Newswise — Mount Holyoke College's associate professor of astronomy Darby Dyar is available to speak as an expert source on today's announcement from NASA confirming the presence of water on the moon.
Dyar's primary research has been directed at understanding how hydrogen and oxygen are distributed throughout our solar system, particularly in terrestrial bodies such as the Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the parent bodies of meteorites. Her research work has also involved minerals, minerals and health, Mössbauer spectroscopy, planetary science, optical spectroscopy, synchrotron spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, metamorphic geology, and water in minerals.
Dyar is a frequent contributor to scientific journals and has done various interviews with mainstream media.
She has been awarded numerous grants from NASA, the American Chemical Society, and the National Science Foundation, among other institutions. She has ongoing funding from NASA's Mars Fundamental Research program to conduct research for the space agency's rovers; this fall she received a $689,000 grant from the Mars program for a project titled "Technique Development for Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Calibration, Classification, and Light Element Analysis." A portion of the grant will be shared with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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