Curriculum vitae
Research Interests
Although my PhD work is focused on impact cratering, I am interested in using numerical modeling to approach a range of other topics:
Surface Processes
Solar System Evolution
Plate tectonics
Comparative Planetology (Notably icy vs rocky worlds)
Mantle convection
Publications
Estimating Venusian Thermal Conditions Using Multiring Basin Morphology
E. Bjonnes, B. C. Johnson, and A. J. Evans. Estimating Venusian thermal conditions using multiring basin morphology. Nat. Astron. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01289-6
- Ice shell structure of Ganymede and Callisto based on impact crater morphology
E. Bjonnes, B. C. Johnson, and E. A. Silber (In Prep.)
- Lunar chronology through the lens of impact basin development
E. Bjonnes, B. C. Johnson, J.C. Andrews-Hanna (In Prep.)
- The Hiawatha impact structure formed after inception of the Greenland Ice Sheet
E. A. Silber, B. C. Johnson, E. Bjonnes, MacGregor, J. A., Kjaer, K. H., Larsen, N. K., and Wiggins, S. E. (In Review)
- Equilibrium resurfacing of Venus: Results from new Monte Carlo modeling and implications for Venus surface histories
E. Bjonnes, V. L. Hansen, B. James, and J. B. Swenson (2012) Icarus 217, 451-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.033
Awards
- 2020 French Doctoral Research Fellow
French Fund, Brown University
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award
AGU Annual Meeting, 2018
- Frantes Grant
University of Minnesota - Duluth, September 2006
- Vinton Gwinn Award
Rutgers University, 2005
- Aresty Foundation Research Grant
Aresty Foundation, 2005
- Robert E. Sells Physics Scholarship
Rutgers University, 2004-2005
Conference Proceedings
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Determining Venus' Thermal Conditions through Multiring Basin Formation (2020) Bjonnes, E., Johnson, B. C., and Evans, A. J. In Lunar and Planetary Science LI, Abstract # 2511, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Canceled Oral Presentation)
Exploring the Peak-Ring to Multiring Basin Transition on the Moon (2019) Bjonnes, E., Johnson, B. C., and Andrews-Hanna, J. C.. In Lunar and Planetary Science L, Abstract # 2026, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Oral Presentation)
Formation of Impact Craters on Ganymede and Callisto as a Constraint on Ice Shell Structure (2018) Bjonnes, E. and Johnson, B. C.. In Lunar and Planetary Science XLIX, Abstract # 1548, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Oral Presentation)
Results of equilibrium resurfacing Monte Carlo models on Venus. (2008) Bjonnes, E., Hansen, V. L., and Swenson, J. B. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX, Abstract # 2410, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Oral Presentation)
Comparison of lava flows from Hawaii and Ascraeus Mons. (2006) Bjonnes E. and Zimbelman, J. Z. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, Abstract # 1733, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Poster Presentation)
Comparison of the Lithologies on the Surface of the Asteroid 4 Vesta based on the Petrology of 91 & 92 Series Antarctic Achondrites. (2005) Bjonnes, E. and Delaney, J. S. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract #1344, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Poster Presentation)
The depositional setting of Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks. (2005) Bjonnes, E. and Lindsay, J. F. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Abstract #1821, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Poster Presentation)
Constraints on the lithological variation of the HED planetoid from the petrology of 91 & 92 series Antarctic achondrites. (2004) Bjonnes, E. and Delaney, J. S. In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV, Abstract #1030, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Poster Presentation)
American Geophysical Union
Modeling of Mead Impact Basin and implications for planetary heat flow (2018) Bjonnes, E. and Johnson, B. C. (Oral Presentation)
Geological Society of America
Equilibrium resurfacing of Venus: Results of Monte Carlo modeling. (2007) Bjonnes, E., Hansen, V. L., Swenson, J. B., and Maclin, R. F. (2007) In Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, Geological Society of America, p. 589. (Oral Presentation)
Teaching Experience
I've been fortunate enough to have several teaching opportunities during my time at Brown:
Teaching Assistant Experience:
Planetary Evolution, EEPS 1810
Weather and Climate, EEPS 0850
Summer Teaching Experience
Co-Instructor, Summer@Brown:
Dynamics of Solar System Formation and Change (2020)
Solar System Formation and Processes (2019)
Teaching Assistant, Summer@Brown:
Computational Physics (2020)
Education
PhD Candidate - Brown University
July 2017 - Present
Fall 2021 Expected Graduation Date
Awarded Transitional Masters Degree - Spring 2019
Masters of Science - University of Minnesota Duluth
July 2006 - January 2009
Major: Planetary Science
Dual Bachelors of Sciences - Cook College, Rutgers University
Majors: Astrophysics/Geology
Minor: Meteorology
Sept 2001 - January 2006
Work Experience
Petroleum Geo-Services, Houston TX
July 2012 -February 2017
Project Interpreter II
CGG Veritas, Houston TX
April 2009 - July 2012
Seismic Interpreter