Nicholas (Nick) L. Wagner

Planetary Geophysicist

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nicholas_wagner@brown.edu

Welcome to my website! Here you can find links to all my social media, CV, and other stuff I think is cool.

I’m currently a LunaSCOPE postdoctoral research associate at Brown University working with Harriet Lau on some fun lunar tidal tomography problems. I consider myself a blend of a geophysicist, geodynamicist, and geodesist, with a planetary slant. Comparative planetology is central to my research and helps to drive my interest in new projects. Characterization of planetary interiors is central to these themes, which I undertake with the use of new data processing techniques, inversion methodologies, and joint synthesis of complementary data types. It’s fun! and I welcome any and all chats relating to this. Characterization is only the first step. How did we (the Moon, Mars, etc.) get here?

I’m a firm believer in open and reproducible science and I aim to promote equitable, diverse, and inclusive work practices in projects and groups I’m involved with.

selected publications

  1. New Geophysical Constraints for Intrusive Magmatism at Large Martian Volcanoes: Implications for Crustal Thickness and Volatile Outgassing
    N. L. Wagner, and P. B. James
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2025
    e2025JE008959 2025JE008959
  2. Evaluating the Use of Seasonal Surface Displacements and Time-Variable Gravity to Constrain the Interior of Mars
    N. L. Wagner, P. B. James, A. I. Ermakov , and 1 more author
    Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2024