Dr Peter Grindrod
Research Leader
Division: ES Mineral and Planetary Sciences Division
Summary
My research is broadly concerned with understanding the evolution of the terrestrial planets and icy moons. I use techniques from different disciplines to address the key questions in planetary science that can only be answered with a cross-disciplinary approach. By studying the key processes that affect the evolution of different planetary bodies, my research addresses the majority of the recorded history of the Solar System. My current focus is the evolution of water and habitability on Mars.
Qualifications
- PGCE: Higher Education, Birkbeck, University of London, London, 2015 - 2016
- PhD, University College London, London, 2002 - 2005
- MSci, University College London, London, 1997 - 2001
Degrees
Employment history
- Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London, Earth and Planetary Sciences, United Kingdom, 2013 - 2017
- Advanced Research Fellow, University College London, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2013
- Research Fellow, University College London, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2008 - 2012
- Post Doctoral Research Assistant, University College London, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2008
Academic
Non-academic
Explainer, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2004 - 2005
Grants
Recent and Active Geological Processes on the Moon
Role: Principal investigator
Dates: 2021 - 2024
ExoMars TGO Extended Mission Support: Active Surface Processes on Mars
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: UK Space Agency (STFC)
Dates: 2020 - 2021
Geochemistry to Geology for ExoMars 2020: Visible to Near-Infrared Spectral Variability
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: UK Space Agency (STFC)
Dates: 2019 - 2022
Participation in ExoMars-like Field Trials
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: STFC
Total value £152,447 (to Museum £152,447)
Dates: 2018 - 2019
ExoMars TGO Guest Investigator Support: Active Surface Processes on Mars
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: STFC
Total value £305,645 (to Museum £305,645)
Dates: 2017 - 2020
Determining the Source Locations of Martian Meteorites: Non-Linear Unmixing
Role: Principal investigator
Total value £152,447 (to Museum £152,447)
Dates: 2017 - 2019
Committees
Member, UK Space Agency ExoMars Oversight Committee, 2018 - on going.
Member, UK Space Agency Aurora Grant Panel, 2018 - 2018.
Memberships
Other, ExoMars 2016 TGO - Guest Investigator.
Member, ExoMars 2020 - PanCam Science Team.
Publications
Fawdon P, Grindrod P, Orgel C, Sefton-Nash E, Adeli S, Balme M, Cremonese G, Davis J, Frigeri A, Hauber E, Le Deit L, Loizeau D, Nass A, Parks-Bowen A, Quantin-Nataf C, Thomas N, Vago JL, Volat M (2021) The geography of Oxia Planum. Journal of Maps, 17 (2) : 621 - 637. doi: 10.1080/17445647.2021.1982035
Magnarini G, Mitchell TM, Goren L, Grindrod PM, Browning J (2021) Implications of longitudinal ridges for the mechanics of ice-free long runout landslides. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 574 : 117177 - 117177. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117177
Grindrod PM, Davis JM, Conway SJ, de Haas T (2021) Active Boulder Falls in Terra Sirenum, Mars: Constraints on Timing and Causes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (20) : doi: 10.1029/2021gl094817
Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Banham SG, Warner NH, Conway SJ, Boazman SJ, Gupta S (2021) A record of syn-tectonic sedimentation revealed by perched alluvial fan deposits in Valles Marineris, Mars. Geology, 49 (10) : 1250 - 1254. doi: 10.1130/g48971.1
Magnarini G, Mitchell TM, Grindrod PM, Schmitt HH, Petro NE (2021) Scaling Relationship Between the Wavelength of Longitudinal Ridges and the Thickness of Long Runout Landslides on the Moon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126 (10) : doi: 10.1029/2021je006922
Favaro EA, Balme MR, Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Fawdon P, Barrett AM, Lewis SR (2021) The Aeolian Environment of the Landing Site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover in Oxia Planum, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126 (4) : doi: 10.1029/2020je006723
Boazman SJ, Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Balme MR, Vermeesch P, Baird T (2021) Measuring Ripple and Dune Migration in Coprates Chasma, Valles Marineris: A Source to Sink Aeolian System on Mars?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126 (3) : doi: 10.1029/2020je006608
Davis JM, Banham SG, Grindrod PM, Boazman SJ, Balme MR, Bristow CS (2020) Morphology, Development, and Sediment Dynamics of Elongating Linear Dunes on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (12) : doi: 10.1029/2020gl088456
Balme MR, Gupta S, Davis JM, Fawdon P, Grindrod PM, Bridges JC, Sefton‐Nash E, Williams RME (2020) Aram Dorsum: An Extensive Mid‐Noachian Age Fluvial Depositional System in Arabia Terra, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125 (5) : doi: 10.1029/2019je006244
Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Boazman SJ, Vermeesch P, Baird T (2020) Quantified Aeolian Dune Changes on Mars Derived From Repeat Context Camera Images. Earth and Space Science, 7 (2) : doi: 10.1029/2019ea000874
Magnarini G, Mitchell TM, Grindrod PM, Goren L, Schmitt HH (null) Longitudinal ridges imparted by high-speed granular flow mechanisms in martian landslides. Nature Communications, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12734-0
de Haas T, McArdell BW, Conway SJ, McElwaine JN, Kleinhans MG, Salese F, Grindrod PM (2019) Initiation and Flow Conditions of Contemporary Flows in Martian Gullies. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124 (8) : 2246 - 2271. doi: 10.1029/2018je005899
Davis JM, Gupta S, Balme M, Grindrod PM, Fawdon P, Dickeson ZI, Williams RME (2019) A Diverse Array of Fluvial Depositional Systems in Arabia Terra: Evidence for mid‐Noachian to Early Hesperian Rivers on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124 (7) : 1913 - 1934. doi: 10.1029/2019je005976
Kneller BD, Roberts GP, Grindrod PM (2019) Correlation Between Graben Orientation, Channel Direction Change, and Tectonic Loading: The Elysium Province, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124 (3) : 652 - 680. doi: 10.1029/2018je005795
Balme MR, Curtis-Rouse MC, Banham S, Barnes D, Barnes R, Bauer A, Bedford CC, Bridges JC, Butcher FEG, Caballo-Perucha P, Caldwell A, Coates AJ, Cousins C, Davis JM, Dequaire J, Edwards P, Fawdon P, Furuya K, Gadd M, Get P, Griffiths A, Grindrod PM, Gunn M, Gupta S, Hansen R, Harris JK, Hicks LJ, Holt J, Huber B, Huntly C, Hutchinson I, Jackson L, Kay S, Kyberd S, Lerman HN, McHugh M, McMahon WJ, Muller J-P, Ortner T, Osinski G, Paar G, Preston LJ, Schwenzer SP, Stabbins R, Tao Y, Traxler C, Turner S, Tyler L, Venn S, Walker H, Wilcox T, Wright J, Yeomans B (2019) The 2016 UK Space Agency Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI). Planetary and Space Science, 165 : 31 - 56. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2018.12.003
Davis JM, Grindrod PM, Fawdon P, Williams RME, Gupta S, Balme M (2018) Episodic and Declining Fluvial Processes in Southwest Melas Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123 (10) : 2527 - 2549. doi: 10.1029/2018je005710
Fawdon P, Gupta S, Davis JM, Warner NH, Adler JB, Balme MR, Bell JF, Grindrod PM, Sefton-Nash E (2018) The Hypanis Valles delta: The last highstand of a sea on early Mars?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500 : 225 - 241. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.040
Conway SJ, Butcher FEG, de Haas T, Deijns AAJ, Grindrod PM, Davis JM (2018) Glacial and gully erosion on Mars: A terrestrial perspective. Geomorphology, 318 : 26 - 57. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.05.019
Grindrod PM, Hollingsworth J, Ayoub F, Hunt SA (2018) The Search for Active Marsquakes Using Subpixel Coregistration and Correlation: Best Practice and First Results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123 (7) : 1881 - 1900. doi: 10.1029/2018je005649
Harris JK, M. Grindrod P (2018) Hapke mixture modeling applied to VNIR spectra of mafic mineral mixtures and shergottites: Implications for quantitative analysis of satellite data. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53 (6) : 1179 - 1206. doi: 10.1111/maps.13065
Grindrod PM, Warner NH, Hobley DEJ, Schwartz C, Gupta S (2018) Stepped fans and facies-equivalent phyllosilicates in Coprates Catena, Mars. Icarus, 307 : 260 - 280. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.030
Middleton CA, Grindrod PM, Sammonds PR (2017) The effect of rock particles and D 2 O replacement on the flow behaviour of ice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375 (2086) : 20150349 - 20150349. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0349
Coates AJ, Jaumann R, Griffiths AD, Leff CE, Schmitz N, Josset J-L, Paar G, Gunn M, Hauber E, Cousins CR, Cross RE, Grindrod P, Bridges JC, Balme M, Gupta S, Crawford IA, Irwin P, Stabbins R, Tirsch D, Vago JL, Theodorou T, Caballo-Perucha M, Osinski GR, the PanCam Team (2017) The PanCam Instrument for the ExoMars Rover. Astrobiology, 17 (6-7) : 511 - 541. doi: 10.1089/ast.2016.1548
Davis JM, Balme M, Grindrod PM, Williams RME, Gupta S (2016) Extensive Noachian fluvial systems in Arabia Terra: Implications for early Martian climate. Geology, 44 (10) : 847 - 850. doi: 10.1130/g38247.1
Bugiolacchi R, Bamford S, Tar P, Thacker N, Crawford IA, Joy KH, Grindrod PM, Lintott C (2016) The Moon Zoo citizen science project: Preliminary results for the Apollo 17 landing site. Icarus, 271 : 30 - 48. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.021
Brough S, Hubbard B, Souness C, Grindrod PM, Davis J (2016) Landscapes of polyphase glaciation: eastern Hellas Planitia, Mars. Journal of Maps, 12 (3) : 530 - 542. doi: 10.1080/17445647.2015.1047907
Diot X, El-Maarry MR, Schlunegger F, Norton KP, Thomas N, Grindrod PM, Chojnacki M (2016) Complex geomorphologic assemblage of terrains in association with the banded terrain in Hellas basin, Mars. Planetary and Space Science, 121 : 36 - 52. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2015.12.003
Diot X, El-Maarry MR, Guallini L, Schlunegger F, Norton KP, Thomas N, Sutton S, Grindrod PM (2015) An ice-rich flow origin for the banded terrain in the Hellas basin, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 120 (12) : 2258 - 2276. doi: 10.1002/2015je004956
Harris JK, Cousins CR, Gunn M, Grindrod PM, Barnes D, Crawford IA, Cross RE, Coates AJ (2015) Remote detection of past habitability at Mars-analogue hydrothermal alteration terrains using an ExoMars Panoramic Camera emulator. Icarus, 252 : 284 - 300. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.02.004
Warner NH, Gupta S, Calef F, Grindrod P, Boll N, Goddard K (2015) Minimum effective area for high resolution crater counting of martian terrains. Icarus, 245 : 198 - 240. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.024
Diot X, El-Maarry MR, Schlunegger F, Norton KP, Thomas N, Grindrod PM (2014) The geomorphology and morphometry of the banded terrain in Hellas basin, Mars. Planetary and Space Science, 101 : 118 - 134. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.06.013
Grindrod PM, Warner NH (2014) Erosion rate and previous extent of interior layered deposits on Mars revealed by obstructed landslides. Geology, 42 (9) : 795 - 798. doi: 10.1130/g35790.1
Poole W, Muller J-P, Gupta S, Grindrod PM (2014) Calibrating Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter pulse widths at Mars Science Laboratory candidate landing sites. Planetary and Space Science, 99 : 118 - 127. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.05.012
Soare RJ, Conway SJ, Pearce GD, Dohm JM, Grindrod PM (2013) Possible crater-based pingos, paleolakes and periglacial landscapes at the high latitudes of Utopia Planitia, Mars. Icarus, 225 (2) : 971 - 981. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.041
De Rosa D, Bussey B, Cahill JT, Lutz T, Crawford IA, Hackwill T, van Gasselt S, Neukum G, Witte L, McGovern A, Grindrod PM, Carpenter JD (2012) Characterisation of potential landing sites for the European Space Agency's Lunar Lander project. Planetary and Space Science 74 (1) : Elsevier BV : 224 - 246. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.08.002
Grindrod PM, West M, Warner NH, Gupta S (2012) Formation of an Hesperian-aged sedimentary basin containing phyllosilicates in Coprates Catena, Mars. Icarus, 218 (1) : 178 - 195. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.027
Sefton-Nash E, Catling DC, Wood SE, Grindrod PM, Teanby NA (2012) Topographic, spectral and thermal inertia analysis of interior layered deposits in Iani Chaos, Mars. Icarus, 221 (1) : 20 - 42. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.06.036
Grindrod PM, Fawcett SA (2011) Possible climate-related signals in high-resolution topography of lobate debris aprons in Tempe Terra, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (19) : n/a - n/a. doi: 10.1029/2011gl049295
Gowen RA, Smith A, Fortes AD, Barber S, Brown P, Church P, Collinson G, Coates AJ, Collins G, Crawford IA, Dehant V, Chela-Flores J, Griffiths AD, Grindrod PM, Gurvits LI, Hagermann A, Hussmann H, Jaumann R, Jones AP, Joy KH, Karatekin O, Miljkovic K, Palomba E, Pike WT, Prieto-Ballesteros O, Raulin F, Sephton MA, Sheridan S, Sims M, Storrie-Lombardi MC, Ambrosi R, Fielding J, Fraser G, Gao Y, Jones GH, Kargl G, Karl WJ, Macagnano A, Mukherjee A, Muller JP, Phipps A, Pullan D, Richter L, Sohl F, Snape J, Sykes J, Wells N (2011) Penetrators for in situ subsurface investigations of Europa. Advances in Space Research, 48 (4) : 725 - 742. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.06.026
Joy K, Crawford I, Grindrod P, Lintott C, Bamford S, Smith A, Cook A, Zoo M (2011) Moon Zoo: citizen science in lunar exploration. Astronomy & Geophysics, 52 (2) : 2.10 - 2.12. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2011.52210.x
Gallagher C, Balme MR, Conway SJ, Grindrod PM (2011) Sorted clastic stripes, lobes and associated gullies in high-latitude craters on Mars: Landforms indicative of very recent, polycyclic ground-ice thaw and liquid flows. Icarus, 211 (1) : 458 - 471. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.09.010
Grindrod PM, Stofan ER, Guest JE (2010) Volcanism and resurfacing on Venus at the full resolution of Magellan SAR data. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (15) : n/a - n/a. doi: 10.1029/2010gl043424
Grindrod PM, Balme MR (2010) Groundwater processes in Hebes Chasma, Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (13) : n/a - n/a. doi: 10.1029/2010gl044122
Grindrod PM, Heap MJ, Fortes AD, Meredith PG, Wood IG, Trippetta F, Sammonds PR (null) Experimental investigation of the mechanical properties of synthetic magnesium sulfate hydrates: Implications for the strength of hydrated deposits on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115 (E6) : doi: 10.1029/2009je003552
GRINDROD P, FORTES A, NIMMO F, FELTHAM D, BRODHOLT J, VOCADLO L (2008) The long-term stability of a possible aqueous ammonium sulfate ocean inside Titan. Icarus, 197 (1) : 137 - 151. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.04.006
FORTES A, GRINDROD P, TRICKETT S, VOCADLO L (2007) Ammonium sulfate on Titan: Possible origin and role in cryovolcanism. Icarus, 188 (1) : 139 - 153. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.002
Fortes AD, Grindrod PM (2006) Modelling of possible mud volcanism on Titan. Icarus, 182 (2) : 550 - 558. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.11.013
Grindrod PM, Hoogenboom T (2006) Venus: The corona conundrum. Astronomy and Geophysics, 47 (3) : 3.16 - 3.21. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2006.47316.x
Grindrod PM, Stofan ER, Brian AW, Guest JE (2006) The geological evolution of Atai Mons, Venus: a volcano–corona ‘hybrid’. Journal of the Geological Society, 163 (2) : 265 - 275. doi: 10.1144/0016-764904-502
Grindod PM, Guest JE (2006) 1:1.5,000,000 Geological Map of the Aglaonice Region on Venus. Journal of Maps, 2 (1) : 103 - 117. doi: 10.4113/jom.2006.57
Grindrod PM, Nimmo F, Stofan ER, Guest JE (2005) Strain at radially fractured centers on Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (E12) : doi: 10.1029/2005je002416
Stofan ER, Smrekar SE, Tapper SW, Guest JE, Grindrod PM (2001) Preliminary analysis of an expanded corona database for Venus. Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (22) : 4267 - 4270. doi: 10.1029/2001gl013307