Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Sims on her newly awarded NSF Earth Sciences Post-Doctoral fellowship, “Windows into Ancient Impacts: Examining Meteoritics Research with New Approaches”! With the award, Dr. Sims will be carrying out research and educational activities with collaborators in the Wicks Lab, the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at Johns Hopkins, and Lawrence Livermore...
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Zixuan Ye, Summer 2020 Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Congratulations to Wicks lab grad student Zixuan Ye, who will be working this summer at Lawrence Livermore doing data analysis for shock decay experiments of MgO, as well as developing a model for calculating thermal emissions of semi-transparent materials.
Congratulations Tyler Perez!
Tyler Perez, a second-year graduate student of Wicks lab, has been published as first author on “A Synchrotron Mössbauer Spectroscopy Study of a Hydrated Iron-Sulfate at High Pressures.” The paper, Tyler’s first as primary author, is a culmination of his and others’ work on synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements of hydrated iron-sulfate, pressurized to 95 GPa...
MgO-XRD-EP-20a campaign, My First Trip to Omega Laser Facility
By Juliette Lamoureux I became part of Wicks’ Lab as lab manager and research assistant last fall. Joining in on June’s course on shock experiments, I was introduced to the basic physics and set-up of dynamic compression experiments and assigned velocimetry and X-ray diffraction data to analyze. Then, in December, I was invited to join...
Wicks Lab at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco
June Wicks will be giving a tutorial talk, “Novel Experiments for Understanding the Interior of the Earth, Planets, and Exoplanets” this Wednesday at the AGU conference. June will cover the advantages, challenges, and future prospects of diamond anvil cell, as well as laser shock compression and ramp compression experiments. She will be speaking on the...
Application Period Begins for the Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholarship
JHU Earth and Planetary Sciences invites applicants to the Morton K. Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar position. The position lasts a duration of one year with the expectation of an extension for an additional year. We seek applicants with a recent PhD in any area of Earth and Planetary Sciences or Environmental Sciences, and with interests that...
Congratulations, Junellie Gonzalez Quiles!
Junellie Gonzalez Quiles, B.S. of Astronomy from University of Maryland, now research assistant at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, was awarded by the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) for her work in Wicks lab. Junellie was one of two students in the geosciences awarded for her undergraduate research and...
Symmetry and Fracture: Opening Reception September 27, 2019
Symmetry and Fracture: Works by Jenna Frye, HEMI artist in residence, will have its opening reception Friday, September 27th, from 4:30-7:30 pm, at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Q Level. Symmetry and Fracture offers a way to connect physically with complex research ideas through hands-on exploration of mineral crystal systems and grain boundaries of metallic...
LiF-Physics-EP-19b
Figure 1. Look how happy we look! The first campaign with my first two graduate students, Tyler and Zixuan. We assisted on a Laboratory Basic Science (LBS) program to explore the phase diagram of LiF. Figure 2. My first professor selfie. I will never top this. LLNL happened to be on site shooting B roll...
Mineralogy Lecture Series – Wednesday, April 17th
Dr. Hy Bui is the Sr. Principal Scientist and Head of Transversal and Physical Chemistry of Applied Research at L’Oréal. We are happy to have him join us for the Mineralogy Lecture Series to talk about the rheology in cosmetics, and more specifically how material science allows us to develop better cosmetic products. If you...
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