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September, 2007

Reporters and other members of the media are requested to contact Tony Fitzpatrick  prior to writing stories about any of the news items on our web site.

Prof. Fegley and Laura Schaefer have submitted an abstract to the 2007 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco, CA on December 10-14. The abstract is entitled "Chemistry of Earth's Putative Steam Atmosphere" and can be downloaded here.


August, 2007

Prof. Fegley will be teaching EPSc 569 Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria for the fall semester. The syllabus is available online here.


July, 2007

A news article describing research done by Prof. Fegley on the compositions and natures of planetary atmospheres can be found here: "Astronomer studies Extrasolar Atmospheres".


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April, 2007

Prof. Fegley gave the keynote address at the ACS undergraduate research symposium held at Washington University on April 6th. His talk "Dead Dinosaurs, the Salt Volcanoes of Io, and Hot Exoplanets - Diverse Applications of Chemical Thermodynamics to Planetary Sciences" is available here.

Slides for the invited talk "Circumstellar chemistry and dust from dead stars in meteorites" given by Dr. Lodders at the recent ACS meeting in Chicago are available on-line in .pdf format here.

Slides for the invited talk "Planetary volatile inventories and atmospheres" given by Prof. Fegley at the recent ACS meeting in Chicago are available on-line in .pdf format here.

The poster "Trace element chemistry during metamorphism on ordinary chondrite parent bodies" presented by Laura Schaefer at the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March is available on-line here.


March, 2007

Prof. Fegley, Dr. Lodders, and Laura Schaefer will be attending the symposium "Chemical Evolution I: Chemical Change Across Space and Time" at the 233rd National American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Chicago, IL on March 25-29. Prof. Fegley and Dr. Lodders are giving invited talks.

Laura Schaefer and Prof. Fegley have submitted a chapter for the proceedings of the symposium "Chemical Evolution I: Chemical Change Across Space and Time". The chapter is entitled "Chemistry and composition of planetary atmospheres" and a preprint is available here.

Laura Schaefer presented a poster entitled "Trace Element Chemistry During Metamorphism on Ordinary Chondrite Parent Bodies" at the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, TX on March 12 - 16. 


February, 2007


January, 2007

Katharina Lodders will give an invited talk for the symposium "Chemical Evolution I: Chemical Change Across Space and Time" at the 233rd National American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Chicago, IL on March 25-29. The title of her talk is "Circumstellar chemistry and dust from dead stars in meteorites". The abstract can be viewed here.

The paper "Outgassing of ordinary chondritic material and some of its implications for the chemistry of asteroids, planets, and satellites" by Laura Schaefer and Prof. Fegley appears in the February 2007 issue of Icarus. A pdf file of this paper is available here.

Laura Schaefer and Prof. Fegley have submitted an abstract to the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which will be held in Houston, TX March 12-16. The abstract is entitled "Trace element chemistry during metamorphism on ordinary chondrite parent bodies" and is available for download here.

Prof. Fegley will be teaching EPSc 474 Planetary Geochemistry during the Spring 2007 semester. The new syllabus is available here.