Sources of Error in Lunar Crustal Magnetism Inversions. With Sonia Tikoo, Rachel Maxwell, and Ian Garrick-Bethell.
A modeling project at Stanford, we investigated whether a dipolar lunar magnetic field could produce inversion paleopoles at the equator. The short answer: yes! The scatter in lunar paleopoles is therefore not evidence against a dipolar lunar dynamo field.
Do Young Lunar Impact Glasses Record Transient Magnetic Fields? With Sonia Tikoo and Benjamin Weiss.
A laboratory project at Stanford, we investigated several young lunar impact melt samples and found that they had not exposed to significant magnetic fields prior to collection by Apollo astronauts.
Magnetic Characterization of Schreibersite. With Sonia Tikoo and Mike Krawczynski.
A laboratory project at Stanford and the University of Minnesota Institute for Rock Magnetism, we are investigating unstudied characteristic rockmagnetic properties of the rare extraterrestrial mineral schreibersite, both natural meteoritic samples and synthetic samples prepared at Washington University in St. Louis.
Oxygen Fugacity in the Lunar Magma Ocean. With Laura Schaefer.
An additional modeling project at Stanford, we allowed oxygen fugacity to freely vary in a 1 dimensional thermochemical model of lunar magma ocean equilibrium and fractional crystallization. We found that this method successfully reproduced trace element patterns observed in lunar samples.