Have you ever wondered why the planets in the Solar System have different compositions, despite being formed from a single Solar Nebula? Check out the response I wrote in Astronomy Magazine’s Ask Astro column, where scientists respond to interesting questions asked by readers. Published in the February 2025 issue of Astronomy Magazine. Check out the … More Astronomy Magazine Ask Astro Column
Characteristics and evolution of quartz-calcite-sulfide veins in the Nazca-Ocoña belt, Peru Coupled sulfur isotope analyses using NanoSIMS and trace element analyses by LA_ICP-MS suggest that the majority of the gold in quatrz-calcite-sulfide veins formed in association with a shallower hydrothermal event. First Author: J. Crespo. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2024.105895
For those of you interested in planetary science, we are very excited that the much anticipated landing of OSIRIS-REx mission will happen early on Sunday morning! The OSIRIS-REx mission departed earth on September 8, 2016 and made its way to an asteroid called Bennu, where it sampled an estimated 250g of rocks and dust from … More NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Landing in 3 days!
I’ll be presenting at the 2023 Rice SIMS Workshop on NanoSIMS methods for stable isotope geochemistry. Come see my talk on Thursday 9/14 at 1:30pm, “Using the NanoSIMS for high-precision stable isotope analysis of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial materials”. https://simslab.rice.edu/simsworkshop/homepage/
Check out our recent manuscript “Oxygen fugacity buffering in high pressure solid media assemblies from IW-6.5 to IW+4.5 and application to the V K-edge oxybarometer” (first author K. Righter) published in the American Mineralogist Special Collection: EARTH ANALOGS FOR MARTIAN GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND PROCESSES, March 2023. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8301
I had the great pleasure of spending a day with Adam Savage to geek out about meteorites! Check out my appearance on this week’s episode of Savage Builds : Forging Excalibur, where Adam attempts to forge a sword out of an iron meteorite. Air date: Friday, July 5th on Discovery, @10pm PDT Savage Builds – … More Savage Builds – I’m on TV!
After a wonderful 4 years as a postdoc at the Space Sciences Lab, it is time for me to move on. I am proud to say that I have accepted a Research Scientist position at Stanford University’s SHRIMP-RG lab in the Geological Sciences Department, beginning July 1st. My new role will entail working with Stanford … More Goodbye Berkeley SSL, Hello Stanford SHRIMP-RG Lab!
On Monday April 15th, I’ll be giving the Berkeley Isotope Geochemistry Seminar, please stop by if you are in the area! Spring 2019 Isotope Geochemistry Seminar Schedule 15 April 2019: Seminar – UC Berkeley Isotope Geochemistry Seminar 4:00pm in 265 McCone Title of Talk: Aqueous alteration in the early Solar System: constraints from oxygen isotopes … More UC Berkeley Isotope Geochemistry Seminar
E-poster for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is now uploaded, and can be accessed online at: Click to access 2649.pdf Stop by my poster on Thursday night if you’d like to chat about comet dust, oxygen isotopes, or anything Cosmochemistry related!
Our consortium on Stardust material has published a new article about primitive fine-grained materials found in comet dust. The paper, titled “Fine-grained material associated with a large sulfide returned from Comet 81P/Wild 2” (primary author Zack Gainsforth), takes a look at a large particle called Andromeda, and how it shielded this delicate material upon aerogel … More New Paper on Stardust fine grained material
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