Meenakshi Wadhwa

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Meenakshi Wadhwa
University of California at San Diego
ThesisGeochemical studies of two unusual groups of meteorites : trace elements in SNC meteorites and Mn-Cr systematics in unequilibrated enstatite chondrites (1994)
Doctoral advisorGhislaine Crozaz
Websitehttps://search.asu.edu/profile/957644

Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.[1]

Career

Meenakshi Wadhwa and Steve Jurvetson in an April 2021 photograph

Meenakshi Wadhwa received her Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1994 from

Genesis and Mars Science Laboratory. She was PI of a proposal for Sample Collection for the Investigation of Mars (SCIM) to the NASA Discovery program in 2010. She is a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and also serves as the Principal Scientist for the Mars Sample Return program.

Awards and honors

In 1999 she was awarded the asteroid name

Meteoritical Society (2006),[9] the Explorers Club (2012),[10] the American Geophysical Union (2019),[11] and the Geochemical Society (2021).[12] She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.[13]

References

  1. ^ "ASU Discoveries: Meenakshi Wadhwa ready to lead earth and space exploration at ASU". 28 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. ^ "Research | Meteoritics | Center for Meteorite Studies | ASU". meteorites.asu.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  3. ^ "Space rocks Wadhwa's world at meteorite center". 29 January 2007. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  4. ^ "ASU News - Science & Tech: New ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration director selected". 24 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  5. ^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 8356 Wadhwa".
  6. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01790.x
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  7. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Meenakshi Wadhwa". Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  8. ^ "2021 NAS Awards Recipients Announced".
  9. ^ "Fellows". meteoritical.org. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  10. ^ Fortis, Bianca (March 6, 2019). "Meenakshi Wadhwa on her Career, Women in Science and Spending Four Months in a Wheelchair". WINGS WorldQuest. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  11. ^ "2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced". Eos. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  12. ^ "About the Geochemistry Fellow Honor". Retrieved August 15, 2021.
  13. ^ "2023 NAS Election".

External links

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