Lon Hood
Dr. Hood was born in Marshall, Texas in 1949, and received a bachelorÕs degree in physics in 1971 from Northeast Louisiana University. He later earned a doctorate in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied mapping and interpretation of lunar crustal magnetic anomalies using the Apollo 15 and 16 subsatellite magnetometers. Dr. Hood is presently a staff member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, where his research for the past several years has focused on theoretical and observational studies of lunar magnetism, outer planet magnetospheres and the terrestrial middle atmosphere. He has served on a number of NASA committees on the Moon and asteroids and has authored or co-authored some 60 scientific papers and two book chapters.
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