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Megan Holycross joined Cornell’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in July 2020 as an assistant professor. Her research seeks to understand processes and differentiated chemistry of the Earth’s solid interior, primarily through laboratory experiments. Prior to joining Cornell, Megan held National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow appointments at the Smithsonian Institution and Yale University. Her research interests focus on using controlled laboratory experiments to develop new geochemical tools that quantify rates and conditions such as temperature, pressure, and redox state during magmatic and metamorphic processes. Areas of interest include 'crystal clock' diffusion chronometry, trace element partitioning in subduction zone settings, and multi-valent element x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy.
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