2018 AGU Fall meeting attendees from the current ExPeRT group and some of the former members in a group dinner at Washington, D. C. Far side (from left) - Raj, Daman, and James; near side (from left) - Proteek, Michelle (currently a grad student at U Oregon), Echo (currently a post-doc at CUNY), and Sriparna

ExPeRT’s high-pressure, high-temperature lab enables exploration of chemical rock reactions, mineral stability, melt generation up to ~400 km deep and over 2000 degrees C.

Michael Lara and Daman Grewal show a few of the many steps that go into preparing a capsule to be pressurized and heated in our experimental apparati.

Proteek Chowdhury shows a step that goes into preparing for an experiment, the production of Barium Carbonate sleeves that envelope our samples and help evenly pressurize them.

Daman Grewal begins assembling all the pieces that go into the piston cylinder.

James Eguchi (left) and Damanveer Grewal at the 2018 Industry-Rice Earth Science Symposium (IRESS) reception.

Laura Carter shows some middle school Girl Scouts the high-pressure lab, explaining about experimental petrology and her research.

The Rice EEPS department magazine, Outcroppings, featured James Eguchi on a field trip for the cover of the fall 2017 issue, which went online in spring 2018.

Some past and present ExPeRT members meet up at the AGU Annual Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA in December 2017.
(From left to right: Laura Carter, Megan Duncan, Sriparna Saha, Ananya Mallik, Shuo Ding).

Raj and his group joined by Cin-Ty Lee and his group at the December 2017 AGU Annual Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

Laura Carter gives Girl Scouts an overview of our analytical facilities, explaining what the EPMA is used for.

ExPeRT members Sriparna Saha and Laura Carter attend Prof Dasgupta’s doctoral hooding of Shuo (Echo) Ding at Rice, May 2017.

Laura Carter and Shuo Ding tour Venice after presenting at the European Mineralogical Conference in Italy, Fall 2016.

Laura Carter pressurizes her experiment using a piston cylinder apparatus in the ExPeRT lab.

ExPeRT member Sriparna Saha helps middle schoolers interested in geology at the Sally Ride Reach for the Stars Festival for Girls in STEM on Rice campus in fall 2015.

Laura Carter explains volcanism to middle schoolers at the annual Sally Ride Reach for the Stars Festival for Girls in STEM on Rice campus, Fall 2015.

Rice EEPS professors Rajdeep Dasgupta and Cin-Ty Lee and Cin-Ty’s former advissee Emily Chen get ready for some local seafood at the AGU Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 2015.

ExPeRT members attending the 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting cheers Raj’s James B. Macelwane Medal.

(L to R: Shuo Ding, Megan Duncan, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Michelle Muth, Laura Carter, Ananya Mallik).

Raj receives AGU's James B. Macelwane medal at the 2014 Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA, USA

Raj at the 2015 Packard Fellows reception at Monterey, CA, USA

Laura Carter teaches Shuo (Echo) Ding and Kyusei Tsuno how to ice skate in Discovery park in downtown Houston.

ExPeRT members run the July 4th 5K through Houston in the summer heat.

(L to R: Shuo Ding, Laura Carter, Kyusei Tsuno).

The group goes out to lunch at Bombay Pizza just outside of Houston in summer 2013.

Rajdeep Dasgupta, Ananya Mallik and Kyusei Tsuno (from L to R) posing in the lab for an NSF press release about their 2013 Nature paper.

Photo credit: eff Fitlow/Rice University

Rajdeep Dasgupta poses in the lab for an NSF press release about the ExPeRT 2013 Nature paper.

Photo credit: eff Fitlow/Rice University

ExPeRT uses special apparatus to reach the high pressures and temperatures of planetary interiors.

Raj receives Geochemical Society's F. W. Clarke medal from the Geochemical Society president Prof. Sam Mukasa at the 2011 Goldschmidt Conference in Prague

AGU Group Dinner 2012

(L to R: Sebastian Jego, Ananya Mallik, Megan Duncan, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Han Chi, Kyusei Tsuno)

Group Dinner 2012

(L to R: Pranabendu Moitra, Ananya Mallik, Megan Duncan, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Han Chi, Kyusei Tsuno)

Rice experimental petrology group members with other friends and colleagues at the 2009 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. From L to R - Greg van den Bleeken (ETH Zürich), Tobias Höink, Veronique Le Roux, Christine Gerbode, Peter Luffi, Kyusei Tsuno, and Rajdeep Dasgupta