Earth & Planets Laboratory

The late Paul Silver smiles from behind his desk at the Carnegie Institution for Science Broad Branch Road Campus. The Carnegie Institution for Science recently introduced a new named postdoctoral fellowship in his honor. Image courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science.

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.