This new academic year, the Florida Planets Lab is welcoming a new PhD student, Elizabeth Pesar! Liz was awarded a prestigious UF Graduate School Preeminence Award that funds her PhD. She’s interested in using geochemical and petrological lab techniques to study early Earth, cosmochemistry, and planetary formation. We’re all very excited to have Liz join […]
Daniel Astudillo has joined the Planetary Geochemistry group at UF as an MSc student! Daniel comes from Santiago, Chile, where he did his BSc at the Universidad de Chile. He studied the 2015 eruption of the Calbuco volcano in Chile using trace elements, volatiles, and melt inclusions. At UF, he’s becoming a bit more of […]
With the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 is July, The University of Florida highlighted our work on Apollo samples and all of the interesting things we are still learning from these rocks half a century later. The article, which you can read here, also highlights the NASA mission proposal which I am a co-investigator on. […]
The Planetary Geochemistry Group has opportunities for highly motivated students seeking graduate degrees with an emphasis in Planetary Petrology and Geochemistry. Potential projects cover a wide range of topics including geochemical, mineralogical, and isotopic studies of planetary differentiation and core formation, the origin and evolution of the Moon’s crust and mantle, and the origins of […]
Today marks my first day on the faculty in the Department of Geological Sciences at UF, so today is also the first day for the UF Planetary Geochemistry group! Obviously the group is just me at this point, but I’m looking for new members! If you are a student looking for grad school opportunities in […]
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