Assistant Researcher
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
I am broadly interested in the formation of the solar system and the evolution of primitive materials. The textural and mineralogical characteristics of fine-grained materials in chondrites (i.e. interchondrule matrix and fine-grained rims) and dust particles (i.e. interplanetary dust particles – IDPs and Antarctic micrometeorites – AMMs) can be used to constrain the physico-chemical conditions of grain formation in the solar nebula. In addition, these nanometer-sized materials are also sensitive to pre- and post-accretionary processes on the parent body such as thermal metamorphism, aqueous alteration, brecciation, or shock. To reconstruct the environment in which such natural nanomaterials formed and evolved, my research focuses on the characterization of their textures, mineralogy, and isotopic compositions at the micro- to nanoscales.
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Phosphates – The Role of Aqueous Fluids in the Evolution of Ordinary Chondrite Parent Asteroids
Monday, July 24, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM US CST