I departed Toulouse late November towards Antarctica to participate in a fieldwork campaign financed by BELSPO and organised by S. Goderis and V. Debaille in the Belgica Mountains. Currently, I’m back to the PEA organising the samples and my return to France.
It was an amazing and exciting mission to one of the remotest regions of the planet. Our main objective was to collect meteorites and sediments for micrometeorites (that we did). In addition, we sampled ice as well as rock samples for my studies of weathering.
Super happy with the results!
In addition, I had a paper published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry on Ce stable isotopes in Antarctic meteorites. Check it out: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00206
And this is the free version: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386107078_Cerium_Stable_Isotopic_Composition_of_Non-Carbonaceous_Chondrites
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hamed Pourkhorsandi 