Jessica Barnes

Jessica Barnes

Assistant Professor

Jessica Barnes will be joining the LPL faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2019. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Jess’s research centers on understanding the origin and evolution of volatiles in the inner Solar System. She utilizes a combination of electron microscopy and high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry to study extraterrestrial materials. Jess’s research background is in lunar mineralogy and geochemistry. Most recently she has been using coordinated electron and ion beam studies of meteorites to investigate the evolution of water in the Martian crust and to assess the inventories and origins of volatiles on primitive chondrite and achondrite parent bodies.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., 2015, The Open University (U.K.)
Publications

Peer reviewed publications

Barnes, J.J., Franchi, I.A., McCubbin, F.M. and Anand, M., 2019. Multiple reservoirs of volatiles in the Moon revealed by the isotopic composition of chlorine in lunar basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 266, pp.144-162.

McCubbin, F.M. and Barnes, J.J., 2019. Origin and abundances of H2O in the terrestrial planets, Moon, and asteroids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 526, p.115771.

Barrett, T.J., Barnes, J.J., Anand, M., Franchi, I.A., Greenwood, R.C., Charlier, B.L.A., Zhao, X., Moynier, F. and Grady, M.M., 2019. Investigating magmatic processes in the early Solar System using the Cl isotopic systematics of eucrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Peslier, A.H., Hervig, R., Yang, S., Humayun, M., Barnes, J.J., Irving, A.J. and Brandon, A.D., 2019. Determination of the water content and D/H ratio of the martian mantle by unraveling degassing and crystallization effects in nakhlites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Boyce, J.W., Kanee, S.A., McCubbin, F.M., Barnes, J.J., Bricker, H. and Treiman, A.H., 2018. Early loss, fractionation, and redistribution of chlorine in the Moon as revealed by the low-Ti lunar mare basalt suite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, pp.205-214.

Barnes, J.J., Thompson, M.S., McCubbin, F.M., Howe, J.Y., Rahman, Z., Messenger, S. and Zega, T., 2018. Coordinated Microanalysis of Phosphates in High-Titanium Lunar Basalts. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 24(S1), pp.2078-2079.

Potts, N., Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Franchi, I.A. & Anand, M. (2018) Chlorine isotopic compositions of apatite in Apollo 14 rocks: Evidence for widespread vapor-phase metasomatism on the lunar nearside ~4 billion years ago. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 230, 46-59.

Snape, J.F., Nemchin, A.A., Bellucci, J.J., Whitehouse, M.J., Tartèse, R., Barnes, J.J., Anand, M., Crawford, I.A. & Joy, K.H. (2016) Lunar basalt chronology, mantle differentiation and implications for determining the age of the Moon. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451, 149-158.

Barnes, J.J., Kring, D.A., Tartèse, R., Franchi, I.A. & Russell, S.S. (2016) An asteroidal origin for the Moon’s bulk water. Nature Communications, 7, no. 11684.

Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., McCubbin, F.M., Neal, C.R. & Franchi, I.A. (2016) Early volatile degassing on the Moon by a crust-breaching impact event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 447, 84-94.

Barnes, J.J., Anand, M. and Franchi, I.A., 2016. Investigating the history of magmatic volatiles in the moon using NanoSIMS. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 22(S3), pp.1804-1805.

Barrett, T.J., Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., Franchi, I.A., Greenwood, R.C., Charlier, B.L.A. & Grady, M.M. (2016) The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, 51, 1110–1124.

Robinson, K.L., Barnes, J.J., Nagashima, K., Thomena, A., Franchi, I.A., Huss, G., Anand, M. & Taylor, G.J. (2016) Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 188, 244-260.

Anand, M., Barnes, J.J. & Hallis, L.J. (2015) Lunar Geology. In: Planetary Mineralogy, Lee, M.R. & Leroux, H. European Mineralogical Union Notes in Mineralogy, 15.

McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartèse, R., Klima, R.L., Liu, Y., Mortimer, J.I., Barnes, J.J., Shearer, C.K., Treiman, A.H., Lawrence, D.J., Elardo, S.M., Hurley, D.M., Boyce, J.W. & Anand, M. (2015) Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs. American Mineralogist, 100 (8-9), 1668-1707. 

Anand, M., Tartèse, R. & Barnes, J.J. (2014) Understanding the origin and evolution of water in the Moon through lunar sample studies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 372, no. 2024.

Barnes, J.J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., McCubbin, F.M., Starkey, N.A., Franchi, I.A. & Russell, S.S. (2014) The origin of water in the primitive Moon as revealed by the lunar highlands samples. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 390, 244-252.

Tartèse, R., Anand, M., Barnes, J.J., Starkey, N.A., Franchi, I.A. & Sano, Y. (2013) The abundance, distribution, and isotopic composition of hydrogen in the Moon as revealed by basaltic lunar samples: Implications for the volatile inventory of the Moon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 122, 58-74.

Barnes, J.J., Franchi, I.A., Anand, M., Tartèse, R., Starkey, N.A., Koike, M., Sano, Y. & Russell, S.S. (2013) Accurate and precise measurements of the D/H ratio and hydroxyl content in lunar apatites using NanoSIMS. Chemical Geology 337-338, 48–55.