Planetary Geophysics
Mapping and geospatial analysis using Machine and deep learning
Thermal sensing of Earth, the Moon and the Terrestrial planets
Radiation transfer
Peer-reviewed Publications
● Rubanenko, L., et al., Global Surface Winds and Aeolian Sediment Pathways on Mars from the Morphology of Barchan Dunes (in review, 2022).
● Williams, J-P, Rubanenko, L. Cold-Trapped Ices at the Poles of Mercury and the Moon; in Soare R. J. (ed.), Ices in the Solar System. Elsevier (In press).
● Rubanenko, L., Lapôtre, M.G., Ewing, R.C., Fenton, L.K. and Gunn, A., 2022. A distinct ripple-formation regime on Mars revealed by the morphometrics of barchan dunes. Nature Communications, 13.
● Gunn, A., Rubanenko, L. and Lapôtre, M.G.A, 2022. Accumulation of windblown sand in impact craters on Mars. Geology.
● Williams, J.P., Greenhagen, B.T., Bennett, K.A., Paige, D.A., Kumari, N., Ahrens, C.J., Rubanenko, L., Powell, T.M., Prem, P., Blewett, D.T. and Russell, P.S., 2022. Temperatures of the Lacus Mortis region of the Moon. Earth and Space Science, 9(2).
● Rubanenko, L., Perez-Lopez, S., Schull, J. and Lapotre, M. Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Barchan Dunes on Mars and Earth Using a Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2021).
● Rubanenko, L., Powell, T.M, Williams, J.-P., Daubar, I., Edgett, K. S., Paige, D. A., Challenges in crater chronology on Mars as Reflected in Jezero crater, in Soare R. J. (ed.), Conway, S. J. (ed.), Oehler, D. (ed.), Williams, J.-P. (ed.) Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day. Elsevier (2021).
● Powell, T.M, Rubanenko, L., Williams, J.-P., Paige, D. A., The Role of Secondary Craters on Martian Crater Chronology, in Soare R. J. (ed.), Conway, S. J. (ed.), Oehler, D. (ed.), Williams, J.-P. (ed.) Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day. Elsevier (2021).
● Rubanenko, L., Schorghofer, N., Grennhagen, B. T., Paige, D.A., The Equilibrium Temperature Distribution and Emissivity of Sunlit Gaussian Surfaces with Applications to the Moon. JGR:Planets (2020).
● Rubanenko, L., Venkatraman, J., Paige, D.A., Thick ice deposits in shallow simple craters on the Moon and Mercury, Nature Geoscience (2019).
● Rubanenko, L., Mazarico, E., Neumann, G.A. and Paige, D.A., Ice in Micro Cold Traps on Mercury: Implications for Age and Origin. JGR: Planets, 123(8), (2018).
● Rubanenko, L., & Aharonson, O., Stability of ice on the Moon with rough topography. Icarus, 296 (2017).
● Yair, Y., Price, C. G., Katzenelson, D., Rosenthal, N., Rubanenko, L., Ben Ami, Y., Arnone, E., Sprite climatology in the eastern Mediterranean region. Atmospheric Research,. 157, 108-118 (2015).
● Yair, Y., Rubanenko, L., Mezuman, K., Elhalel, G., Priente, M., Glickman-Pariente, M., Ziv, B., Takahashi, Y., and Inoue, T., New color images of transient luminous events from dedicated observations on the International Space Station. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 102, 140-147 (2013).
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Mar. 2020)
PhD Geophysics and Space Physics, the department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Advisor: David Paige Thesis subject: A Tale of Two Planetary bodies: The Origin of Ice on Mercury and the Moon |
| Weizmann institute of science (July 2015)
MSc, the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Advisor: Oded Aharonson Thesis subject: The temperature distribution on the surface of airless planetary bodies |
| Tel Aviv University (June, 2012)
B.Sc., the department of Geophysics, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Research |
| Assistant Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Technion, Israel. (2023-present) |
| Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Stanford University, CA. (2022-2023) |
| Postdoctoral Researcher, the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Stanford University. (2020-2022) Employing deep learning algorithms to detect and analyze topographic features on the terrestrial planets. |
| Imaging of Lightning and Nighttime Electrical phenomena from Space (ILAN-ES) science team member. (2021-present)
Applying a neural network to detect electric atmospheric phenomena from data obtained by the second Israeli astronaut, Eytan Stibbe, on board the International Space Station. |
| Lunar Reconnaissance Diviner Radiometer Experiment (LRO DIVINER) co-investigator. (2013-present)
Studying ice deposits in cold traps on the Moon. Deriving surface roughness and regolith properties from radiometric data. |
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