• Ph.D., Planetary Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
• B.A., Physics, Cornell University, 2014

(Most Recent):

• G.D. McDonald, L. Ojha. Spatially variable crater morphology on the dwarf planet Haumea.
  [Submitted].
• L. Ojha, B. Troncone, J. Buffo, B. Journaux, G.D. McDonald. Liquid Water on Cold Exo-Earths
  via Basal Melting of Ice Sheets. Nature Communications 13:7521, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467- 022-35187-4">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-
  022-35187-4
• G.D. McDonald, J.S. Méndez Harper, L. Ojha, P. Corlies, J. Dufek, R.C. Ewing, L. Kerber.
  Aeolian sediment transport on Io from lava-frost interactions. Nature Communications, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29682-x
• J.S. Méndez Harper, J. Dufek, G.D. McDonald. Detection of spark discharges in an agitated
  Mars dust simulant isolated from foreign surfaces. Icarus 357, 114268, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114268
• P. Corlies*, G.D. McDonald*, A.G. Hayes, J.J. Wray, M. Adamkovics, M.J. Malaska, M.L.
  Cable, J.D. Hofgartner, S. Hörst, L.R. Liuzzo, J.J. Buffo, R.D. Lorenz, E.P. Turtle. Transmission
  windows in Titan’s lower troposhere: Implications for infrared spectrometers aboard future aerial
  and surface missions. Icarus 357, 114228, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114228
  *Authors contributed equally