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Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Center Student at NASA Space Grant Poster Session

At this year's NASA Space Grant Student Poster Session, Center undergraduate Sam Campbell presented research on Making Meteorites Accessible.   Sam is a NASA Space Grant student working with Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies Director Rhonda Stroud to expand public outreach, while working towards a Bachelor's Degree in Astrobiology and a certificate in Planetary Science […]

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Behind the Scenes: New tabletop SEM

See what Center researchers are currently working on in this special behind-the-scenes feature! Director Dr. Rhonda Stroud stands next to the Center’s new variable pressure and cerium hexaboride (CeB6) source scanning electron microscope (SEM). This state-of-the-art SEM comes equipped with backscatter and secondary electron detectors for imaging at resolutions down to 10 nanometers, and an […]

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Apply for the Nininger Travel Award

Apply by January 19, 2024. The Nininger Student Travel Award supports attendance of the 2024 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) of 4 School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) undergraduate and graduate students, to present their latest results in the field of meteoritics and planetary sciences. Awards will be up to $1000 for those attending […]

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Behind the Scenes: Preparing meteorite for analysis

See what Center researchers are currently working on in this special behind-the-scenes feature! Center affiliated Barrett Honors College undergraduate student Eric Orson prepares a grain of the Tarda meteorite for analysis via Secondary Emission Microscopy in the ASU Meteorite Laboratory as part of his honor’s thesis project. Photo © ASU/SESE/BCMS.           […]

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