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John (Jack) Mustard
Jack Mustard is a planetary scientist, using remote sensing and spectroscopy to explore Earth and the Planets.

Career
John Mustard is a professor or Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. His nickname is Jack and most of his colleagues call him Jack. He investigates the formation and evolution of rocky planets (i.e. Mars, Mercury, the Moon and the Earth). He earned his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia in 1983 (where he was the President of the Dawson Club), and continued his studies in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown University obtaining an M.Sc. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1990. Shortly thereafter he became an assistant professor of research until joining regular faculty in 1996.

He was a founding member of the Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University in 2000, that has since become the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES). He has served on a number of departmental administrative, strategic and search committees and among his university service he has served on the Provost Search Committee (2014) and Academic Priorities Committee (2013-2019). He has served on NASA and National Academy of Sciences committees, most recently as a member of the Space Studies Board and as a member of the Mars Architecture Strategy Working group 2019-2020. He is currently Co-Director along with Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto) of the Earth 4D program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mission Involvement
Earth Observer 1 (Science Team Member)

OMEGA: Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activité (science collaborator)

CRISM: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (Deputy Principal Investigator)

M3: Moon Mineralogy Mapper (Science Team Member)

Honors
·       Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011.

·       Awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Public Service 2012

·       Elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union 2014

Early Life
John Mustard was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada on March 13, 1961 to Elizabeth (Betty) and Fraser Mustard, and he is number five of six children in the family. The family moved to Dundas Ontario in 1968 where he grew up until leaving in 1980 to pursue educational opportunities in British Columbia, Canada and Rhode Island, USA.