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Ed D. Young
Professor of geochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
Professional Experience
University of California Los Angeles
Professor of geochemistry
2020 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1990
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
Citation
For insightful analytical and theoretical work elucidating the chemical and isotopic compositions of planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond.
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Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Norman L. Bowen Award Committee
Publications
Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect
Methane clumped isotope signatures of abiogenesis may be diagnostic of the origin of methane on Earth and other planetary bodies. We performed synt...
July 17, 2024
Diverse Origins of Gases From Mud Volcanoes and Seeps in Tec...
September 28, 2023
Geochemical, Biological, and Clumped Isotopologue Evidence f...
October 22, 2021
A model for 12CH2D2 and 13CH3D as complementary tracers for ...
September 25, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Remineralization and circulation in Baffin Bay investigated with nitrogen concentration and isotopic tracers
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 21 february 2024
Cara C. Manning, Annie Bourbonnais, Julie Granger,...
Baffin Bay is a marginal sea between Greenland and Baffin Island that connects Pacific waters traveling through the Arctic to the North Atlantic. Paci...
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A Bayesian Approach to Developing Methane as a Biosignature
TITAN AND MARS BONUS ROUND ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Sarah Marcum, Edward D. Young, Jiawen Li, William...
Methane has been detected on several bodies in the Solar System and has the potential to serve as a tracer of biological and geochemical processes. Si...
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Do Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earth's have Metal Cores?
ATMOSPHERES, CLIMATE, AND POTENTIAL HABITABILITY OF ROCKY EXOPLANETS IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 12 december 2023
Edward D. Young, James Rogers, Hilke Schlichting
Recent recognition that hydrogen-rich atmospheres are important players in the formation and evolution of rocky planets (Schlichting and Young, 2022; ...
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Volunteer Experience
2020 - 2025
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Norman L. Bowen Award Committee
2020 - 2023
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Norman L. Bowen Award Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Norman L. Bowen Award Committee
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