Rate My Professor Jeff Andrews-Hanna

Andrews-Hanna's research examines geodynamic, tectonic, magmatic, hydrologic, and climatic processes acting on the surfaces and interiors of solid-surface planets and moons in the Solar System, from local to global scales. He combines analysis of gravity, topography, and other remote sensing datasets—such as those from NASA's GRAIL mission—with numerical modeling. Current projects investigate terrestrial planet tectonics, volcanism, impact basins, and hydrology on the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Pluto. His work has illuminated lunar subsurface structures using GRAIL gravity data, a giant mantle plume beneath Mars' Tharsis suggesting ongoing activity, and the Moon's early evolution, including evidence that it turned itself inside out through overturn of its mantle. Andrews-Hanna delivers public lectures, including the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Evening Lecture Series on the Moon's earliest days, and teaches courses such as Planetary Global Tectonics and Exploring Our Solar System.