through the soil column [1]. We...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Arizona,
Grand Falls,
Relative humidity,
Sand sheet,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, All tags...
deserts,
dunes,
geoscientificInformation,
soil temperature,
subsurface profiler, Fewer tags
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As part of a NASA-funded study of sediment flux rates at a Mars analog site, we installed a suite of instruments in a small dune field near Grand Falls, Arizona. Data released in this report were collected from 10/28/2013 to 11/04/2016. The Grand Falls (GF) dune field is located on the Navajo Nation. It lies ~70 km NE of Flagstaff, AZ, 2 km east of Grand Falls, and just north of the Little Colorado River (LCR). The dune field consists of barchans, smaller dunes, ripples, and bare, indurated interdune surfaces; all features commonly found on the Martian surface. We measured sediment flux using a Sensit saltation sensor and a set of three Big Spring Number Eight (BSNE) passive sediment samplers, at 20, 50, and 100...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Geophysics,
Leupp,
Navajo Reservation,
Planetary Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
dunes,
grain-size analysis,
planetary sciences,
sand deposits,
sediment flux,
sediment transport, Fewer tags
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A BlazeVideo camera has been set up an active ripple field within Grand Falls dune field, and takes an image every 10 minutes to record the ripple field movement. Data presented here span from December 15, 2020 to April 22, 2021.
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