205 MSA 2025 Awards Lectures and Presidential Address

This year's four Awardees for the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) will present lectures on the topics of their choice. The lectures will be followed by the Presidential Address.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
HBGCC, 217A

Participants

• Chair Robert Bodnar

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Presentations

• 3:00 PM
  Insights into Archean Geodynamics from Diffusion Chronometry
  Priyadarshi Chowdhury, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
  413358 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  Regarding Resilience of Community Databases
  Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
  414606 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  Crystallography on Mars and Next-Generation Mineralogical Instruments for Planetary Exploration
  Elizabeth Rampe, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  412277 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Machine Learning and the Future of Spectroscopy
  Melinda Dyar, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
  413998 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Garnet as an archive of fluid flow processes during metamorphism: Evidence from in situ measurements of H and Li
  Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  412707 (Technical Sessions)