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Professor Astrid Holzheid of the Institute for Geological Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany has been visiting the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory for the past month. She is conducting high temperature controlled gas mixing experiments with Research Professor Lodders.
Katharina Lodders has written an invited chapter on Exoplanet Chemistry for the forthcoming book Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets (R. Barnes, ed, Wiley).
Laura Schaefer and Prof. Fegley have submitted a paper entitled Chemistry of Atmospheres formed during accretion of the Earth and other terrestrial planets to the journal Icarus. A preprint of the article can be downloaded by clicking on the link.
A paper by Laura Schaefer and Prof. Fegley entitled “Chemistry of Silicate Atmospheres of Evaporating Super-Earths” has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The paper can be found here or on our Publications page.