Geoffrey Blake
Professor of Cosmochemistry and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Duke University, 1981; Ph.D., Caltech, 1986. Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, 1987-93; Associate Professor of Cosmochemistry and Planetary Sciences, 1993-97; Professor, 1997-99; Professor of Cosmochemistry and Planetary Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, 1999-. Deputy Director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, 2000-06; Master of Student Houses, 2009-14.
Research Overview
Geoffrey Blake applies innovative spectroscopic tools to investigate the chemical and physical processes that operate in natural environments.
Research Summary:
application of innovative spectroscopic tools, remote sensing
Publications
- Long 龙, Feng 凤;Pascucci, Ilaria et al. (2025) The First JWST View of a 30-Myr-old Protoplanetary Disk Reveals a Late-stage Carbon-rich PhaseAstrophysical Journal Letters
- Hsu, Chih-Chun;Wang 王, Jason J. 劲飞 et al. (2024) PDS 70b Shows Stellar-like Carbon-to-oxygen RatioAstrophysical Journal Letters
- Colmenares, María José;Bergin, Edwin A. et al. (2024) JWST/MIRI Detection of a Carbon-rich Chemistry in the Disk of a Solar Nebula AnalogAstrophysical Journal
- Romero-Mirza, Carlos E.;Banzatti, Andrea et al. (2024) Retrieval of Thermally Resolved Water Vapor Distributions in Disks Observed with JWST-MIRIAstrophysical Journal
- Horstman, Katelyn;Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste et al. (2024) RV Measurements of Directly Imaged Brown Dwarf GQ Lup B to Search for ExosatellitesAstronomical Journal
- Xuan, Jerry W.;Hsu, Chih-Chun et al. (2024) Are These Planets or Brown Dwarfs? Broadly Solar Compositions from High-resolution Atmospheric Retrievals of ∼10–30 M_(Jup) CompanionsAstrophysical Journal
- Do Ó, Clarissa R.;Sappey, Ben et al. (2024) Orbital and Atmospheric Characterization of the 1RXS J034231.8+121622 System using High-resolution Spectroscopy Confirms that the Companion is a Low-mass StarAstronomical Journal
- Anderson, Dana E.;Cleeves, L. Ilsedore et al. (2024) Molecular Gas Tracers in Young and Old Protoplanetary DisksAstrophysical Journal
- Kusaba, Satoshi;Lin, Haw-Wei et al. (2024) Terahertz sum-frequency excitation of coherent optical phonons in the two-dimensional semiconductor WSe₂Applied Physics Letters
- Pontoppidan, Klaus M.;Salyk, Colette et al. (2024) High-contrast JWST-MIRI Spectroscopy of Planet-forming Disks for the JDISC SurveyAstrophysical Journal