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1 Nikole K. Lewis Space Telescope Science Institute tel: San Martin Drive web: nlewis Baltimore, MD Appointments Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute 2014-present JWST Project Scientist 2016-present JWST Transiting Exoplanet Working Group Lead JWST NIRISS Instrument Scientist Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University 2016-present Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Research Fellow, University of Arizona Staff Scientist, Boston University Member of the Technical Staff, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Boston University Research Interests Modeling atmospheric radiative, dynamical, and chemical processes for substellar objects Data reduction and analysis of observations from systems harboring extrasolar planets Developing novel data reduction and observational methods Education Ph.D. Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, 2012 Advisor: Adam P. Showman Dissertation Title: Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Extrasolar Giant Planets M.A. Astronomy, Boston University, 2004 Advisor: Supriya Chakrabarti Thesis Title: A Study of Far-Ultraviolet Extinction in the Upper Scorpius Cloud Using the SPINR Sounding Rocket Experiment B.S. Physics & Mechanical Engineering, High Distinction, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2002 Physics MQP Title: Jupiter s Migration and the Hilda Asteroid Group ME MQP Title: Design and Testing of Advanced Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator Selected Honors and Awards NASA Group Achievement Award, Spitzer Space Telescope 2013 Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award, University of Arizona 2012 College of Science Award for Excellence in Scholarship, University of Arizona 2012 NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship, University of Arizona Galileo Circle Scholar, The University of Arizona 2008, 2010, 2011 Graduate College Fellowship, The University of Arizona Dr. Robert H. Goddard Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

2 Invited Talks High-Contrast Imaging in Space, 11/2016 The WFIRST Mission Exoplanets in the Era of ELTs, 09/2016 Synergies between ELTs and JWST Opportunity M, 08/2016 Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope Exoclimes III, 08/2016 Climate on Eccentric Planets Sagan Summer Workshop, 07/2016 Hands-on Session Lead: Exoplanet Transits with JWST Transit Spectra with JWST Coronagraphic Imaging with WFIRST APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP), 05/2016 Spectroscopically Unlocking Exoplanet Characteristics 227th AAS Meeting, The Astrophysics of Exoplanet Orbital Phase Curves, 01/2016 Phase Curves of Eccentric Exoplanets Planetary Systems: A Synergistic View. 07/2015 Atmospheric Circulation in the Solar System and Beyond Space Telescope Science Institute 2014 Calibration Workshop, 08/2014 Special Calibration Needs: Exoplanets 224th AAS Meeting, Time Series Data Reduction with IRAC, 06/2014 IRAC Centroiding UCF Workshop: Exoplanets for Planetary Scientists, 01/2010 Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Circulation of the Highly Eccentric Extrasolar Planet HD80606b Colloquia and Seminars The Woman s Club of Roland Park, 01/2017 Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting, 09/2016 STScI Public Lecture Series, 06/2016 Yale University, Astronomy Department, 02/2016 NASA Ames, Planetary Science Division, 09/2015 JHU/STScI, HotSci Seminar Series, 08/2015 University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Astronomy, 04/2015 Carnegie Institute for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 04/2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Astronomy, 10/2014 Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, 10/2014 Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 07/2014 University of Massachusetts, Lowell, EEAS Department, 10/2013 University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Center for Atmospheric Research, 04/2013 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics, 10/2012 Boston University, Department of Astronomy, 02/2012 Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, 02/2011 2

3 Professional Service SOC NExSS Biosignatures Workshop, Member 2016 SOC Linking Exoplanet and Disk Compositions, Co-Chair 2016 WFIRST Formulation Science Working Group, Member SOC Enabling Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST, Chair 2015 Spitzer User Panel, Member 2012-present NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Panelist NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program, Panelist Hubble Space Telescope, Panelist Spitzer Space Telescope, Panelist Astrophysical Journal, Reviewer External Reviewer for Various Programs Session Chair for Various Meetings Funded Grants and Observing Proposals JWST Telescope Scientist GTO Team (Co-I, PI Mark Clampin) JWST Telescope Scientist Investigations Director s Discretionary Research (PI) The Exoplanet Characterization Toolkit (ExoCTK) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Julien de Wit) Exploratory observations of the TRAPPIST-1 system: essential prelude to an immediate JWST follow-up (Cycle 24 DD, ID:14873) Spitzer Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Drake Deming) Transits and Eclipses of the Best of the Best: 23 Hot Jupiters for Atmospheric Characterization by Spitzer, Hubble, and JWST (PID #13044) Spitzer Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Kevin Stevenson) The Ultimate Spitzer Phase Curve Survey (PID #13038) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI David Sing) The Panchromatic Comparative Exoplanet Treasury Program (Cycle 24, ID:14767) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Jason Wang) Probing the young circumplanetary environment of a directly-imaged exoplanet through a rare transit event (Cycle 24, ID:14621) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Kevin Stevenson) A Preparatory Program to Identify the Single Best Transiting Exoplanet for JWST Early Release Science (Cycle 24, ID:14642) WFIRST Science Investigation Team (Deputy PI, PI Bruce Macintosh) Optimizing WFIRST Coronagraph Science Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Julien de Wit) 2016 Two Birds One Stone: Simultaneous Atmospheric Pre-Screening of Two Temperate Earth- Sized Exoplanets During Their Double Transit (Cycle 23 DD, ID: 14500) NASA ROSES Exoplanet Exploration Research Program (Co-I, PI Sarah Hörst)

4 Exploring Cool and Hazy Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Laboratory Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Jeff Valenti) Improving UV Continuous Opacities and Model Spectra for Cool Stars (Cycle 23, ID 14321) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Drake Deming) A Metallicity and Cloud Survey of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Prior to JWST (Cycle 23, ID 14260) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Loic Albert) Direct Test of the Brown Dwarf Evolutionary Models Through Secondary Eclipse Spectroscopy of LHS 6343 (Cycle 23, ID: 14260) Spitzer Space Telescope, (PI) Understanding Eccentric Behavior in the HAT-P-2 System: Orbital Evolution and Stellar Heartbeats (DDT) NASA ROSES WFIRST Preparatory Science Program, (PI) Spectral and Polarimetric Signatures of WFIRST-AFTA Exoplanet Coronagraphy Targets Magellan Telescope, (PI) 2014B The Arizona-CfA-Catolica + MIT Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey (Target: WASP-18b) Magellan Telescope, (PI) 2014A The Arizona-CfA-Catolica + MIT Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey (Target: GJ 1214b) Spitzer Space Telescope, (PI) Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Definition: 3D Eclipse Mapping of HD b and HD b (PID #10103) Spitzer Space Telescope, (PI) Dynamic Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Revisiting the 3.6 micron Phase Curve of HD b (DDT) Hubble Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Catherine Huitson) The First Spectroscopic Phase Curve of a Transiting Planet: Understanding the Deeper Atmosphere (Cycle 21, ID: 13431) Magellan Telescope, (Co-I, PI Brice-Olivier Demory) 2012 Constraining the Chemistry of the Hot-Jupiter CoRoT-2b Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship, (PI) Chemistry of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Linking Three-Dimensional Chemical, Dynamical and Radiative Processes (Sponsor: Sara Seager) Spitzer Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Heather Knutson) The Eccentric Exoplanets: A Survey of Atmospheric Heating and Variability (PID #90032) Spitzer Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Heather Knutson) Life on the Edge: Planetary Atmospheres in Extreme Environments (PID #80073) Spitzer Space Telescope, (Co-I, PI Heather Knutson) Dynamic Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres: From Global Properties to Local Physics (PID #60021) 4

5 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, (Advisor: Adam Showman) Modeling the Atmospheric Circulation of Close-in Extrasolar Giant Planets Advising/Mentoring Experience Current Mentor, Katie Gosmeyer, RIA (STScI) Mentor, Tiffany Kataria, Scientist (JPL) Advisor, Julien de Wit, Postdoc (MIT) Advisor, Brian Kilpatrick, Graduate Student (Brown) Advisor, Giovanni Bruno, Postdoc (STScI) Previous Advisor, Matthew Webber, Graduate Student (MIT) Advisor, Robert Zellem, Graduate Student (Arizona) Advisor, Syler Wagner, Undergraduate Student (MIT) Professional Affiliations Member, American Astronomical Society (AAS) Member, AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Member, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Recently Submitted Articles Gao, P., Marley, M. S., Zahnle, K., Robinson, T. D., Lewis, N. K. (2017). Sulfur Hazes in Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres: Impacts on Reflected Light Spectra. ApJ, submitted. Nayak, M., Lupu, R., Marley, M., Fortney, J., Robinson, T., Lewis, N. (2017). Atmospheric Retrieval for Direct Imaging Spectroscopy of Gas Giants In Reflected Light II: Orbital Phase and Planetary Radius. PASP, accepted. Rackham, B., Espinoza, N., Apai, D., López-Morales, M., Jordán, A., Osip, D. J., Lewis, N. K., Rodler, F., Fraine, J. D., Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J. (2017). ACCESS I: An Optical Transmission Spectrum of GJ 1214b Reveals a Heterogeneous Stellar Photosphere. ApJ, accepted. Wakeford, H. R., Stevenson, K. B., Lewis, N. K., Sing, D. K., López-Morales, M., Marley, M., Kataria, T., Mandell, A., Ballester, G. E., Barstow, J., Ben-Jaffel, L., Bourrier, V., Buchhave, L. A., Ehrenreich, D., Evans, T. M., García Munõz, A., Henry, G., Knutson, H., Lavvas, P., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Nikolov, N., Sanz-Forcada, J. (2017). HST PanCET program: A Cloudy Atmosphere for the promising JWST target WASP-101b. ApJL, accepted. Refereed Journal Articles Wakeford, H. R., Visscher, C., Lewis, N. K., Kataria, T., Marley, M. S., Fortney, J. J., Mandell, A. M. (2017). High-temperature condensate clouds in super-hot Jupiter atmospheres., MNRAS, 464, Schlawin, E., Rieke, M., Leisenring, J., Walker, L. M., Fraine, J., Kelly, D., Misselt, K., Greene, T., Line, M., Lewis, N., Stansberry, J. (2017). Two NIRCam Channels are Better than One: How JWST Can Do More Science with NIRCam s Short-wavelength Dispersed Hartmann Sensor., PASP, 129,

6 Kilpatrick, B. M., Lewis, N. K., Kataria, T., Deming, D., Ingalls, J. G., Krick, J. E., Tucker, G. S. (2017). Spitzer Secondary Eclipse Depths with Multiple Intrapixel Sensitivity Correction Methods Observations of WASP-13b, WASP-15b, WASP-16b, WASP-62b, and HAT-P-22b. AJ, 153:22 Mayorga, L. C., Jackiewicz, J., Rages, K., West, R. A., Knowles, B., Lewis, N., Marley, M. S. (2016). Jupiter s Phase Variations from Cassini: A Testbed for Future Direct-imaging Missions. AJ, 152:209 Lupu, R. E., Marley, M. S., Lewis, N., Line, M., Traub, W. A., Zahnle, K. (2016). Developing Atmospheric Retrieval Methods for Direct Imaging Spectroscopy of Gas Giants in Reflected Light. I. Methane Abundances and Basic Cloud Properties. ApJ, 152:127 Moses, J. I., Marley, M. S., Zahnle, K., Line, M. R., Fortney, J. J., Barman, T. S., Visscher, C., Lewis, N. K., Wolff, M. J. (2016). On the Composition of Young, Directly Imaged Giant Planets. ApJ, 829:66 de Wit, J., Wakeford, H. R., Gillon, M., Lewis, N. K., Valenti, J. A., Demory, B.-O., Burgasser, A. J., Burdanov, A., Delrez, L., Jehin, E., Lederer, S. M., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Van Grootel, V. (2016). A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c. Nature. 537, Wong, I., Knutson, H. A., Kataria, T., Lewis, N. K., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Schwartz, J., Shporer, A., Agol, E., Cowan, N. B., Deming, D., Desert, J.-M., Fulton, B. J., Howard, A. W., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Showman, A. P., Todorov, K. (2016). 3.6 and 4.5 µm Spitzer Phase Curves of the Highly-Irradiated Hot Jupiters WASP-19b and HAT-P-7b., ApJ, 823:122 Demory, B.-O., Gillon, M., de Wit, J., Madhusudhan, N., Bolmont, E., Heng, K., Kataria, T., Lewis, N., Hu, R., Krick, J., Stamenković, V., Benneke, B., Kane, S., Queloz, D. (2016). A map of the large day-night temperature gradient of a super-earth exoplanet., Nature, 532: Kataria, T., Sing, D. K., Lewis, N. K., Visscher, C., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S. (2016). The Atmospheric Circulation of a Nine-Hot Jupiter Sample: Probing Circulation and Chemistry Over a Wide Phase Space., ApJ, 821:9 de Wit, J., Lewis, N. K., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Deming, D., Batygin, K., Fortney, J. J. (2016). Direct Measurement of the Radiative and Dynamical Properties of an Exoplanet Atmosphere., ApJL, 820:L33 Morley, C. V., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Zahnle, K., Line, M., Kempton, E., Lewis, N. K., Cahoy, K. (2015). Thermal Emission and Reflected Light Spectra of Super Earths with Flat Transmission Spectra., ApJ, 815:110 Wong, I., Knutson, H. A., Lewis, N. K., Kataria, T., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Schwartz, J., Agol, E., Cowan, N. B., Deming, D., Désert, J.-M., Fulton, B. J., Howard, A., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Showman, A. P., Todorov, K. (2015). 3.6 and 4.5 µm Phase Curves of the Highly-Irradiated Eccentric Hot Jupiter WASP-14b., ApJ, 811:122 Kammer, J. A., Knutson, H. A., Line, M. R., Fortney, J. J., Deming, D., Burrows, A., Cowan, N. B., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Agol, E., Desert, J.-M., Fulton, B. J., Howard, A. W., Laughlin, G. P., Lewis, N. K., Morley, C. V., Moses, J. I., Showman, A. P., Todorov, K. O. (2015). Spitzer 6

7 Secondary Eclipse Observations of Five Cool Gas Giant Planets and Empirical Trends in Cool Planet Emission Spectra., ApJ, 810:118 Sandel, B. R., Gröller, H., Yelle, R. V., Koskinen, T., Lewis, N. K., Bertaux, J.-L., Montmessin, F. (2015). Altitude profiles of O 2 on Mars from SPICAM stellar occultations., Icarus, 252:154 Webber, M., Lewis, N. K., Marley, M. S., Morley, C., Fortney, J. J., Cahoy, K. (2015). Effect of Longitude-dependent Cloud Coverage on Exoplanet Visible Wavelength Reflected-Light Phase Curves., ApJ, 804:94 Hu, R., Demory, B.-O., Seager, S., Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P. (2015). A Semi-analytical Model of Visible-wavelength Phase Curves of Exoplanets and Applications to Kepler-7b and Kepler-10b., ApJ, 802:51 Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K., Fortney, J. J. (2015). 3D Atmospheric Circulation of Warm and Hot Jupiters., ApJ, 801:95 Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Knutson, H. A., Marley, M. S. (2014). Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b., ApJ, 795, 150 Zellem, R. T., Lewis, N. K., Knutson, H. A., Griffith, C. A., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Cowan, N. B., Agol, E., Burrows, A., Charbonneau, D., Deming, D., Laughlin, G., Langton, J. (2014). The 4.5 µm Full-orbit Phase Curve of the Hot Jupiter HD b., ApJ, 790, 53 Wong, I., Knutson, H. A., Cowan, N. B., Lewis, N. K., Agol, E., Burrows, A., Deming, D., Fortney, J. J., Fulton, B. J., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Showman, A. P. (2014). Constraints on the Atmospheric Circulation and Variability of the Eccentric Hot Jupiter XO-3b., ApJ, 794, 134 Shporer, A., O Rourke, J. G., Knutson, H. A., Szabó, G. M., Zhao, M., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Agol, E., Cowan, N. B., Desert, J.-M., Howard, A. W., Isaacson, H., Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P., Todorov, K. (2014). Atmospheric Characterization of the Hot-Jupiter Kepler-13Ab., ApJ, 788, 92 O Rourke, J. G., Knuston, H. A., Zhao, Ming, Fortney, J. J, Burrows, A., Agol, A., Deming, D., Desert, J.-M., Howard, A., Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P., Todorov, K. O. (2014). Warm Spitzer and Palomar Near-IR Eclipse Photometry of Two Hot Jupiters: WASP-48b and HAT-P- 23b., ApJ, 781, 109 Kammer, J. A., Knutson, H. A., Howard, A. W., Laughlin, G. P., Deming, D., Todorov, K. O., Desert, J.-M., Agol, E., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K. (2014). A Spitzer Search for Transits of Radial Velocity Detected Super-Earths., ApJ, 781, 103 Demory, B.-O., de Wit, J., Lewis, N. K., Fortney, J. J., Zsom, A., Seager, S., Knutson, H. A., Heng, K., Madhusudhan, N., Gillon, M., Barclay, T., Desert, J.-M., Parmentier, V., Cowan, N. (2013). Inference of Inhomogeneous Clouds in an Exoplanet Atmosphere., ApJL, 776, L25 Baskin, N. J., Knutson, H. A., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Lewis, N. K., Agol, E., Charbonneau, D., Cowan, N. B., Deming, D., Desert, J.-M., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Showman, A. P. (2013). Secondary Eclipse Photometry of the Exoplanet WASP-5b with Warm Spitzer. ApJ, 773, 124 Todorov, K. O., Deming, D., Knutson, H. A., Burrows, A., Fortney, J., Lewis, N. K., Cowan, N. B., Agol, E., Desert, J.-M., Sada, P. V., Charbonneau, D., Laughlin, G., Langton, J., Showman, 7

8 A. P. (2013). Warm Spitzer Photometry of Three Hot Jupiters: HAT-P-3b, HAT-P-4b, and HAT-P-12b. ApJ, 770, 102 Kataria, T., Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Freedman, R. S. (2013). Three-dimensional Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters on Highly Eccentric Orbits. ApJ, 767, 76 Lewis, N. K., Knutson, H. A., Showman, A. P., Cowan, N. B., Laughlin, G., Burrows, A., Deming, D., Crepp, J. R., Mighell, K. J., Agol, E., Bakos, G. A., Charbonneau, D., Desert, J.-M., Fischer, D. A., Fortney, J. J., Hartman, J. D., Hinkley, S., Howard, A. W., Johnson, J. A., Kao, M., Langton, J., Marcy, G. W. (2013). Orbital Phase Variations of the Eccentric Giant Planet HAT-P-2b. ApJ, 766, 95 Fraine, J. D., Deming, D., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., Demory, B.-O., Benneke, B., Seager, S., Lewis, N. K., Knutson, H. A., Desert, J.-M. (2013). Spitzer Transits of the Super-Earth GJ1214b and Implications for Its Atmosphere. ApJ, 765, 127 Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Lewis, N. K., Shabram, M. (2013). Doppler Signatures of the Atmospheric Circulation on Hot Jupiters. ApJ, 762, 24 Buenzli, E., Apai, D., Morley, C. V., Flateau, D., Showman, A. P., Burrows, A., Marley, M. S., Lewis, N. K., Reid, I. N. (2012). Vertical Atmospheric Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf: Pressure-dependent Phase Shifts in Simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope-Spitzer Light Curves. ApJL, 760, L31 Stevenson, K. B., Harrington, J., Lust, N. B., Lewis, N. K., Montagnier, G., Moses, J. I., Visscher, C., Blecic, J., Hardy, R. A., Cubillos, P., Campo, C. J. (2012). Two Nearby Sub-Earth-Sized Exoplanet Candidates in the GJ 436 System. ApJ, 755, 9 Knutson, H. A., Lewis, N. K., Fortney, J. J., Burrows, A., Showman, A. P., Cowan, N. B., Agol, E., Aigrain, S., Charbonneau, D., Deming, D., Désert, J.-M., Henry, G. W., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., (2012). 3.6 and 4.5 µm Phase Curves and Evidence for Non-equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Extrasolar Planet HD b. ApJ, 754, 22 Jackson, B.K., Lewis, N. K., Barnes, J. W., Deming, L. D., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J. (2012). The EVIL-MC Model for Ellipsoidal Variations of Planet-Hosting Stars and Applications to the HAT-P-7 System. ApJ, 751, 112 Todorov, K. O., Deming, L. D., Knutson, H. A., Burrows, A., Sada, P. V., Cowan, N. B., Agol, E., Desert, J.-M., Fortney, J. J., Charbonneau, D., Laughlin, G., Langton, J., Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K. (2011). Warm Spitzer Observations of Three Hot Exoplanets: XO-4b, HAT-P-6b AND HAT-P-8b. ApJ, 746, 111 Moses, J. I., Visscher, C., Fortney, J. J., Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K., Griffith, C. A., Shabram, M., Friedson, A. J., Marley, M. S., Freedman, R. S. (2011). Disequilibrium Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen Chemistry in the Atmospheres of HD b and HD b. ApJ, 737, 15 Beerer, I. M., Knutson, H. A., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Agol, E., Charbonneau, D., Cowan, N. B., Deming, D., Desert, J.-M., Langton, J., Laughlin, G., Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P. (2011). Secondary Eclipse Photometry of WASP-4b with Warm Spitzer. ApJ, 727, 23 Deming, D., Knutson, H., Agol, E., Desert, J.-M., Burrows, A., Fortney, J. J., Charbonneau, D., 8

9 Cowan, N. B., Laughlin, G., Langton, J., Showman, A. P., Lewis, N. K. (2011). Warm Spitzer Photometry of the Transiting Exoplanets CoRoT-1 and CoRoT-2 at Secondary Eclipse. ApJ, 726, 95 Koskinen, T. T., Yelle, R. V., Lavvas, P., Lewis, N. K. (2010). Characterizing the Thermosphere of HD209458b with UV Transit Observations. ApJ, 723: Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Freedman, R. S., Lodders, K. (2010). Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Neptune GJ436b. ApJ, 720: Warell, J., Sprague, A., Kozlowski, R., Rothery, D. A., Lewis, N., Helbert, J., Cloutis, E. (2010). Contraints on Mercury s Surface Composition from MESSENGER and Ground-Based Spectroscopy. Icarus, 209: Fortney, J. J., Shabram, M., Showman, A. P., Lian, Y., Freedman, R. S., Marley, M. S., Lewis, N. K. (2010). Transmission Spectra of Three-Dimensional Hot Jupiter Model Atmospheres. ApJ, 709: Lewis, N. K., Cook, T. A., Wilton, K. P., Chakrabarti, S., France, K., Gordon, K. D. (2009). Far-Ultraviolet Dust Albedo Measurements in the Upper Scorpius Cloud Using the SPINR Sounding Rocket Experiment. ApJ, 706: Lewis, N. K., Cook, T. A., Chakrabarti, S. (2005). A Study of Far-Ultraviolet Extinction in the Upper Scorpius Cloud Using the SPINR Sounding Rocket Experiment. ApJ, 619: Franklin, F. A., Lewis, N. K., Soper, P. R., Holman, M. J. (2004). Hilda Asteroids as Possible Probe of Jovian Migration. AJ, 128: Conference Proceedings Douglas, E. S., Hewasawam, K., Mendillo, C. B., Cahoy, K. L., Cook, T. A., Finn, S. C., Howe, G. A., Kuchner, M. J., Lewis, N. K., Marinan, A. D., Mawet, D., Chakrabarti, S. (2015). Endto-end simulation of high-contrast imaging systems: methods and results for the PICTURE mission family. SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 9605:1A. Hicks, B., Oram, K., Lewis, N., Mendillo, C., Bierden, P., Cook, T., Chakrabarti, S. (2013). Dierct Imaging of Exoplanetary Systems with a Monolithic Multispectral Camera. SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 8864, pp Lewis, N. K., Showman, A. P., Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S., Freedman, R. S. (2011). Atmospheric Dynamics of Two Eccentric Transiting Planets: GJ436b and HD17156b. In Molecules in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets, ASP Conference Series, Vol (Jean-Phillip Beaulieu, Stefan Dieters, and Giovanna Tinetti, Eds.), pp Non-refereed Papers Lewis, N. K. (2017). Exoplanets: Weather forecast for a hot Jupiter. Nature Astronomy, News & Views, 1:0013 Fortney, J. J. et al. (2016). The Need for Laboratory Work to Aid in the Understanding of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. Sevenson, K. B., Lewis, N. K., et al. (2016). Transiting Exoplanet Studies and Community 9

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