Geology Club Seminar

Imaging spectroscopy is a technique that has been used for decades from airborne and orbital platforms.  These types of systems have recently been miniaturized for use on the ground in the field and in the laboratory, and imaging spectroscopy of samples and outcrops provides new insights into a variety of geological processes.  I will present case studies of work using imaging spectroscopy along with other laboratory analyses to understand water-rock interactions in a serpentinizing system and at a site of volcano-lacustrine interactions with implications for Mars.  Finally, I will briefly highlight my future research directions at JPL.