About Tabb C. Prissel, Ph.D.
Tabb Prissel (PRIZE-uhl) is an assistant professor at Purdue University in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Before joining Purdue, Prissel was a civil servant research scientist with NASA in the Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science Division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Dr. Prissel's research integrates natural sample analysis with experimental petrology, orbital mission data, & geochemical modeling to explore the igneous evolution of the Earth, planets, and differentiated bodies. As an educator, Prissel strongly encourages questions and believes that geologists are storytellers.
Intro Content
Nature Communications
The first magma on the Moon
Summer had finally reached Rhode Island. Two graduate students and a postdoc met about the earliest stages of mantle convection and the first magmas on the Moon. Sketches were drawn. Coffees and tea were brewed. A hypothesis took root. Ten years and many, many moons later, this is that paper....
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Wow, this is such a good scientific story! Thanks a lot for sharing.
Thank you for reading, and also for the kind words!