Dr. Michael J. Drake
With LPL since: 1973
Senior Research Staff:
Ken Domanik
Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Marilena Stimpfl
Classes taught:
PtyS 195 Stardust to Planets
PtyS 206 Golden Age of Planetary Exploration
PtyS 571 Terrestrial Planets
Current Professional Service:
Director, State of Arizona Space Grant Consortium, 2000-present
University of Arizona representative to the Universities Space Research Association, 2000-present
American Geophysical Union Planetology Section Awards Committee, 2004-present
Honors:
College of Science Career Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999
Fellow, Meteoritical Society, 1980
Asteroid (9022) Drake = 1988 PC1 named by Carolyn Shoemaker
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2002
Geochemistry Fellow, European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society, 2002
Aviation Week and Space Technology 2001 Laurels Award for Outstanding Achievement in Space
Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society, 2004
Regents Professor, 2005
University of Arizona Senior Honorary BobCats Outstanding Faculty Member Award, 2006
Current Research Grants:
NASA, Geochemical evolution of the Earth, Moon, igneous meteorites and other terrestrial planetary bodies.
D.S. Musselwhite and M.J. Drake (2000) Early outgassing of Mars: Implications from experimentally-determined solubility of iodine in silicate magmas. Icarus 148, 160-175.
Y. Abe, E. Ohtani, T. Okuchi, K. Righter, and M.J. Drake (2000) Water in the early Earth. In Origin of the Earth and Moon, eds. R. Canup and K. Righter, University of Arizona Press, 413-434.
N. L. Chabot and M.J. Drake (2000) Crystallization of magmatic iron meteorites. "The effects of phosphorus and liquid immiscibility." Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 807-816.
K. Righter and M.J. Drake (2000) Metal/silicate equilibrium in the early Earth - new constraints from volatile moderately siderophile elements. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 3581-3507.
W.L. Jaeger and M.J. Drake (2000) Metal-silicate partitioning of Co, Ga, and W: dependence on silicate melt composition. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 3887-3895.
M.J. Drake (2000) Accretion and primary differentiation of the Earth: a personal journey. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 2363-2370.
M.J. Drake (2001) The Eucrite/Vesta Story. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 501-513.
M.J. Drake and K. Righter (2002) Determining the composition of the Earth. Nature 416, 39-44.
K. Righter and M.J. Drake (2003) Partition Coefficients at High Pressure and Temperature. Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 2, Geochemistry of the Mantle and Core. Ed. Richard W. Carlson
K. Domanik, S. Kolar, D.S. Musselwhite, and M.J. Drake (2004) Accessory silicate mineral assemblages in the Bilanga diogenite: a petrographic study. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, 567-579.
M.J. Drake (2005) Origin of water in the terrestrial planets. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, 519-527.
Figures
L.Borg and M.J. Drake (2005) A review of meteoritical evidence for the timing of magmatism and of surface or near-surface liquid water on Mars. Jour. Geophys. Res. Planets 110, E12S03, doi:10.1029/205JE002402.
Figures
W. Ertel, M.J. Drake, M.J. Walter, and P.J. Silvester (2006) Experimental study of the solubility and partitioning behavior of Pt: Implications for accretion and core formation in the Earth Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 70, 2591-2602.
K. Righter, M.J. Drake, and E. Scott (2006) Compositional relationships between meteorites and terrestrial planets. In Meteorites and the Earth Solar System II, eds. L. Leshin and D. Lauretta, University of Arizona Press, (in press).
M.J. Drake and H. Campins (2006) Origin of water in the terrestrial planets. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, vol.1, issue S229, 381-394.
D.W. Mittlefehldt, R.N. Clayton, and M.J. Drake (2006) Oxygen isotopic composition and chemical correlations in meteorites and the terrestrial planets. In Proceeding of a Workshop on Oxygen in Asteroids and Meteorites 2005.
H. Campins and M.J. Drake (2006) Sources of terrestrial and Martian water. In Water of life: counterfactual chemistry and fine-tuning in biochemistry, ed. Lynden-Bell, R. M., Conway Morris, S., Finney, J. L., Barrow, J. D., Harper, C. L., Jr. Cambridge University Press (in press).
M. Stimpfl, A.M. Walker, M.J. Drake, N. de Leeuw, and P. Deymier (2006) An angstrom-sized window on the origin of water in the solar system: Atomistic simulation of adsorption of water on olivine.Journal of Crystal Growth (in press).
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