Dr. Reggie L. Hudson Department of Chemistry Eckerd College St. Petersburg, FL 33711 Phone: (727) 864-8457 Office: SHC-210 E-mail: hudsonrl@eckerd.edu

The instructor for the course, and the author of these pages, is Dr. Reggie L. Hudson. By way of background, I have bachelor's degrees in mathematics and chemistry from Pfeiffer University in North Carolina and my Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Tennessee. I have worked in the chemistry department at Eckerd College for twenty-nine years and have taught astrobiology and astronomy courses in fall and spring semesters, as well as in Autumn and Winter Terms. For over twenty years I have collaborated with scientists in the Astrochemistry Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on research into solar system and interstellar chemistry. In addition, I am privileged to work with the Goddard Center for Astrobiology. Finally, I have been an amateur astronomer for about thirty-five years, so that one of my favorite teaching activities is participation in courses like this one.

Professor of Chemistry, Eckerd College
Visiting Scientist, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Branch

Courses in physical chemistry, astronomy, and astrobiology.
Courses in introductory chemistry and in the history and methods of science
Courses in Eckerd College's Honors Program (served as program's first director)

Chemistry and physics of cosmic ices (cometary, icy satellite, and interstellar)
Radiation chemistry and photochemistry applied to astrochemical problems
Molecular spectroscopy, especially as applied to free radical structure and reactions

1978 - Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Tennessee
1974 - A.B., Chemistry and Mathematics, Pfeiffer University (Misenheimer, NC)

American Chemical Society: Chemical Education, Physical, and History Divisions
Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.): Education and Faraday Divisions
American Astronomical Society: Division for Planetary Sciences
American Geophysical Union
Sigma Xi (Life Member)

Selected as a member of the astrobiology team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Manuscript reviewer for Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Icarus, Spectrochemica Acta, Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, and the Astrophysical Journal
Proposal reviewer for NASA programs in planetary geology, exobiology, and planetary atmospheres
Presentations at meetings of the American Astronomical Society (Planetary Sciences Division) in Monterey, Phoenix, Madison, Pasadena, Birmingham, and New Orleans
Presentations at meetings of the Congress of Space Researchers (COSPAR) in Paris, Warsaw, and Houston
Presentations at "Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors" meetings at Cornell University and Berlin
Presentations at workshops on Kuiper-Belt objects (Paris), solid-state astrochemistry (Holland), space weathering (San Francisco), and solar-system ices (Maryland)

"The Radiolysis of SO₂ and H₂S in Water Ice: Implications for the Icy Jovian Satellites", M. H. Moore, R. L. Hudson, and R. W. Carlson, 2007, Icarus, 189, 409-423

"Infrared Spectra and Radiation Stability of H₂O₂ Ices Relevant to Europa", R. L. Hudson and M. H. Moore, 2006, Astrobiology, 6, 483-489

"Astrochemistry Examples in the Classroom", R. L. Hudson, 2006. Journal of Chemical Education, 83, 1611-1615

"Laboratory Evidence for Solid-Phase Protonation of HNCO in Interstellar Ices", R. L. Hudson, R. J. Khanna, and M. H. Moore, 2005, Astrophysical Journal - Supplement Series, 159, 277-281.

"Reactions of Nitriles in Ices Relevant to Titan, Comets, and the Interstellar Medium: Formation of Cyanate Ion, Ketenimines, and Isonitriles", R. L. Hudson and M. H. Moore, 2005, Icarus, 172, 466-478

"Ultraviolet Photolysis and Proton Irradiation of Astrophysical Ice Analogs Containing Hydrogen Cyanide", P. A. Gerakines, M. H. Moore, and R. L. Hudson, 2004, Icarus, 170, 204-213

"Radiation Products in Processed Ices Relevant to Edgeworth-Kuiper-Belt Objects", M. H. Moore, R. L. Hudson, and R. F. Ferrante, 2003, Earth, Moon, and Planets, 92, 291-306

"Solid-Phase Formation of Interstellar Vinyl Alcohol", R. L. Hudson and M. H. Moore, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 586, L107-L110

Teaching - Support from the NSF Instrumentation Program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; numerous small internal grants from Eckerd College

Research - Continuous grant support from NASA for research from 1991 to the present; most recent grant support from NASA Astrobiology Program ($ 84,000, 2003)