John F. Mustard

John F. Mustard is a planetary scientist and professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He specializes in using remote sensing and spectroscopy technology to examine and analyze planetary bodies. Mustard investigates the formation and evolution of rocky planets such as Mars, Mercury, the Moon and the Earth. He earned his B.Sc. in geology from the University of British Columbia in 1983, and continued his studies in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown University obtaining an M.Sc. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1990.

He was a founding member of the Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University in 2000, that has since become the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). He is currently Co-Director along with Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto) of the Earth 4D program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

• OMEGA: Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activité (science collaborator)

• CRISM: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (Deputy Principal Investigator)

• M3: Moon Mineralogy Mapper (Science Team Member)

Honors • Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011

• Awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Public Service 2012

• Elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union 2014