Dr. Ted Bunch
Title: Adjunct Professor
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Specialty: Meteoritics and Petrology
Research Intererests: Dr. Bunch has over forty years of research experience in the investigations of experimentally and naturally shocked materials, asteroid impact craters, Apollo lunar samples, terrestrial mineralogy and petrology, meteorites, origin of life, space habitation osteoporosis, exobiology, space environment hazards, and interplanetary dust particles. During his last ten years at NASA, he developed hypervelocity impact techniques for the Ames Vertical Gun hypervelocity impact experiments on meteorites, carbonaceous materials, and aerogel cosmic particle collectors, in addition to analyses of Martian, Lunar, and asteroid meteorites. He has published over 200 research reports, book chapters, books, and articles including 70 papers on meteorites, 48 on impact craters and hypervelocity collisions, and 32 on the Moon and Mars, in addition to over 244 meeting abstracts. Dr. Bunch is currently a Professor of Geology (adjunct) at Northern Arizona University after serving as Chief of Exobiology at NASA Ames Research Center.
Honors :
-
National Academy Sciences, National Research Council Fellow
-
Meteoritical Society Fellow
-
NASA Apollo Achievement Award
-
Mineralogical Society of America Fellow
-
NASA Ames H. Julian Allen Award (best science paper)
-
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
- NASA Ames Associate Fellow
Recent Publications:
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, J. H. Wittke, S. M Kuehner, M. Gellissen, H. Palme, D. Rumble, III & D. A. Gregory, 2007, Petrology and bulk composition of CH3 chondrite Northwest Africa 2210. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, Proceedings of 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 13-17, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona, #5132.
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, J. H. Wittke, S. M. Kuehner, D. Rumble, 2007, Distinctive Magnesian, Protogranular and Polymict Diogenites from Northwest Africa, Oman and United Arab Emirates. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, Proceedings of 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 13-17, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona, #5133.
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, J. H. Wittke, D. Rumble, III & A. A. Aaronson, 2007, Northwest Africa 2993: A coarse-grained lodran-like meteorite with affinities to Winoaites. 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper 2211.
G. Ozinski, T. E. Bunch, A. Kearsley, and J. H. Wittke, Shocking carbonates at Meteor Crater, Arizona. Submitted to Geology, May 2007.
J. Irving, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, S. M. Kuehner & D. Rumble, 2007, III Assessment of multi-component mixing, oxidation, metamorphism and parental melting on the acapulcoite-lodranite parent body, 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper 2254.
J. H. Wittke, T. E. Bunch, A. West & R. S. Harris, 2007, Melt spherules from Peter's Pond, a Carolina Bay, South Carolina. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, Proceedings of 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 13-17, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona, #5249.
J. H. Wittke, T. E. Bunch & C. A. Goodrich, 2007, Classification of secondary reduction textures in ureilites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, Proceedings of 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 13-17, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona, #5246.
G. R. Osinski, T. E. Bunch & J. Wittke, 2007, Impact Melt Generation At Meteor Crater, Arizona: Implications For Impacts Into Volatile-Rich Target Rocks. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 42, Supplement, Proceedings of 70th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, held August 13-17, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona, #5110.
D. Rumble, III, A. J. Irving, S. M. Kuehner & T. E. Bunch, 2007, Supre-TFL Oxygen isotopic compositions in metal-poor “ordinary” chondrite: Samples from unrecognized chondritic parent bodies. 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper 2230.
R. Burges, V. A. Fernandes, A.J. Irving & T.E. Bunch, 2007, Ar-Ar ages of NWA 2977 and NWA 3160 – Lunar meteorites paired with NWA 773. 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper.
R. B. Firestone, A. West, J. P. Kennett, L. Becker, T. E. Bunch, Z. S. Revay, P. H. Schultz, T. Belgya, D. J. Kennett, J. M. Erlandson, O. J. Dickenson, A. C. Goodyear, R. S. Harris, G. A. Howard, J. B. Kloosterman, P. Lechler, P. A. Mayewski, J. Montgomery, R. Poreda, T. Darrah, S. S. Que Hee, A. R. Smith, A. Stich, W. Topping, J. H. Wittke, & W. S. Wolbach, 2007, Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 10.1073/pnas.0706977104.
T. E. Bunch, J. Wittke, R. Korotev and A. Irving, 2006, Lunar meteorites NWA 2700. NWA 2727: Mare basalt/gabbro breccias with affinities to NWA 773. 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper 1375.
T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, D. Rumble, III, A. J. Irving & B. Reed, 2006, Northwest Africa 2968: A Dunite from 4Vesta: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 41, Supplement, Proceedings of 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, p. 5252.
T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke & R. L. Korotev, 2006, Petrology and Composition of Lunar Feldspathic Breccias NWA 2995, Dhofar 1180 and Dhofar 1428: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 41, Supplement, Proceedings of 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, p. 5254.
G. R. Osinski, T. E. Bunch, J. Wittke, 2006, Proximal ejecta at Meteor Crater, Arizona: Discovery of impact melt-bearing breccia. Abstracts of the 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1009.
J. H. Wittke, T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, M. Farmer and J. Strope, 2006, Northwest Africa 2975: An evolved basaltic shergottite with vesicular glass pockets and trapped melt inclusions. Abstracts of the 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1368.
S. M. Kuehner, A. J. Irving, T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke, 2006, EL3 Chondrite (not Aubrite) Northwest Africa 2828: An Unusual Paleo-meteorite Occurring as Cobbles in a Terrestrial Conglomerate: American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P51E-1247
J. Irving, S. M. Kuehner, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, D. Rumble, III & G. M. Hupé, 2006, More African Enstatite-rich Meteorites: Aubrite NWA 2828, Zaklodzie-like NWA 4301, NWA 1840 and EL6 Chondrites: Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 41, Supplement, Proceedings of 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, p. 5264.
S. Kuehner, A. Irving, T. E. Bunch & J. Wittke, 2006, Coronas and symplectites in plutonic angrite NWA 2999 and implications for Mercury as the angrite parent body. 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, paper 1344.
S. M. Kuehner, A. J. Irving, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, G. M. Hupé & A. C. Hupé, 2006, Coronas and symplectites in plutonic angrite NWA 2999 and implications for Mercury as the angrite parent body. Abstracts of the 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1344.
S. M. Kuehner, A. J. Irving, T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke, 2006, EL3 Chondrite (not Aubrite) Northwest Africa 2828: An Unusual Paleo-meteorite Occurring as Cobbles in a Terrestrial Conglomerate. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P51E-1247.
P. H. Schultz, M. Zárate, W. E. Hames, R. S. Harris, T. E. Bunch, C. Koeberl, P. Renne & J. Wittke, 2006, The record of Miocene impacts in the Argentine Pampas. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41: 749-771.
T. E. Bunch, D. Rumble, III, J. H. Wittke & A. J. Irving, 2005, Pyroxene-rich Pallasites Zinder and NWA 1911: Not Like the Others. Abstracts of the 68th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5219.
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, T. E. Larson, F. J. Longstaffe, D. Rumble, III & J. H. Wittke, 2005, "Primitive" and Igneous Achondrites Related to the Large and Differentiated CR Parent Body. Abstracts of the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #2308.
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, J. H. Wittke & S. M. Kuehner, 2005, NWA 2646: A Martian Plagioclase-Olivine Clinopyroxenite Akin to "Lherzolitic Shergottites." Abstracts of the 68th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5209.
J. Irving, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke & S. M. Kuehner, 2005, Olivine-Orthopyroxene-Phyric Shergottites NWA 2626 and DaG 476: The Tharsis Connection. Abstracts of the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1229.
J. Irving, S. M. Kuehner, D. Rumble, III, T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke, 2005, Unique angrite NWA 2999: The case for samples from Mercury. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, Abstract #P51A-0898.
D. Rumble, III, A. J. Irving, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke & S. M. Kuehner, 2005, Discrimination of Acapulcoites and Lodranites from Winonaites. Abstracts of the 68th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5138.
R. Harris, P. Schultz, and T. E. Bunch, 2005, Accessory phases in Argentine impact melt breccias: Implications for shock history, emplacement dynamics, vapor condensation, and target lithologies,. 36th LPSC, paper # 1966.
R. Harris, P. Schultz, & T. E. Bunch, 2005, Evidence for shocked feldspars and ballen quartz in 450,000 year-old Argentine melt breccias,. 36th LPSC, paper #1952.
J. Irving, T. E. Larson, F. J. Longstaffe, D. Rumble, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke & S. M. Kuehner, 2005, A Primitive Achondrite With Oxygen Isotopic Affinities to CV Chondrites: Implications for Differentiation and Size of the CV Parent Body. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, Abstract #P31C-02
G. Osinski, P. Lee, J. Spray, D. Parnell, S. Lim, T. E. Bunch, C. Cockell & B. Glass, 2005, Geological overview and cratering model for the Haughton impact crater, Devon Island, Canadian high Arctic, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, 1759-1776 (2005).
T. E. Bunch, A. J. Irving, J. H. Wittke & S. M. Kuehner, 2004, Two large Moroccan mesosiderites: NWA 1817/1878/1979/2042 and NWA 1827/1879/1882/1951/1982/3055. Abstracts of the 67th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5163.
J. Irving, T. E. Bunch, S. M. Kuehner & J. H. Wittke, 2004, Petrology of primitive olivine-orthopyroxene-phyric shergottites NWA 2046 and NWA 1195: Analogies with terrestrial boninites and implications for partial melting of hydrous Martian mantle. Abstracts of the 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1444.
P. H. Schultz, M. Zárate, W. Hames, C. Koeberl, T. Bunch, D. Storzer, P. Renne & J. Wittke, 2004, The Quaternary impact record from the Pampas, Argentina: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 219: 221-238.
J. Lawrence, A. N. Krot, E. R. D. Scott, T. E. Bunch & K. Keil, 2004, Mineralogy and petrology of chondrules in carbonaceous chondrite NWA 770, 35th Lunar Planet. Science Conference, #1451.
G. R. Ozinski, T. E. Bunch & J. H. Wittke, 2003, Evidence for shock melting of carbonates from Meteor Crater, Arizona. Abstracts of the 66th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5070.
F. J. M. Reitmeijer, P. Schultz, and T. E. Bunch, 2003, Carbon calabashes in a shock-produced carbon melt. Chem. Physics Letters, 374, 464-470.
Treiman, Hans Amundsen, D. Blake & T. E. Bunch, 2003, A hydrothermal origin for carbonate globules in ALH84001: A terrestrial analog from Spitsbergen, Norway. Earth Planet. Sci Lett 204, 323-332.
T. J. Fagan, G. J. Taylor, K. Keil, T. Hicks, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, D. Mittlefehldt, R. Clayton, T. Mayeda, O. Eugster & S. Lorenzetti, 2003, Northwest Africa 773: Lunar origin, iron-enrichment trend. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38:529-554.
T. J. Fagan, G. J. Taylor, K. Keil, T. L. Hicks, M. Killgore, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke & D. W. Mittlefehldt, 2002: New Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 773: A tholeiite from the Moon? American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, Abstract #V62B-1403.
T. J. Fagan, G. J. Taylor, K. Keil, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, R.L. Korotev, B. L. Jolliff, J. J. Gillis, L.A. Haskin, E. Jarosewich, R.N. Clayton, T. Mayeda, V. A. Fernandes, R. Burgess, G. Turner, O. Eugster & S. Lorenzetti, 2001, Northwest Africa 032: Product of Lunar Volcanism: Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37:371-394.
L. Becker, R. Porada, and T. E. Bunch, 2001, Impact event at the 250 million-year-old Permian-Triassic Boundary. Science, 291, 1530-1533.
T. J. Fagan, K. Keil, G. J. Taylor, T. L. Hicks, M. Killgore, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, O. Eugster, S. Lorenzetti, D. W. Mittlefehldt, R. N. Clayton & T. Mayeda, 2001, New Lunar Meteorite Northwest Africa 773: Dual Origin by Cumulate Crystallization and Impact Brecciation. Abstracts of the 64th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5149.
T. J. Fagan, T. E. Bunch, J. H. Wittke, E. Jarosewich, R. N. Clayton, T. Mayeda, O. Eugster, S. Lorenzetti, K. Keil & G. J. Taylor, 2000, Northwest Africa 032, a new lunar mare basalt. Abstracts of the 63th Meteoritical Society Meeting, #5159.
L. Becker, R. Poreda, T. E. Bunch, 2000, Presolar noble gases in giant fullerenes from meteorites and the K/T boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 97, no. 7, 2979-2983.
L. Becker, R. Poreda and T. E. Bunch, 2000, The origin of fullerenes in the Creataceous/Tertiary “K/T” boundary layer. LPSCXXXI.
L. Becker, R. Poreda and T. E. Bunch, 2000, Fullerenes and noble gases in the Murchison and Allende meteorites. LPSCXXXI.
G. R. Osinski, J. G. Spray, T. E. Bunch, R. A. F. Grieve, J. W. Schutt and P. Lee , 2000, Post-impact hydrothermal activity at the Haughton Impact Structure. LPSCXXXI.
L. Becker, R. Poreda and T. E. Bunch, 2000, Fullerenes, noble gases, and flux of Extraterrestrial debris to the surface of the Earth over geologic time. Bioastronomy 5, Astr. Soc. Pacific Press, 577-581.
Becker, L., R. Poreda and T. E. Bunch, 2000, The origin of fullerenes in the Cretaceous/Tertiary "K/T" boundary layer. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf.XXXI.
Becker, L., R. Poreda and T. E. Bunch, 2000, Fullerenes and noble gases in the Murchison and Allende meteorites. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., XXXI.
