Summons Lab Alumni News: Asteroid sample collected by NASA mission contains building blocks of life

Reposted from MIT EAPS News and written by Paige Colley Asteroids are made from the remnants of planetary formation and give scientists a way of looking back in time in the history of our universe. This makes them a good target of study to understand how life may have started in our solar system. In a […]
NASA Early Career Scientist Spotlight featuring Dr. Angel Mojarro

The following spotlight is reposted from: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/ECSS/Angel-Mojarro.html. Link to Dr. Mojarro’s GSFC biography: https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/angel.mojarro Early Career Scientist Spotlight Dr. Angel Mojarro (he/him/his) Organic GeochemistAstrochemistry Laboratory (691) What is your research focus? My research is focused on biomarker preservation and the origins of life. In other words, I study how fossils form, how they might persist through […]
QQBlue!

Our wonderful colleagues at Geomark Research shared some Geomark shirts with us after our most recent meetup at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference for Organic Geochemistry. We couldn’t help but take new group photos with them — especially in front of our GC/MS Triple Quad! Thanks, Geomark!