I work with Mihaly Horányi studying the interplanetary dust environment with instrumentation and simulation. I'm the lead for the Student Dust Counter aboard New Horizons currently making in-situ measurements of the dust environment in the Kuiper Belt. We also model the dusty plasma environment of airless bodies like the moon.
Selected Publications:
Piquette, M., Horányi, M., 2017. The effect of asymmetric surface topography on dust dynamics on airless bodies. Icarus 291, 65–74. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.03.019
Piquette, M., Horányi, M., Stern, S.A., 2017. Laboratory experiments to investigate sublimation rates of water ice in nighttime lunar regolith. Icarus 293, 180–184. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.017
Szalay, J.R., Piquette, M., Horanyi, M., 2013. The Student Dust Counter: Status Report at 23 AU. Earth Planets Space 65, 1145–1149.
Piquette, M., Bernardoni, E., Poppe, A. R., Szalay, J., Horányi, in prep. Student Dust Counter: Status report at 38 AU and model comparisons.