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Watasakanai Coast, Hokkaido, Japan © Haruhisa Tabata
I will attend the Japanese Society for Planetary Science at The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Japan, in 9/3-5.
A co-authored paper was published in PEPS. Congratulations, Yuki!! Link is here.
Attended & organized the 3rd TMT workshop for early career scientists in NAOJ, Mitaka, Tokyo, on July 16-18. The page link is here.
A co-authored paper got accepted in PEPS. Congratulations, Yuki! (Uchida et al., 2025) to be updated
Attended JpGU on May 25-30.
Attended LPSC 2025 in Houston, Texas, on 3/10-14. Also attended the Symposium on Planetary Sciences in Tohoku University on 3/3-5.
Got selected in a travel support program by Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation for the trip to Berlin in Sep. 2024.
Attended the Japanese Society for Planetary Science at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 9/24-26. Also, will attend the Mercury Laboratory Workshop at DLR Berlin, Germany, in 9/16-18.
A co-authored paper is published about the development of LIBS for planetary exploration in Spectrochimica Acta B, titled "Elemental analyses of feldspathic to basaltic soils and rocks on the moon using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy". Congratulations Koki!
A co-authored paper is published in PSJ titled "Validation Experiments for In Situ Ne Isotope Analysis on Mars: Gas Separation Flange Assembly Using Polyimide Membrane and Metal Seal". Congratulations Prof. Cho!
Published a paper in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta "Iron redox states in closed-basin lakes on early Mars: Its sensitivity to water chemistry, hydrology, and atmospheric composition".
Attended/organized TMT-ACCESS workshop at Univ. Tohoku, Sendai, Japan, on 6/10-12.
Presented the results of the oxygen ion space weathering on Martian moon candidate materials in JpGU2024, Chiba, Japan, on 5/26-31.
Moved to Prof. T. Usui's lab in ISAS/JAXA as a JAXA Aerospace Project Research Associate from 4/1.
Presented the results of the oxygen ion space weathering on Martian moon candidate materials in Planetary Science Workshop for Youngers, online, on 3/4-5.
Presented the results of the time-gated Raman spectroscopic study on clays, salts, and carbonates in the LPSC2024, Woodlands, Texas, on 3/11-15.
A paper about the radiation tolerance of the planetary LIBS instrument we are developing is published in the JAXA Research and Development Report. Free download link is here. Many thanks to co-authors!
A co-authored paper about the wavelength calibration of a spectrometer after launch utilizing Fraunhofer lines is published in PSS! 1st author is a grad student in our lab. Congratulations, Shoki! Free download link is here (available until March 4th).
A first-authored paper in the JAXA Research and Development Report and a co-authored paper in Planetary Space Science are accepted!
Presented the results of the Raman spectroscopic study on clay minerals at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science on 10/11-13 in Hiroshima, Japan.
Attended the TMT-ACCESS, a cross-disciplinary workshop on future study using TMT, on 9/11-15 at Pasadena, US.
Presented the results of the Raman spectroscopy on clay minerals in JpGU 2023 held on 5/21-26 at Chiba, Japan.
Presented the results of the Raman spectroscopic study on clay minerals in the 82nd Fujihara Seminar at Naeba, Niigata, held on 2/27-3/3.
Presented the gamma-ray irradiation experiments for the planetary LIBS (”将来の惑星探査機搭載を目指したレーザー誘起ブレークダウン元素分析装置の開発:硝材のガンマ線照射試験" (Development of LIBS instrument for future planetary missions: Results of the gamma-ray irradiation experiments on the optical glass materials)) in the Takasaki QST Science Festa held at Takasaki (Dec. 6-7).
Presented the Raman work (”Development of a nanosecond time-gated Raman spectrometer for the reconstruction of water chemistry on early Mars”) in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Planetary Science held at Mito (Sep. 20-22).
Started working as a postdoc at Prof. S. Sugita's Lab, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo.
Defended my Ph.D. thesis on "Photo-oxidation of ferrous iron: Implications for hydrogeochemistry of early lakes on Gale Crater, Mars" and received a Ph.D. of Science from The University of Tokyo.
Published a paper in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta "An experimental study of photo-oxidation of Fe (II): Implications for the formation of Fe (III)(hydro) oxides on early Mars and Earth".