Amy J. V. Riches – Planetary Geoscientist, Writer and Editor.
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2022 Summer Meeting: Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds

Co-Chair, European Association of Geochemistry’s DEI Committee
Interview with the American Astronomical Society’s CSWA
National Geographic Explorer
My Science Blog / EAG Blog

FYI – The 5th International Workshop on Highly Siderophile Element Geo- & Cosmochemistry is to be Chaired by Thomas Meisel, with Johanna Irrgeher and I assisting as organising committee, and held in Leoben, Austria.  UPDATE: Likely ~August 2022 and linked with a new lab opening and unveiling of the latest instruments (TIMS and MC-ICP-MS) at the host.

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Research Themes

“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.” Carl Sagan Research goal: How do habitable (Earth-like) worlds form and evolve? My work is principally concerned with the conditions of formation and evolutionary path that have made Earth habitable, and leverages the broad field of igneous petrology…

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