Kara Brugman is an experimental petrologist who uses extreme temperatures and pressures to study the early years of planets. Here she welds a platinum capsule that will hold the sample (a tiny pocket of magma) for an experiment. July 28, 2022 Spotlight Postdoc Spotlight: Kara Brugman
Munazza Alam stands in front of the Magellan Clay telescope at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory. Image courtesy Munazza Alam. February 08, 2022 Spotlight Nat Geo Explorer Munazza Alam inspires girls in STEM as she studies distant worlds
Tiange Bi uses her interdisciplinary set of skills and computational expertise to predict the synthesis of new materials. Her research is primarily focused on crystal structure prediction of new clathrate structures and theoretical studies of the transport properties of iron alloys in the Earth and planetary cores. July 19, 2022 Spotlight Tiange Bi predicts new materials under pressure
Peng Ni holds a piece of iron meteorite. Many iron meteorites are thought to be remnants of the cores of small planetary bodies in the early Solar System. July 28, 2022 Spotlight Interview with Peng Ni—Geochemical Detective
Adriana Kuehnel (right) works with Randy Kuehnel (middle) and Rod Green (left) to prepare seismometers to study the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa circa 1997. February 17, 2020 Spotlight Adriana Kuehnel codes for Earth and planets