Agata Magdalena Krzesinska

Researcher - Centre for planetary habitability

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Research field : Planetary Geology, Meteoritics.

Research interests : Shock and shock-related alterations in meteorites; Mars: water and crustal processes; Non-destructive analysis of extraterrestrial matter; Meteorite recovery, classification and curation.

Academic degrees and employment : since 2018 - Researcher, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (now PHAB), UiO; 2015 - 2018 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural History Museum London; 2009 - 2015 - PhD candidate (defended 2014) and Researcher, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Analytical experience : High-resolution X-ray tomography; synchrotron-based nano-tomography; Scanning electron microscopy and EDX; Electron microprobe; synchrotron-based XRF and XANES; XRD.

Meteorite classification : NWA 11220 martian regolith breccia; Oslo H 3-6 chondrite, Valle H5 chondrite, Jordalen L6 chondrite, Antonin L5 chondrite.

Honors and awards : Lunar and Planetary Institute Career Development Award 2013; Wiley-Blackwell Outstanding Student Talk Award 2013; Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London 2018.

Space mission science involvement : Member of the Rover Science and Operation Working Group for ExoMars ESA rover; Appointed member of ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return Sample Receiving Facility Measurement Definition Team.

Memberships : Meteoritical Society; Polish Meteorite Society (Science Committee member); Norwegian Meteor Network (Steering Board member).

Public outreach : Scientific content and design advisor for the permanent exhibition ‘Meteorites’ at the Natural History Museum in Oslo; Stands with meteorite specimens and talks at festivals: Science Uncovered (multiple in UK and in Poland); New Scientists Live, UK, 2016; Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, UK, 2016; Lyme Regis, UK, 2017; Geologiens Dag, Norway, 2019; Pint of Science, Norway, 2020 and 2022; Ungforst Festival, Norway, 2022.

Teaching:

GEO-AST3410/4410, Planetary Sciences

GEO-DEEP9506, Mineralogy of Planetary Surfaces and Biosignatures

MSc and PhD projects on offer: Meteorite Oslo - Regolith compaction and fluid alterations. Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo.

Petrologic and geochemical constraints on volcanic eruptions on Amazonian Mars. Natural History Museum in London, UK.

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Baker D.R., Callegaro S., Marzoli A., De Min A., Geraki K., Whitehouse M.J., Krzesińska A.M., Fioretti A.M., 2023. S and Cl in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 359: 1-19.

Tyminski Z., Hult M., Krzesińska A.M., Lutter G., Tyminska K, Saganowski P, Marissens G., Stroh H., Burakowska A., Ziemek T., Stachowicz M., El-Mallul A., 2023: Underground Radioactivity Measurements of Meteorites: Development of Development of Methods Suitable to Determine Precise Terrestrial Age of Recent Falls. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 195: 110733.

Krzesińska A., 2023: Petrology and chemistry of the Antonin meteorite – classification and reconstruction of thermal-collisional history (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatits Metheoriticae Polonorum 14: 113-132.

Tymiński Z., Burakowska A., Krzesińska A.M., Tymińska K., Kuć M., Iller E, 2023: Cosmogenic radionuclides in Antonin meteorite (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum: 14: 191-198.

Shrbený L, Krzesińska A.M., Borovička J., Spurný P., Tymińnski Z., Kmieciak K., 2022: Analysis of the daylight fireball of July 15, 2021, leading to meteorite fall and find near Antonin, Poland, and description of the recovered chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 57: 2108-2126.

Loizeau D., Pilorget C., Poulet F., Lantz C., Bibring J.-P., Hamm V., Royer C., Dypvik H., Krzesińska A.M., Rull F., Werner S.C., 2022: Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library Project: 3. Characterization of Samples With MicrOmega. Astrobiology 22: 263-292.

Krzesińska A.M., Bultel B., Loizeau D., Craw D., April R., Poulet F., Werner S.C., 2021: NIR characterization of Fe-rich vermiculite-bearing terrestrial deposits and constraints for mineralogy of Oxia Planum, ExoMars 2022 landing site. Astrobiology 21(8):997-1015.

Dypvik H., Hellevang H., Krzesińska A., Sætre C., Viennet J-C., Bultel B., Ray D., Poulet D., Veneranda M., Rull F., Cousin A. Werner S.C., 2021. The Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL) - An Exclusive Lithological Selection of Possible Martian Earth Analogues. Planetary and Space Science 208: 105339.

Veneranda M., Lopez-Reyes G., Pascual Sanchez E., Krzesińska AM, Lantz C., Manrique-Martinez JA, Sanz-Arranz A., Medina J., Poulet F., Dypvik H., Werner SC, Rull F ., 2021: ExoMars Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS): a tool to semiquantify the serpentinization degree of olivine-rich rocks on Mars. Astrobiology.

Łuszczek K. and Krzesińska AM ., 2020: Copper in ordinary chondrites: Proxies for resource potential of asteroids and constraints for minimum-invasive and economically efficient exploitation. Planetary and Space Science. DOI: 10.1016 / j.pss.2020.105092

Veneranda M., Manrique JA., Lopez-Reyes G., Medina J., Torre-Fdez I., Castro K., Madariaga JM., Lantz C., Poulet F., Krzesińska AM ., Hellevang H., Werner S ., Rull F, 2019: Spectroscopic study of olivine-bearing rocks and its relevance to the ExoMars rover mission. Spectrochimica Acta A 223: 117360. doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2019.117360

Krzesińska AM , Wirth R., Kusiak MA, 2019: Petrogenesis of ungrouped enstatite meteorite Zakłodzie: fabric, texture and nanostructure analysis for identification of mechanisms responsible for chondrite-achondrite transition. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 1462-1477. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13296.

Wilson AP, Genge MJ, Krzesińska AM ., Tomkins AG, 2019: Atmospheric Entry Heating of Micrometeorites at Earth and Mars: Implications for the Survival of Organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 1-12. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13360.

Krzesińska AM . & Almeida NV, 2019: Evidence of shock-induced vaporization of matrix to form porosity in Baszkówka, a porous L5 chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 54–71. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13190.

Krzesińska AM , 2018: Impact melt clasts in the Pułtusk breccia (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum 9: 74-92.

Krzesińska AM ., 2017: Contribution of early impact events to metal-silicate separation, thermal annealing and volatile redistribution: evidence in the Pułtusk H chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 2305-2321. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12933.

Gattacceca J., Krzesińska AM ., Marrocchi Y., Meier MMM, Bourot-Denise M., Lenssen R., 2017: Young asteroid mixing revealed in ordinary chondrites: the case of NWA 5764, a polymict LL breccia with L clasts. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 2289-2304. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12942.

Krzesińska AM ., 2016: Thermal Metamorphic Evolution of the Pułtusk H Chondrite Breccia - Compositional and Textural Properties not Included in Petrological Classification. Geological Quarterly, 60: 211–224. DOI: 10.7306 / gq.1267.

Krzesińska A. , Gattacceca J., Friedrich JM & Rochette P., 2015: Impact-related non-coaxial deformation in the Pułtusk H chondrite inferred from petrofabric analysis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50: 401–417. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12429.

Krzesińska A. & Fritz J., 2014: Weakly shocked and deformed CM microxenoliths in the Pułtusk H chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 49: 595–610. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12276.

Krzesińska A., 2011: High resolution X-ray tomography as a tool for analysis of internal textures in meteorites. Meteorites 1: 3–12. DOI: 10.5277 / met110101.

Fawdon, Peter; Orgel, Csilla; Adeli, Solmaz; Balme, Matt; Calef, Fred J. & Davis, Joel M. [Show all 80 contributors for this article] (2024). The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Journal of Maps. ISSN 1744-5647. 20(1). doi: 10.1080/17445647.2024.2302361.
Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Tymiñski, Zbigniew & Maækowska, Roksana (2023). The Antonin Chondrite - the first Polish meteorite with reconstructed pre-atmospheric orbit. Report on registration and classification, including proposals for measures to expand the Polish meteorite collection. Przeglad Geologiczny. ISSN 0033-2151. 71(7), p. 372–385. doi: 10.7306/2023.33.
Baker, Don R.; Callegaro, Sara; Marzoli, Andrea; De Min, Angelo; Geraki, Kalotina & Whitehouse, Martin, J. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Sulfur and chlorine in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. ISSN 0016-7037. 359, p. 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.08.007. Full text in Research Archive
Tymiński, Zbigniew; Hult, Mikael; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Tymińska, Katarzyna; Lutter, Guillaume & Saganowski, Paweł [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Underground radioactivity measurements of meteorites: Development of methods suitable to determine precise terrestrial age of recent falls. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. ISSN 0969-8043. 195. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110733.
Shrbený, Lukáš; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Borovička, Jiří; Spurný, Pavel; Tymiński, Zbigniew & Kmieciak, Kryspin (2022). Analysis of the daylight fireball of July 15, 2021, leading to a meteorite fall and find near Antonin, Poland, and a description of the recovered chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 57(12), p. 2108–2126. doi: 10.1111/maps.13929. Full text in Research Archive
Loizeau, Damien; Pilorget, Cédric; Poulet, François; Lantz, Cateline; Bibring, Jean-Pierre & Hamm, Vincent [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library Project: 3. Characterization of Samples with MicrOmega. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 22(3), p. 263–292. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2420.
Dypvik, Henning; Hellevang, Helge; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Sætre, Christian; Viennet, Jean-Christophe & Bultel, Benjamin Gabriel Rene [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2021). The Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL) – An exclusive lithological selection of possible martian earth analogues. Planetary and Space Science. ISSN 0032-0633. 208. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2021.105339. Full text in Research Archive
Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Bultel, Benjamin Gabriel Rene; Loizeau, Damien; Craw, David; April, Richard & Poulet, Francois [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Mineralogical and spectral (NIR) characterization of Fe-rich vermiculite-bearing terrestrial deposits and constraints for mineralogy of Oxia Planum, ExoMars 2022 landing site. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 21(8), p. 997–1016. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2410. Full text in Research Archive
Veneranda, Marco; Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo; Pascual Sanchez, Elena; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Manrique-Martinez, Jose Antonio & Sanz-Arranz, Aurelio [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2021). ExoMars Raman Laser Spectrometer: A Tool to Semiquantify the Serpentinization Degree of Olivine-Rich Rocks on Mars. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 21(3), p. 307–322. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2265.
Luszczek, Katarzyna & Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2020). Copper in ordinary chondrites: Proxies for resource potential of asteroids and constraints for minimum-invasive and economically efficient exploitation. Planetary and Space Science. ISSN 0032-0633. 194. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.105092. Full text in Research Archive
Veneranda, Marco; Manrique-Martinez, Jose Antonio; Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo; Medina, Jesus E.; Torre-Fdez, Imanol & Castro, Kepa [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2019). Spectroscopic study of olivine-bearing rocks and its relevance to the ExoMars rover mission. Spectrochimica Acta Part A - Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. ISSN 1386-1425. 223. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117360.
Wilson, Aaron; Genge, Matthew J; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena & Tomkins, Andrew (2019). Atmospheric entry heating of micrometeorites at Earth and Mars: Implications for the survival of organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 54(9), p. 1–19. doi: 10.1111/maps.13360.
Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Wirth, Richard & Kusiak, Monika A (2019). Petrogenesis of ungrouped enstatite meteorite Zaklodzie: Fabric, texture, and nanostructure analysis for identification of mechanisms responsible for chondrite?achondrite transition. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 54(7), p. 1462–1477. doi: 10.1111/maps.13296.

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Harrington, Elise Michelle; Bultel, Benjamin; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena & Werner, Stephanie C. (2020). Paleolakes and evaporite deposits across Mars.

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