Gordon Research Conference -Interior of the Earth

From June 17th-23rd, I was fortunate to attend the GRC conference at Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, MA. Michigan State University had a strong presence at the meeting with five graduate students presenting topics on seismology, geodynamics, and mineral physics. My presentation highlighted some of our initial findings on the Mn-perovskite solid solution. The title was “Stability of Mn-rich perovskites at high pressures and temperatures; implications for hot regions of the mantle.”