Curriculum vitae

Although work focuses on impact crater formation, I am interested in using numerical modeling to approach a range of other topics:

• Atmospheric Airbursts

• Surface Processes

• Solar System Evolution

• Plate tectonics

• Comparative Planetology (Notably icy vs rocky worlds)

• Mantle convection

• Geology, gravity, and numerical modeling of the Nova Colinas impact structure, Parnaiba Basin, Brazil

P. D. Avona (lead) et al., (E. Bjonnes) (2025) Met. and Planet. Sci. 60 (2) https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14306

• Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex: A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus?

I. Lopez, E. Bjonnes, and V. L. Hansen (2024) JGR:Planets 129 (10) https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008256

• Resurfacing history and volcanic activity of Venus

R. R. Herrick (lead) et al., (E. Bjonnes) (2023) Space Sci Rev 219 (29) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00966-y

• Basin crustal structure at the multiring basin transition

E. Bjonnes, B. C. Johnson, and J. C. Andrews-Hanna (2023) JGR: Planets, 128 (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007507

• Dynamics and evolution of Venus’ mantle through time

T. Rolf and M. B. Weller (co-leads) et al. (E. Bjonnes) (2022) Space Sci Rev 218, (70) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00937-9

• Ice Shell Structure of Ganymede and Callisto Based on Impact Crater Morphology

E. Bjonnes, B. C. Johnson, E. A. Silber, K. N. Singer and A. J. Evans. (2022) Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 127 (4) https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE007028

• Modeling the formation of Mnerva impact crater on Titan: Implications for habitability

Crosta, A. P., Silber, E. A., Lopes, R. M., B. C. Johnson, E. Bjonnes, Malaka, M. J., Vance, S. D., Sotin, C., Solomonidou, A., and Soderblom, J.S. (2022) Icarus 370 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114679

• Effect of ice sheet thickness on formation of the Hiawatha impact crater

E. A. Silber, B. C. Johnson, E. Bjonnes, MacGregor, J. A., Kjaer, K. H., Larsen, N. K., and Wiggins, S. E. (2021) Earth and Planetary Science Letters 566 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116972

• 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. (2021) Nature Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01289-6

• 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

• 2020 French Doctoral Research Fellow

Bevan 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

Meteoritical Society

• • Excavation of lightly shocked deep lunar material during crater collapse (2022) Bjonnes, E., Johnson, B. C., Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Garrick-Bethell, I., and  Kiefer, W. S. In 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Abstract #6516, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston (Poster Presentation)

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

• • Excavation of Apollo sample 76535 during formation of the Serenitatis Basin (2022) Bjonnes, E., Johnson, B. C., Andrews-Hanna, J. C., Garrick-Bethell, I., and Bourikas, T. M. In Lunar and Planetary Science LIII, Abstract #1551, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Oral Presentation)

  • The Mineralogic Implications of Impact-Induced Climate Perturbations: Insight from Conduction and Reactive Transport Modeling (2022) Kaufman, S. V., Palumbo, A. M., Bjonnes, E., and Mustard, J. F. In Lunar and Planetary Science LIII, Abstract # 1543, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Oral Presentation)

  • The Effects of Venus' Thermal Conditions on Multiring Basin Formation (2021) Bjonnes, E., Johnson, B. C., and Evans, A. J. In Lunar and Planetary Science LII, Abstract # 1513, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston. (Recorded Oral Presentation)

  • Exploring Habitability Conditions in Titan's Impact Crater Record: The Formation of Menrva Crater (2021) Crosta, A. P., Silber, E. A., Lopes, R. M. C., Malaska, M. J., Solomonidou, A., Johnson, B. C., Vance, S. D., Sotin, C., Bjonnes, E., and Soderblom, J. M. In Lunar and Planetary Science LII, Abstract #2309, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston (Poster Presentation)

  • 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)

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)

PhD - Brown University

Awarded Transitional Masters Degree - Spring 2019

Masters of Science - University of Minnesota Duluth

Major: Planetary Science

Dual Bachelors of Sciences - Cook College, Rutgers University

Majors: Astrophysics/Geology

Minor: Meteorology