Media and Outreach

Researcher Profiles

Center for Meteorite Studies’ Researcher Spotlight

Carnegie Postdoctoral Spotlight

Media Contributions

Original contributions:

Astronomy Magazine’s Ask an Expert (June 2020 issue)

All About Space’s Ask Space (Issue 124, December 2021)

Quote featured in:

New Scientist (Issue 3348, 21 August 2021); The lost fossil meteorites carrying the secrets of Earth’s past, by Joshua Howgego.

Research in the News

Microscopic asteroid dust jumped the Jupiter Gap

ASU Now: Fragments of asteroids may have jumped the gap in the early solar system

Phys.org: Fragments of asteroids may have jumped the gap in the early solar system

Space Daily: Fragments of asteroids may have jumped the “Jupiter Gap”

Universe Today: Asteroids somehow migrated past Jupiter during the Solar System’s early history

Centauri Dreams: Across the ‘Jupiter Gap’

Center for Meteorite Studies: Fragments of asteroids may have jumped the gap in the early solar system

Cosmic turducken: Cometary building block found inside meteorite from asteroid

ASU Now: Team finds tiny fragment of a comet inside a meteorite

Astronomy Magazine: The turducken space rock: Antarctic meteorite hid comet inside asteroid remains

Newsweek:Scientists discover comet fragment inside a meteorite from a primordial asteroid

Smithsonian Magazine:Scientists find a tiny speck of comet inside a meteorite

Space.com:Rare comet fragment found inside rocky meteorite

Popular Science:This comet stuffed inside a meteorite is the ultimate cosmic turducken

Gizmodo: Piece of a comet found tucked inside meteorite

Live Science: Comet ingredients swallowed by an asteroid, found sealed inside a meteorite

Science Alert:A piece of comet has been discovered in the last space object you’d think to check

New Atlas:Antarctic meteorite tells the tale of an asteroid that ate a comet

Universe Today: Astronomers find a chunk of a comet inside a meteorite

Fox News: 3 million-year-old comet piece found inside a meteorite, could contain building blocks of life*

*NB: This article (including the title) contains numerous factual inaccuracies.

Education and Public Outreach

Throughout my career, from graduate school to date, I have participated in many education and public outreach (EPO) activities, including preparation of outreach protocols and materials to participating in events from school visits to large science festivals. Most notably, my current role as a research scientist in the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University and prior role as a EPO working group member for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission have placed significant emphasis on the promotion of STEM activities via interaction with the general public locally within Arizona and nationally via virtual events.