Members win DALI Grant for Lunar Exploration

This week, Dr. Ben Farcy, Dr. Arevalo, and Dr. McDonough won a 3.2 million dollar grant to fund their work on the PLASMA instrument. Read more below!

https://today.umd.edu/3-2m-nasa-grant-supports-development-of-mini-moon-spectrometer

M-Class Submits First SILICA Proposal!

The M-CLASS Lab, along with our national and international partners, just submitted our first mission proposal in response to the NASA Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) Program solicitation. We hope to explore the chemical composition, including mineralogy, trace element chemistry, and organic inventory, of the silica-rich Gruithuisen Domes and adjacent lunar mare.

AGU Fall 2021 Meeting Presentations

This week, we had three members of our lab group present at AGU Fall 2021 Meeting.

Maddy presented her work on the first-row transition elements in mid-ocean ridge basalts. Her digital poster can be found here: https://agu2021fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/?s=2D-55-19-7B-28-46-D3-F7-45-D2-60-9E-BF-8E-C4-51

Dr. Arevalo presented his work on the detection of short peptides identified as prospective psychrophilic biosignatures with the CORALS instrument. A link to his online talk can be found here https://eventpilotadmin.com/src/EventPilot/php/scripts/aguvideo.php?clid=aguorg-fm21/P32A-07_bgsb4d&atvid=p965621&cid=AGU21

Ben presented his work in his miniature icp-ms for in-situ chemical analysis. His digital poster can be found here: https://agu2021fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/?s=2D-55-19-7B-28-46-D3-F7-45-D2-60-9E-BF-8E-C4-51