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Department/College/UnitPhysical & Biological Sciences Division

TitleAssociate Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationAstronomy & Astrophysics Department

Web SiteUCSC
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Primary Office LocationEarth & Marine Sciences
A232

Mail StopEarth and Planetary Sciences

Biography, Education and Training

Education history:

Ph.D. 2015, Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa

B.S. 2008, Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago                                      

Academic appointments:

Associate Professor, 2023 – present, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz

Assistant Professor, 2017 – 2023, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Santa Cruz

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015 – 2017, DTM (now EPL), Carnegie Institution for Science

Research Interests

My research in planetary sciences focuses on constraining the timescales and conditions of planetesimal formation and evolution via isotopic, petrographic and experimental studies of meteorites. My interests are highly interdisciplinary, including geochemistry, planetary science, materials science and astronomy.

Awards, Honors and Grants

• 2023 NSF CAREER Award

• 2019 NASA Early Career Award

• 2011 NASA Earth & Planetary Science Fellowship

Selected Publications

*advisees

Telus M., Wickland T.D.*, Kim K.* and Simon S. (2025) Petrologic characterization of CO3.0 chondrites: Implications for 60Fe-60Ni analyses. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14299

Thompson, M.A.*, Telus, M. Edwards, G.H., Schaefer, L. Dhaliwal*, J., Dreyer, B., Fortney, J.J., and Kim, K*. (2023) Outgassing composition of the Murchison Meteorite: Implications for volatile depletion of planetesimals and interior-atmosphere connections for terrestrial planets. Planetary Science Journal. DOI 10.3847/PSJ/acf760

First E.C., Kremer C., Telus M., and Trang D. (2023) Galaxy of green - Olivine. Elements Magazine 19: 173-179. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.19.3.173

Goudy S.P.*, Telus M., and Chapman B.* (2023) Evidence for multiple early impact on the H chondrite parent body from electron backscatter diffraction analysis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13969

Thompson M. A.*, Krissansen-Totton J., Wogan N., Telus M., Fortney J.J. (2022) The case and context for atmospheric methane as an exoplanet biosignature. PNAS, 119, 14. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117933119.

Thompson M. A.*, Telus M., Schaefer L., Fortney J., Joshi T., and Lederman D. (2021) Meteorite Outgassing Experiments Constrain the Initial Atmospheres of Low-Mass Planets. Nature Astronomy, 5, 575-585 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01338-8

Telus M., Alexander C. M. O’D., Hauri E., and Wang J. (2019) Calcite and dolomite formation in the CM parent body: Insight from in situ C and O analyses. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.06.012

Trappitsch R. et al. (2018) New constraints for the abundance of 60Fe in the early solar system.  Astrophysical Journal Letters, 857.

Telus M., Huss G.R., Nagashima K., Ogliore R.C., and Tachibana S. (2018) In situ 60Fe-60Ni systematics of chondrules from unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.013.

Teehera K.B.*, Jungbluth S. P., Onac B.P., et al. (2017) Cryogenic minerals in Hawaiian lava tubes: A geochemical and microbiological exploration. Geomicrobiology Journal, 35: 227-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2017.1362079

Telus M., Huss G.R., Ogliore R.C., Nagashima K., Howard D.L., Newville M.G., and Tomkins A.G. (2016) Mobility of iron and nickel at low temperatures and implications for 60Fe-60Ni analyses of UOC chondrules. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.046

Keil K., Zucolotto M. E., Krot A. N., et al. (2015) The Vicencia meteorite fall: A new unequilibrated S1 LL3.2 ordinary chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1089-1111. DOI: 10.1111/maps.12456

Telus M., Huss G.R., Nagashima K., and Ogliore R.C. (2014) Revisiting 26Al-26Mg systematics of plagioclase in H4 chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49, 929-945. 10.1111/maps.12304

Telus M., Huss G.R., Ogliore R.C., Nagashima K., and Tachibana S. (2012b) Recalculation of data for short-lived radionuclide systems using less-biased ratio estimation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47, 2013-2030. 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01411.x

Telus M., Dauphas N., Moynier F., Teng F-Z., Nabelek P.I., Craddock P.R., and Groat L.A. (2012a) Iron, zinc, magnesium and uranium isotopic fractionation during continental crust differentiation: The tale from migmatites, granitoids, and pegmatites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 97, 247-265. DOI 10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.024.