William E. Leonhard Professor of Mineral Physics
Seismological Laboratory
Jennifer Jackson's research explores the depths of Earth's interior: From the central inner core to plume-roots at the core-mantle boundary to deep hydrogen cycling and plumbing architecture underneath active volcanic systems. Recent Highlights include:
Single-grain analysis of iron's oxidation state in volcanic amphiboles: The first study of its kind (Ratchbacher et al. 2023)
Shear elasticity and high-pressure phase transitions in hydrous sulfates (Pardo et al. 2023);
vibrational anisotropy
(Buchen et al. 2021) and equation of state of dense oxyhydroxides
(Strozewski et al. 2023)
NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?
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