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Graduate student Liam Peterson has been awarded a 'Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology' (FINESST) grant. Liam will use this three-year grant to study the origin of water and other volatiles in the early solar system. Congratulations Liam!

Surprises from Mars: Red Planet has Larger Core and Less Dense Crust than Expected. NASA InSight team, including UMD researchers, builds a new picture of Martian interior structure based on direct observations.

Congratulations to James Dottin, Mojhgan Haghnegahdar, and William Hoover; all three have received Postdoctoral Fellowships from the National Science Foundation!

Distinguished University Professor James Farquhar Named Chair of Geology Department

Congratulations to Maddy Raith, who has been selected as a research associate with the Young Scientist Program at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science!

Upcoming Events

December 8, 2021 at 12:00pm

Lunchtime Seminar - Allie Balter-Kennedy from Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Virtual)

December 13, 2021

AGU Fall Meeting

December 13, 2021

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December 14, 2021

AGU Fall Meeting

December 14, 2021

Reading Day

Recent Graduate and Undergraduate Student Publications

William Hoover, Austin Gion et al. (2021) A method for SIMS analysis of lithium isotopes in garnet: The utility of glass reference materials. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 45(3) 477-499.

Gion et al. (2021) Experimental constraints on the formation of pegmatite-forming melts by anatexis of amphibolite: A case study from Evje-Iveland, Norway. Lithos. 3980399 106342.

Lori Willhite et al. (2021) CORALS: A Laser Desorption/Ablation Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer for In Situ Exploration of Europa. 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100). 2021 1-13.

Carly Maas et al. (2021) Managing Stormwater by Accident: A Conceptual Study. Water. 13(11) 1492.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2021) Understanding the Lunar Nearside–Farside Dichotomy via In Situ Trace Element Measurements: The Scientific Framework of a Prospective Landed Mission. The Planetary Science Journal. 2 80.

Joseph Galella et al. (2021) Sensors track mobilization of 'chemical cocktails' in streams impacted by road salts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3) 035017.

Goeun Ha et al. (2020) Melt focusing along permeability barriers at subduction zones and the location of volcanic arcs. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21(12) e2020GC009253.

Jeng-Hann Chong and Huang. (2020) Refining the 2018 Mw 7.5 Papua New Guinea Earthquake Fault-Slip Model Using Subpixel Offset. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Kayleigh Harvey et al. (2020) Assessing P-T variability in melange blocks from the Catalina Schist: Is there differential movement at the subduction interface?. Journal of Metamorphic Geology.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2020) K/U of the MORB source and silicate Earth. JGR Solid Earth. 125(12) e2020JB020245.

Benjamin Farcy et al. (2020) A prospective microwave plasma source for in situ spaceflight applications. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 35 2740-2747.

Ziqin Ni et al. (2020) A Novel Approach to Identifying Mantle-Equilibrated Zircon by Using Trace Element Chemistry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21(11) e2020GC009230.

William Hoover et al. (2020) Massive fluid influx beneath the Colorado Plateau (USA) related to slab removal and diatreme emplacement: Evidence from oxygen isotope zoning in eclogite xenoliths. Journal of Petrology. 61

Carol Morel et al. (2020) Developing Sensor Proxies for "Chemical Cocktails" of Trace Metals in Urban Streams. Water. 12(10) 2864.

Scott Wipperfurth et al. (2020) Reference Models for Lithospheric Geoneutrino Flux. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125 e2019JB018433.

Laura Sammon et al. (2020) Lower Crustal Composition in the Southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 125

Samuel Crossley et al. (2020) Sulfide-dominated partial melting pathways in brachinites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Connor Hilton et al. (2020) Origin and age of metal veins in Canyon Diablo graphite nodules. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 55 (4) 771-780.

Connor Hilton and Walker. (2020) New implications for the origin of the IAB main group iron meteorites and the isotopic evolution of the noncarbonaceous (NC) reservoir. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 540 116248.

Angela Marusiak et al. (2020) The Deployment of the Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure (SIIOS) on Gulkana Glacier, Alaska. Seismological Research Letters. 91 1901-1914.

James Dottin III et al. (2020) Sulfur isotope characterization of primordial and recycled sources feeding the Samoan mantle plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 534

Kristel Izquierdo et al. (2020) A Bayesian Approach to Infer Interior Mass Anomalies from the Gravity Data of Celestial Bodies. Geophysical Journal International. 220 1687-1699.

Angela Marusiak et al. (2020) Terrestrial single-station analog for constraining the Martian core and deep interior: Implications for InSight. Icarus. 335

Lisa Schleicher et al. (2019) Wrinkle ridges on Mercury and the Moon within and outside of mascons. Icarus. 331 226-237.

Nivea Magalhães et al. (2019) Multiple sulfur isotopes reveal a possible non-crustal source of sulfur for the Bushveld Province, southern Africa. Geology. 47 982-986.

Lori Willhite et al. (2019) Hot and heterogenous high-³He/⁴He components: New constraints from proto-Iceland plume lavas from Baffin Island. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 20 5939-5967.

Tiange Xing et al. (2019) Stabilizing Effect of High Pore Fluid Pressure on Slip Behaviors of Gouge-bearing Faults. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124 9526-9545.

Chao Gao, Erin Cunningham and Lekic. (2019) Spurious low velocity zones in joint inversions of surface waves and receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International. 219 1032-1042.

Erin Cunningham and Lekic. (2019) Constraining crustal structure in the presence of sediment: a multiple converted wave approach. Geophysical Journal International. 219 313-327.

Austin Gion et al. (2019) Constraints on the formation of granite-related indium deposits. Economic Geology. 114 993-1003.

Quancheng Huang et al. (2019) Constraints on seismic anisotropy in the mantle transition zone from long-period SS precursors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124

Huan Cui et al. (2019) Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China. Geological Magazine. 156 1924-1948.

Connor Hilton et al. (2019) Genetics, crystallization sequence, and age of the South Byron Trio iron meteorites: New insights to carbonaceous chondrite (CC) type parent bodies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 251 217-228.

Gregory Archer et al. (2019) Siderophile element constraints on the thermal history of the H chondrite parent body. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 245 556-576.

Gregory Archer et al. (2019) Highly siderophile element and ¹⁸⁷Re-¹⁸⁷Os isotopic systematics of ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa 7325: Evidence for complex planetary processes. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 54 (5) 1042-1050.

Robert Nicklas et al. (2019) Secular mantle oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic boundary: Evidence from V partitioning in komatiites and picrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 250 49-75.

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