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This week, Luisa, Heidi, and I traveled to the University of Michigan to use the EPMA. We collected compositional data on numerous samples while trying out some new restaurants in the area.

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 titleContinue reading “Gordon Research Conference -Interior of the Earth”

On May 9th, 2023, we traveled to ALS to collect deformation data on Fe-N and Fe-C alloys. These materials are proposed to be stable in Earth’s core, and information on their strength is needed to understand inner core anisotropy. In the past, we have used B and Be gaskets to study how the low-pressure Fe-N’sContinue reading “First Successful Experiments Using a cBN Gasket!”

On May 3rd-May 5th, Jiaxin Zhang, Meichen Liu, Yurong Zhang, and I convened an oral and poster session at the 57th North-Central GSA meeting. Our session was T31 “The Origin of Compositional and Thermal Heterogeneity within Earth’s Interior.” You can view details from the session here.Convening a session was a great experience and I can’tContinue reading “Successful First Time as a Conference Convener at the Geological Society of America!”

March 19th, 2023 was our final group beamtime to HPCAT-IDB before the APS upgrade. While at HPCAT, Luisa Chavarria, Dr. Susannah (Suki) Dorfman, Dr. Maddury (Zulu) Somayazulu, and I collected valuable data on solid solutions that occur in the lower mantle! We anticipate continuing these experiments at the Advanced Light Source and APS after theContinue reading “Last beamtime at Argonne before the APS-Upgrade!”