Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles (3 First-Author)

9. Verkercke, S., Liam Morrissey, Diana C. Hayes, and Ziyu Huang. Sulfur and Sulfur Dioxide Capture by Iron Clusters: Effect of Oxidation State on the Adsorption of Sulfur Compounds. The Planetary Science Journal 7(7):172.

8. Hayes, Diana C., Andrew C. Schuerger, and John E. Moores. NIR-NUV Observations of Ice Deposition on Planetary Regolith Simulants. [preprint, submitted to JGR: Planets]

7. Henley, Thomas L. J., Mariek E. Schmidt, Kevin W. Lewis, John E. Moores, Diana C. Hayes, Samantha L. Bray, Nicholas J. Bradley, Rebecca E. Lee, Isabelle K. Marincic, Kevin Turner, Scott D. Guzewich, Claire Newman, Grace Bischof, and Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras (2025). Surface Dust Coverages on Rock Targets in Gale Crater: Influence of Elevation, Proximity to Aeolian Sand Fields and Seasonality. JGR: Planets 130(7):e2023JE008184.

6. Moores, John E., Jacob L. Kloos, Grace Bischof, Diana C. Hayes, and Andrew C. Schuerger (2025). A Microbial Survival Model for the Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon Shows Long-Term Survival of Terrestrial Microbial Contamination. Astrobiology 25(6):391-394.

5. Innanen, Alex C., Diana C. Hayes, Brock E. Koch Nichol, and John E. Moores (2025). Four Mars Years of ACB Phase Function Observations from the Mars Science Laboratory Show Low Interannual and Diurnal Variability and Suggest Irregular Water–ice Crystal Geometry. Icarus 429:116437.

4. Bischof, Grace, Scott D. Guzewich, John E. Moores, Mark T. Lemmon, J. Michael Battalio, Diana C. Hayes, Alex C. Innanen, and Christina L. Smith (2024). Dust Dynamics in Gale Crater Observed Using the Line-Of-Sight Extinction Through 3,663 Sols of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission. JGR: Planets 129(10):e2024JE008349.

3. Hayes, Diana C., David A. Minton, Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (2024). Topography-Enhanced Ultra-Cold Trapping at the LCROSS Impact Site. JGR: Planets 129(7):e2023JE007925.

2. Innanen, Alex C., Brittany A. Cooper, Diana C. Hayes, Charissa L. Campbell, Jacob L. Kloos, Scott D. Guzewich, and John E. Moores (2024). Three Years of ACB Phase Function Observations from the Mars Science Laboratory: Interannual and Diurnal Variability and Constraints on Ice Crystal Habit. The Planetary Science Journal 5(3):72.

1. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, Alex C. Innanen, Charissa L. Campbell, Haley M. Sapers, and John E. Moores (2024). Five Mars Years of Cloud Observations at Gale Crater: Opacities, Variability, and Ice Crystal Habits. The Planetary Science Journal 5(2):51.

Conference Abstracts (14 First-Author)

24. Hayes, Diana C. and John E. Moores (September 2025). Characterizing the Importance of Desorption Activation Energies on Delivery Rates of Volatiles to the Lunar Cold Traps. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025. Helsinki, Finland. (View video)

23. Innanen, Alex C., Livio Tornabene, Diana C. Hayes, and John E. Moores (September 2025). Examining Cloud Properties at Gale Crater with MSL and TGO/CaSSIS [Poster]. EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025. Helsinki, Finland.

22. Moores, John E., Grace Bischof, Kevin Axelrod, Alex C. Innanen, Elisa Dong, Diana C. Hayes, Milena Markovich, Abigail E. Newton, and Isabelle K. Marincic (September 2025). At the Altitude Where it Happens: Science Goals for Exploring the Martian Boundary Layer with RotorcraftEPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025. Helsinki, Finland.

21. Hayes, Diana C. and John E. Moores (March 2025). Incorporating Molecular Recombination into Ballistic Transport Models of Lunar Water [Poster]. 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

20. Hayes, Diana C., Andrew C. Schuerger, and John E. Moores (March 2025). NIR-NUV Observations of Ice Deposition on Planetary Regolith Simulants [Poster]. 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

19. Moores, John E., Jacob L. Kloos, Grace Bischof, Diana C. Hayes, and Andrew C. Schuerger (March 2025). A Microbial Survival Model for the Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon Shows Long-Term Survival of Terrestrial Microbial Forward Contamination [Poster]. 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

18. Bischof, Grace, Scott D. Guzewich, John E. Moores, Mark T. Lemmon, J. Michael Battalio, Diana C. Hayes, Alex C. Innanen, and Christina L. Smith (July 2024). 3663 Sols of Line-of-Sight Dust Extinction in Gale Crater with Applications to Jezero Crater and Beyond [Poster]. 10th International Conference on Mars. Pasadena, California.

17. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, Alex C. Innanen, Charissa L. Campbell, Haley M. Sapers, and John E. Moores (July 2024). Six Mars Years of Gale Crater Cloud Opacity Measurements [Poster]. 10th International Conference on Mars. Pasadena, California.

16. Hayes, Diana C., Alex C. Innanen, Mark T. Lemmon, Germán M. Martínez, and John E. Moores (July 2024). Aphelion Cloud Belt Opacities over Jezero Crater Through the First 1000 Sols of the Mars 2020 Mission [Poster]. 10th International Conference on Mars. Pasadena, California.

15. Innanen, Alex C., Brittany A. Cooper, Diana C. Hayes, Charissa L. Campbell, Jacob L. Kloos, Brock E. Koch Nichol, Scott D. Guzewich, and John E. Moores (July 2024). Three Years of ACB Phase Function Observations from the Mars Science Laboratory: Interannual and Diurnal Variability and Constraints on Ice Crystal Habit [Poster]. 10th International Conference on Mars. Pasadena, California.

14. Bischof, Grace, Scott D. Guzewich, Mark T. Lemmon, Diana C. Hayes, Alex C. Innanen, and J. Michael Battalio (March 2024). Dust Dynamics in Gale Crater Observed Using the Line-of-Sight Extinctions Through 3663 Sols of the Mars Science Laboratory Mission.
55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

13. Hayes, Diana C. and John E. Moores (March 2024). Developing a Model to Explore Interplanetary Volatile Transfer in the Pluto-Charon System [Poster]. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

12. Hayes, Diana C., David A. Minton, Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (March 2024). Topography-Enhanced Ultra-Cold Trapping at the LCROSS Impact Site [Poster]. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

11. Innanen, Alex C., Brittany A. Cooper, Diana C. Hayes, Charissa L. Campbell, Jacob L. Kloos, Brock E. Koch Nichol, Scott D. Guzewich, and John E. Moores (July 2024). Three Years of ACB Phase Function Observations from the Mars Science Laboratory: Interannual and Diurnal Variability and Constraints on Ice Crystal Habit. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

10. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, Alex C. Innanen, Charissa L. Campbell, Haley M. Sapers, and John E. Moores (March 2023). Five Mars Years of Gale Crater Cloud Opacity Measurements. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

9. Hayes, Diana C., David A. Minton, Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (March 2023). Exploring the Effect of Small-Scale Topography on Surficial Temperatures at the LCROSS Impact Site [Poster]. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

8. Guzewich, Scott D., Germán M. Martínez, Alex C. Innanen, Jorge Pla-García, María Ruíz-Pérez, Manuel de la Torre Juárez, Claire E. Newman, Mark T. Lemmon, Grace Bischof, Mark I. Richardson, John E. Moores, Emily L. Mason, J. Michael Battalio, Álvaro de Vicente-Retortillo, Tim H. McConnochie, Diana C. Hayes, Abigail A. Fraeman, Ashwin R. Vasavada, and the MSL Environmental Science Team (March 2023). 10 Years of Environmental Science in Gale Crater. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, Texas.

7. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (October 2022). Modeling the Influence of Small-Scale Topography on Surficial Temperatures at the LCROSS Impact Site. 54th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences. London, Ontario.

6. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, Charissa L. Campbell, Alex C. Innanen, Haley M. Sapers, and John E. Moores (October 2022). Determining the Scattering Phase Function of Martian ACB Clouds from MSL Observations. TEPS Conference 2022. London, Ontario.

5. Hayes, Diana C. (July 2022). Modeling the Influence of Small-Scale Topography on Surficial Temperatures at the LCROSS Impact Site. 13th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Forum. Virtual.

4. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (June 2022). Five Martian Years of MSL Gale Crater Cloud Opacity Measurements: Determining a Scattering Phase Function for the Aphelion Cloud Belt [Poster]. 7th Mars Atmosphere Modelling and Observations Conference. Paris, France.

3. Campbell, Charissa L., Jacob L. Kloos, Christina L. Smith, Doug Ellison, Diana C. Hayes, Alex C. Innanen, and John E. Moores (June 2022). Wind Direction Record of Aerosols Observed by the Mars Science Laboratory. 7th Mars Atmosphere Modelling and Observations Conference. Paris, France.

2. Hayes, Diana C., Jacob L. Kloos, and John E. Moores (November 2021). Small-Scale Topography and the Temperature Distribution of Permanently-Shadowed Regions on the Moon [Poster]. GAC-MAC 2021. London, Ontario.

1. Moores, John E., Charissa L. Campbell, Alex C. Innanen, Haley M. Sapers, Grace Bischof, Diana C. Hayes, Christina L. Smith, Brittany A. Cooper, Casey A. Moore, Jacob L. Kloos, Paul J. Godin, and Raymond Francis (November 2021). Studying the Martian Atmosphere above Gale Crater with Cameras. GAC-MAC 2021. London, Ontario.