Research Opportunities
Scientific Advisory Committee
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Dr. Christian Koeberl
Dr. Christian Koeberl is full professor of geosciences (planetary geology) at the University of Vienna, where he is the currently head of the Department of Lithospheric Research, and from 2010 to 2020 he was the director general of the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he also heads the Committee on Geosciences. Dr. Koeberl studied chemistry, physics, and astronomy at the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 at the University of Graz. His main research interests are meteorite impact craters, meteorites, and geo- and cosmochemistry, as well as the early Earth and planetary geology. He received the Barringer Medal from the Meteoritical Society in 2007.
His publication record includes over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers; asteroid 15963 is named in his honor “Koeberl.”
Dr. Gordon Osinski
Dr. Gordon Osinski (Oz), a professor of Planetary Geology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, is one of the top impact crater scientists in the world. His research focuses on how meteorite impacts have shaped the surface of the Earth and other planetary bodies and how they may have played an important role in the origin and evolution of life. He is a Co-Investigator on the PanCam instrument on the European ExoMars mission to Mars and in November 2022 was named as Principal Investigator of the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission – Canada’s first ever rover mission to the Moon. He was also selected by NASA in 2023 to be part of the Geology Team for the Artemis III mission, and is currently developing plans to train astronauts at the Barringer Meteorite Crater. Dr. Osinski teaches a class on impact crater processes at Western University and has written the textbook Impact Cratering: Processes and Products. He received the Barringer Medal from the Meteoritical Society in 2021 and has mentored several recipients of Barringer Family Fund grants.
Dr. Carolyn Crow
Dr. Caroyln Crow is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on understanding the evolution of planetary crusts through geochemical analyses of samples. She has worked with samples ranging from lunar rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, Martian meteorites, and samples from terrestrial impact structures. She is particularly interested in developing new laboratory methods to determine the ages of impacts and to investigate the impact cratering process from a sample perspective. She is the PI of a new NASA, NSF, and Hiesing-Simons Foundation supported facility – Rocky Mountain NobLES – that specializes in noble gas analyses of planetary materials, including samples from terrestrial impact craters.
Independent Research On-Site
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The Barringer Crater Company believes that ongoing research of impact cratering processes and associated phenomena is critically important to growing and sharing scientific knowledge and public understanding of meteoritics and planetary science, specifically impact cratering and its enormous effects on planetary bodies. We are committed, therefore, to providing appropriate and responsible access to The Barringer Meteorite Crater and its surrounding ejecta blanket and terrain, approximately defined by the area of the crater and its immediate surroundings, for such study. To submit a research request, please review our Field Research Guidelines and then submit a summary of your proposed research at the form below.
Once research has been approved, a password will be provided which allows access to our Liability Waiver and Rim Trail Map.
Barringer Crater Sample Collection - US Geological Survey, Flagstaff
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Use the links below to search for, get information on, and request access to field samples from the Barringer Meteorite Crater.
To request further information about Barringer Meteorite Crater samples, contact geologist Amber Gullikson, Co-Leader of the USGS Astrogeology Terrestrial Analog Sample Collection: agullikson@usgs.gov.
Impacts Weekly Newsletter
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Impacts is a free weekly newsletter by and for the Impact Cratering community. Published weekly by the Barringer Crater Company, Impacts shares the latest information an opportunities from across Impact Cratering studies, with updates from subfields including field work, laboratory work, planetary analogues, experiments, modeling, and astrobiology.
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