Marina Gemma

Stony Brook, SUNY

Phone:
212-769-5081

Website

www.marinagemma.com

Education

Columbia University, M.Phil., 2020

Columbia University, M.A., 2018

Columbia University, B.A., 2015

Research Interests

Marina Gemma is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who does her research in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History. She studies primitive meteorites with Denton S. Ebel, focusing on the spectral and geochemical characteristics of ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites using a variety of analytical techniques. She greatly enjoys teaching, mentoring undergraduate researchers, and the multitude of public outreach she does as a scientist at AMNH and in New York City. 

Publications

Breitenfeld, L. B., Rogers, A. D., Glotch, T. D., Hamilton, V. E., Christensen, P. R., Lauretta, D. S., Gemma, M. E., Howard, K. T., Ebel, D. S., Kim, G., Kling, A. M., Nekvasil, H., Lindsley, D. H., and DiFrancesco, N. J. (2021). Machine Learning Mid-Infrared Spectral Models for Modal Mineralogy Predictions of CI/CM Chondritic Asteroids and Bennu. (submitted to JGR Planets).

Ustunisik, G., Ebel, D. S., Walker, D., Nielsen, R. L., and Gemma, M. (2019). Trace Element Partitioning Between CAI-Type Melts and Grossite, Melilite, Hibonite, and Olivine. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 267, 124-146. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.038

Mukadam, A., Pyrzas, S., Townsley, D., Gansicke, B., Hermes, J., Szkody, P., Kemp, J., Patterson, J., Ding, C., Wolf, K., Gemma, M., Karamehmetoglu, E., and Rock, J. (2016). Constraining the Angular Momentum Evolution of V455 Andromedae. The Astrophysical Journal, 821(1), 14. doi: 10.3847/0004-637X/821/1/14

Teaching Experience

Department of Education
American Museum of Natural History
Astrophysics Research Educator

  • Secrets of the Solar System

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • EESC UN1011 Earth: Origin, Evolution, Processes, Future
  • EESC UN2100 Earth's Environmental Systems: The Climate System
  • EESC GU4113 Introduction to Mineralogy

Department of Astronomy
Columbia University
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • ASTR C1453 Another Earth
  • ASTR C1610 Theories of the Universe