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Experts on Petrology

Name	Missions & Mission Experience	Targets	Techniques	Major Facilities & Instrument Development
J. Brian Balta		Asteroids, Earth, Mars, Vesta	Geochemistry, Geology, Meteoritics, Petrology
Gretchen Benedix		Asteroids, Mars, Meteorites, Moon	Crater Counting, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Electron Microscopy, Geochemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy	FTIR
Nicholas Castle	MSL ** Instrument operations, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars, Meteorites	Electron Microscopy, Field Work, Geology, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Volcanism, X-Ray Diffraction	X-Ray Diffractometers, Mass spectrometers, Electron Microprobe
Darby Dyar	MSL	Earth, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus	Astrobiology, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy
John Goodge	Instrument Co-Investigator	Earth	Electron Microscopy, Field Work, Geology, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy, Tectonics	Electron Microprobe
Vicki Hansen		Earth, Venus	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Radar, Remote sensing, Tectonics
Georgiana Kramer	Apollo, Chandrayaan 1 (India), Clementine, Dawn, Kaguya (Japan), LRO, Lunar Prospector ** Calibration/Test planning, Data validation, Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Meteorites, Moon, Solar particles/Solar wind, Vesta	Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Field Work, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, Geology, Geomorphology, Ground-based observing, Impacts, Laboratory Spectroscopy, Mapping, Mass spectrometry, Mineralogy, Neutron spectroscopy, Petrology, Remote sensing, Spectroscopy	Cameras, Spectrometers, Imaging spectrometers
Katelyn Lehman Franco		Earth, Moon	Field Work, Geochemistry, Geology, Meteoritics, Petrology, Planetary Interiors, Remote sensing, Volcanism	Mass spectrometers, X-ray spectrometers
Ashley Murphy	Mars 2020	Earth, Mars	Astrobiology, Field Work, Geochemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Raman Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, X-ray spectroscopy
Dorothy Oehler	MSL ** Mission science team, Science operations	Earth, Mars	Astrobiology, Focused Ion Beam, Geology, Geomorphology, Mapping, Optical Microscopy, Petrology, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
David Vaniman	MSL	Earth, Mars, Moon	Petrology, Volcanism, Geology, Ground-based observing, Mineralogy, Mapping

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