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.