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Department Expertise

Scientific Disciplines
Bolding indicates areas of principal expertise

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  terrestrial lunar, planetary , meteorites
Geology
Mineralogy & Petrology
Geochemistry & Cosmochemistry
(composition of rocks)
Geophysics
Geodynamics
Seismology
(earthquakes)
Wiens
Wysession
Al-eqabi
Geochronology
(ages of rocks)
Paleontology
(fossils)
 
Paleoecology
(interaction of ancient humans & animals with environment)
 
Economic Geology; Mining  
Mineral Physics  
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary Physics  
Biogeochemistry  
Geomicrobiology  
Mars & Venus  
Meteorites  
the Moon  
Remote Sensing
Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning, Data Mining
Thermodynamics

Chemical and Mineral Analysis
persons in bold are those principally in charge of the instrument, facility, or laboratory

optical microscopy of rocks and minerals
infrared spectroscopy of minerals
laser Raman spectroscopy of rocks and minerals
electron microprobe analysis of rocks and minerals
stable isotope mass spectrometry of minerals and solutions
solid source mass spectrometry of minerals
neutron activation analysis of rocks and minerals
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of rocks
atomic force microscopy of mineral surfaces

Last revised:
01-Nov-2007
 
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