Planetary science

The department, together with the Natural History Museum, hosts the IARC planetary science group: One of the leading groups worldwide. If you are interested in one of the projects listed below please feel free to contact the associated staff. You can discover more about the IARC group from their website.

Projects

Understanding The Role Of Thermal Fluctuations On The Fidelity Of Magnetic Recording In Rocks And Meteorites [Info Sheet - Micromagnetism]
Supervisors: Adrian Muxworthy and Wyn Wililams (University of Edinburgh)

Fluid dynamics of magma reservoirs at mid-ocean ridges [Info Sheet]

Prof. Matthew Jackson and Dr C. Johan Lissenberg (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University)

Mixing and volatile depletion of the early solar system [Info sheet]

Mark  Rehkämper  

Fluid dynamics of magma reservoirs at mid-ocean ridges [Info sheet‌‌‌]

Matt Jackson

Understanding surface processes on Venus: in support ofthe EnVision mission [Info sheet‌

Philippa Mason, Richard Ghail, Gareth Roberts

A next-geration life dectector for future sample return space missions [Info Sheet - Next Generation Life Detection]

Professor Mark A. Sephton, Simon Davis, David Bell (Protium)

Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide on Shales [Info Sheet - Carbon Dioxide and Shales]

Professor Mark A. Sephton, Craig Smalley, Al Fraser

Forensic Detection of Microplastics [Info Sheet - Forensic Detection of Microplastics‌‌]

Professor Mark A. Sephton, Simon Davis, David Bell (Protium)

Extracting Records of Life on Mars [Info Sheet - Extracting Records of Life on Mars‌‌]

Professor Mark A. Sephton & Dr Jonathan Watson 

The volatile fingerprints of life – a new method to indicate the biological or non-biological sources of gas [‌‌‌Info Sheet - Biotic-Abiotic Gas]

Professor Mark A. Sephton, Craig Smalley & Ann Muggeridge

Rapid Assessment of Organic-rich Rocks for Astrobiology [Info Sheet - Rapid Astrobiology Assessment‌‌]

Professor Mark A. Sephton & Dr Jonathan Watson

MIXING AND VOLATILE DEPLETION IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM  [Info Sheet‌]

Mark Rehkamper

MICROSPHERULES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD [Info Sheet]

Matt Genge

Multiscale modeling of compaction of primitive solar system materials [Info Sheet‌]

Gareth Collins, Tom Davison and Phil Bland (Curtin)

Decoding inner solar system bombardment from impact crater populations [Info sheetInfo Sheet‌]

Gareth Collins‌

Impact Processing of Planetary Crust [‌Info Sheet‌]

Gareth Collins and Mark Wieczorek (IPGP)