Contact information
sarah.horst@jhu.edu
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD
21218
Office 230 Olin Hall
I am currently an Associate
Professor in
the Department
of Earth and
Planetary
Sciences at
Johns Hopkins
University
where I am
working to
understand the
formation and
composition of
planetary
atmospheric
hazes.
I grew up “all over”, including 12 years
in
Great
Falls,
MT and
high
school
in
Gainesville,
FL. I
received
a
B.S. in
Planetary
Science
and
B.S. in
Literature
from
the
California
Institute
of
Technology
in
2004. While
at
Caltech,
I
worked
with
Dr. Michael
Brown
studying
Europa
and
Titan. After
graduating
from
Caltech,
I
worked
at
NASA’s
Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory
for a
year
with
Dr. Ashwin
Vasavada
analyzing
images
of
Saturn
from
the
Imaging
Science
Subsystem
(ISS)
on the
Cassini
spacecraft. In
2011,
I
received
my PhD
from
the
University
of
Arizona
where
I
studied
the
chemistry
occurring
in
Titan’s
atmosphere
with
Dr. Roger
Yelle
at the
University
of
Arizona’s
Lunar
and
Planetary
Laboratory. After
finishing my
PhD, I was an
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Margaret Tolbert at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at University of Colorado-Boulder.
My primary research interest is
atmospheric
chemistry. In
particular,
I am
interested
in the
complex
organic
chemistry
occurring in
the
atmosphere
of Titan. I
am also
interested
in complex
organics
elsewhere in
the solar
system (and
the universe!), whether they are produced in an atmosphere or on a
surface.