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Dr Masahiko Honda
Senior Fellow
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200
AUSTRALIA
T: +61 2 612 54234
E: masahiko.honda@anu.edu.au |
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Research Interests
Current research has focused on two major disciplines: (1) evolution and structure of Earth’s mantle and (2) tracing Earth’s surface processes. The first of these disciplines utilizes noble gases as geochemical tracers, with significant implications for understanding the dynamics and geochemical evolution of the Earth’s mantle through time, the formation of the atmosphere, the storage of volatiles in the Earth, and the origin of diamonds. The second discipline uses cosmogenic isotopes to determine soil formation and erosion rates with implications for landscape evolution, soil management and climate change.
The noble gas laboratory at RSES, ANU was designed with the aim of analysing the five noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon), and is one of only a handful of laboratories in the world and currently only one available within Australia with this capability. The diverse and often unique range of noble gas expertise offered by us has led to high profile collaborations with world class researchers both nationally and internationally. New noble gas analytical facilities with a next generation multi-collector noble gas mass spectrometer Helix-MC, funded by ARC, will be delivered in 2010 and is expected to become fully functioning in 2011.
