Dr. Damien Devismes, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016. Project: Development of the Potassium-Argon Laser Experiment (KArLE).

    Toward the next TRL of KArLE (in situ geochronology     for planetary experiment)

Developing a Relationship Between LIBS Ablation and Pit Volume for In Situ Dating of Geologic Samples

Updates of the KArLE Experiment: New Libs Calibration Under High Vacuum for the Quantification of Potassium in Basalt for In Situ Geochronology

Dr. Zheng-hua Li, MNGRL laboratory manager, 2011-2014. Now a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Ms. Renee French: graduate intern, 2013, Northwestern University.

  1. Project: Optical imaging techniques for measurement of LIBS ablation pits.

  2. Second place winner in NASA MSFC Summer Intern student poster day

Ms. Stefanie Dimayuga: undergraduate intern, 2013, University of California Riverside.

  1. Project: Geochemical mixing models for Cape York materials investigated by the Opportunity rover

Dr. Jonathan Craig: NASA Postdoctoral fellow, 2011-2012.

  1. Project: Characterization of micrometeorites from global collection sites

Dr. Christian Schrader: NASA Postdoctoral fellow, 2009-2012. Now at Bowdoin College.

  1. Ni, S, and Cl in EETA79001 Lithology C, LPSC 42

  2. High Resolution Microprobe Study of EET A79001 Lithology C, LPSC 41

Ms. Olivia Piazza: undergraduate intern, 2012, University of Miami.

  1. Project: Quantitative comparison of Shoemaker formation ejecta with Ries Crater breccia and suevite. GSA Annual meeting 2012.

Dr. Sarah Noble: Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project, 2008-2010. Currently at NASA HQ.

  1. Examining the Uppermost Surface of the Lunar Regolith, LPSC 41

  2. The Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project, LEAG 2009.

Dr. Jisun Park: MNGRL Lab Manager, 2009-2010

  1. An ~4.35 Ga Ar-Ar Age for GRA 8 and the Complex Chronology of Its Parent Body, LPSC 41

Dr. Jennifer Edmunson: NASA Postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2009. Currently employed by BAE Systems Inc. working with the Lunar Simulants Project at MSFC.

  1. Characterizing the Effect of Shock on Isotopic Ages I: Ferroan Anorthosite Major Elements, LPSC 40

  2. Characterizing the Effect of Shock on Isotopic Ages II: Mg-Suite Troctolite Major Elements, Meteoritical Society 2009

Mr. Cameron Mercer: undergraduate intern, 2009, Middlebury College. Now a graduate student at ASU.

  1. Project: Principal components analysis of reflectance spectra returned by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, presented at LPSC 41.

  2. First place winner in NASA MSFC Summer Undergraduate Intern student poster day

  3. Winner of the 2010 Stephen E. Dwornik Award for best undergraduate student poster at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

  4. Cameron in the News

Ms. Stephanie Quintana: undergraduate intern, 2009, Colorado School of Mines. Now a graduate student at Brown University.

  1. Project: Assessment of lunar seismic noise and risk reduction for instruments on the International Lunar Network (ILN)

Ms. Danielle Nuding: undergraduate intern, 2008-2009, University of Alabama Huntsville. Graduated from the University of Colorado and now a staff member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

  1. Project: Characterization of rock types at Meridiani Planum, Mars, using MER Pancam 13F spectra, LPSC 40.

  2. Danielle in the News

Jennifer Edmunson, Danielle Nuding, and Barbara Cohen at launch of STS 126 at Kennedy Space Center, January 2009.

Sarah Noble, Cameron Mercer, and Barbara Cohen at LRO/LCROSS launch at Kennedy Space Center, June 2009.

Current Group Members

  1. Dr. Barbara Cohen, research scientist, 2008-present

  2. Dr. Renee Weber, research scientist, 2010-present

  3. Dr. Barbara Frasl, UAH Research Scientist and MNGRL Lab Manager

  4. Dr. Bastian Baecker, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

  5. Dr. Yuichiro Cho, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (joining April 2016)

Former Group Members

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NASA Official: Barbara Cohen

Christian Schrader (4th from left) and Barbara Cohen (far right) during fieldwork in Alaska with PI Aileen Yingst.

Olivia Piazza with her poster at the 2012 MSFC Intern Expo

Barbara Cohen and Renee French attend the Virtual NASA Lunar Science Forum (with ice cream).

Damien Devismes shows off the laboratory breadboard

he built and automated for the Potassium-Argon Laser

Experiment (KArLE) for in situ rock dating.