Nicolle Zellner

Recent Publications and Presentations (select list, >70 others; students denoted by * and +)

• Zellner N. E. B. (2019) Lunar Impact Glasses: Probing the Moon’s Surface and Constraining its Impact History, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124, 2686-2702, doi:10.1029/2019JE006050; featured on the cover of the November issue.
• Nguyen P. Q.* and Zellner N. E. B. (2019) Using Size and Composition to Assess the Quality of Lunar Impact Glass Ages, Geosciences, 9(85), doi:10.3390/geosciences9020085.
• Zellner N. E. B. (2018) Video Killed the Writing Assignment, Journ. Astron. Earth Sci. Edu., 5(2), 137-150.
• Huang Y.-H.+, Minton D. A., Zellner N. E. B., Hirabayashi M., Richardson J. E., and Fassett C. I. (2018) No Change in Recent Lunar Impact Flux from Modeling Impact Glass Spherule Ages, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 6805–6813, 10.1029/2018GL077254.
• Zellner N. E. B. (2017) Cataclysm no more: New views on the timing and delivery of lunar impactors, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 47(3), 261-280, doi: 10.1007/s11084-017-9536-3.
• Huang Y-H.+, Minton D. A., Hirabyashi M., Elliot J., Richardson J. E., Fassett C. I., and Zellner N. E. B. (2017) Impact-Generated Material Transport on the Moon, JGR-Planets, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JE005160.
• Zellner N. E. B. and Delano J. W. (2015) 40Ar/39Ar ages of lunar impact glasses: Relationships among Ar diffusivity, chemical composition, shape, and size, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 161, 203-218, 10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.013.
• Zellner N. E. B. and Delano J. W. (2015) Lunar Impact Glass Ages and the Bombardment of the Moon: Composition, Size, and Shape Matter, 46th Lun. Plan. Sci. Conf., The Woodlands, TX, March, 2028.pdf. Oral presentation.
• Zellner N. E. B. and Delano J. W (2015), Relationships Among Chemical Composition, Size, and Shape When Evaluating 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Lunar Impact Glasses, Early Solar System Impact Bombardment III, Houston, TX, February, 3018.pdf. Oral presentation.
• McCaffrey V. P., Zellner N. E. B., Waun C.*, Bennett E. R.*, and Earl E.* (2014) Reactivity and Survivability of Glycolaldehyde in Simulated Meteorite Impact Experiments, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, DOI 10.1007/s11084-014-9358-5.
• Zellner N.E.B, Delano J.W., Swindle T.D., Barra F., Olsen E., and Whittet D.C.B. (2009) Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar Ages of Lunar Impact Glasses for an Increase in the Impact Rate ~800 Ma Ago, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 4590-4597.
• Zellner N.E.B, Delano J.W. Swindle T.D., Barra F., Olsen E., and Whittet D.C.B. (2009) Apollo 17 regolith, 71501,262: A record of impact events and mare volcanism in lunar glasses, Meteorit. Plan. Sci., 44(6), 839-852.
• Delano J.W., Zellner N.E.B., Barra F., Olsen E., Swindle T.D., Tibbetts N.J., and Whittet D.C.B. (2007) An integrated approach to understanding Apollo 16 impact glasses: Chemistry, isotopes, and shape, Meteorit. Plan. Sci., 42(6), 993-1004.

Recent Funding Received (select list, >$1.2M since 1999)

2015-2019, Albion College Faculty Development Committee, various activities

2015-2018, National Science Foundation, PI, Using Lunar Impact Glasses as Tools for Investigating Solar System Processes, $193,612, Awarded September 2015.

2015-2018, NASA Solar System Workings, Co-I, Modeling Material Transport in the Lunar Regolith, $78,199/$500,922, Awarded March 2015.

2015-2018, NASA Solar System Workings, Collaborator, Noble-Gas Geochronology of the Inner Solar System, Awarded March 2015.

2013 – 2017, Albion College Faculty Development Grants for various activities related to professional development, course materials, and telescope maintenance.

2012-2017, NASA Astrobiology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program, PI, Survival of Sugars in Ice/Mineral Mixtures Upon High Velocity Impact: Simulating the Impact of Comets and Meteorites into Early Earth, $436,171, Awarded September 2011.