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Anne H. Peslier, Scientist

Anne Peslier
Area of Research/Engineering

Geochemistry - Petrology

Contact Information

ESCG Employee / Jacobs

anne.h.peslier@nasa.gov

281-244-6714

Education

PhD Université de Montreal, Canada, 1999

MS Université de Paris 7, France, 1994

Bsc Université de Paris 6, France, 1993

Experience

2007-present: Scientist/Geologist, Employed by Jacobs Technology, Houston, TX. Manager of the Electron Microprobe at the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, NASA-Johnson Space Center.

2001-2007: Research Scientist, University of Houston, Houston, TX. Manager of the Electron Microprobe at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TcSUH)

2000-2001: Research Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Content Advisor for the Earth Science exhibition, Field Museum, Chicago, IL.

1999-2000: Smithsonian post-doctoral fellowship, Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineral Sciences, Washington, DC

Research/Engineering Interests

Research on the interior of terrestrial planets through petrology and geochemistry:

  • Water in silicate glasses and nominally anhydrous silicate minerals
  • Chemical characterization of samples from the Earth's mantle lithosphere by electron microprobe, FTIR, SEM and TIMS
  • Mars and the Moon geochemistry
Laboratory/Research Groups
Publications

Shafer J.T., Brandon A.D., Lapen T.J., Peslier A.H., Irving A.J. (2011); Petrology and in situ trace element chemistry of feldspathic granulitic breccia Northwest Africa 3163 and implications for the constitution of the deep lunar crust. In preparation

Van Acken D., Humayum M., Brandon A.D., Peslier A.H. (2011); Siderophile Trace Elements in Metals and Sulfides in Enstatite Achondrites Record Planetary Differentiation in an Enstatite Chondritic Parent Body Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta submitted

Hui H., Peslier A.H., Lapen T.J., Shafer J.T., Brandon A.D., Irving A.J. (2011); Petrogenesis of basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 5298: Closed-system crystallization of an oxidized mafic melt. Meteor. Planet. Sci. in press.

Shafer J.T., Brandon A.D., Lapen T.J., Righter M., Peslier A.H., and Beard B.L. (2010); Trace Element Systematics and 147Sm-143Nd and 176Lu-176Hf Ages of Larkman Nunatak 06319: Closed System Fractional Crystallization of an Enriched Shergottite Magma. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, pp. 7307-7328.

Peslier A.H., Woodland A., Bell D.R., and Lazarov M. (2010); Olivine Water Contents of the Continental Lithosphere and the Longevity of Cratons. Nature 467, pp. 78-80.

Lapen T.J., Righter, M., Brandon A.D., Debaille V., Beard B.L., Shafer J.T., and Peslier A.H. (2010); A Younger Age for ALH 84001 and its Geochemical Link to Shergottite Sources in Mars. Science 328, pp. 347-351.

Peslier A.H., Hnatyshin D., Herd C.D.K., Walton E.L., Brandon A.D., Lapen T.J., and Shafer J.T. (2010); Crystallization, Melt Inclusion, and Redox History of a Martian Meteorite: Olivine-Phyric Shergottite Larkman Nunatak 06319. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74, pp. 4543-4576.

Peslier A.H. (2010); A Review of Water Contents of Nominally Anhydrous Natural Minerals in the Mantles of Earth, Mars and the Moon. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 197, pp. 239-258 DOI:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.10.006.

Li.Z.-X. A., Lee C.-T. A., Peslier A.H., Lenardic A., Mackwell S.J. (2008); Water Contents in Mantle Xenoliths from the Colorado Plateau and Vicinity: Implications for the Mantle Rheology and Hydration-Induced Thinning of Continental Lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res. 113, pp. B09210 1-22.

Peslier A.H., Woodland A., Wolff J. (2008) Fast Kimberlite Ascent Rates Estimated from Hydrogen Diffusion Profiles in Xenolithic Mantle Olivines from Southern Africa. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, pp. 2711-2722.

Peslier A.H., and Luhr J. (2006); Hydrogen Loss from Olivines from Mantle Xenoliths from Simcoe (WA, USA) and Mexico: Mafic Alkalic Magma Ascent Rates and Water Budget of the Sub-continental Lithosphere, Earth and Planet. Sci. Let. 242, pp. 302-319.

Williams H.M., Peslier A.H., McCammon C.A., Halliday A.N., Teutsch N., Levasseur S., and Burg J.-P.(2005); Systematic Iron Isotope Fractionation in Mantle Minerals, Partial Melting and Mantle Oxygen Fugacity, Earth and Planet. Sci. Let. 235, pp. 435-452.

Williams H.M., McCammon C.A., Peslier A.H., Halliday A.N., Teutsch N., Levasseur S., and Burg J.-P. (2004); Iron Isotope Fractionation and the Oxygen Fugacity of the Mantle, Science 304 (5677), pp. 1656-1659.

Peslier A.H., Luhr J., and Post J. (2002); Low Water Contents in Pyroxenes from Spinel-Peridotites of the Oxidized, Sub-Arc Mantle Wedge, Earth and Planet. Sci. Let. 201, pp. 69-86.

Peslier A.H., Francis D., and Ludden, J. (2002); The Lithospheric Mantle Beneath Continental Margins: Melting and Melt-Rock Reaction in Canadian Cordillera Xenoliths, J. Petrol. 43 (11), pp. 2013-2047.

Peslier A. H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D. (2000); Re-Os Constraints on Harzburgite and Lherzolite Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle: a Study of Northern Canadian Cordillera Xenoliths, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (17), pp. 3061-3071.

Peslier A. H., Reisberg L., Ludden J., and Francis, D. (2000); Os Systematics in Mantle Xenoliths; Age Constraints on the Canadian Cordillera Lithosphere, Chem. Geol. 166 (1-2), pp. 85-101.

Peslier A. H., Pineau F., and Javoy M. (1995); Correlations Between Water Contents, Carbon and Major Elements in Basaltic Glasses From a Mid-Atlantic Ridge Site at 21°N, Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on water-rock interaction (WRI-8), Vladivostok, Russia; Balkema Ed., pp. 583-586.