Seminars are presented in hybrid mode, in PSF 651 and via zoom. These talks take place every other Wednesday at 12 pm AZ time. Below is our current schedule for the next semester and the list of our previously held talks.
Spring 2025
22 JAN Professor Haolan Tang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences “Micro-gravity experiments on the China Space Station Reveal the mechanisms of formation and crystallization of chondrule and CAI in the early Solar System”
5 FEB Professor Carl Agee, Director Institute of Meteoritics and Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico “New Unique Meteorites from Mars”
19 FEB Axel Wittmann, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist Arizona State University Eyring Materials Center “Petrology of shock-melted lunar soil meteorite Northwest Africa 13967”
5 MAR Dr. Catherine Harrison, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Earth Sciences, University of Oxford “The alteration history of volatile-rich asteroids: Insights from sulfide minerals in carbonaceous chondrites and asteroid return samples.”
19 MAR LPSC Discussion Presentations by attendees and presenters at LPSC 2025 Event in Houston, TX
2 APR Professor Damanveer Singh Grewal, School of Molecular Sciences (SMS) and School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) Arizona State University “Using iron meteorites to infer the early protoplanetary disk chemistry”
16 APR Professor Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Professor of Geochemistry, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University Title TBD
30 APR Professor Nicole Nie, MIT Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences (EAPS) “Geochemical Insights into Lunar Formation and Surface Evolution”
PREVIOUS TALKS
FALL 2024
28 AUG: MetSoc Round-up Group Discussion
11 SEP: Dr. Nancy Chabot, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): The First Mission to Move an Asteroid.
25 SEP: Dr. Ren Thomas Marquez, BCMS, ASU. Perspectives on early Solar System heterogeneity from presolar stardust.
9 OCT: Keanna Jardine, ASU. Asteroid cohesion: a study of adhesion on micron-sized planetary analogues using an atomic force microscope (AFM).
23 OCT: Dr. Philipp Heck, Field Museum. Deep Time Travel with Refractory Minerals from Meteorites – Insights into Solar System Evolution.
6 NOV: Dr. Sarah Stewart, ASU. Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks form Chondritic Mixtures.
20 NOV: Ronica Sims, ASU. Oxygen Isotope Compositions of Silicate Minerals in Antarctic Micrometeorites.
SPRING 2024
17 Apr: Catherine A. Dukes, University of Virginia (Laboratory for Astrophysics and Surface Physics). Space Weathering by Solar Ions in Meteorites and Asteroids.
3 Apr: Dr. Brittany Cymes, Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center. Micrometeoroid Impacts on the Moon: Some Shocking Revelations.
18 Mar: LPSC Round-Up Group Discussion Did you see an interesting talk/poster at LPSC 2024? Come tell us about it!
14 Feb: Dr. Jan Render, Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory. Reconstructing the early Solar System – Using isotopic signatures to trace protoplanetary disk formation & evolution.
31 Jan: Zoë Wilbur, University of Arizona. All about aubrites: The effects of highly reduced magmatism.
17 Jan: Dr. Christian Hoover, ASU. The importance of the physical properties of Astro-Materials, Implications for Planetary Defense.
FALL 2023
11/28/23: Dr. Shaunna Morrison, Carnegie Institution. Harnessing the complexity of minerals: Data-driven exploration of evolving Earth and planetary systems.
11/14/23: Dr. Carolyn Crow, University of Colorado at Boulder. What’s my age again? Adventures in Dating Lunar and Terrestrial Impact Events.
10/31/23: Dr. Chris Herd, University of Alberta. Finding the Source Craters of the Martian Meteorites
10/17/23: Dr. Kate Burgess, US Naval Research Laboratory. Space Weathering on Asteroids and other Airless Bodies.
10/03/23: Dr. Timothy Glotch, Stony Brook University. Correlated micro- and nano-scale analyses of carbonaceous chondrites and samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
09/19/23: Dr. Mélanie Barboni, ASU. HED Zircons as a Window into the Solar System’s First Crust.
SPRING 2023
04/05/23: Dr. Megan Newcombe, University of Maryland. Efficient degassing of early-formed planetesimals restricted water delivery to Earth.
04/19/23: Mara Karageozian, ASU.
03/22/23: LPSC Round-Up Group Discussion Did you see an interesting talk/poster at LPSC 2023? Come tell us about it!
02/22/23: Dr. Alice Stephant, National Institute of Astrophysics, Rome. Tissemouminites: A new group of primitive achondrites.
02/08/23: Dr. Bidong Zhang, University of California Los Angeles. Compositions of asteroidal cores in the early Solar System.
01/25/23: Dr. Devin Schrader, BCMS, ASU. History of the IIAB iron meteorites from their inclusions.
01/11/23: LPSC Abstract Discussion. If you’ve submitted an abstract to LPSC 2023, we want to hear about it! Bring a two minute pitch and be prepared to be excited by all the fun meteorite research happening in SESE.
FALL 2022
11/30/22: Dr. Noriko Kita, University of Wisconsin. Migration of solids in the early protoplanetary disk: Evidence from chondrule O isotopes and Al-Mg chronology.
11/16/22: Dr. Sheri Singerling, Virginia Tech. Metal-sulfide assemblages in CR chondrites.
11/02/22: Dr. My Riebe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Flash-heating experiments to simulate effects of atmospheric entry on IDPs.
10/05/22: Dr. Pierre Haenecour, University of Arizona. Simulations of Dust Thermal Processing in Space Inside of an Electron Microscope.
10/19/22: Dr. Jay Farihi, University College London, UK. Pandemonium in the Planetary Graveyard.
09/21/22: Dr. Steve Desch, SESE, ASU. If the solar nebula always had 26Al, how did PLACs form without it?
09/07/22: MetSoc Round-Up Group Discussion
SPRING 2022
05/04/22: Dr. Amy Jurewicz, BCMS, ASU. Space weathering of Genesis samples.
04/20/22: John Christoph, SESE, ASU. Space weathering.
04/06/22: Dr. Romy Hanna, UT Austin. Fine-grained rims in CM chondrites.
03/23/22: LPSC Round-Up Group Discussion
02/09/22: Dr. Ashley King, Natural History Museum London, UK. CM chondrites.
01/26/22: Dr. Tom Sharp, SESE, ASU. Formation, preservation and destruction of high-pressure minerals in shocked meteorites: P-T paths and shock classification.
FALL 2021
12/01/21: Dr. Julia Cartwright, University of Alabama. Applications of atom probe tomography to meteorites.
11/17/21: Dr. Clara Maurel, MIT (Nininger Meteorite Award Talk). Meteorite evidence for partial differentiation and protracted accretion of planetesimals.
11/03/21: Dr. Martin Suttle, Open University, UK. The Yamato-type (CY) chondrites, accretionary processes, alteration history and their relationship to other chondrite groups.
10/27/21: Dr. Henner Busemann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Noble gases in primitive chondrites, their carriers and the effects of parent body processing.
10/06/21: Dr. Scott Waitukaitis, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. Rabbits, dust devils, volcanoes, planets: Mysteries and consequences of granular tribocharging.
09/29/21: Dr. Devin Schrader, CMS, ASU. The Renazzo-like (CR) chondrites: A window into the early Solar System.
09/08/21: Dr. Chris McDonald, SESE, ASU. NWA 7034: A 40Ar/39Ar ultraviolet laser ablation microprobe study and implication for the evolution of the martian regolith.
08/25/21: Dara Laczniak, Purdue University. Understanding the evolution of airless body surfaces through laboratory simulations of space weathering.
SPRING 2021
05/18/21: Dr. Laurence Garvie, CMS, ASU
05/04/21: Dr. Queenie Chan, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Extraterrestrial organics.
04/20/21: Dr. Jess Barnes, University of Arizona. Lunar volatiles.
04/13/21: Dr. Ryan Ogliore, Washington University St Louis. Cosmic symplectite recorded irradiation by nearby massive stars in the Solar System’s parent molecular cloud.
04/06/21: Dr. Aki Takigawa, University of Tokyo, Japan. Laboratory experiments to create GEMS-like aggregates.
03/23/21: Post-LPSC 2021 Round-Up Group Discussion.
03/09/21: Dr. Steve Desch, SESE, ASU.
03/04/21: Dr. Myriam Telus, University of California Santa Cruz. Meteorites as analogs for planetesimals in extrasolar systems.
02/23/21: Dr. Jim Lyons, SESE, ASU
02/09/21: Dr. Yves Marrocchi, CRPG-CRNS, Nancy, France. Timescales and conditions of formation of the first solids of the solar system.
01/26/21: Dr. Prajkta Mane, Lunar and Planetary Institute. Isotopic and microstructure analysis of CAIs
FALL 2020
12/01/20: Round Table Discussion – Writing a good proposal.
11/17/20: Dr. Peng Ni, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Heavy iron isotope composition of iron meteorites explained by core crystallization.
11/03/20: Dr. Julie Castillo-Rogez, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. Future exploration of dwarf planet Ceres, an astrobiological target discovered by the Dawn mission.
10/20/20: Dr David Trang, Univeristy of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Modeling the degree of space weathering on the surfaces of the Moon, Mercury, and Bennu.
10/06/20: Dr. Maitrayee Bose, SESE, ASU. Nucleosynthesis and Mixing Processes in Stellar Explosions through Stardust Investigations.
09/22/20: Round Table Discussion – Publishing in Science: Ethics and Etiquette Part II
09/08/20: Round Table Discussion – Publishing in Science: Ethics and Etiquette Part I
08/25/20: Dr. Nan Liu, Washington University. AGB stars and their dust grains in the Solar System.
SPRING and SUMMER 2020
08/11/20: Dr. Steve Desch, SESE. The short-lived radionuclides were inherited from our molecular cloud.
07/28/20: Amanda Ostwald, University of Nevada Las Vegas. The nakhlite and chassignite connection, and implications for martian magmatic diversity.
07/14/20: Dr. Roger Fu, Harvard University. Understanding magnetism in the protoplanetary disk with high-resolution paleomagnetism.
07/07/20: Dr. Tim Gregory, British Geologic Survey/University of Bristol. Primordial formation of major silicates in a protoplanetary disc with homogeneous 26Al/27Al.
06/23/20: Dr. Alice Stephant, The Open University. Water in the Moon.
06/16/20: Dr. Steve Desch, SESE, ASU. A unified model for hydrogen in the Earth and Moon: No one expects the Theia contribution.
06/09/20: Dr. Amy Jurewicz, CMS, ASU. Synergy of cosmochemistry and solar physics: The Genesis solar wind sample return mission.
06/02/20: Dr. Lydia Hallis, University of Glasgow. Organics in martian meteorites.
05/26/20: Dr. Luke Daly, University of Glasgow. Shock-facilitated aqueous alteration and evidence for two shock events in the Martian nakhlite meteorites.
05/19/20: Dr. Emilie Dunham, University of California Los Angeles. ANSMET field season 2019-2020 recap.
05/12/20: Dr. Michelle Thompson, Purdue University. Space weathering of astromaterials.
05/05/20: Dr. Ming-Chang Liu, University of California Los Angeles. Aluminum-26 chronology of dust coagulation and early Solar System evolution.
04/28/20: Dr. Axel Wittmann, SESE, ASU. Products of shock metamorphism in planetary materials.
04/21/20: Dr. Arya Udry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. Martian meteorites as windows to the martian interior and the need for returned samples.
04/14/20: Dr. Ashley King, Open University, UK. Are CY chondrites samples of the outer Solar System?
04/07/20: Dr. Thijs van Soest, SESE, ASU. UV laser ablation 40Ar/39Ar systematics of Chelyabinsk and Mbale meteorites: Potential implications for the interpretation of step heating 40Ar/39Ar data from shocked meteorites.
