Clayton Memorial Symposium

September 11, 2018

The University of Chicago will be hosting a Symposium on Monday, September 17th and Tuesday, September 18th of 2018 to commemorate the life and legacy of Robert Clayton.  A pioneer in the field of cosmochemistry, Robert Clayton spent over five decades as a member of the Department of Geophysical Sciences, and passed away in December.

The Symposium will be held in the Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences. Talks will be given in HGS 101, and refreshments in HGS 176.

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Schedule:

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM SESSION 1

• Welcome
  • Fred Ciesla CHAIR, DEPT OF THE GEOPHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • Takeshi Oka DEPT OF CHEMISTRY
  • Scott Wakely DIRECTOR, ENRICO FERMI INSTITUTE
• FUN with martian sediments
  • Munir Humayun FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
• Cosmic-ray-produced nuclides in a subglacial bedrock core—a test for Pleistocene collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
  • John Stone UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• Five sulfur isotope approach to decoding the early Earth’s oxygen level
  • Mark Thiemens UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM SESSION 2

• Observed trends in black carbon measurements over Canada (2006–2015): constraining regional emissions in North America
  • Lin Huang ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE CANADA
• Bob Clayton’s legacy in secondary ion mass spectrometry: measuring oxygen activities by SIMS
  • Richard Hervig ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
• Oxygen isotopes across the Solar System: known knowns and known unknowns
  • Kevin McKeegan UCLA
• Nebular ingassing as a source of Earth’s volatile H and He
  • Zach Sharp UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM SESSION 3

• Particle transport and disequilibrium chemistry in the solar nebula
  • Fred Ciesla UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• Imaging trace element distributions in single organelles and subcellular features
  • Yoav Kashiv UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
• Complementarity
  • Denton Ebel AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
• Walking in Bob’s footsteps: terrestrial Si isotopes, and extraterrestrial triple O isotopes
  • Karen Ziegler UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM SESSION 4

• Oxygen isotopic composition of the ocean, 50 years later, has it changed?
  • Karlis Muehlenbachs UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
• Oxygen isotope (δ18O, Δ17O) perspective on crustal growth and evolution
  • Ilya Bindeman OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
• An analytic formulation of self-shielding
  • James Lyons ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
• Oxygen isotopic thermometry: the attraction of magnetite
  • John Valley UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM SESSION 5

• Phosphate oxygen isotopes and terrestrial paleoclimate reconstruction
  • Albert Colman
• Another legacy of R. N. Clayton: the three-isotope method for constraining isotopic exchange equilibrium
  • Edward Young UCLA
• Chemical composition of martian targets obtained by Spirit and Opportunity rovers
  • Tom Economou UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• Mineralogy, petrography, and oxygen isotopic compositions of ultrarefractory inclusions from carbonaceous chondrites
  • Alexander Krot UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM SESSION 6

• Nitrogen isotopic fractionation factors involving diamond
  • Thomas Chacko UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
• Presolar supernova grains and Solar System formation
  • Nan Liu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
• Oxygen isotopes in barred olivine chondrules
  • Noriko Kita UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
• SIMS, RIMS, and CHILI: the evolution of microbeam isotopic analysis at Chicago
  • Andy Davis UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

12:30 PM – 4:00 PM RECEPTION WITH REFRESHMENTS