Meet the team! Meenakshi Wadhwa is a cosmochemist interested in deciphering the origin and evolution of the Solar System and its planetary bodies through geochemical and isotopic means. She uses high-precision mass spectrometric techniques to investigate a wide range of Solar System materials, including the Genesis samples. Her goals are to decipher the processes (using trace- and minor-element distributions and stable-isotope systematics) and time scales (using various radioisotope chronometers) involved in the formation and evolution of Solar System bodies. She is a professor at the Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration and Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies, which houses the largest university-based meteorite collection.
Amy Jurewicz, formerly JPL's project scientist for Genesis, is currently at the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She uses a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS) to analyze Genesis samples, prepares implants to use as solar-wind "standards," and participates in cleaning studies of wafer fragments.
