Emily Hawkins

Title

Assistant Professor

Department

Department of Physics

Institution

Loyola Marymount University

emily.hawkins@lmu.edu

Education

PhD, Geophysics and Space Physics

Research Interests

Fluid Dynamics Habitability Icy Moons

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Biography

Dr. Hawkins received her B.A. in physics from Occidental College in 2014. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted experimental research on cryovolcanic icy slurries at the nearby NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with the Applied Low Temperature Physics Group. From her time at JPL, Dr. Hawkins gained a love for planetary physics and went on to earn her M.S. and Ph.D. in Geophysics and Space Physics at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Hawkins’ research interests involve the experimental study of various geophysical and astrophysical fluid phenomena. Her ongoing work aims to constrain the fluid dynamics inside planets that generate and sustain global-scale magnetic fields. This work has important implications for the detection of life in our solar system and beyond, as a planet’s magnetic field protects it from lethal radiation emitted by the Sun or its host star. Dr. Hawkins is also interested in furthering our understanding of the potential habitability of icy moons by examining the unexplored connection between the fluid physics of global subsurface oceans and geologic surface observations.

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Contact Information

1 LMU Drive Los Angeles, CA 90045

707-889-2251

Research

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List of Publications (8)

In 2023

E. Hawkins, J. Cheng, J. Abbate, T. Pilegard, S. Stellmach, K. Julien, J. Aurnou (2023), "Laboratory models of planetary core-style convective turbulence" MDPI Fluids, 8, no. 4: 106, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids8040106.
Found on CV

A. Schoenfeld, E. Hawkins, K. Soderlund, S. Vance, E. Leonard, A. Yin (2023), "Particle Entrainment and Rotating Convection in Enceladus' Ocean" Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 28, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00674-z.
Found on CV

E. Hawkins, J. Aurnou (2023), "Assessing length scales in models of planetary core flow: the Braginsky Parameter", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, In prep.
Found on CV

In 2022

A. Grannan, J. Cheng, A. Aggarwal, E. Hawkins, Y. Xu, S. Horn, J. Sanchez-Alvarez, J. Aurnou (2022), "Experimental pub crawl from Rayleigh-Benard Convection to magnetostrophic convection" Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 939, R1, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.204
Found on CV

Loyola Marymount University Keynote Speaker, "Seaver College of Science and Engineering 50th Anniversary Celebration", September 2022, Los Angeles, CA
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In 2020

E. Hawkins (2020), "Experimental Investigations of Convective Turbulence in Planetary Cores", ProQuest, University of California, Los Angeles.
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In 2018

Leiden University Lorentz Center Workshop on Rotating Convection: from the Lab to the Stars, "Simultaneous measurements of velocity and heat transfer in rapidly rotating turbulent convection", June 2018, Leiden, Netherlands
Found on CV

UCLA, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Planetology Seminar, "Experimental investigations of rapidly rotating convective turbulence in planetary interiors", May 2018, Los Angeles, CA
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Katherine Perez

Loyola Marymount University

Heangjin Park

Loyola Marymount University

Timothy Williamson

Loyola Marymount University

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