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

Congratulations to Ben for a Successful Ph. D Defense!

Join us in congratulating our first Ph. D. graduate from the M-Class Lab, Ben Farcy! Ben’s Ph. D. is a cross between fundamental geoscience and spaceflight engineering. To understand the rocky planets in the solar system, we need scientific instruments to measure their chemistry, which is what he worked to develop over his Ph. D. Ben constructed a miniature mass spectrometer as a prototype for measuring elemental geochemistry on planetary surfaces and developed the scientific application for these analyses to be applied to the Moon.

Welcome Soumya to the lab!

This week, our new post-doc officially joined the M-Class lab! Dr. Soumya Ray earned her Ph. D. from Arizona State University and will be working on both the CORALS and CRATER projects.