CURRICULUM VITAE

 

James F. Kasting
1072 Crabapple Dr.
State College, PA 16801
Office:  (814) 865-3207
Home:           231-0292

PERSONAL DATA

            Birth date:  January 2, 1953
            Marital Status:  Married (Sharon), 3 children

DEGREES RECEIVED

            A.B.  Harvard University,        1975 (Chemistry and Physics)
            M.S.  University of Michigan, 1978 (Physics)
            M.S.  University of Michigan, 1978 (Atmospheric Science)
            Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1979 (Atmospheric Science)

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

            National Merit Scholarship (1971)
            Harvard National Scholarship (1971-75)
            Summa Cum Laude - Harvard (1975)
            Michigan College of Engineering Fellowship (1976)
            Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Department
               (University of Michigan) Distinguished Alumni Award (1992)
            Appointed Distinguished Professor, Penn State (2003)
            Faculty Scholar Award, Penn State (2005)

           ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

            American Geophysical Union (Fellow, 2004)
            American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, 1995)
            International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (Fellow, 2002)
            The Planetary Society

NAMED LECTURES

            Carl Sagan Lecture, Fall AGU Meeting (2004)
            SCUGOG Public Lecture, University of Western Ontario (2004)
            Klepser Lecturer, Geology Dept., University of Tennessee (2006)
            Wright lecturer, Geneva, Switzerland (2006)

COMMITTEES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL DUTIES

            Strategies for Planetary Atmospheres Exploration (SPASE) Working Group (1987-88)
            NASA Exobiology Peer Review Panel (1989-1991)
            Editorial Board for Origins of Life (1990-95)
            Chairman, Gordon Conference on the Origins of Life (1990)
            IAMAP Commission on Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution (1991-95)
            NASA Exobiology Discipline Working Group (1991-1998)
            Geology Editorial Board (1994-1996)
            Editorial board for JGR Planets (1995-1998)
            AAAS Electorate Nominating Committee (1997-1999)
            NASA Ames Space Science review panel (1998)
            NASA Astrobiology Research Laboratory Science Definition Group (1999)
            SETI Institute Science Working Group (2000)
            Chairman, NASA Exobiology Peer Review Panel (1995- 2000)
            NASA Astrobiology Task Force (1999-2001)
            NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Science Working Group (1999-2002)
            Ball Aerospace TPF Preliminary Design Team (2000-2002)
            NASA Solar System Exploration Subcommittee (2001-2002)
            NRC Committee on the Origin and Evolution of Life, COEL (2003- 2004)
            NRC Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: TPF Review Panel (2004)
            Co-Chair, NASA TPF-C Science and Technology Definition Team (2005-06)

            Current:

            Editorial board for Astrobiology (2000- )
            Editorial board for Geobiology (2000- )
            Member, NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force (2007- )

WORK EXPERIENCE

             2006        Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et del’Environment, Gif-sur-Yvette, France (June-July)
             2003-04 Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology
                             Distinguished Visiting Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
             2003-              Distinguished Professor, Penn State University
            1994-        Professor of Geosciences and Meteorology, Penn State University
            1988-94   Associate Professor of Geosciences and Meteorology, Penn State
            1983-88   Research Scientist, Space Science Division, NASA Ames  Res. Center
            1981-83   National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA Ames Research Center
            1979-81   NCAR Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research
            1976-79   Research Assistant, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Michigan

BOOKS PUBLISHED

The Earth System, L. R. Kump, J. F. Kasting, and R. G. Crane, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999, 351 pp. (2nd ed., 2004, 419 pp.)

TEACHING OUTSIDE OF PENN STATE

European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA) -- Grenoble, France (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Agouron Geobiology Course--Catalina Island, California (2002)
Extrasolar Planets Winterschool—Tenerife, Spain (Fall, 2004)