General Topics:

 

Planetary Materials

 

Micrometeorites

Aeolian sediments
South pole water well
STARDUST samples
BIT-58 and impact debris studies
New sources

Martian meteorites

Mineralogy and petrology
Secondary minerals
Their place on Mars and in martian history

“Ordinary” Meteorites

Mineralogy and petrology
Parent body history
“ancient” falls in the rock record
Statistical studies of modern falls and finds and concentration mechanisms

Analogs to Martian materials

Earth rocks resembling martian meteorites
Earth rocks and secondary minerals produced under Mars-like conditions
Simulating martian weathering and/or mass wasting processes

Planetary Remote Sensing

 

Mars

Relating remotely determined mineralogy to volcanic behavior
Identifying potential mars meteorite parent craters
Regional to highly localized geological mapping and feature analysis.

Other Studies

The recent history of the East Antarctic icesheet as revealed by…

ice chemistry
ice movement
cosmogenic exposure ages
ice/rock interactions

Exploring the geochemical and climatological limits of biological activity

Statistical modeling of particle breakage, movement and recovery

The petrology and mineral chemistry of “primitive” ancient terrestrial igneous rocks

The general petrology and mineral chemistry of mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks

Meteorite recovery in polar regions, including

Greeland
Antarctica (ANSMET, the US Antarctic Meteorite Program).