Lavender Elle Hanson

Postdoctoral Researcher
Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands

l.e.hanson@uva.nl

https://ellehanson.com/

Positions

Modeling PAH in Titan’s atmosphere
University of Amsterdam
Advisor: Alessandra Candian

2025–

Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Science
Stratospheric ices in Titan’s south polar fall, modeling and imagery analysis
Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, USA
Advisor: Darryn D. Waugh

2020–2025

Faculty Research Associate
Laboratory spectroscopy of Titan cloud ices
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
advised by Carrie M. Anderson

2020–2020

Faculty Research Associate
Martian cloud and atmospheric dynamics using Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imagery
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
advised by Scott Guzewich

2019–2019

M.S., Atmospheric Science & Meteorology
Theoretical and experimental microphysics of water ice clouds
Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, USA
Advisor: Jerry Y. Harrington

2013–2018

B.A., Physics & Chemistry
Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA

2009–2013

Professional Society Membership

American Astronomical Society, Division of Planetary Science

2023–present

American Geophysical Union

2018–present

Teaching

Guided Tour: The Planets, TA

Spring 2023 & 2024

Principles of Atmospheric Measurement, co-instructor

Spring 2017

Radiation and Climate, TA

Fall 2018

Atmospheric Thermodynamics, TA

Fall 2014

Other Training

Various JHU teaching workshops

2020–2025

Johns Hopkins Teaching Institute, May 29-31

Spring 2024

“Grading and Anti-grading” (workshop series)

Spring 2024

“Teaching Discomfort: Facilitating Challenging Discussions in the Classroom” (workshop series)

Fall 2023

Service

Newsletter Editor and Contributor, EPS

2024–2025

Social Committee organizer, EPS

2020–2024

Johns Hopkins Trans Awareness Task Force

2023–2024

Funding

NASA FINESST: Mixed-species clouds in Titan's polar stratosphere (as future investigator, PI: Darryn Waugh).

2021–2024

Publications

Lavender E Hanson, Robert French, Darryn Waugh, Erika Barth, and Carrie M. Anderson, 2025: The Descent of Titan’s South Polar Cloud, Geophys Res Lett, 52, e2024GL113415. doi:10.1029/e2024GL113415

Lavender E Hanson, Darryn Waugh, Erika Barth, and Carrie M. Anderson, 2023: Investigation of Titan's south polar HCN cloud during southern fall using microphysical modeling, Planet Sci J, 4, 237. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ad0837

Gwenore F Pokrifka, AM Moyle, Lavender E Hanson, and Jerry Y Harrington, 2020: Estimating Surface Attachment Kinetic and Growth Transition Influences on Vapor-Grown Ice Crystals, J Atmos Sci, 77, 2393. doi:10.1175/jas-d-19-0303.1

Jerry Y Harrington, Alfred Moyle, Lavender E Hanson, Hugh Morrison, 2019: On Calculating Deposition Coefficients and Aspect-Ratio Evolution in Approximate Models of Ice Crystal Vapor Growth, J Atmos Sci, 76, 1609. doi:10.1175/jas-d-18-0319.1

Alexander Harrison, Alfred M Moyle, Hanson, Jerry Y Harrington, 2016: Levitation diffusion chamber measurements of the mass growth of small ice crystals from vapor, J Atmos Sci, 73, 2743-2758. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0234.1

EM Levin, R Hanus, Hanson, WE Straszheim, K Schmidt‐Rohr, 2013: Thermoelectric properties of Ag₂Sb₂Ge_46 − xDy_xTe₅₀ alloys with high power factor, Physica Status Solidi A, 210, 2628-2637. doi:10.1002/pssa.201330217

Conference presentations

Lavender E Hanson, E L Barth, C M Anderson, and D W Waugh. 2025: Benzene and HCN Ice Clouds in Titan’s Polar Stratosphere. LPSC 2025, The Woodlands, TX, #1521.

Lavender E Hanson, Darryn Waugh, Erika Barth, and Carrie Anderson. 2024: Observations and Modeling of Titan’s Descending South Polar Cloud (poster). AGU 2024, Washington, DC, P43D-3038.

Lavender E Hanson, Darryn Waugh, Carrie Anderson, and Erika Barth. 2024: The Slow Descent of Titan’s South Polar Cloud (talk). AAS/DPS 2024, 208.02, Boise, ID.

Lavender E Hanson, Darryn Waugh, Erika Barth, and Carrie M. Anderson. 2023: Investigating the evolution of Titan's high altitude south polar HCN cloud (talk). AAS/DPS 2023, 208.04, San Antonio, TX.

Lavender E Hanson, Darryn Waugh, Erika Barth, and Carrie M. Anderson. 2023: Modeling the fall high altitude south polar HCN cloud (talk). Titan Through Time 6, Paris.

Lavender E Hanson, Scott Guzewich, 2019: Orographic clouds in the Mars Arcadia province (poster). AGU Fall Meeting 2019, P41B-3405.

Lavender E Hanson, Scott Guzewich, 2019: Using Machine Learning to Identify Clouds in Mars Daily Global Maps (poster), Ninth International Conference on Mars, Pasadena, CA.

Hanson, Alfred Moyle, Jerry Harrington, 2016: Measurements of vapor growth and sublimation of individually levitated ice particles below -30°C (talk), 17th International Conference on Clouds & Precipitation, Manchester, UK, S1.14.