I'm a post doc at the Open University, UK. I study the volatiles in lunar apatite, with a focus on measuring hydrogen and chlorine isotopes to help us understand magmatic processes in operation in the Moon and the origins of lunar volatiles.
For almost 50 years the Moon was considered dry. Then in 2008 Alberto Saal and colleagues published a paper detailing the discovery of water in lunar fire fountain glasses
Tuesday afternoon saw the Mars community come together for some reminiscing and new findings! The keynote talk by Allan Treiman was a fantastic "greyhead review" of past and more recent advancements
The reputation of Goldschmidt is certainly well deserved, it is indeed huge, certainly the largest conference I've attended - four floors of the conference centre filled door to door with geochemists
