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Meteorites and Cosmic Geology
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Speaker
Prof. Luke Daly University of Glasgow will deliver this talk
Biography
Dr Luke Daly is a Professor of Planetary Geoscience in the School of Geographical and Earth Scienes at the University of Glasgow. He studies the very small to understand the very big by tearing extraterrestrial rocks apart one atom at a time to learn how our Solar System formed, how asteroids evolve and how habitable worlds are made. He was part of the science team for the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 mission to bring back samples from asteroid Ryugu. He is also Treasurer of the UK Fireball Alliance that successfully recovered the Winchcombe meteorite in 2021 - The first meteorite fall to be recovered in the UK for 30 years.
He has authored or co-authored 179 papers and is also a Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society.
In 2024 he was awarded the Max Hey Medal in recognition of existing and ongoing excellence in applied mineralogy, clay mineralogy, environmental mineralogy, geochemistry, geomicrobiology, metamorphism, mineral physics or volcanology and magmatic studies, reflecting the diverse and worldwide interests and membership of the Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Research interests
- Planetary Science
- High-resolution geochemical, crystallographic and isotopic analysis using: electron backscatter diffraction, transmission kikuchi diffraction and atom probe tomography.
- Microstructures of shock meteamorphism and aqueous alteration on planetary bodies.
- Protoplanetary disk processes and their effect on meteoritic components, including pre-solar grians
- Meteorites particularly carbonaceous chondrites and Martian samples.
- Asteroid sample return mission analysis. e.g. Hayabusa Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx
- The UK Fireball Alliance and Global Fireball Observatory recovering meteorite falls with oribits
- Highly siderophile elements and their distribution in the Solar System
- Meteorite classification