Prof. Munsat's research is focused on the physics of planetary surfaces, in particular the microphysics of dust impacts and dusty plasmas. He is the director of the Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust, with a program of experimental and theoretical investigation of the lunar surface and other near-Earth objects. He is also the director of the Colorado Dust Accelerator NASA User Facility. This is a 3 MV hypervelocity micrometeoroid accelerator, capable of accelerating micron-sized particles up to 10's of km/s into a variety of targets for impact studies and detector development.
