Ana Cernok

The Open University

0000-0002-9884-6535

Projects

The origin, occurrence and distribution of water and volatiles in nominally anhydrous minerals

Lead Institution

The Open University

Principal Investigator

Mahesh Anand

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Nominally anhydrous minerals such as olivine and pyroxene constitute most of the major rock forming minerals. As a result, these phases are abundant in crustal and mantle rocks on Earth, as well as…

Probing the Martian atmosphere and hydrosphere using micro and nanoscale analyses

Lead Institution

Royal Ontario Museum

Principal Investigator

Kimberly Tait-Sena

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The aim of this study is to fully characterize the micro- and nano-structural shock effects in Martian phosphate and sulfide minerals using cutting-edge EMSL instrumentation including: Transmission…