Zachary Torrano received his B.S. in Environmental Geosciences from the University of Notre Dame in 2015, and is currently enrolled in the final year of his Ph.D. at ASU, advised by Prof. Meenakshi Wadhwa. As an undergraduate, Zack conducted nuclear forensics research in the University of Notre Dame’s High Temperature Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory from 2013–2015, […]
Category: Graduate Student Spotlight
Graduate Student Spotlight: Emilie Dunham
Emilie Dunham received her B.S. in Astronomy (with minors in Geology and Physics) from Case Western Reserve University in 2014. As an undergraduate student, Emilie worked with Dr. Ralph Harvey on comparing the petrology of martian meteorites and dolorites to understand the process that formed lithologic boundaries in the martian meteorite EETA79001. Excited to continue […]
Prajkta Mane
Prajkta Mane received her B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Mumbai (St. Xavier’s College) in 2008, followed by her M.Sc. in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) in 2010. After receiving her M.Sc., Prajkta worked as a Project Associate at PLANEX Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad India, a unit of the […]
Karen Rieck
Karen Rieck received her M.S. from Arizona State University in 2008. As a Master’s student, she measured lithium isotopes in basaltic meteorites. Supervised by Dr. Richard Hervig, the goal of this research was to better understand the thermal histories of eucrites by measuring chemical heterogeneity within the minerals comprising these basaltic meteorites. During her Ph.D. […]
Kera Tucker
Kera Tucker received her B.S. in Geology from Oregon State University in 2011. As an undergraduate student, Kera worked with Dr. Anita Grunder on the geochemical classification of pumices found in Oregon’s Hampton Tuff ignimbrite. The results of this research were presented at the 2011 Geological Society of America’s Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Joint Meeting […]
