Pierre-Etienne Martin
Ph.D. Candidate (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
Email: p.martin.2@research.gla.ac.uk
414a Postgraduate Office
Gregory Building
G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-9695
Research title: Delivery of water to early Earth by carbonaceous chondrite meterorites
Research Summary
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Planetary Science at the University of Glasgow (UK) investigating Calcium-Aluminium-rich Inclusions (CAIs) within CM (Mighei-like) carbonaceous chondrites using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD), and Raman Spectroscopy.
My main areas of focus are (1) geochemical and petrographic analyses of meteorites (specifically carbonaceous chondrites) to determine the origin of Earth’s water; (2) geophysical surveys of terrestrial impact craters to better characterize their morphology and evolution to understand their planetary counterparts; (3) thermodynamic modelling of planetesimal and asteroid core formation and differentiation processes.
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International Conference Talks
- Calcium-Aluminium-rich Inclusion Populations within Winchcombe. 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Glasgow, United Kingdom (19/08/2022).
- Investigating the Thermal History of a CCCAI within the CM2 breccia Aguas Zarcas. 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, online (10/03/2022).
- The Conspicuous Compound-Chondrule-CAI Conundrum: A Case Study within Aguas Zarcas. 84th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, online (16/08/2021).
- Clast Populations within the CM2.2 Brecciated Chondrite Aguas Zarcas. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, online (08/03/2021).