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Overview

Edward D. Young is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing extensively on physics, astronomy, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. The scientist's output includes a variety of studies published in prominent scientific venues.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward D. Young include:

  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, 2022, Science
  • Earth shaped by primordial H2 atmospheres, 2023, Nature
  • Hydrothermal 15N15N abundances constrain the origins of mantle nitrogen, 2020, Nature
  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, 2022, Science Advances
  • Chemical Equilibrium between Cores, Mantles, and Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes and Implications for Their Compositions, Interiors, and Evolution, 2022, The Planetary Science Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Haolan Tang
  • Andreas Pack
  • Maria Schönbächler
  • Qing-Zhu Yin
  • Yuri Amelin

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Main fields of study covered by Edward D. Young include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Further specialization is seen within subfields such as:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics in their work encompass:

  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Best Publications

  • Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope.

    Don Brownlee;Peter Tsou;Jérôme Aléon;Conel M O'd Alexander

  • Kinetic and equilibrium mass-dependent isotope fractionation laws in nature and their geochemical and cosmochemical significance

    Edward D. Young;Albert Galy;Hiroko Nagahara

  • The Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Magnesium

    Edward D. Young;Albert Galy

  • CO self-shielding as the origin of oxygen isotope anomalies in the early solar nebula

    J. R. Lyons;E. D. Young

  • Accretion and differentiation of the terrestrial planets with implications for the compositions of early-formed Solar System bodies and accretion of water

    D.C. Rubie;S.A. Jacobson;S.A. Jacobson;A. Morbidelli;D.P. O’Brien

  • Isotopic Compositions of Cometary Matter Returned by Stardust

    Kevin D. McKeegan;Jerome Aléon;John Bradley;Donald Brownlee

  • Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact

    Edward D. Young;Issaku E. Kohl;Paul H. Warren;David C. Rubie

  • Early formation of the Moon 4.51 billion years ago.

    Melanie Barboni;Patrick Boehnke;Patrick Boehnke;Brenhin Keller;Brenhin Keller;Issaku E. Kohl

  • Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous Chondrite Regolith Breccia

    Peter Jenniskens;Peter Jenniskens;Marc D. Fries;Qing-Zhu Yin;Michael Zolensky

  • Effects of Improved 17O Correction on Interlaboratory Agreement in Clumped Isotope Calibrations, Estimates of Mineral-Specific Offsets, and Temperature Dependence of Acid Digestion Fractionation

    S. V. Petersen;W. F. Defliese;W. F. Defliese;C. Saenger;M. Daëron

  • Constraints on Hadean zircon protoliths from oxygen isotopes, Ti‐thermometry, and rare earth elements

    Dustin Trail;Dustin Trail;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison;Axel K. Schmitt

  • High-temperature equilibrium isotope fractionation of non-traditional stable isotopes: Experiments, theory, and applications

    Edward D. Young;Craig E. Manning;Edwin A. Schauble;Anat Shahar

  • Fluid flow in chondritic parent bodies: deciphering the compositions of planetesimals

    Edward D. Young;Richard D. Ash;Richard D. Ash;Philip England;Douglas Rumble

  • Spinel–olivine magnesium isotope thermometry in the mantle and implications for the Mg isotopic composition of Earth

    E.D. Young;E. Tonui;C.E. Manning;E. Schauble

  • The relative abundances of resolved l2 CH 2 D 2 and 13 CH 3 D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases

    E. D. Young;I. E. Kohl;B. Sherwood Lollar;G. Etiope;G. Etiope

  • Equilibrium high-temperature Fe isotope fractionation between fayalite and magnetite: An experimental calibration

    Anat Shahar;Edward D. Young;Craig E. Manning

  • Supra-canonical 26Al/27Al and the residence time of CAIs in the solar protoplanetary disk.

    Edward D. Young;Justin I. Simon;Albert Galy;Sara S. Russell

  • Thermal Evolution Models of Asteroids

    H. Y. McSween;A. Ghosh;R. E. Grimm;L. Wilson

  • Experimentally determined Si isotope fractionation between silicate and Fe metal and implications for Earth's core formation

    Anat Shahar;Anat Shahar;Karen Ziegler;Edward D. Young;Angele Ricolleau

  • The SPICE carbon isotope excursion in Siberia: a combined study of the upper Middle Cambrian–lowermost Ordovician Kulyumbe River section, northwestern Siberian Platform

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Yves Gallet;Igor Korovnikov

  • The Simons Observatory

    Adrian Lee;Maximilian H. Abitbol;Shunsuke Adachi;Peter Ade

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Morris
Mark Morris University of California, Los Angeles
Edwin A. Schauble
Edwin A. Schauble University of California, Los Angeles
Justin I. Simon
Justin I. Simon Langley Research Center
Craig E. Manning
Craig E. Manning University of California, Los Angeles
Albert Galy
Albert Galy University of Lorraine
Douglas Rumble
Douglas Rumble Carnegie Institution for Science
Matthieu Gounelle
Matthieu Gounelle French National Museum of Natural History
Sara S. Russell
Sara S. Russell Natural History Museum
Stefan Bengtson
Stefan Bengtson Swedish Museum of Natural History
David C. Rubie
David C. Rubie University of Bayreuth

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