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Megan Eve Newcombe
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Member, Earth and Planetary Sciences Medals Committee
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University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Carnegie Institution for Science
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018 - 2019
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016 - 2018
California Institute of Technology
Graduate Student
2009 - 2015
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Education
California Institute of Technology
Doctorate
2016
Megan's AGU Research
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Distribution and Transport of Water in Planetesimals Constrained by Nominally Anhydrous Minerals in R Chondrites
PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF METEORITES AND RETURNED SAMPLES II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 17 december 2025
Co-erupted Tephra with Different Decompression Histories During the 1666 CE Eruption of Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA, USA
CRYSTAL RECORDS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES I POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 17 december 2025
Investigations of the Sinus Aestuum DMD: An Anomalously Large and Compositionally Distinct Lunar Pyroclastic Deposit
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
27 august 2025
Tracking the effect of thermal metamorphism on the water contents of ordinary chondrite minerals
ORIGIN, DISTRIBUTION, AND TRANSPORT OF VOLATILES IN EARTH AND TERRESTRIAL PLANETS III POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2024
Experimental Investigations of the Spinel-Rich Sinus Aestuum Dark Mantle Deposit
TO THE MOON: A NEW ERA OF LUNAR SCIENCE—GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS II POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Water in Garnet from Contact Metamorphic Environments: Examples from Garnet Ledge, AK and Empire Mountain Skarn, CA
FROM MICRONS TO MOUNTAINS: METAMORPHIC RECORDS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 10 december 2024
Distribution of Water and Trace Elements in Garnets from the Willsboro Mine, NY
FROM MICRONS TO MOUNTAINS: METAMORPHIC RECORDS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 10 december 2024
Micro-CT Characterization of Vesicles in 3D to Understand Eruption Style Changes Throughout a Single Eruption at Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA
WHAT CAN PYROCLASTS TELL US? POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 09 december 2024
Volunteer Experience
2026 - 2027
Member
Earth and Planetary Sciences Medals Committee
2024 - 2025
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Hess Medal Committee
2022 - 2025
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Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Student Awards Committee
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Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Received December 2020
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received January 2011

Presentation Title: Zonation of volatile and major elements in basaltic melt inclusions: a snapshot of syn-eruptive processes

Event: 2011 Fall Meeting

Awarding Section: Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology

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