Kathleen Vander Kaaden Education Ph.D. Dissertation : M.S. Thesis: B.S. Thesis Professional and Teaching Experience Postdoctoral Fellow,

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1 Lunar and Planetary Institute 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX (cell), kathleenvk17.wixsite.com/personal Education University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, o Graduation date: Summer 2016, GPA: 4.03 o Dissertation (with distinction): Experimental Investigation into the Thermal and Magmatic Evolution of the Planet Mercury University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM M.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, o Graduation date: Summer 2012, GPA: 4.00 o Thesis: Experimental Investigation into Lunar Melt Density and Compressibility: The Role of Titanium Salem State University, Salem, MA B.S. in Geological Sciences, o Graduation Date: Summer 2010, GPA: 3.88 o Minors in Mathematics and Educational Studies o Summa Cum Laude o Thesis: A Petrographic Study of Union Rock Correlating it to the Peabody Granite and Dedham Granodiorite Professional and Teaching Experience Postdoctoral Fellow, Lunar and Planetary Institute/NASA Johnson Space Center, Mailcode XI2, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX, 2016-Present Johnson Space Center Intern, NASA Johnson Space Center, Mailcode XI2, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX, July 2015-July 2016 Research Assistant, Institute of Meteoritics, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Aug July 2016 Undergraduate Research Mentor, Institute of Meteoritics, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Jan July 2016 Teaching Assistant, UNM STEM Gateway funded by the US Department of Education Title V programs, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Fall 2012 (Integrating Mathematics and Chemistry into Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Sciences) Project Assistant, UNM STEM Gateway funded by the US Department of Education Title V programs, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Summer 2012 (Developing curriculum for fall class) Teaching Assistant, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Fall 2010 Semester (Environmental Science 101) Teaching Assistant, Dept of Geological Sciences, Salem State University, Salem, MA Spring 2010 Semester (Mineralogy) Administrative Aide, Honors Program at Salem State University, Salem, MA Aug May 2010

2 Honors and Awards University of New Mexico Research Assistantship, Certified in Grant Writing and Proposal Preparation, Spring 2012 Induction into Sigma Xi, 2010 Induction into Phi Kappa Phi, 2009 Paul Tsongas Scholar, Abigail Adams Scholar, Dean s List each semester, Kathleen Vander Kaaden Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships Geology Alumni Scholarship, Summer 2016 ($1,250) V.C. Kelley Memorial Award, Spring 2016 ($500) NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, Academic year ($30,000) V.C. Kelley Memorial Award, Spring 2015 ($2,000) LPI Career Development Award, Spring 2015 ($1,000) Jerry Harbour Memorial Endowed Scholarship, Summer 2014 ($950) Fred D. Traugher Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Summer 2014 ($1550) Student Research Grant, Spring 2014 ($497) Geochemical Society s Goldschmidt Travel Grant, Fall 2013 ($1,250) New Mexico Space Grant Fellowship, Academic year ($10,000) Geology Alumni Scholarship, Summer 2012 ($550) New Mexico Space Grant Fellowship, Academic year ($10,000) Douglas Brookins Scholarship, Summer 2011 ($700) Geology Alumni Scholarship, Summer 2011 ($250) - Total Funding: $60,497 Research Skills Multi-anvil press Electron probe microanalysis Piston-cylinder apparatus Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Scanning electron microscope Petrographic microscope High pressure experimental sample preparation Preparation of synthetic powdered experimental starting material Geologic field mapping Professional Society Membership American Geophysical Union, 2011-present Sigma Xi, 2010-present Geological Society of America, 2009-present Mineralogical Society of America, 2009-present Geochemical Society, 2009-present Phi Kappa Phi,

3 Professional Service LPI Skyfest, Juno event, Summer 2016 Clear Creek ISD science night at Space Center Houston, Spring 2016 Executive Secretary for NASA panel, 2016 Peer reviewer for Meteoritics and Planetary Science Journal Executive Secretary for NASA panel, 2015 Clear Creek ISD Special Education Event at Ellington Field, Fall 2015 Peer reviewer for Planetary and Space Science Journal Executive Secretary for NASA panel, 2014 President of the Association of Geology Graduate Students at UNM, Academic years and Helped local cub scout obtain Scientist Belt Loop, Spring 2015 NM Museum of Natural History and Science s Experts Day volunteer, fall 2014 Organized annual Graduate/Undergraduate departmental can and coat drive at UNM to benefit local shelters, fall The Montessori School 6 th grade classroom visit, fall NM Museum of Natural History and Science s Teacher Open House volunteer, fall TAAS Cosmic Carnival Exhibitor, fall 2014, 2012 and 2011 Summer Reading Program partnered with TAAS and ABQ libraries, summer 2014 and 2013 Albuquerque School of Excellence Science Fair judge, fall 2013 NM Museum of Natural History and Science Venus Starry Night volunteer, fall 2013 Science in the Park exhibitor, fall 2013 Sundance Conference-Look Across the Mountain II session chair, fall 2013 Secretary of the Association of Geology Graduate Students at UNM, Academic year NM Museum of Natural History and Science Venus Transit, summer 2012 Hillerman Library Summer Reading Program Kick-off event, summer 2012 Solar Sunday at NM Museum of Natural History and Science, spring 2012 Inez Elementary School Science Expo Interviewer, spring 2012 Griegos Elementary School Star Party School Visit, fall 2012 UNM Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Outreach, fall 2010-present Invited Talks Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry of Mercury s Mantle Revealed by Surface Compositions, March 2016 NASA MESSENGER Science Team Meeting, Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C. Partitioning of Elements on Mercury October 2015 NASA MESSENGER Science Team Meeting, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Pearl River, NY Origin of Boninites on Mercury, March 2015 NASA MESSENGER Science Team Meeting, Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C. Petrologic Diversity of Rocks on Mercury, March 2015 The Albuquerque Astronomical Society General Meeting 3

4 Sulfide Solubility in mercurian magmas and the chalcophile nature of typically lithophile elements, October 2014 NASA MESSENGER Science Team Meeting, La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico Publications: Peer-Reviewed Papers (9) Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Nittler, L.R., Peplowski, P.N., Weider, S.Z., Frank, E.A., McCoy, T.J. (in review) Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrology of the Mercurian Surface with Insights into the Mercurian Mantle. Icarus. Vander Kaaden, K.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2016) The origin of boninites on Mercury: An experimental study of the northern volcanic plains lavas. GCA, 173, McCubbin, F. M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartese, R., Klima, R. L., Liu, Y. Mortimer, J., Barnes, J.J., Shearer, C.K., Treiman, A.H., Lawrence, D.J., Elardo, S.M., Hurley, D.M., Boyce, J.W., and Anand, M. (2015) Magmatic volatiles (H, C, N, F, S, Cl) in the lunar mantle, crust, and regolith: Abundances, distributions, processes, and reservoirs. American Mineralogist, 100(8-9), DOI: McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartese, R., Boyce, J.W., Mikhail, S., Whitson, E.S., Bell, A.S., Anand, M., Franchi, I.A., Wang, J., and Hauri, E.H. (2015) Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Ferich basaltic melt at 1.5 GPa and C. American Mineralogist, 100(8-9), DOI: Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F., and Bell, A.S. (2015) Basalt petrogenesis in a cooling Moon: Experimental constraints from the youngest known lunar magmas. EPSL, 422, Vander Kaaden, K.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Exotic Crust Formation on Mercury: Consequences of a Shallow, FeO-poor mantle. JGR-Planets, 120, Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Density and Compressibility of the molten lunar picritic glasses: Implications for the roles of Ti and Fe in the structures of silicate melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 149, McCubbin, F.M., Hauri, E.H., Elardo, S.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Wang, J., Shearer, C.K. (2012) Hydrous melting of the Martian mantle produced both depleted and enriched Shergottites. Geology doi: /G McCubbin, F.M., Riner, M.A., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Burkemper, L.K. (2012) Is Mercury a volatile-rich planet? Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09202, doi: /2012gl Conference Abstracts (24) Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Ross, D.K. (2016) Making Mercury s Core with Light Elements, Goldschmidt Abstracts (Yokohama, Japan), Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Ross, D.K., Rapp, J.F., Danielson, L.R., Keller, L.P., Righter, K. (2016) Carbon solubility in Si-Fe-Bearing Metals During Core Formation on Mercury, LPSC Spring Meeting, #1474. McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Ustunisik, G. (2016) Apatite-Melt Partitioning at 1 Bar: An Assessment of Apatite-Melt Exchange Equilibria Resulting from non-ideal mixing of F and Cl in Apatite, LPSC Spring Meeting, #

5 Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Nittler, L.R., Peplowski, P.N., Weider, S.Z., Evans, L.R., Frank, E.A., McCoy, T.J. (2016) Mineralogy of the Mercurian Surface, LPSC Spring Meeting, #1476. Vander Kaaden, K.E., and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) The origin of Boninites on Mercury, Goldschmidt Abstracts (Prague, Czech Republic), Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Nittler, L.R., and Weider, S. Z. (2015) Petrologic diversity of rocks on Mercury. LPSC Spring Meeting, #1364. Vander Kaaden, K.E. and McCubbin, F.M. (2015) Sulfur solubility in silicate melts under highly reducing conditions relevant to Mercury. LPSC Spring Meeting, #1040. McCubbin, F.M., Elardo, S.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Boyce, J.W., and Shearer, C.K. (2015) Abundances and distributions of lithophile magmatic volatiles (F, Cl, and H) in the bulk silicate Moon: A comparison between estimates from samples and inferences from LMO modeling. LPSC Spring Meeting, #1717. Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K., Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., and Bell, A.S. (2015) Petrogenesis of primitive and evolved basalts in a cooling Moon: Experimental constraints from the youngest known lunar magmas. LPSC Spring Meeting, #2155. McCubbin, F.M. and Vander Kaaden, K.E. (2014) Sulfide solubility in silicate liquids under extremely low oxygen fugacity (ΔIW-5 to -8): implications for magmatism on the planet Mercury. IMA Meeting Abstract. Vander Kaaden, K.E. and McCubbin, F.M. (2014) A synthesis of experimental data describing the geochemical behavior of lithophile elements at extremely reducing conditions seen on Mercury. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., and Bell, A.S. (2014) Phase equilibrium experiments on analogue lavas from the Northern Volcanic Plains of Mercury: Implications for the mineralogy of the mercurian mantle. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Tartese, R. Whitson, E.S., Annand, M. Franchi, I.A., Mikhail, S., Ustunisik, G., Hauri, E.H., Wang, J., and Boyce, J.W. (2014) Apatite-Melt partitioning in basaltic magmas: The importance of exchange equilibria and the incompatibility of the OH component in Halogen-rich apatite. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., and Whitson, E.S. (2013) Partitioning of F, Cl, and H 2 O between Apatite and a Synthetic Basaltic Liquid: Implications for Quantifying Water Contents of Lunar Magmas from Apatite. GSA, 45(7) 188 Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., and Agee, C.B. (2013) Experimental investigation into the Density, Compressibility, and Phase Equilibria of the Northern Volcanic Plains on Mercury. Mineralogical Magazine (Florence, Italy), 77(5) Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., and Agee, C.B. (2013) Experimental constraints on the density and compressibility of lavas from the Northern Volcanic Plains of Mercury. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # McCubbin, F.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Whitson, E.S., Bell, A.S., and Shearer, C.K. (2013) Partitioning of F and Cl between apatite and a synthetic Shergottite liquid (QUE 94201) at 1 and 4 GPa from C. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract #2748. Vander Kaaden, K.E., McCubbin, F.M., Whitson, E.S., Hauri, E.H., Wang, J. (2012) Partitioning of F, Cl, and H 2 O between apatite and a synthetic Shergottite liquid 5

6 (QUE 94201) at 1.0 GPa and C. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., McCubbin, F.M. (2012) A comparison of melt density and compressibility of the green, yellow, and orange Apollo glasses as a function of TiO 2 content. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # McCubbin, F.M., Hauri, E.H., Elardo, S.M., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Wang, J., Shearer, C.K. (2012) Hydrous melting of the martian mantle produced both depleted and enriched shergottites. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # McCubbin, F.M., Riner, M.A., Vander Kaaden, K.E., Elardo, S.M., Shearer, C.K. (2012) Is Mercury volatile enriched or volatile depleted? New insights from combining MESSENGER x-ray, neutron, and gamma-ray spectrometer data. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract # Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., McCubbin, F.M. (2011) A Comparison of Melt Densities for Several Apollo Volcanic Glass Compositions up to 11 GPa: Implications for the role of Ti in Melt Compressibility. AGU Fall Meeting Abstract # MR21A Vander Kaaden, K.E., Agee, C.B., van Kan Parker, M. (2011) The Effect of Titanium on Lunar Magma Compressibility at High Pressure. LPSC Spring Meeting Abstract #1295. Vander Kaaden, K.E. and Sablock, J.M. (2010) A petrographic study of Union Rock correlating it to the Peabody Granite and Dedham Granodiorite, NE/SE Section Joint GSA Meeting, Paper No