Valerie Payré
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. I combine sedimentology and igneous petrology to understand and constrain magmatic processes on Mars and other planets. I work on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity team, and was previously a ChemCam team member.
I completed my undergraduate and master's studies in Geochemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. I obtained my Ph.D. at Université de Lorraine (France) with Dr. Cécile Fabre and Dr. Violaine Sautter with a dissertation entitled "Contribution of the ChemCam instrument to the understanding of the martian primitive crust and the weathering processes at the surface of Mars – Alkaline and metal trace element quantifications using LIBS (Li, Sr, Rb, Ba and Cu)". I did postdoctoral research in Mars magmatism with Dr. Kirsten Siebach and Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta at Rice University, and with Dr. Mark Salvatore and Dr. Christopher Edwards at Northern Arizona University. |
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My name is Jessica, and I am an undergraduate working on a Geoscience bachelor's degree. My research involves making different samples with feldspars, pyroxenes, and olivine with different ratios. Then processing them through the FTIR and comparing them to TES and THEMIS from NASA. The conclusion of the research is to determine if the grain sizes, (coarse grain to fine grained), affect the absorption or reflectiveness. One of my favorite hobbies is singing! It is a great stress reliever and a quick refresher. Other hobbies include star gazing, painting, yoga and being with my loved ones. |