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Gwen Barnes

Research associate professor

Ph.D. planetary science ’07

B.S. chemistry ’98

Gwen Barnes

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Moon
Mars
Impact cratering

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gbarnes@uidaho.edu

208-885-6809

Engineering/Physic 335

College of Science, Department of Physics

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