Current Grants

• Thermodynamic origins of refractory dust in the early solar system and ancient stars (PI; Co-Is: F. Ciesla, V. Manga, and K. Muralidharan)
• Following the Molecular History of Stellar Ejecta: Combining Observations with Laboratory Spectroscopy and Imaging (Co-I w/L. Ziurys PI)
• Earths in other solar systems: Toward forming and discovering planets with biocritical ingredients: NASA Astrobiology Institute and Nexus for Explanet System Science (Co-I w/D. Apai PI)
• Physical and chemical evolution of airless landscapes, NASA Solar Systems Workings Program (Co-I w/S. Byrne PI)
• Atomic-scale analysis of samples returned from the Hayabusa Mission and analogs of those to-be-returned by Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx, NASA Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples Program (PI)
• Constraining asteroidal formation and alteration conditions via microstructure and elemental compositions of sulfides from returned samples, NASA Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples Program (Co-I w/D. Schrader, PI)
• Tracing the History of Molecular Phosphorous: From Interstellar Space to Planetary Surfaces, NASA Emerging Worlds Program (Co-I w/L. Ziurys PI)
• A multifaceted approach to investigating the magmatic and post-magmatic history of volatiles in basalts from the rim of sten crater, NASA ANGSA Program (Co-I w/J. Barnes PI)
• Alien Earths: Which Nearby Planetary Systems Are Likely to Host Habitable Planets and Life? (Co-I w/D. Apai PI and 26 other Co-Is).  NASA ICAR Program
• Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) Asteroid Sample Return Mission (Co-I w/D. Lauretta PI and 46 other Co-Is). NASA New Frontiers Program.

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• OSIRIS-REx Collaborator
• CAESAR Co-I

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• NASA Stardust

• Tarunika Ramprasad (Materials Science & Engineering)
• Laura Seifert (PTYS)

Former Students

• Michelle Thompson, 2016 (Ph.D. PTYS)
• Diana Bolser, 2014 (M.S. Chemistry)

Current Postdocs

Pierre-Marie Zanetta

Former Postdocs

• Pierre Haenecour
• Prajkta Mane

Current Staff Scientists

• Dr. Jerry Chang
• Dr. Ken Domanik

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Thomas J. Zega

Recent refereed publications: Years 2019 through 2020

Barnouin, O. S., Daly, M. G., Palmer, E. E., Gaskell, R. W., Weirich, J. R., Johnson, C. L., Al Asad, M. M., Roberts, J. H., Perry, M. E., Susorney, H. C. M., Daly, R. T., Bierhaus, E. B., Seabrook, J. A., Espiritu, R. C., Nair, A. H., Nguyen, L., Neumann, G. A., Ernst, C. M., Boynton, W. V., Nolan, M. C., Adam, C. D., Moreau, M. C., Rizk, B., Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y., Jawin, E. R., Walsh, K. J., Michel, P., Schwartz, S. R., Ballouz, R. -L., Mazarico, E. M., Scheeres, D. J., McMahon, J. W., Bottke, W. F., Sugita, S., Hirata, N., Hirata, N., Watanabe, S. -I., Burke, K. N., Dellagiustina, D. N., Bennett, C. A., Lauretta, D. S., Osiris-Rex Team, Highsmith, D. E., Small, J., Vokrouhlický, D., Bowles, N. E., Brown, E., Donaldson Hanna, K. L., Warren, T., Brunet, C., Chicoine, R. A., Desjardins, S., Gaudreau, D., Haltigin, T., Millington-Veloza, S., Rubi, A., Aponte, J., Gorius, N., Lunsford, A., Allen, B., Grindlay, J., Guevel, D., Hoak, D., Hong, J., Schrader, D. L., Bayron, J., Golubov, O., Sánchez, P., Stromberg, J., Hirabayashi, M., Hartzell, C. M., Oliver, S., Rascon, M., Harch, A., Joseph, J., Squyres, S., Richardson, D., Emery, J. P., McGraw, L., Ghent, R., Binzel, R. P., Asad, M. M. Al, Johnson, C. L., Philpott, L., Susorney, H. C. M., Cloutis, E. A., Hanna, R. D., Connolly, H. C., Ciceri, F., Hildebrand, A. R., Ibrahim, E. -M., Breitenfeld, L., Glotch, T., Rogers, A. D., Clark, B. E., Ferrone, S., Thomas, C. A., Campins, H., Fernandez, Y., Chang, W., Cheuvront, A., Trang, D., Tachibana, S., Yurimoto, H., Brucato, J. R., Poggiali, G., Pajola, M., Dotto, E., Epifani, E. Mazzotta, Crombie, M. K., Lantz, C., Izawa, M. R. M., de Leon, J., Licandro, J., Garcia, J. L. Rizos, Clemett, S., Thomas-Keprta, K., van Wal, S., Yoshikawa, M., Bellerose, J., Bhaskaran, S., Boyles, C., Chesley, S. R., Elder, C. M., Farnocchia, D., Harbison, A., Kennedy, B., Knight, A., Martinez-Vlasoff, N., Mastrodemos, N., McElrath, T., Owen, W., Park, R., Rush, B., Swanson, L., Takahashi, Y., Velez, D., Yetter, K., Thayer, C., Adam, C., Antreasian, P., Bauman, J., Bryan, C., Carcich, B., Corvin, M., Geeraert, J., Hoffman, J., Leonard, J. M., Lessac-Chenen, E., Levine, A., McAdams, J., McCarthy, L., Nelson, D., Page, B., Pelgrift, J., Sahr, E., Stakkestad, K., Stanbridge, D., Wibben, D., Williams, B., Williams, K., Wolff, P., Hayne, P., Kubitschek, D., Barucci, M. A., Deshapriya, J. D. P., Fornasier, S., Fulchignoni, M., Hasselmann, P., Merlin, F., Praet, A., Bierhaus, E. B., Billett, O., Boggs, A., Buck, B., Carlson-Kelly, S., Cerna, J., Chaffin, K., Church, E., Coltrin, M., Daly, J., Deguzman, A., Dubisher, R., Eckart, D., Ellis, D., Falkenstern, P., Fisher, A., Fisher, M. E., Fleming, P., Fortney, K., Francis, S., Freund, S., Gonzales, S., Haas, P., Hasten, A., Hauf, D., Hilbert, A., Howell, D., Jaen, F., Jayakody, N., Jenkins, M., Johnson, K., Lefevre, M., Ma, H., Mario, C., Martin, K., May, C., McGee, M., Miller, B., Miller, C., Miller, G., Mirfakhrai, A., Muhle, E., Norman, C., Olds, R., Parish, C., Ryle, M., Schmitzer, M., Sherman, P., Skeen, M., Susak, M., Sutter, B., Tran, Q., Welch, C., Witherspoon, R., Wood, J., Zareski, J., Arvizu-Jakubicki, M., Asphaug, E., Audi, E., Ballouz, R. -L., Bandrowski, R., Becker, K. J., Becker, T. L., Bendall, S., Bennett, C. A., Bloomenthal, H., Blum, D., Boynton, W. V., Brodbeck, J., Burke, K. N., Chojnacki, M., Colpo, A., Contreras, J., Cutts, J., D'Aubigny, C. Y. Drouet, Dean, D., Dellagiustina, D. N., Diallo, B., Drinnon, D., Drozd, K., Enos, H. L., Enos, R., Fellows, C., Ferro, T., Fisher, M. R., Fitzgibbon, G., Fitzgibbon, M., Forelli, J., Forrester, T., Galinsky, I., Garcia, R., Gardner, A., Golish, D. R., Habib, N., Hamara, D., Hammond, D., Hanley, K., Harshman, K., Hergenrother, C. W., Herzog, K., Hill, D., Hoekenga, C., Hooven, S., Howell, E. S., Huettner, E., Janakus, A., Jones, J., Kareta, T. R., Kidd, J., Kingsbury, K., Balram-Knutson, S. S., Koelbel, L., Kreiner, J., Lambert, D., Lauretta, D. S., Lewin, C., Lovelace, B., Loveridge, M., Lujan, M., Maleszewski, C. K., Malhotra, R., Marchese, K., McDonough, E., Mogk, N., Morrison, V., Morton, E., Munoz, R., Nelson, J., Nolan, M. C., Padilla, J., Pennington, R., Polit, A., Ramos, N., Reddy, V., Riehl, M., Rizk, B., Roper, H. L., Salazar, S., Schwartz, S. R., Selznick, S., Shultz, N., Smith, P. H., Stewart, S., Sutton, S., Swindle, T., Tang, Y. H., Westermann, M., Wolner, C. W. V., Worden, D., Zega, T., Zeszut, Z., Bjurstrom, A., Bloomquist, L., Dickinson, C., Keates, E., Liang, J., Nifo, V., Taylor, A., Teti, F., Caplinger, M., Bowles, H., Carter, S., Dickenshied, S., Doerres, D., Fisher, T., Hagee, W., Hill, J., Miner, M., Noss, D., Piacentine, N., Smith, M., Toland, A., Wren, P., Bernacki, M., Munoz, D. Pino, Watanabe, S. -I., Sandford, S. A., Aqueche, A., Ashman, B., Barker, M., Bartels, A., Berry, K., Bos, B., Burns, R., Calloway, A., Carpenter, R., Castro, N., Cosentino, R., Donaldson, J., Dworkin, J. P., Cook, J. Elsila, Emr, C., Everett, D., Fennell, D., Fleshman, K., Folta, D., Gallagher, D., Garvin, J., Getzandanner, K., Glavin, D., Hull, S., Hyde, K., Ido, H., Ingegneri, A., Jones, N., Kaotira, P., Lim, L. F., Liounis, A., Lorentson, C., Lorenz, D., Lyzhoft, J., Mazarico, E. M., Mink, R., Moore, W., Moreau, M., Mullen, S., Nagy, J., Neumann, G., Nuth, J., Poland, D., Reuter, D. C., Rhoads, L., Rieger, S., Rowlands, D., Sallitt, D., Scroggins, A., Shaw, G., Simon, A. A., Swenson, J., Vasudeva, P., Wasser, M., Zellar, R., Grossman, J., Johnston, G., Morris, M., Wendel, J., Burton, A., Keller, L. P., McNamara, L., Messenger, S., Nakamura-Messenger, K., Nguyen, A., Righter, K., Queen, E., Bellamy, K., Dill, K., Gardner, S., Giuntini, M., Key, B., Kissell, J., Patterson, D., Vaughan, D., Wright, B., Gaskell, R. W., Le Corre, L., Li, J. -Y., Molaro, J. L., Palmer, E. E., Siegler, M. A., Tricarico, P., Weirich, J. R., Zou, X. -D., Ireland, T., Tait, K., Bland, P., Anwar, S., Bojorquez-Murphy, N., Christensen, P. R., Haberle, C. W., Mehall, G., Rios, K., Franchi, I., Rozitis, B., Beddingfield, C. B., Marshall, J., Brack, D. N., French, A. S., McMahon, J. W., Scheeres, D. J., Jawin, E. R., McCoy, T. J., Russell, S., Killgore, M., Bottke, W. F., Hamilton, V. E., Kaplan, H. H., Walsh, K. J., Bandfield, J. L., Clark, B. C., Chodas, M., Lambert, M., Masterson, R. A., Daly, M. G., Freemantle, J., Seabrook, J. A., Barnouin, O. S., Craft, K., Daly, R. T., Ernst, C., Espiritu, R. C., Holdridge, M., Jones, M., Nair, A. H., Nguyen, L., Peachey, J., Perry, M. E., Plescia, J., Roberts, J. H., Steele, R., Turner, R., Backer, J., Edmundson, K., Mapel, J., Milazzo, M., Sides, S., Manzoni, C., May, B., Delbo', M., Libourel, G., Michel, P., Ryan, A., Thuillet, F., & Marty, B. 2020, Nature Geoscience. Author Correction: Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness

Weber, Juliane, Ramprasad, Tarunika, Domanik, Ken, Chang, Yao-Jen, & Zega, Thomas 2020, Microscopy and Microanalysis. 3D Microstructural and Microanalytical Analyses of Wark-Lovering Rims in the Allende Meteorite

Zega, Thomas 2020, Microscopy and Microanalysis. Putting Planetary Materials into the Gap: Insights into Planetary and Stellar Processes from in Situ Measurements in the TEM

Haenecour, Pierre, Floss, Christine, Brearley, Adrian J., & Zega, Thomas J. 2020, Meteoritics and Planetary Science. The effects of secondary processing in the unique carbonaceous chondrite Miller Range 07687

Zega, Thomas J., Haenecour, Pierre, & Floss, Christine 2020, Meteoritics and Planetary Science. An in situ investigation on the origins and processing of circumstellar oxide and silicate grains in carbonaceous chondrites

Schrader, Devin L. & Zega, Thomas J. 2019, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Petrographic and compositional indicators of formation and alteration conditions from LL chondrite sulfides

Bernal, J. J., Haenecour, P., Howe, J., Zega, T. J., Amari, S., & Ziurys, L. M. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. Formation of Interstellar C<SUB>60</SUB> from Silicon Carbide Circumstellar Grains

Seifert, Laura, Haenecour, Pierre, Zega, Thomas, & Ramprasad, Tarunika 2019, Microscopy and Microanalysis. Coordinated Analyses of a Supernova Polycrystalline Olivine Aggregate in the CO Chondrite Dominion Range 08006

Zega, TJ, Bernal, J., Howe, JY, Haenecour, P., Amari, S., & Ziurys, LM 2019, Microscopy and Microanalysis. Putting Stars in the Gap: in situ Irradiation and Heating of Synthetic SiC and Implications for the Origins of C-rich Circumstellar Materials

Ramprasad, Tarunika, Haenecour, Pierre, Seifert, Laura, & Zega, Thomas J. 2019, Microscopy and Microanalysis. Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Meteoritic Refractory Minerals Through Transmission Electron Microscopy

Haenecour, Pierre, Thompson, Michelle S., Zega, Thomas J., Howe, Jane Y., & Chen, Wei-Ying 2019, Microscopy and Microanalysis. In situ Ion Irradiation and Heating Experiments in the Transmission Electron Microscope: Simulations of Dust Processing in Circumstellar Environments

Slick, Lindsay R., Chang, Yao-Jen, & Zega, Thomas 2019, Microscopy and Microanalysis. Calculation of Chemical Shift for Ti via EELS White-Line-Ratio Method

Haenecour, Pierre, Howe, Jane Y., Zega, Thomas J., Amari, Sachiko, Lodders, Katharina, José, Jordi, Kaji, Kazutoshi, Sunaoshi, Takeshi, & Muto, Atsushi 2019, Nature Astronomy. Laboratory evidence for co-condensed oxygen- and carbon-rich meteoritic stardust from nova outbursts

Barnouin, O. S., Daly, M. G., Palmer, E. E., Gaskell, R. W., Weirich, J. R., Johnson, C. L., Al Asad, M. M., Roberts, J. H., Perry, M. E., Susorney, H. C. M., Daly, R. T., Bierhaus, E. B., Seabrook, J. A., Espiritu, R. C., Nair, A. H., Nguyen, L., Neumann, G. A., Ernst, C. M., Boynton, W. V., Nolan, M. C., Adam, C. D., Moreau, M. C., Rizk, B., Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y., Jawin, E. R., Walsh, K. J., Michel, P., Schwartz, S. R., Ballouz, R. -L., Mazarico, E. M., Scheeres, D. J., McMahon, J. W., Bottke, W. F., Sugita, S., Hirata, N., Hirata, N., Watanabe, S. -I., Burke, K. N., Dellagiustina, D. N., Bennett, C. A., Lauretta, D. S., Osiris-Rex Team, Highsmith, D. E., Small, J., Vokrouhlický, D., Bowles, N. E., Brown, E., Donaldson Hanna, K. L., Warren, T., Brunet, C., Chicoine, R. A., Desjardins, S., Gaudreau, D., Haltigin, T., Millington-Veloza, S., Rubi, A., Aponte, J., Gorius, N., Lunsford, A., Allen, B., Grindlay, J., Guevel, D., Hoak, D., Hong, J., Schrader, D. L., Bayron, J., Golubov, O., Sánchez, P., Stromberg, J., Hirabayashi, M., Hartzell, C. M., Oliver, S., Rascon, M., Harch, A., Joseph, J., Squyres, S., Richardson, D., Emery, J. P., McGraw, L., Ghent, R., Binzel, R. P., Asad, M. M. Al, Johnson, C. L., Philpott, L., Susorney, H. C. M., Cloutis, E. A., Hanna, R. D., Connolly, H. C., Ciceri, F., Hildebrand, A. R., Ibrahim, E. -M., Breitenfeld, L., Glotch, T., Rogers, A. D., Clark, B. E., Ferrone, S., Thomas, C. A., Campins, H., Fernandez, Y., Chang, W., Cheuvront, A., Trang, D., Tachibana, S., Yurimoto, H., Brucato, J. R., Poggiali, G., Pajola, M., Dotto, E., Epifani, E. Mazzotta, Crombie, M. K., Lantz, C., Izawa, M. R. M., de Leon, J., Licandro, J., Garcia, J. L. Rizos, Clemett, S., Thomas-Keprta, K., van Wal, S., Yoshikawa, M., Bellerose, J., Bhaskaran, S., Boyles, C., Chesley, S. R., Elder, C. M., Farnocchia, D., Harbison, A., Kennedy, B., Knight, A., Martinez-Vlasoff, N., Mastrodemos, N., McElrath, T., Owen, W., Park, R., Rush, B., Swanson, L., Takahashi, Y., Velez, D., Yetter, K., Thayer, C., Adam, C., Antreasian, P., Bauman, J., Bryan, C., Carcich, B., Corvin, M., Geeraert, J., Hoffman, J., Leonard, J. M., Lessac-Chenen, E., Levine, A., McAdams, J., McCarthy, L., Nelson, D., Page, B., Pelgrift, J., Sahr, E., Stakkestad, K., Stanbridge, D., Wibben, D., Williams, B., Williams, K., Wolff, P., Hayne, P., Kubitschek, D., Barucci, M. A., Deshapriya, J. D. P., Fornasier, S., Fulchignoni, M., Hasselmann, P., Merlin, F., Praet, A., Bierhaus, E. B., Billett, O., Boggs, A., Buck, B., Carlson-Kelly, S., Cerna, J., Chaffin, K., Church, E., Coltrin, M., Daly, J., Deguzman, A., Dubisher, R., Eckart, D., Ellis, D., Falkenstern, P., Fisher, A., Fisher, M. E., Fleming, P., Fortney, K., Francis, S., Freund, S., Gonzales, S., Haas, P., Hasten, A., Hauf, D., Hilbert, A., Howell, D., Jaen, F., Jayakody, N., Jenkins, M., Johnson, K., Lefevre, M., Ma, H., Mario, C., Martin, K., May, C., McGee, M., Miller, B., Miller, C., Miller, G., Mirfakhrai, A., Muhle, E., Norman, C., Olds, R., Parish, C., Ryle, M., Schmitzer, M., Sherman, P., Skeen, M., Susak, M., Sutter, B., Tran, Q., Welch, C., Witherspoon, R., Wood, J., Zareski, J., Arvizu-Jakubicki, M., Asphaug, E., Audi, E., Ballouz, R. -L., Bandrowski, R., Becker, K. J., Becker, T. L., Bendall, S., Bennett, C. A., Bloomenthal, H., Blum, D., Boynton, W. V., Brodbeck, J., Burke, K. N., Chojnacki, M., Colpo, A., Contreras, J., Cutts, J., D'Aubigny, C. Y. Drouet, Dean, D., Dellagiustina, D. N., Diallo, B., Drinnon, D., Drozd, K., Enos, H. L., Enos, R., Fellows, C., Ferro, T., Fisher, M. R., Fitzgibbon, G., Fitzgibbon, M., Forelli, J., Forrester, T., Galinsky, I., Garcia, R., Gardner, A., Golish, D. R., Habib, N., Hamara, D., Hammond, D., Hanley, K., Harshman, K., Hergenrother, C. W., Herzog, K., Hill, D., Hoekenga, C., Hooven, S., Howell, E. S., Huettner, E., Janakus, A., Jones, J., Kareta, T. R., Kidd, J., Kingsbury, K., Balram-Knutson, S. S., Koelbel, L., Kreiner, J., Lambert, D., Lauretta, D. S., Lewin, C., Lovelace, B., Loveridge, M., Lujan, M., Maleszewski, C. K., Malhotra, R., Marchese, K., McDonough, E., Mogk, N., Morrison, V., Morton, E., Munoz, R., Nelson, J., Nolan, M. C., Padilla, J., Pennington, R., Polit, A., Ramos, N., Reddy, V., Riehl, M., Rizk, B., Roper, H. L., Salazar, S., Schwartz, S. R., Selznick, S., Shultz, N., Smith, P. H., Stewart, S., Sutton, S., Swindle, T., Tang, Y. H., Westermann, M., Wolner, C. W. V., Worden, D., Zega, T., Zeszut, Z., Bjurstrom, A., Bloomquist, L., Dickinson, C., Keates, E., Liang, J., Nifo, V., Taylor, A., Teti, F., Caplinger, M., Bowles, H., Carter, S., Dickenshied, S., Doerres, D., Fisher, T., Hagee, W., Hill, J., Miner, M., Noss, D., Piacentine, N., Smith, M., Toland, A., Wren, P., Bernacki, M., Munoz, D. Pino, Watanabe, S. -I., Sandford, S. A., Aqueche, A., Ashman, B., Barker, M., Bartels, A., Berry, K., Bos, B., Burns, R., Calloway, A., Carpenter, R., Castro, N., Cosentino, R., Donaldson, J., Dworkin, J. P., Cook, J. Elsila, Emr, C., Everett, D., Fennell, D., Fleshman, K., Folta, D., Gallagher, D., Garvin, J., Getzandanner, K., Glavin, D., Hull, S., Hyde, K., Ido, H., Ingegneri, A., Jones, N., Kaotira, P., Lim, L. F., Liounis, A., Lorentson, C., Lorenz, D., Lyzhoft, J., Mazarico, E. M., Mink, R., Moore, W., Moreau, M., Mullen, S., Nagy, J., Neumann, G., Nuth, J., Poland, D., Reuter, D. C., Rhoads, L., Rieger, S., Rowlands, D., Sallitt, D., Scroggins, A., Shaw, G., Simon, A. A., Swenson, J., Vasudeva, P., Wasser, M., Zellar, R., Grossman, J., Johnston, G., Morris, M., Wendel, J., Burton, A., Keller, L. P., McNamara, L., Messenger, S., Nakamura-Messenger, K., Nguyen, A., Righter, K., Queen, E., Bellamy, K., Dill, K., Gardner, S., Giuntini, M., Key, B., Kissell, J., Patterson, D., Vaughan, D., Wright, B., Gaskell, R. W., Le Corre, L., Li, J. -Y., Molaro, J. L., Palmer, E. E., Siegler, M. A., Tricarico, P., Weirich, J. R., Zou, X. -D., Ireland, T., Tait, K., Bland, P., Anwar, S., Bojorquez-Murphy, N., Christensen, P. R., Haberle, C. W., Mehall, G., Rios, K., Franchi, I., Rozitis, B., Beddingfield, C. B., Marshall, J., Brack, D. N., French, A. S., McMahon, J. W., Scheeres, D. J., Jawin, E. R., McCoy, T. J., Russell, S., Killgore, M., Bottke, W. F., Hamilton, V. E., Kaplan, H. H., Walsh, K. J., Bandfield, J. L., Clark, B. C., Chodas, M., Lambert, M., Masterson, R. A., Daly, M. G., Freemantle, J., Seabrook, J. A., Barnouin, O. S., Craft, K., Daly, R. T., Ernst, C., Espiritu, R. C., Holdridge, M., Jones, M., Nair, A. H., Nguyen, L., Peachey, J., Perry, M. E., Plescia, J., Roberts, J. H., Steele, R., Turner, R., Backer, J., Edmundson, K., Mapel, J., Milazzo, M., Sides, S., Manzoni, C., May, B., Delbo', M., Libourel, G., Michel, P., Ryan, A., Thuillet, F., & Marty, B. 2019, Nature Geoscience. Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness