Jen Mitchell
Dr Jen Mitchell
Probe Lab Manager, University of Minnesota
Jen is an igneous petrologist whose research focuses on non-destructive analytical techniques to investigate meteorites - rocks that formed billions of years ago on asteroids and other planets - and what they can tell us about the early Solar System, as well as all things rock-related on Earth.
Her PhD focused on the formation and evolution of the asteroid Vesta, exploring the complexity of igneous processes in the early Solar System through a range of analytical techniques and geochemical modelling.
Twitter: @ItsJenMitchell
ORCiD: 0000-0002-5922-2463
Professional Memberships
Publications:
Daly, L., Suttle, M.D., Lee, M.R., Bridges, J., Hicks, L., Martin, P-E.M.C., Floyd, C.J., Jenkins, L.E., Salge, T., King, A.J., Almeida, N.V., Johnson, D., Trimby, P.W., Mansour, H., Wadsworth, F.B., Rollinson, G., Genge, M.J., Darling, J., Bagot, P.A.J., White, L.F., Stephen, N.R., Mitchell, J.T., Griffin, S., Willcocks, F.M., Jones, R., Piazolo, S., Einsle, J.F., Macente, A., Hallis, L.J., O'Brien, A., Schofield, P.F., Russell, S.S., Bates, H., Smith, C., Franchi, I., Forman, L.V., Bland, P.A., Westmoreland, D., Anderson, I., Taylor, R., Montgomery, M., Parsons, M., Vasseur, J., van Ginneken, M., Wozniakiewics, P.J., Burchell, M.J., Hallatt, D., Alesbrook, L.S., Spathis, V., Worden, R., Behnsen, J., Black, K., and the UK Fireball Alliance (2024) Brecciation at the grain scale within the lithologies of the Winchcombe CM carbonaceous chondrite, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, DOI (Open Access)
Genge, M.J., Alesbrook, L., Almeida, N.V., Bates, H.C., Bland, P.A., Boyd, M.R., Burchell, M.J., Collins, G.S., Cornwell, L.T., Daly, L., Devillepoix, H.A.R., Van Ginneken, M., Greshake, A., Hallatt, D., Hamann, C., Hecht, L., Jenkins, L.E., Johnson, D., Jones, R., King, A.J., Masour, H., McMullan, S., Mitchell, J.T., Rollinson, G., Russell, S.S., Schröder, C., Stephen, N.R., Suttle, M.D., Tandy, J.D., Trimby, P., Sansom, E.K., Spathis, V., Willcocks, F.M. & Wozniakiewicz, P.J. (2023) The fusion crust of the Winchcombe meteorite: A preserved record of atmospheric entry processes, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, DOI (Open Access)
Suttle, M.D., Daly, L., Jones, R.H.,, Jenkins, L.,, Van Ginneken, M., Mitchell, J.T., Bridges, J.C., Hicks, L.J., Johnson, D., Rollinson, G., Taylor, R., Genge, M.J., Schröder, C., Trimby, P., Mansour, H., Piazolo, S., Bonsall, E., Salge, T., Heard, R., Findlay, R., King, A.J., Bates, H.C., Lee, M.C., Stephen, N.R., Willcocks, F.M., Greenwood, R.C., Franchi, I.A., Russell, S.S., Harrison, C.S., Schofield, P.F., Almeida, N.V., Floyd, C., Martin, P-E., Joy, K.H., Wozniakiewicz, P.J., Hallatt, D., Burchell, M., Alesbrook, L.S., Spathis, V., Cornwell, L.T., Dignam A. (2022) The Winchcombe meteorite – a regolith breccia from a rubble-pile CM chondrite asteroid, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, DOI Open Access
King, A.J., Daly, L., Rowe, J., Joy, K.H., Greenwood, R.C., Devillepoix, H.A.R., Suttle, M.D., Chan, Q.H.S, Russell, S.S., Bates, H.C,,Bryson, J.F.J., Clay, P.L., Vida, D., Lee, M.R., O’Brien, A., Hallis, L., Stephen, N.R., Tartèse, R., Sansom, E.K., Towner, M.C., Cupak, M., Shober, P.M., Bland, P.A., Findlay, R., Franchi, I.A., Verchovsky, A.B., Abernethy, F.A.J., Grady, M.M., Floyd, C.J., Van Ginneken, M., Bridges, J., Hicks, L., Jones, R.H., Mitchell, J.T., Genge, M.J., Jenkins, L., Martin, P-E.M.C., Sephton, M.A., Watson, J.S., Salge, T., Shirley, K.A., Curtis, R.J., Warren, T.J., Bowles, N.E., Stuart, F.M., Di Nicola, L., Györe, D., Boyce, A.J., Shaw, K.M.M., Elliott, T., Steele, R.C.J., Povinec, P., Laubensteinm M., Sanderson, D., Cresswell, A., Jull, A.J.T., Sýkora, I., Sridhar, S., Harrison, R.J., Willcocks, F.M., Harrison, C.S. , Hallatt, D., Wozniakiewicz, P.J., Burchelll, M.J., Alesbrook, L.S., Dignam, A., Almeida, N.V., Smith, C.L., Clark, B., Humphreys-Williams, E.R., Schofield, P.F., Cornwell, L.T., Spathis, V., Morgan, G.H., Perkins, M.J., Kacerek, R., Campbell-Burns, P., Colas, F., Zanda, B., Vernazza, P., Bouley, S., Hankey, M., Collins, G.S., Young, J.S, Shaw,C., Horak, J., Jones, D., James, N., Bosley, S., Shuttleworth, A., Dickinson, P., McMullan, I., Robson, D., Smedley, A.R.D., Stanley, B., Bassom, R., McIntyre, M., Suttle, A.A., Fleet, R., Bastiaens, L., Ihasz, M., McMullan, S., Boazman, S.J., Dickeson, Z.I., Grindrod, P.M., Pickersgill, A.E., Weir, C.J., Suttle, F.M., Farrelly, S., Spencer, I., Naqvi, S., Mayne, B., Skilton, D., Kirk, D., Mounsey, A., Mounsey, S., Mounsey, S.E., Godfrey, P., Bond, L., Bond, V., Wilcock, C., Wilcock, H. & Wilcock, R. (2022) The Winchcombe Meteorite, a Unique and Pristine Witness from the Outer Solar System, Science Advances, 6, 46, DOI (Open Access)
Mitchell, J.T., Tomkins, A.G., Newton, C. & Johnson, T.E. (2021), A model for evolving crust on 4 Vesta through combined compositional and thermal modelling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 571, 117105 DOI
Tomkins, A.G., Johnson, T.E. & Mitchell, J.T. (2020), A review of the chondrite-achondrite transition, and a metamorphic facies series for equilibrated primitive stony meteorites, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55, 857-885 DOI
Jansen-Sturgeon, T., Hartig, B.A.D., Madsen, G.J., Bland, P.A., Sansom, E.K., Devillepoix, H.A.R., Howie, R.M., Cupak, M., Towner, M.C., Cox, M.A., Nevill, N.D., Hoskins, Z.N.P., Bonning, G.P., Calcino, J., Clark, J.T., Henson, B.M., Langendam, A., Matthews, S.J., McClafferty, T.P., Mitchell, J.T., O'Neill, C.J., Smith, L.T., Tait, A.W. (2020), Recreating the OSIRIS-REx slingshot manoeuvre from a network of ground-based sensors, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 37, e049 DOI
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A. G. (2019), On the source of diogenites and olivine diogenites: Compositional diversity from variable fO2, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 258, 37-49 DOI
Conference Papers:
Mitchell, J.T., Bell, A.S., Willcocks, F.M., Stephen, N.R. & Luo, B. (2024) A basaltic andesite from Vesta: evidence of a highly fractionated lithology, LPI Contributions 3036, 6180
Daly, L., Suttle, M.D., Lee, M.R., Bridges, J., Hicks, L., Martin, P-E.M.C., Floyd, C.J., Jenkins, L.E., Salge, T., King, A.J., Almeida, N.V., Johnson, D., Trimby, P., Mansour, H., Wadsworth, F.B., Rollinson, G., Genge, M.J., Darling, J., Baogt, P.A.J., White, L.F., Stephen, N.R., Mitchell, J.T., Griffin, S., Willcocks, F.M., Jones, R., Piazolo, S., Einsle, J.F., Macente, A., Hallis, L.J., O'Brien, A., Schofield, P.F., Russell, S.S., Bates, H., Smith, C., Franchi, I., Forman, L.V., Bland, P.A., Westmoreland, D., Anderson, I., Taylor, R., Montgomery, M., Parsons, M., Vasseur, J., van Ginneken, M., Wozniakiewicz, P.J., Burchell, M.J., Hallat, D., Alesbrook, L.S., Spathis, V., Worden, R., Behnsen, J. & Black, K. (2024) CM carbonaceous chondrites: phase heritage of tochilinite-cronnstedtite intergrowths reveal a cabonate precursor, LPI contributions 3036, 6307
Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2024) The orientated pyroxene clouding phases of HED breccia NorthWest Africa 5315, LPI Contributions, 1624
Willcocks, F.M., Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Real science in real time; how Microscopy Live! has introduced planetary science to a non-specialist audience, LPI Contributions 2806, 1950
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) analysis of fayalite veins in polymict eucrite Northwest Africa 6414, 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6150
Willcocks, F.M., Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Real science in real time; how Microscopy Live! has introduced planetary science to a non-specialist audience, LPI Contributions
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Fayalite in polymict eucrite Northwest Africa 6414: evidence of metasomatism and fayalite-bearing magmas on the HED parent body?, LPI Contributions
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., Stephen, N.R. (2022), Northwest Africa 6414 classified after 10 years: A complex polymict eucrite of at least nine lithological groups, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6017
Willcocks, F.M., Stephen, N.R., Grimes, S.T., Mitchell, J.T. (2022), A new terrestrial analogue for Martian volcanism: An unexpected match for the shergottite meteorites, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6018
Suttle, M.D. et al. (2022), Geological history of the Winchcombe meteorite - a new CM chondrite fall, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6076
Daly, L. et al. (2022), A coordinated approach to investigate the heterogeneity of aqueous alteration at the micro-scale in the Winchcombe meteorite, a CM fall, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6262
Martin, P-E.M.C., King, A.J., Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R., Trimby, P., Van Ginneken, M., Salge, T., Almeida, N.V., Willcocks, F.M., Daly, L., Lee, M.R. (2022), Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusion populations within the Winchcombe CM2 meteorite breccia, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6358
Genge, M.J. et al. (2022), The fusion crust of the Winchcombe meteorite: Vigorous degassing during atmospheric entry, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6345
Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R. & Tomkins, A.G. (2021) Sampling an Impact Melt Sheet with Unusual Diogenite Northwest Africa 5480, LPI Contributions 2609, #6008
Mitchell, J.T., Tomkins, A.G., Newton, C. & Johnson, T.E. (2021), The evolving crust of 4 Vesta from compositional and thermal modelling, 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1576
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019), Compositional diversity of diogenites: variable fO2 and post-eucritic magmatism, LPI Contributions 2157, #6065
Brand, H.E.A., Langendam, A.D., Whitworth, A.J., Alkemade, A.L., Mitchell, J.T., Davis, A., Stephen, N.R. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019) Meteorites on the Nullarbor Plain, Insights from Synchrotron Powder Diffraction, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019), Constraining ejecta blanket conditions of Dhofar 018 form a single pristine chondrule, SSERVI Australia
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2018), On the origin of olivine diogenites and diogenites: compositional diversity linked to variable fO2, 22nd Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, #IMA2018-1393
Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2016) Revisiting NWA 3141, 8266 and 8594; Two Eucrites and a Howardite?, LPI Contributions 1921, 79, 6224