Research Areas
Note: Please contact individual faculty about potential graduate student support.
Clay Mineralogy
Contact: David Bish, Haydn Murray
High-speed refrigerated centrifuge, high- and low-shear rheometers, BET surface area analyzer, Sedigraph particle size analyzer, brightness analyzer
Mineralogy of the Martian surface
Contact: David Bish, Juergen Schieber
Thermal analysis laboratory, scanning electron microscope lab, CheMin
X-ray powder diffraction under non-ambient conditions, Rietveld refinement
Contact: David Bish
Bruker X-ray diffractometers, Anton-Parr TTK heating/cooling stages
Coal and Maceral Petrography, Chemistry and Isotope Geochemistry
Contact: Maria Mastalerz
Coal petrography lab with reflected light microscopes equipped with photometry systems and fluorescence attachments; standard photographic camera and digital camera with image analysis software
Lunar and Planetary Mineralogy
Contact: Abhijit Basu
Scanning electron microscopy, light microscopy
Mineralogy of saline-alkaline lakes, zeolite mineralogy
Contact: Lisa Pratt, Edward Ripley, David Bish
Finnigan MAT252, with EA
Metamorphic mineralogy, fabric and orientation analysis
Contact: Robert Wintsch, David Bish
Bruker X-ray diffractometers, Scanning electron microscope, electron microprobe
Minerals, Ore Deposits, and Applicable Isotopes
Contact: Edward Ripley, Erika Elswick, Chusi Li
Specialized vacuum lines; Finnigan MAT252 dedicated for sulfur
