Nicole Foley arrived in September to begin her tenure as postdoctoral associate. Her work to date has focused on the composition of Martian surface rocks through remote sensing and the early differentiation of Mars as revealed through isotopic studies of Martian meteorites. At DTM she will be working with Larry Nittler to determine the bulk Mn, Cr, and Ni abundance on asteroid Eros from data collected by the X-ray spectrometer on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker mission.