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Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) scientists regularly explore our planet and the universe. Browse our online image gallery to share in the journey of scientific exploration and discovery. For more pictures of EPL research, people, and events, visit our Flickr page.
From left: Alan Boss (DTM), Barbara Sherwood Lollar (U. Toronto), David Charbonneau (Harvard U.), and Scott Gaudi (Ohio State U.) present the results of the National Academy of Sciences' Science Strategy Reports on Astrobiology and on Exoplanets on Dec. 13, 2018, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C. Photo by Natasha Metzler, Carnegie Institution for Science.
Postdoc Meredith MacGregor and Staff Scientist Alycia Weinberger from DTM's Astronomy team, June 21, 2018. Photo by Roberto Molar Candanosa, DTM.
DTM astronomer Alycia Weinberger at the site of construction for the Giant Magellan Telescope, Fall 2017. Photo courtesy of Alycia Weinberger.
DTM astronomer Alycia Weinberger took this panoramic photo of the construction site for the Giant Magellan Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, September 2017.
The new instrument, which arrived on January 15, 2019, will be used for the diverse range of high-precision isotope ratio measurements made by the geo/cosmochemistry group. The instrument it replaces will be outfitted with a newly developed ion source designed and built at DTM that uses a small cavity instead of a flat ribbon with the goal of achieving ionization efficiencies up to a factor of ten higher than the traditional ribbon sources. The goal with the cavity ion instrument is to push large (microgram) sample analysis into ppm or better isotope ratio precisions while the new instrument will be used for low-background analyses of small (nano- to picogram) sample sizes. The complimentary of the two instruments will allow the DTM group to push forward with the development of novel isotope measurement techniques capable of improving our understanding of the origin and evolution of Earth and the other rocky planets and planetesimals in our Solar System. Photo by Roberto Molar Candanosa, DTM.
DTM volcanologist Diana Roman at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i, August 26, 2012. "This was actually a day off when I was visiting the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory a few years ago. There was a nice day when we didn't have too much work, so we decided to hike out to the active lava flows and just poke at them for a while, because who wouldn't want to do that!" Roman said. Photo by former DTM postdoc Christelle Wauthier.