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Samuel is an Ocean Worlds Scientist in the Planetary Interiors and Geophysics Group at JPL, where he primarily works on constraining geologic processes on Ocean Worlds and the connection from their icy surfaces to interiors. Dr. Howell supports the exploration of Ocean Worlds as Project Staff Scientist on the Europa Clipper mission, and leads science development for multiple future concepts to enable planetary ice shell and ocean access. Samuel is the Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ORCAA Project, which will conduct an analogue science mission to Europa by accessing a subglacial lake in the Juneau Icefield with a planetary “cryobot,” and is the Deputy Principal Investigator and Lead Scientist for JPL's PRIME, a technology concept to explore the interior oceans of Ocean Worlds, as well as derivative proposals and technologies.
Samuel obtained his B.S. in Engineering Physics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Thermal Fluid Mechanics. He obtained his M.S. and PhD in Geology and Geophysics University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he explored planetary-scale process through studies of local surface features. His research on Earth, the first-discovered Ocean World, focused on the simple understanding that observable features are fingerprints of the planetary processes at depth: failure, flow, melting, mixing, and material transport. Samuel’s graduate research garnered national attention, including a 2016 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for innovation detecting and predicting motions on the San Andreas Fault.
Samuel’s current and proposed research concerns the mechanisms and timescales of ocean world material mixing and evolution, as well as the exchange of materials between interior oceans and outer ice shells. His recent research linking tectonic processes on Europa and Ganymede to the surface exposure of fossilized ocean material received NASA-wide coverage and the 2017 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award in Planetary Science and Astrobiology.
In his spare time, he has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, completed triathlons and marathons, and serendipitously met his wife, Marissa, an expert on the surfaces of icy moons.
Education:
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PhD Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Dec. 2017
M.S. Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Aug. 2013
B.S. Engineering Physics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May, 2010
Selected Projects:
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PI (2022-2025) ORCAA: Ocean Worlds Reconnaissance of Astrobiological Analogues, PSTAR.
PI (2021-2024) Europa’s Icy Tectonics: First-Principles and High-Order Modeling, Solar System Workings.
Co-I (2021-2024) Thermal Measurements of Icy Europan Analog Materials, Solar System Workings.
Co-I (2021-2023) Maturation and demonstration of technology to enable through deep-ice communication (CryoComm) on Europa, Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology.
Co-I(2021-2023) SWIM - Sensing with Independent Microswimmers, NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts
Co-I/Collaborator (2019-2023) Search for Life Using Submersible Heated Drill (SLUSH), Scientific Exploration Subsurface Access Mechanism for Europa.
Co-I (2020-2023) Did Solid Tides Prevent the Thermodynamic Death of Europa? Habitable Worlds.
Co-I (2020-2023) Compositions of Ice Shells on Ocean Worlds, Solar System Workings.
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Yoseph Bar-Cohen,Hyeong Jae Lee,Mircea Badescu,Stewart Sherrit,Scott Bryant,Benjamin Hockman,Samuel M. Howell,Elodie Lesage, Joseph Vizcarra, Diego Camacho,Miles Smith
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2024 (2024)
Space Science Reviewsno. 1 (2024): 1-55
Ethan W. Schaler, Moritz Reinders, Maven Holst,Hyeong Jae Lee, Mirza Samnani, Theo Schafer, Jenna Holland, Kruti Bhingradiya, Brian Liang, Joseph Vizcarra,Jacob Izraelevitz,Samuel Howell,
2024 IEEE Aerospace Conferencepp.1-20, (2024)
Space Science Reviewsno. 4 (2024): 1-58
GANYMEDEpp.87-103, (2024)
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T. M. Becker,M. Y. Zolotov,M. S. Gudipati,J. M. Soderblom,M. A. McGrath, B. L. Henderson,M. M. Hedman,M. Choukroun,R. N. Clark, C. Chivers,N. S. Wolfenbarger,C. R. Glein,
Space Science Reviewsno. 5 (2024): 1-84
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)no. 9 (2024): 2776
The Planetary Science Journalno. 9 (2023): 181-181
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