Charles A. Wood

Charles A. "Chuck" Wood is an American planetary geologist who currently is a Senior Scientist Emeritus of the Planetary Science Institute.

Wood earned his PhD in Planetary Geology from Brown University in 1979. Between 1980 and 1985, he worked as a Space Scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From 1985 to 1990, he served as Chief of the Space Shuttle Earth Observations Office. Between 1990 and 2000, he chaired the Department of Space Studies at the University of Arizona. From 2001 to 2003, he was Director of Education for the Biosphere 2 program while it was operated by Columbia University. In 2004, he joined the Planetary Science Institute as a Senior Scientist and simultaneously took on the role of Executive Director at the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling University.

Wood published a series of articles about the moon in Sky and Telescope magazine.

Wood ran the popular site Lunar Photo of the Day, or LPOD, from 2004 to 2018. The site posted a photo of the moon or about the moon daily, and included Wood's comments on it.

In 2018, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 363115 "Chuckwood" in honor of Wood's work.