Email: russell.deitrick@gmail.com
VPL Focus: Task C
Bio:
I work on the dynamics of exoplanets and star systems, and also do a bit of climate modeling to understand how habitability can be impacted orbital evolution. I work with other VPL members: Rory Barnes (my dissertation advisor), Cecilia Bitz, Thomas Quinn, Victoria Meadows, John Armstrong, Rodrigo Luger, and Sean Raymond. I’m currently developing a model, with Rory Barnes, Rodrigo Luger, Tom Quinn, Peter Driscoll, and David Fleming, to couple the myriad of physical processes which affect planetary evolution. We are using this model to study the habitability of planets like Proxima Centauri b.