Select Publications
Burton A, Berger EL, Tu V (2023) Insights on mineral associations and heterogeneous distributions of amino acids in Murchison CM2 chondrite mineral separates (in prep).
Cody G, Alexander CMO’D, Foustoukous DI, Busemann H, Eckley S, Burton AS, Berger EL, Nuevo M, Sandford SA, Glavin DP, Dworkin JP, Connolly Jr HC, Lauretta DS (2023) The Nature of Insoluble Organic Matter in Sutter’s Mill and Murchison Carbonaceous Chondrites: Testing the Effect of X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) and Exploring Parent Body Molecular Evolution (2023) Meteoritics & Planetary Science (submitted).
Corpolongo A, Jakubek R, Burton AS, Brown AJ, Yanchilina A, Czaja AD, Steele A, Wogsland BV, Lee C, Flannery D, Baker D, Cloutis EA, Cardarelli E, Scheller EL, Berger EL, McCubbin FM, Razzell Hollis J, Hickman-Lewis K, Steadman K, Uckert K, DeFlores L, Kah L, Beegle LW, Fries M, Minitti M, Haney NC, Conrad PA, Morris RV, Bhartia R, Roppel R, Siljeström S, Asher SA, Bykov SV, Sharma S, Shkolyar S, Fornaro T, Abbey W (2023) SHERLOC Raman mineral class detections of the Mars 2020 crater floor campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research 128, 3.
Fox A, Berger EL, Boettger J, Burton A (2023) The role of the CuCl active complex in the stereoselectivity of the salt-induced peptide formation reaction: insights from density functional theory calculations. Life 13, 1796.
Glavin DP, Eckley SA, Aponte JC, Berger EL, Burton AS, Dworkin JP, Elsila JE, Ferguson FT, Furukawa Y, Graham HV, Koga T, Lisse M, McLain HL, Naraoka H, Oba Y, Parker ET, Righter K, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Simkus DN, Takano Y, Connolly Jr HC, Lauretta DS (2023) Investigating the Impact of X-Ray Computed Tomography Imaging on Soluble Organic Matter in the Murchison Meteorite: Implications for Bennu Sample Analyses. Meteoritics & Planetary Science (submitted).
Sharma S, Roppel R, Murphy AE, Beegle LW, Bhartia R, Steele A, Razzell-Hollis JR, Siljeström S, McCubbin FM, Asher SA, Abbey WJ, Allwood AC, Berger EL, Bleefield BJ, and 38 other authors (2023) Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars. Nature 619, 724-732.
Siljeström S, Czaja AD, Corpolongo A, Berger EL, Li AY, Cardarelli E, Abbey W, and 50 other authors (2023) Evidence of Sulfate-Rich Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Floor, Mars. JGR Planets (submitted).
Simon JI, Hickman-Lewis K, Cohen BA, Mayhew LE, Shuster DL, Debaille V, Hausrath EM, Weiss BP, Bosak T, Zorzano MP, Amundsen HEF, Beegle LW, Bell III FJ, Berger EL, Beyssac O, Brown AJ, Calef F, and 50 other authors (2023) Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. JGR Planets 128, 6.
Scheller EL & Razzell-Hollis J, Cardarelli EL, Steele A, Beegle LW, Bhartia R, Conrad P, Uckert K, Sharma S, Ehlmann SB, Abbey WJ, Asher SA, Benison KC, Berger EL and 38 other authors (2022) Aqueous alteration processes and implication for organic geochemistry in Jezero Crater, Mars. Science, accepted.
Fries MD, Lee C, Bhartia R, Razzell-Hollis J, Beegle LW, Uckert K, Graff TG, Alley W, Bailey Z, Berger EL, and 27 other authors (2022) The SHERLOC calibration target on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: Design, operations, and extended outreach functions. Space Science Reviews 218:46
Lee C, Weber JM, Rodriguez LE, Sheppard RY, Barge LM, Berger EL, Burton AS (2022) Chirality in organic and mineral systems: A review of reactivity and alteration processes relevant to prebiotic chemistry and life detection missions. Symmetry 14, 460
Corpolongo A, Jakubek RS, Abbey W, Asher SA, Baker D, Beegle LW, Berger EL, and 30 other authors (2022) SHERLOC Mineral detections during the Jezero crater floor campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, submitted.
Sharma S, Roppel RD, Murphy AE, Beegle LW, Bhartia R, Steele A, Razzell-Hollis J, Siljestrom S,McCubbin FM, Asher SA, Abbey WJ, Allwood AC, Berger EL, and 38 other authors (2022) Mapping organic molecules in Jezero crater using Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. Nature, submitted
Mittlefehldt DW, Greenwood RC, Berger EL, Le L, Peng XY, Ross DK (2021) Eucrite-type mafic achondrites: Petrology and oxygen-isotope compositions. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 57, 484-526.
Keller LP, Berger EL, Zhang S, Christoffersen R (2021) Solar flare tracks in lunar samples: A transmission electron microscope calibration and implications for lunar space weathering. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 56, 1685-1707.
Aponte JC, Elsila JE, Hein JE, Dworkin JP, Glavin DP, McLain HL, Parker ET, Cao T, Berger EL, Burton AS (2020) Analysis of amino acids, hydroxy acids and amines in CR chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 2422-2439.
Sarafian AR, Nielsen SG, Marschall HR, Gaetani GA, Righter K, Berger EL (2019) The water and fluorine content of 4 Vesta. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 266, 568-581.
Burton AS, Berger EL (2018) Insights into abiotically-generated enantiomeric excesses gained through analysis of meteorites. Life 8, 14.
Miller KE, Lauretta DS, Connolly HS, Berger EL, Nagashima K, Domanik K (2017) Formation of unequilibrated R chondrite chondrules and opaque phases. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 209, 24-50.
Nguyen AN, Berger EL, Nakamura-Messenger K, Messenger S, Keller LP (2017) Coordinated analysis of a cosmic symplectite discovered in a Comet 81P/Wild 2 sample. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 2004-2016.
Sarafian AR, Hauri EH, McCubbin FM, Lapen TJ, Berger EL, Nielsen SG, Marschall HR, Gaetani GA, Righter K, Sarafian E (2017) Early accretion of water and volatile elements to the inner solar system: Evidence from angrites. Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society A 375, 2094.
Berger EL, Keller LP (2015) A hybrid ultramicrotomy-FIB technique for preparing serial electron transparent thin sections from particulate samples. Microscopy Today 23, 18-23.
Berger EL, Keller LP, Lauretta DS (2015) An experimental study of the formation of cubanite (CuFe2S3) in primitive meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1-14.
Berger EL, Lauretta DS, Zega TJ and Keller LP (2015) Heterogeneous histories of Ni-bearing pyrrhotite and pentlandite grains in the CI chondrites Orgueil and Alais. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 51, 1813-1829.
Righter K, Abell P, Agresti D, Berger EL, Burton AS, Delaney JS, Fries MD, Gibson EK, Harrington R, Herzog GH, et al. (2015) Mineralogy, petrology, chronology, and exposure history of the Chelyabinsk meteorite and parent body. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1790-1819.
Keller LP, Berger EL (2014) A transmission electron microscope study of Itokawa regolith grains. Earth, Planets and Space 66, 71-77.
Berger EL, Zega TJ, Keller LP, Lauretta DS (2011) Evidence for aqueous activity on comet 81P/Wild 2 from sulfide mineral assemblages in Stardust samples and CI chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 3501-3513.
Schrader DL, Lauretta DS, Connolly HC, Goreva Y, Hill D, Domanik KJ, Berger EL, Yang H, Downs RH (2010) Sulfide-rich metallic impact melts from chondritic parent bodies. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45, 743-758.
Herzog GF, Alexander CMO’D, Berger EL, Delaney JS, Glass BP (2008) Potassium isotope fractionation in Australasian tektites and microtektites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 1641-1657