Kip Hodges

Dr. Kip Hodges is the K10 principal scientist and is the Founding Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Dr. Hodges received his B.S. in Geology from the University of North Carolina and his Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent 23 years on the faculty at MIT prior to moving to ASU in 2006. His research specialties include continental tectonics, noble gas geochemistry and geochronology, tectonic geomorphology, metamorphic petrology, and planetary field geology. He has conducted extensive field research in the Himalaya and Tibet, in the Peruvian Andes, in the North American Cordillera, and in Arctic and Polar Norway and Greenland. Dr. Hodges is presently assisting NASA in the development of a new field geology training program for its next class of astronaut recruits, has participated in several studies of utilization protocols for NASA’s Lunar Electric Rover, and serves on the Planetary Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council.