A new collaborative paper is out in Space Science Reviews! This was the result of the ISSI Europlanet Workshop “Reading Terrestrial Planet Evolution in Isotopes and Element Measurements” held in October 2018 in Bern, Switzerland. The paper discusses geodynamical models of lunar origin in light of geochemical constraints from lunar and terrestrial rocks. For more […]
I am a high-temperature isotope geochemist who primarily uses noble gases to address questions about how planetary bodies form and evolve over time. Explore these pages to learn more about my research group, our laboratory facilities and the research we pursue.
We pursue topics related to the early Earth, lunar formation, the origin and evolution of Earth’s volatile budgets, chemical cycling between deep Earth and surface reservoirs, the nature of mantle heterogeneities and chemical constraints on geodynamics.
Our new paper about Xe isotopic constraints on volatile recycling was accepted at Nature -- check out our blogpost linked above!
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