Devon M. Burr is Associate Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She holds degrees from the United States Naval Academy (B.S), St. John's College, Santa Fe (M.A.), University of Iowa (M.S.), and University of Arizona (Ph.D.). Her research has been focusing on planetary geomorphology and she currently conducts research on fluvial, aeolian (wind-driven), and tectonic landscapes and processes on planetary bodies, using image analysis and wind tunnel experiments (featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine for kids, entitled Dr E's Super Stellar Solar System!). Burr is the lead editor of the book Megaflooding on Earth and Mars (Cambridge, 2009). She is also a member of the Geological Society of American (and former member of the GSA Planetary Geology Division management board), the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences (serving as Science Organizing Committee Chair for DPS 2018), the American Geophysical Union, and the namesake of asteroid DevonBurr.
