Dr. Kendall studies lunar impact cratering and the formation of planetary bodies using the latest cutting-edge numerical modeling techniques. Using hypervelocity impact modeling, Dr. Kendall is able to reconstruction the lunar surface through ejecta layering and help determine the provenance of the lunar surface. Additionally, Dr. Kendall studies the ejecta near Apollo and Luna landing sites, cratering near future Artemis and CLPS missions, and ejecta and dust created by lunar landers/modules and crashes on the lunar surface.
Impact cratering
Modeling lunar ejecta from large and small impacts on the lunar surface, basin formation, mantle and crust formation, regolith layering and forensic modeling. Supporting the Lunar Reconnaissance Mission and helping determine possible landing locations for future Moon missions.
Ejecta from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin-forming impact: Finding new perspectives through 3D numerical modeling
Modeling the Moon's regolith at Shackleton Crater for future missions
Secondary craters at the Apollo 17 landing site (Taurus-Littrow Valley).
Using modeling techniques and the latest LRO images to determine the source and timing of primary and secondary craters within the Taurus-Littrow Valley and near where Apollo 17 retrieved lunar samples.
10/2017
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10/2021
Post-doctoral Research Associate
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Space Sciences and Technology,
Baltimore, MD
10/2021
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Present
Assistant Research Scientist
University of Maryland Baltimore County,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
PhD - December 2016 - Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
BSc - 2009 - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Physics and Mathematics
Refereed
Moriarty, D. P., R. N. Watkins, S. N. Valencia, et al. 2020. "Evidence for a Stratified Upper Mantle Preserved within the South Pole – Aitken Basin."
Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets,
(In Press)
[10.1029/2020JE006589]
James, P. B., D. E. Smith, P. K. Byrne, et al. 2019. "Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole‐Aitken Basin."
Geophysical Research Letters,
46
(10):
5100-5106
[10.1029/2019gl082252]
Melosh, H., J. Kendall, B. Horgan, et al. 2017. "South Pole–Aitken basin ejecta reveal the Moon’s upper mantle."
Geology,
45
(12):
1063-1066
[10.1130/g39375.1]
Kendall, J. D., and H. Melosh. 2016. "Differentiated planetesimal impacts into a terrestrial magma ocean: Fate of the iron core."
Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
448:
24-33
[10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.012]
Non-Refereed
Henning, W., J. Renaud, P. Saxena, et al. 2018. "Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority."
ArXiv e-prints
Refereed
Moriarty, D. P., R. N. Watkins, S. N. Valencia, et al. 2020. "Evidence for a Stratified Upper Mantle Preserved within the South Pole – Aitken Basin."
Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets
(In Press)
[10.1029/2020JE006589]
James, P. B., D. E. Smith, P. K. Byrne, et al. 2019. "Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole‐Aitken Basin."
Geophysical Research Letters
46
(10):
5100-5106
[10.1029/2019gl082252]
Melosh, H., J. Kendall, B. Horgan, et al. 2017. "South Pole–Aitken basin ejecta reveal the Moon’s upper mantle."
Geology
45
(12):
1063-1066
[10.1130/g39375.1]
Kendall, J. D., and H. Melosh. 2016. "Differentiated planetesimal impacts into a terrestrial magma ocean: Fate of the iron core."
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
448
24-33
[10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.012]
Non-Refereed
Henning, W., J. Renaud, P. Saxena, et al. 2018. "Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority."
ArXiv e-prints
