Member Since 2009
Megan Eve Newcombe
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Member, Lawrence A. Taylor Research Fund in Petrology and Geochemistry; Member, Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Student Awards Committee; Member, Hess Medal Committee
Professional Experience
University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Carnegie Institution for Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018 - 2019
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016 - 2018
California Institute of Technology
Graduate Student
2009 - 2015
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Education
California Institute of Technology
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Received December 2020
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received January 2011
Presentation Title: Zonation of volatile and major elements in basaltic melt inclusions: a snapshot of syn-eruptive processes
Event: 2011 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
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Publications
3D Diffusion of Water in Melt Inclusion‐Bearing Olivine Phenocrysts
Olivine‐hosted melt inclusions are an important archive of pre‐eruptive processes such as magma storage, mixing and subsequent ascent t...
March 04, 2024
Mineralogy, provenance, and diagenesis of a potassic basaltic sandstone on Mars: CheMin X-ray diffra...
The Windjana drill sample, a sandstone of the Dillinger member (Kimberley formation, Gale Crater, Mars), was analyzed by CheMin X‐ray diffrac...
January 29, 2016
AGU Abstracts
Tracking the effect of thermal metamorphism on the water contents of ordinary chondrite minerals
AGU 2024
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2024
Sumedha Desikamani, Megan E. Newcombe, Liam Peters...
The water contents of the planetesimal building blocks of the terrestrial planets can be assessed by quantifying the H abundances of bulk meteorites o...
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Experimental Investigations of the Spinel-Rich Sinus Aestuum Dark Mantle Deposit
AGU 2024
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Cosmo Sikes, Jessica M. Sunshine, Megan E. Newcomb...
The Sinus Aestuum (SA) dark mantle deposit (DMD) is a pyroclastic deposit located on the central nearside of the Moon. Anomalous spectral signatures a...
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Water in Garnet from Contact Metamorphic Environments: Examples from Garnet Ledge, AK and Empire Mountain Skarn, CA
AGU 2024
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 10 december 2024
Kathryn Bickerstaff, Kathleen Stepien, Sarah Penni...
Garnet is considered a nominally anhydrous mineral that can sometimes accommodate hydrogen (H) into its structure. This H can be measured using severa...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Hess Medal Committee
2022 - 2025
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Student Awards Committee
2022 - 2024
Member
Lawrence A. Taylor Research Fund in Petrology and Geochemistry
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