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Noriko Kita Senior Scientist Director, WiscSIMS Laboratory (608) 262-7118 Email: noriko@geology.wisc.edu Office: 145 Weeks Hall |
The University of Wisconsin SIMS lab (WiscSIMS) was installed in 2005 and became a National Facility for Stable Isotope Geochemistry in 2008 with support from NSF, Division of Earth Sciences, Instrumentation and Facilities Program. The WiscSIMS lab houses a CAMECA IMS-1280. The IMS-1280 is a large radius multi-collector ion microprobe incorporating many improvements over earlier instruments, several of which are designed to enhance precision and accuracy of isotope ratio analysis.
Primitive meteorites recorded the early evolution of the solar system. We use SIMS to obtain high precision isotope analyses of pristine meteorite samples, such as Ca, Al-rich inclusions and chondrules in order to address the timing of their formation and the condition of proto-planetary disk in which they formed. We are also interested in precious particles collected from asteroids and comets by space missions, such as NASA Stardust Mission.
Science Careers Interview "A Hidden Academic Workforce" by Siri Caepenter (6/8/2012)
New Papers:
Kita NT, Yin Q-Y, MacPherson GJ, Ushikubo T, Jacobsen B, Nagashima K, Kurahashi E, Krot AN and Jacobsen SB (2013). 26Al-26Mg isotope systematics of the first solids in the early Solar System. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. in Press. (posted 5/16/2013)
Kita NT, Welten KC, Valley JW, Spicuzza MJ, Nakashima D, Tenner TJ, Ushikubo T, MacPherson GJ, Welzenbach L, Heck PR, Davis AM, Meier MMM, Wieler R, Caffee MW, Laubenstein M and Nishiizumi K (2013). Fall, classification, and exposure history of the Mifflin L5 chondrite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 48, 641-655. doi:10.1111/maps.12077 (posted 3/13/2013)
Ushikubo T, Nakashima D, Kimura M, Tenner TJ and Kita NT (2013). Contemporaneous formation of chondrules in distinct oxygen isotope reservoirs. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 109, 280-295. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.045 (posted 2/14/2013)
Tenner TJ, Ushikubo T, Kurahashi E, Kita NT, and Nagahara H (2013) Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrule phenocrysts from the CO3.0 chondrite Yamato 81020: Evidence for two distinct oxygen isotope reservoirs. Geochimi. Cosmochim. Acta 102, 226-245. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.10.034 (posted 11/14/2012)
Nakashima D, Ushikubo T, Joswiak DJ, Brownlee DE, Matrajt G, Weisberg MK, Zolensky ME, and Kita NT (2012) Oxygen isotopes in crystalline silicates of comet Wild 2: A comparison of oxygen isotope systematics between Wild 2 particles and chondritic materials. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 357-358, 355-365. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.041 (posted 11/14/2012)
44rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 18-22, 2013): See abstracts.
Mifflin Meteorite, Approved (8/25/10) See Meteorite Bulletin Database and Read Paper
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