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Below are Announcements of Opportunity posted by Caltech faculty and JPL technical staff for all programs administered by the Student-Faculty Programs office. This list shows AOs for all programs, while the lists on the SURF, Amgen Scholars, NASA Space Grant, and NASA USRP sites show just AOs applicable to each program.

Students pursuing opportunities at JPL must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.

Announcements of Opportunity are posted as they are received. Please check back regularly for new AO submissions!

Announcements for programs not offered by Caltech can be found here.
 

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 Project Title Disciplines Mentor  Posted 
Rover-based Sample Acquisition and Handling Design and Test    Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Paul Backes (JPL)  08-Feb-10
Electric thruster plume physics and instrumentation.     Applied Physics, Aeronautics Lee Johnson (JPL)  08-Feb-10
DIRECT IMAGING DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EARTH-LIKE EXTRASOLAR PLANETS    Astrophysics, Planetary Science Justin Crepp  08-Feb-10
LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Program    Physics, Astrophysics Alan Weinstein  06-Feb-10
Compact Modular High Voltage Power System for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications    Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics Peter Willis (JPL)  04-Feb-10
Archival and Analysis of Sea Ice Thickness in the Arctic Ocean Based on On-Ice In Situ Historical M    , Earth Science - Oceanography Benjamin Holt (JPL)  04-Feb-10
In-Situ Instruments for Extreme Environments (Polar, Deep Sea, Planetary Surface/Atmosphere    Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Microbiology Alberto Behar (JPL)  04-Feb-10
Radiometer detector development    Physics, Optics, engineering William Johnson (JPL)  04-Feb-10
Microbial Diversity and Survival in Space Conditions    Biotechnology, Astrobiology Kasthuri Venkateswaran (JPL)  03-Feb-10
Developing CO2 Cleaning Technologies for Planetary Protection and Contamination Control Applications    Chemical Engineering, Planetary Science Ying Lin (JPL)  03-Feb-10
ATHLETE Rover Design, Assembly, & Testing Support    Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Jaret Matthews (JPL)  03-Feb-10
Regional study of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in the Tuff of San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico    Geology, Geophysics Joann Stock  02-Feb-10
Field Stars with Infrared Excesses    Astrophysics, Planetary Science Michael Werner (JPL)  31-Jan-10
ATHLETE Testing and Operations    Computer Science, Robotics Julie Townsend (JPL)  29-Jan-10
Small RNA Expression in Drosophila    Biology, Biochemistry Alexei Aravin  29-Jan-10
Cryogenic integrating preamplifier for sensing very low currents.    Electrical Engineering, Astrophysics Roger Smith  29-Jan-10
Development of organic molecule detection techniques     Chemistry, Biochemistry Luther Beegle (JPL)  29-Jan-10
Studies of the icy satellites of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft    Planetary Science, Astrophysics Bonnie Buratti (JPL)  29-Jan-10
Characterization of Thin-Film Ceria    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Tae-Sik Oh  28-Jan-10
Anti-dot Metal Films on Electrolyte Substrates    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Evan Brown  28-Jan-10
Cobalt-doped barium zirconate as a mixed conducting cathode for Solid-Oxide Fuel-Cells (SOFCs)    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Yoshi Yamazaki  28-Jan-10
Exploratory study of (Ba0.5Sr0.5)(Co0.8Ga0.2)O3-? as a candidate cathode material for Solid-Oxide Fuel-Cells (SOFCs)     Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Rob Usiskin  28-Jan-10
Preparation of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) with systematically varied features    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Jaemin Kim  28-Jan-10
Electrospray preparation of CsH2PO4-based, porous fuel-cell electrodes    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Aron Varga  28-Jan-10
Reactivity of CsH2PO4 with candidate electrocatalysts    Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Mary Louie  28-Jan-10
Synthesis of Water-insoluble Proton-conducting Solid Acids: Cs1-xBaxH2-xPO4 and Ba3-xKxHx(PO4)2     Materials Science, Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Ayako Ikeda  28-Jan-10
Database and Website Enhancements for the Planning and Execution Systems Section     Computer Science, Information Systems Arno Toutounjian (JPL)  28-Jan-10
Using Dark Matter Simulations to Characterize the Properties of the Milky Way's Dwarf Galaxies.    Astrophysics, Numerical simulations Leonidas Moustakas (JPL)  27-Jan-10
Reduced Resolution ARticulated Models    Computer Science, Physics Barbara McGuffie (JPL)  27-Jan-10
Collada format 3-D Terrain Models    Computer Science, Physics, Geology, Geography Barbara McGuffie (JPL)  27-Jan-10
AMMOS cost model development    Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering Eleanor Basilio (JPL)  27-Jan-10
Circumstellar Matter (Jets, Disks and Torii) in Young and Dying Stars    Astrophysics, Computational Raghvendra Sahai (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Religion in Modern American Politics    Economics, Political Science Erik Snowberg  26-Jan-10
The WAVE for Mission Operations Tools    Computer Science Michael Wallick (JPL)  26-Jan-10
MaROS Web Browser    Computer Science Michael Wallick (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Controlling the Digital Image Animation Laboratory    Electrical Engineering Barbara McGuffie (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Dynamics simulation of bio-molecular systems    Chemistry, Biochemistry Abhinandan Jain (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Full Dome Planetarium    Mathematics, Art, Photoshop Barbara McGuffie (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Instrument Data Retrieval    Computer Science, Mathematics Pamela Francel (JPL)  26-Jan-10
Blazars: the cosmic accelerators    Astrophysics S. George Djorgovski  25-Jan-10
Classifying things that go *bang!* in the night    Astrophysics, Computer Science S. George Djorgovski  25-Jan-10
Enabling "citizen science" in time-domain astronomy    Astrophysics, Computation and Neural Systems S. George Djorgovski  25-Jan-10
Deep Drilling and Sampling via Compact low-mass rotary-hammer Auto-Gopher    Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Yoseph Bar-Cohen (JPL)  25-Jan-10
Airborne Precipitation Radar Integration, Testing and Operations for the NASA GRIP Field Experiment    Electrical Engineering, Atmospheric Sciences Simone Tanelli (JPL)  24-Jan-10
Data reduction of the Antarctic Gattini camera network    Astrophysics, Computer Science Anna Moore  24-Jan-10
The design and assembly of an Antarctic camera    Astrophysics, Mechanical Engineering Anna Moore  24-Jan-10
Modeling gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries    Physics, Astrophysics Yanbei Chen  22-Jan-10
Mars Data Analysis    Planetary Science, Geology Matthew Golombek (JPL)  22-Jan-10
Implementing Activity Model Extensions To State Machine Design Pattern    Computer Science, System models using UML, Autonoma Leonard Reder (JPL)  22-Jan-10
Scaling relations in bosonic models for high-temperature superconductors     Physics Lindner Netanel  22-Jan-10
Modeling and Simulation of Planetary Rovers    Computer Science, Aerospace Abhinandan Jain (JPL)  22-Jan-10
Cloud-Computing Based Earthquake Data Server    Geophysics, Computer Science Rob Clayton  21-Jan-10
Regulation of a stem cell niche by a diffusible paracrine signal    Biology, Plant Biology Elliot Meyerowitz  20-Jan-10
Characterizing Galaxy Environments with Gravitational Lens Time Delays    Astrophysics Leonidas Moustakas (JPL)  20-Jan-10
Analysis of Mid-Infrared Observations of Jupiter    Planetary Science, Computer Sciences Glenn Orton (JPL)  20-Jan-10
Analysis of Near-Infrared Observations of Jupiter    Planetary Science, Computer Sciences Glenn Orton (JPL)  20-Jan-10
Time-Dependence of Saturn's Atmosphere from Mid-Infrared Imaging    Planetary Science, Computer Sciences Glenn Orton (JPL)  20-Jan-10
Robo-AO: Economical, replicable, robotic laser adaptive optics and science system for 1-3 m telescopes    Astrophysics Christoph Baranec  20-Jan-10
Development of Chemical Methods for New Low-Mass, Low-Power Sample Processing Technologies Based on Aqueous Chemistry and Microfluidic "Lab-on-a-Chip" Approach    Chemistry, Environmental Science and Planetary Science Xenia Amashukeli (JPL)  20-Jan-10
Understanding the Planet Forming Environment of T Tauri stars in Rho Ophiuchi    Astrophysics Peter Plavchan  20-Jan-10
Onboard Machine Learning and Processing for Space Exploration    Computer Science, Other science Steve Chien (JPL)  19-Jan-10
3D Visualization of Solar Storm Propagation from the Sun to Earth    Applied Physics, Solar Physics Paulett Liewer (JPL)  18-Jan-10
Cryogenic Chemistry Studies of Water Ice Mixtures Germane to Outer Planet Satellites    Chemistry, Physics Paul Johnson (JPL)  17-Jan-10
ISS EarthKAM - Completing Automatic Image Geo-referencing and Annotation    Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics Paul Andres (JPL)  17-Jan-10
Submillimeter Astrophysics and Instrumentation; Superconducting Detectors    Physics, Astrophysics Jonas Zmuidzinas  17-Jan-10
Extracting Meaning From Astronomical Event Notifications    Astrophysics, Computer Science Matthew Graham  16-Jan-10
Analysis of Recent Seismicity Near Geothermal Areas in Southern California    Geology, Computer Science Egill Hauksson  15-Jan-10
SURF Research in English and American Literature    English Kevin Gilmartin  14-Jan-10
Weak Lensing as a Probe of Dark Matter and Energy    Astrophysics, Mechanical Engineering Jason Rhodes (JPL)  13-Jan-10
Intelligent Computer Vision    Computer Science, Math Thomas Lu (JPL)  13-Jan-10
Projects involving the use of NMR to Study Conformational Analysis    Chemistry John Roberts  07-Jan-10
Understanding the Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction    Neuroscience, Biophysics Henry Lester  04-Jan-10
Natural Language Processing for Healthcare Research    Computer Science, Bioengineering Mani Chandy  04-Jan-10
Cellphone Medicine    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering Mani Chandy  04-Jan-10
Center for the Predictive Modeling and Simulation of High-Energy Density Dynamic Response of Materials     Applied and Computational Mathematics, Aeronautics Mark Stalzer  04-Jan-10
Gaming Environment for Radiation Detection    Computer Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics Mani Chandy  04-Jan-10
Community-Based Sensing of Earthquakes    Computer Science, Geology Mani Chandy  04-Jan-10
Investigating Human Social Cognition    Computation and Neural Systems, Bioengineering Ralph Adolphs  09-Dec-09
Power Curves in Datacenters - Prof. Steven Low, Prof. Adam Wierman    Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Steven Low  08-Dec-09
Reactive Gas Uptake on Atmospheric Aerosol Mimics    Environmental Science and Engineering, Chemistry A. J. Colussi  08-Dec-09
Sea Urchin Larval Gene Expression    Biology Andrew Cameron  08-Dec-09
SpBase: The Sea Urchin Genome Database    Biology, Computer Science Andrew Cameron  08-Dec-09

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