Channon Visscher graduated from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in June of 2006. He is now working at Allied Healthcare Products in St. Louis and teaching part time in the department.
Rose Osborne left the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory in July 2003 after four years as a student working part time and five years as an employee.
David Levene worked with Dr. Lodders and Professor Fegley on chemical modeling of the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets.
Deborah Hood was a Space Grant student who worked with Dr. Lodders to compile data about the bulk chemical compositions of some types of differentiated meteorites.  
Tiffany Brown worked in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory on a project about the chemistry of volcanic gases.
Elizabeth Fremer graduated from Washington University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and International Studies, with a minor in Linguistics.  She assisted in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory by gathering information for a theoretical project from Spring 2002 to Spring 2003.
Keith Barrett

Keith Barrett worked in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory doing computer programming during the Spring semester of 2003 while working on a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering.

 

 Natasha Johnson

Natasha Johnson received her PhD in May 2002 from the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at Washington University.  Her dissertation topic was "Tremolite Thermal Decomposition and Water on Venus."  Her research involved working with high temperature furnaces and analytical tools such as the SEM and XRD.  Natasha was also the first recipient of the best student paper in planetary sciences in 2000 (Johnson and Fegley, Icarus, 2000) jointly awarded by the Geological Society of America and the Meteoritical Society.  Later this year she will begin work as a NRC research associate at NASA/GSFC.

 

 Everett Criss

Everett Criss spent the summer of 2002 working part time in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory. He graduated from Ladue High School in June 2002 and helped to expand the bibliographic files for the thermodynamic database.

Mehmet Colakoglu

Student helper who assisted with a theoretical research project.

Mehmet finished his Ph. D. in Engineering in Spring of 2001 and then moved back to Turkey, his homeland, to take a job.

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Dr. Thomas Presper

Visiting Scientist, March through December 1999

Dr. Presper spent a year working in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory on the ACE device.

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 Ms. Kathy Kitts

Master's Degree June, 1998

Ms. Kitts delivered her master's thesis on the theoretical modeling and ICP analysis of eucrite (basaltic achondrite) bulk compositions.
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Dr. Dante Lauretta

Ph.D. July, 1997

In 1996, while a member of Professor Fegley's group, Dr. Lauretta received the Nininger Prize, and in 1997, he won the Stephen E. Dwornik Prize.

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 Dr. Mikhail Zolotov

Visiting Scientist from the Vernadsky Institute, 1996-1997

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 Dr. Yong Hong

Technical Specialist, 1995-1997

Dr. Robert Brackett
Ph.D. 1995

Dr. Brackett now works as a staff scientist for Exxon in Houston, TX.

Dr. Astrid Holzheid

Visiting Scientist, 1995