Francis Rossmann

MSc Geophysics

Sessional Lecturer

EOS-M 302
graduate

Studying the surface roughness of the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu using high resolution altimetry data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Examining the relationship between surface roughness, impact cratering, mass movement events, and other geologic processes which act to shape the asteroid surface. 

Sessional Lecturer | Graduate Teaching Assistant

EOSC 211 · Computer Methods in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric SciencesATSC 409 · Numerical Techniques for Ocean, Atmosphere and Earth ScientistsEOSC 310 · The Earth and the Solar SystemEOSC 110 · The Solid Earth: A Dynamic Planet

E.B. Bierhaus, F. Rossmann, C. Johnson, R.T. Daly, D. Golish, J. Nolau, A. Allen, H. Campins, M. Pajola, B. Rizk, C. D'Aubigny, D. DellaGiustina, E. Cloutis, D. Trang, D.S. Lauretta, A subsurface layer on asteroid (101955) Bennu and implications for rubble pile asteroid evolution, Icarus, Volume 406, 2023, 115736, ISSN 0019-1035, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115736.