David Catling
  Professor
  Office: JHN-325
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-543-8653
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: dcatling @ u.washington.edu
  Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/dcatling/publications.html

  Research Groups: Planetary Sciences

Areas of Interest:
Planetary Atmospheres, Biogeochemistry, Planetary Geomorphology (surface processes), Astrobiology

Selected Publications:

D. C. Catling, Claire, M. W., Quinn, R. C., Zahnle, K. J., Clark, B. C., Kounaves, S.; Hecht, M. H. Possible atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E00E11, doi:10.1029/2009JE003425, 2010.

D. C. Catling and K. J. Zahnle, The Planetary Air Leak, Scientific American, 300, 32-39, 2009.

D. C. Catling and J. F. Kasting, Planetary Atmospheres and Life, In W. Sullivan , J. Baross (eds.) Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology, Cambridge University Press, 91-116, 2007.

D.C. Catling, S. E. Wood, C. Leovy, D. R. Montgomery, H. Greenberg, C.R. Glein, J. M. Moore, Light-toned layered deposits in Juventae Chasma, Mars, Icarus, 181, 26-51, 2006.

D. C. Catling, C. P. McKay, and K. J. Zahnle, Biogenic methane, hydrogen escape, and the irreversible oxidation of early Earth, Science, 293, 839-843, 2001.

D. C. Catling. A chemical model for evaporites on early Mars: Possible sedimentary tracers of the early climate and implications for exploration, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 16,453-16,470, 1999.