This summer has brought two new review papers: One in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences that provides an overview of noble gas constraints on the origins of Earth’s volatiles, volatile delivery during accretion, the timing and extent of volatile loss, early-formed heterogeneities and their preservation over Earth history. One in Lithos (open access […]
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!
Individuals interested in graduate or postdoctoral research should contact parai at wustl dot edu for more information.
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