NEWS

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• 2020.06.10 College students Xiao LIU and Lang ZHANG completed their thesis defense.

• 2020.05.27 Master student Yong XIONG completed his thesis defense. 

• 2020.04.02 Manuscript by Jieya and Prof. Zhang about the new occurrence of corundum in a eucrite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

• 2020.02.13 Prof. Zhang's paper on the angrite-like planetesimal was accepted by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta for publication. Congratulations!

• 2020.02.10 Prof. Zhang's paper on metasomatism in the interior of Vesta was accepted by Nature Communications and will appear online in March 10, 2020. Congratulations!

• 2020.01.18 Prof. Zhang's paper on lunar loveringite was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

• 2019.09.19 Runlian's paper about unique Ti-rich mineral assemblage in NWA 8003 was accepted by Geochemistry for publication. Congratulations!

• 2019.07.07-12 Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting at Sapporo and gave an oral presentation on an angrite-like planetesimal in a CH chondrite. 

• 2019.05.26-30 Prof. Zhang attended the JpGU meeting in Tokyo this year and gave an invited oral presentation on shock-induced high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.

• 2019.05.18 Deliang successfully defensed his master thesis. Congratulations!

• 2019.05.17 Runlian successfully defensed her PhD thesis. Congratulations! Dr. Pang!

• 2019.03.05 Manuscript by Deliang, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about shock-induced phase transformation of anorthite has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations!

• 2018.12.07  Manuscript by Shuzhou, Runlian, and Prof. Zhang about space weathering on Vesta has been accepted by Meteoritics & Planetary Science for publication. Congratulations Shuzhou!

• 2018.11.21  Prof. Wei Yang and Yu Liu visited our group and attended the SIMS symposium hosted by Prof. Zhang. 

• 2018.11.17-25  Dr. Naoya Sakamoto from Hokkaido University visited our group.

• 2018.10.29  Prof. Wei Du and Associate Prof. Yuyan Zhao visited our group and gave two presentations about melting enstatite chondrite and halogen geochemistry on Mars.

• 2018.10.25-27 Dr. Vera A. Fernandes visited our group and gave a presentation about Earth-Moon impact bombardment history.

• 2018.10.20-23  Prof. Zhang and Run-in attended the annual meeting of Chinese Geosciences Union at Beijing and gave two oral presentations and one poster presentation.

• 2018.10.9-12  Prof. Zhang attended Chinese SIMS workshop at Suzhou.

• Paper by Prof. Zhang and Shuzhou on nucleation and growth of minerals in impact melt pocket has been accepted for publication by American Mineralogist.

• Undergraduate students Haoxuan Sun, Yang He, and Qinting Jiang joined our group. Welcome!

• 2018.7.16-18  Prof. Zhang attended the second CNSA-ESA workshop in lunar science at Amsterdam, the Netherland.

• 2018.7.6-8 Prof. Zhang, graduate students Deliang Chen, Yong Xiong, Jieya Li, and undergraduate student Yan Song attended the annual meeting of mineral science and technology at Mianyang, Chengdu.

• 2018.05.28   Shu-Zhou successfully defensed his master course thesis. Congratulations!

• 2018.05.25  Run-Lian's new paper about Vestaite, a new mineral first discovered in HED meteorites was accepted by American Mineralogist for publication. Congratulations!

• 2018.04.16  A symposium about Meteorites was held in Nanjing University.

• 2018.01.17-18   Professor Zhang attended ISSI-BJ Forum on "Roads towards Sample Return from Comets and Asteroids".

• 2017.12.27   Department of Earth Science changed to Department of Earth and Planetary Science.

• 2017.11.25-12.23   Professor Zhang visited Hokkaido University, Japan.

• 2017.10.15-18   Professor Zhang attended CGU meeting at Beijing.

• 2017.10.04  GOOD NEWS! New mineral name Vestaite from our group has been approved by International Mineralogical Association!

• 2017.09.29   Paper by Prof. Zhang about a unique troilite-orthopyroxene intergrowth from a diogenite meteorite has been accepted for publication by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

• Two graduate students Jie-Ya Li and Yong Xiong join our group! Welcome!

• 2017.06.16   Paper by Shuzhou about the petrogenesis and shock metamorphism of a martian meteorite NWA 7755 has been accepted for publication by Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!

• 2017.05.26   Paper by Runlian about origins of silicate veinlets in HED meteorites has been accepted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Congratulations!

• 2017.05.17   Student Yang Li defended her master thesis. Congratulations!

• 2017.05.08    Prof. Zhang visited Peking University and gave an oral presentation.

• 2017.04.26    Prof. Hua-Pei Wang from Chinese University of Geosciencs visited our group and gave a presentation about application of paleomagnetism in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

• 2017.04.19-23   Prof. Zhang participated the meeting of Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry and gave an oral presentation about space weathering.

• 2017.03.19-25   Prof. Zhang participated the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at Houston.

• 2016.11.16-18   Prof. Shogo Tachibana from Hokkaido University visited our group and gave a seminar about Hayabusa2.

• 2016.11.02-04  Dr. Shi-Jie Li from the Institute of Geochemistry visited our group and presented a lecture about searching meteorites in the deserts of Northwestern China.

• 2016.10.21-23  Prof. Zhang attended the Meeting for Mineral Science and Engineering held in Beijing.

• 2016.10.14-18  Prof. Zhang attended the Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union held in Beijing and reported the work about new occurrence of P-rich olivine in carbonacous chondrite.

• 2016.09.30  Paper by Prof. Zhang has been published online by Nature Communications.

• 2016.08.25   Paper by Graduate student Yang Li has been accepted for publication in American Mineralogist.

• 2016.08.07-12   Prof. Zhang attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Berlin.

• 2016.06.8-10.    Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the International Symposium of Lunar and Planetary Science at Wuhan.

• 2016.05.20.   Prof. Zhang visited HeFei University of Technology and gave a lecture titled "Chondrites--Messenger from the Early Solar System".

• 2016.05.17.   Runlian Pang has been awarded the 2016 Nanjing University President Special Prize for PhD students. Congratulations, Runlian!

• 2016.05.16.   Manuscript by PhD student Runlian Pang, Shuzhou Wang, and Prof. Zhang has been published in Scientific Reports.

• 2016.04.07.    Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a symposium on planetary science at Purple Mountain Observatory. Prof. Zhang gave a talk on a unique formation mechanism of P-rich olivine.

• 2015.12.21-22.    Prof. Zhang and graduate students attended a mineralogical symposium held at University of Science and Technology of China. PhD student Runlian Pang gave a talk about high-pressure minerals observed in a eucrite meteorite.

• 2015.11.26-27.    Prof. Zhang visited the Geochemistry Institute, Chinese Academy of Science at Guiyang and gave a lecture about high-pressure mineralogy of HED meteorites.

• 2015.10.19.    Graduate student Runlian Pang successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.

• 2015.10.18.    A manuscript about a unique P,O-rich sulfide in CM chondrites have been accpeted for publication in Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

• 2015.10.14-18.    Prof. Qingzhu Yin from University of California at Davis visisted our group.

• 2015.10.15.    Graduate student Yang Li successfully defendsed her mid-term presenation.

• 2015.10.10-12.    Prof. Zhang attended the 2nd meeting of Chinese Geophysical Union and gave a lecture about searching for high-pressure minerals in HED meteorites.

• 2015.07.18-25.    Prof. Shichun Huang from University of Nevada, Las Vegas visited our group.

• 2015.06.04.    Undergraduate students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang defensed their bachelor thesises successfully. Congratulations!

• 2015.05.31.    Prof. Zhang started his visit at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

• 2015.05.28.    PhD student Rong Yin successfully defenced her PhD thesis. Congratulations!

• 2015.05.27.    Senior students Yifan Bu, Mingyu Cheng, and Shuzhou Wang practised the presentations about their bachelor thesis.

• 2015.05.21-22.    Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang participated the international workshop about FIB technique held at Shanghai by High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR).

• 2015.05.18-19.    Dr. Chi Ma from California Institute of Technology visited our group and gave a lecture "Nanomineralogy and Discovery of New Minerals".

• 2015.05.17.    Paper by Prof. Zhang and coauthors from Caltech and Hokkaido University has been formally published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

• 2015.04.27-30.    Prof. Zhang and PhD student Runlian Pang visited Institute of Geology and Geophysics for FIB-TEM observations.

• 2015.04.10.    Prof. Zhang organized a workshop about Planetary Geological Processes and Surface Evolution at Nanjing University. More than 30 colleagues attended this workshop, including 10 from Chinese Academy of Sciences and other Universities.

• 2015.03.15-22.    Prof. Zhang attended the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and gave an oral presentation about alteration origin of coarse-grained apatite and its unique U-Pb age.