Jessica Barnes

I'm a post doc at the Open University, UK. I study the volatiles in lunar apatite, with a focus on measuring hydrogen and chlorine isotopes to help us understand magmatic processes in operation in the Moon and the origins of lunar volatiles.

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Goldschmidt 2015
Jessica Barnes

A damp Moon?

For almost 50 years the Moon was considered dry. Then in 2008 Alberto Saal and colleagues published a paper detailing the discovery of water in lunar fire fountain glasses

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Goldschmidt 2015
Jessica Barnes

Martian meteorites old and new

Tuesday afternoon saw the Mars community come together for some reminiscing and new findings! The keynote talk by Allan Treiman was a fantastic "greyhead review" of past and more recent advancements

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Goldschmidt 2015
Jessica Barnes

Xenoliths, meteorites, and Mercury

The reputation of Goldschmidt is certainly well deserved, it is indeed huge, certainly the largest conference I've attended - four floors of the conference centre filled door to door with geochemists

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