School of Earth and Space Exploration Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, Center for Meteorite Studies Interim Director Devin Schrader, and Smithsonian Curator of Meteorites Tim McCoy are authors of a new paper published this month in the journal Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. The paper, Advances in Cosmochemistry Enabled by Antarctic Meteorites, details the many […]
Alumna Emilie Dunham among notable spring graduates
Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration and Center for Meteorite Studies graduate student Emilie Dunham will be receiving her PhD in geological sciences this May. Among her many achievements, Dunham was recently selected for a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy, which provides exceptional postdoctoral scientists with the opportunity to conduct […]
PhD Candidates receive Graduate Excellence Award
We are pleased to announce that Ph.D. Candidates Soumya Ray and Zack Torrano have been granted a Graduate Excellence Award by ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Science. The college recognizes outstanding graduate students who have been nationally acknowledged through funded fellowships, scholarships, and grants. Eligible students receive funds to advance their research and are […]
Congratulations, Soumya and Zack!
PhD candidates Zack Torrano and Soumya Ray are among the awardees of the 2020 Nininger Student Travel Award! Presented by the Center for Meteorite Studies and the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE), the goal of the award is to support travel to the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference of up to 4 […]
New Online Meteorite Resources for At-Home Learning
ICGL PhD candidates Soumya Ray and Zack Torrano recently produced a new segment for ASU's Ask an Earth and Space Scientist website! Their piece, Meteorites: Space Rocks, covers meteorite origins, types, identification, and much more – all tailored for at-home learning. Ask an Earth and Space Scientist is an educational portal for students, teachers, parents, […]
Alumna Dr. Emilie Dunham awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in planetary astronomy
The Heising-Simons Foundation has announced that ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration and Center for Meteorite Studies alumna Dr. Emilie Dunham has been selected for a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship in planetary astronomy. Established in 2017 and named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship provides exceptional […]
New paper: Si-Mg isotopes in enstatite chondrites and accretion of reduced planetary bodies
ASU Now recently published a story featuring Associate Research Scientist Dr. Vinai Rai’s research on enstatite chondrites and what they can tell us about what Earth and other terrestrial planets are made of. This research was published in Nature Scientific Reports with co-author Jinia Skidar. Read the full story, on ASU Now! Read the full […]
Graduate Student Spotlight: Zachary Torrano
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, […]
Alumna Emilie Dunham joins Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Having successfully defended her dissertation in September, Center alumna Dr. Emilie Dunham is preparing to collect meteorites from Antarctica this week! As a member of the US-led Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET), she'll be collecting meteorites from stranding surfaces along the Transantarctic Mountains. To date, ANSMET has recovered over 22,000 meteorites – these meteorites […]
New paper: Hypervelocity impacts in iron meteorites
PhD Candidate Soumya Ray is a co-author on a new research paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. The paper, Hypervelocity impact experiments in iron-nickel ingots and iron meteorites: Implications for the NASA Psyche mission, details the results of a series of high-velocity impact experiments performed on iron meteorites and cast metal ingots […]
