![]() The Horizon2020 COMPET 8 Sample Curation Facility Activity - Enabling activities for a UK bidĮxtraterrestrial sample curation - development of sample curation protocols for samples returned from Solar System missions. Role: Principal investigatorSmith C Funding: STFC IMARS Phase II Science Team and Co-Chair Participation Role: Principal investigatorRussell S, Smith C Funding: H2020 Industrial Leadership doi: 10.1111/maps.12413ĮURO-CARES: European Curation of Astromaterials Returned from the Exploration of Space Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50 (2) : 255 - 272. (2015) Isotopic composition of carbon and nitrogen in ureilitic fragments of the Almahata Sitta meteorite. doi: 10.1130/g37617c.1ĭownes H, Abernethy FAJ, Smith CL, Ross AJ, Verchovsky AB, et al. Lee MR, Tomkinson T, Mark DF, Smith CL (2016) Carbon sequestration on Mars: COMMENT. (null) Taking the pulse of Mars via dating of a plume-fed volcano. Astrobiology, 18 (S1) : doi: 10.1089/Ĭohen BE, Mark DF, Cassata WS, Lee MR, Tomkinson T, et al. Haltigin T, Lange C, Mugnuolo R, Smith C, Haltigin T, et al. (2018) Chronology of martian breccia NWA 7034 and the formation of the martian crustal dichotomy. : WileyS3 - S152.Ĭassata WS, Cohen BE, Mark DF, Trappitsch R, Crow CA, et al. Qualificationsīeaty DW, Grady MM, McSween HY, Sefton-Nash E, Carrier BL, et al (2019) The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return. In summer 2018 I was greatly honoured to have asteroid (7635) Carolinesmith named after me. I regularly use a number of analytical techniques for studying precious meteoritic materials including electron and ion-beam instrumentation for sample preparation and analyses, mass spectrometry and CT-scanning. I have studied a wide range of different meteorite types and my research interests are planetary differentiation and extraterrestrial and terrestrial alteration processes. I am a member of ESA's Human Spaceflight and Exploration Science Advisory Committee (HESAC) – the senior advisory body to ESA’s Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration on all matters concerning scientific exploitation of human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration programmes and also the UK Space Agency's Space Exploration Advisory Committee. I was also the Co-PI of the European Commission Horizon2020 project EURO-CARES, which has developed a roadmap for a future European Sample Curation Facility to curate samples returned from sample return missions (). ![]() Since 2014 I have been leading a team of Museum Researchers and Curators working with the European Space Agency to develop a collection of different rocks and minerals that are analogues of the surfaces of Mars, Phobos, Deimos, Asteroids and the Moon and that can be used by engineers and scientists to develop technologies for robotic exploration missions (). In 2014 I was chosen to be the UK representative for iMARS Phase 2 and was selected to be the Co-Chair of the Science Team. This work has continued and I have also been invited to participate in expert meetings on organic contamination by the US National Academy of Science. In 2011 I was selected as one of seven European scientists invited to participate in the ESA/NASA Joint Science Working Group planning for a proposed Mars exploration mission, where I provided input and advice related to sample curation and containment during collection, caching and on return to Earth. My experience and expertise in curation and collections care has been recognised by the award of a prestigious Aurora Fellowship from the UK Space Agency and consultancy work with industrial, academic and international space agency partners studying and planning for future Solar System sample return missions. I am Head of Earth Sciences Collections and Principal Curator of Meteorites at the Natural History Museum and I have been researching meteorites since the late 1990s.
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