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Tyler is a PhD student at UCLA studying the thermal environment of the Moon, focusing on lunar pits and caves, water ice within permanently shadowed regions at the lunar Poles, and the production of global high-resolution thermal maps. He has been involved in multiple NASA missions and mission concepts, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, Lunar Flashlight, the Lunar Compact Infrared imaging Spectrometer (L-CIRiS), and the Moon Diver mission concept to explore lunar pits. Tyler is also part-time faculty at Loyola Marymount University’s Physics department teaching astronomy.