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Reika Yokochi (横地玲果, born November 9, 1975 in Saga, Kyushu Prefecture, Japan; died on February 17, 2024 in Chicago, USA) was a Japanese geochemist who worked on the origin and geological behavior of volatile elements. She held the position of Research Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago.^[1] Yokochi led a laboratory specializing in the purification and analysis of noble gases for dating and tracing water circulation within Earth's crust.^[1]^[2]

Education and early career

Yokochi completed her doctoral studies in earth sciences at National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (French: L'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine) in 2005, supervised by Bernard Marty. Her PhD thesis focused on understanding the origin of volatile elements in Earth. She identified noble gases of solar origin in Earth's deep mantle. She also worked out the contribution of ²⁴⁴Pu-decay (t_1/2=81 Myr) to fissiogenic ¹³⁶Xe* in the deep Earth, suggesting a protracted loss of volatiles from Earth's mantle.^[3] Between 2005 and 2008, she was a postdoctoral researcher with Neil C. Sturchio at the University of Illinois Chicago, after which she joined the University of Chicago as researcher in 2008.^[1]

Variations in ¹³⁶Xe*/⁴He* and ²¹Ne*/⁴He* in deep mantle samples from the Kola Peninsula reflect magmatic processes. By interpolating this correlation to the known ²¹Ne*/⁴He* production ratio of the mantle, Yokochi and Marty estimated the deep mantle ¹³⁶Xe*/⁴He*, indicating that 33-60% of ¹³⁶Xe* comes from decay of ²⁴⁴Pu (t_1/2=81 Myr) while the rest comes from decay of ²³⁸U (t_1/2=4.5 Gyr).^[4]

Research activities

Yokochi's research focuses on noble gas geochemistry. She uses noble gases radionuclides, notably Krypton-81 (⁸¹Kr; t_1/2=230,000 yr),^[5] to study the age and circulation of groundwater in major aquifers worldwide, including the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer,^[6]^[7] Floridan Aquifer,^[8] and the geothermal waters of Yellowstone.^[9] Krypton-81 is produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere and then dissolves into rainwater, eventually seeping into groundwater. The overall abundance of krypton in the atmosphere is only about 1.10 parts per million by volume (ppmv), and within this, the fraction of ⁸¹Kr is extremely small, about 5 × 10⁻¹³. Yokochi crafted a device capable of efficiently extracting krypton from vast quantities of groundwater, thus facilitating the accurate quantification of ⁸¹Kr using Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA). ^[10]

⁸¹Kr forms in the atmosphere from cosmic ray interactions. In the Sinai, rainwater dissolves this isotope and stable krypton, infusing it into groundwater at recharge sites. As groundwater flows from these sites, ⁸¹Kr decays. Analyzing the ⁸¹Kr/krypton ratio in groundwater from the Negev indicates a recharge time of 360 kyr.^[6]

In a study of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in Israel's Negev Desert, Yokochi and colleagues utilized radiokrypton (⁸¹Kr) to date groundwater, discovering two major water recharge events.^[11] The first, about 38,000 years ago, originated from the Mediterranean, and the second, around 361,000 years ago, from the tropical Atlantic. These events, coinciding with periods of low orbital eccentricity, reveal the sensitivity of moisture transport to orbital forcing. The study highlights groundwater's potential as a record of ancient precipitation and long-term subsurface water storage.

Application of ⁸¹Kr to the Floridan Aquifer revealed freshwater recharge from the Last Glacial Period.^[8] Additionally, it detected fossil seawater predating the Last Glacial Maximum, indicating slow seawater movement and a limited but significant exchange of solutes with the ocean, contributing to the aquifer's dolomitization.

Yokochi also conducted experiments aimed at understanding how volatile elements are trapped in ices under conditions relevant to the formation of comets and icy moons.^[12]^[13] The results of those experiments showed that ice surfaces have heterogeneous adsorption energies, influenced by initial ice-deposition temperatures and thermal annealing. Adsorption sites with higher energy play a significant role at low pressures and higher temperatures, conditions relevant to the protosolar nebula. The experiments also showed that gas trapping occurs primarily through the burial of gas adsorbed on newly formed ice surfaces. Yokochi's experiments indicate that the formation temperature of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as suggested by the observed Ar/H₂O ratio, was around 40 K.

Yokochi contributed to the analysis of gases in samples returned from the Ryugu asteroid by JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission.^[14]^[15]

Awards and recognition

Yokochi received the Young Scientist Award from the Geochemistry Research Association of Japan in 2012; the same year, she was also named a NASA Planetary Science Early Career Fellow.^[16]

Personal life

Reika Yokochi was married to Nicolas Dauphas, a fellow planetary scientist; the couple has two children. She died on February 17, 2024 from EGFR-driven lung cancer, a disease that disproportionately affects nonsmoking women of East asian ancestry.^[17] Air pollution by particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter seems to be a factor contributing to the onset of EGFR-driven lung cancer.^[18]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Reika Yokochi". Department of the Geological Sciences, University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2023-07-14. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ "Reika Yokochi". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Yokochi, Reika (2005-01-01). L' azote, le néon et le xénon dans le manteau : sources, processus et hétérogénéités (PhD thesis thesis) (in French). National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine. Archived from the original on 2021-02-07. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Yokochi, Reika; Marty, Bernard (2005). "Geochemical constraints on mantle dynamics in the Hadean". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 238 (1–2): 17–30. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.020. ISSN 0012-821X.
^ Lu, Z.-T.; Schlosser, P.; Smethie, W.M.; Sturchio, N.C.; Fischer, T.P.; Kennedy, B.M.; Purtschert, R.; Severinghaus, J.P.; Solomon, D.K.; Tanhua, T.; Yokochi, R. (2014). "Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences". Earth-Science Reviews. 138: 196–214. arXiv:1305.4608. Bibcode:2014ESRv..138..196L. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.09.002.
^ ^a ^b Spizzirri, John; Lerner, Louise (2019-07-29). "Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert". University of Chicago News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Strongin, Ronni (2019-07-30). "Krypton Reveals Ancient Water Beneath the Negev". Americans for Ben-Gurion University. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ ^a ^b Mitchem, Savannah (2021-09-30). "Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change". Argonne National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Yokochi, R.; Sturchio, N. C.; Purtschert, R.; Jiang, W.; Lu, Z. -T.; Mueller, P.; Yang, G. -M.; Kennedy, B. M.; Kharaka, Y. (2013-02-15). "Noble gas radionuclides in Yellowstone geothermal gas emissions: A reconnaissance". Chemical Geology. Frontiers in Gas Geochemistry. 339: 43–51. Bibcode:2013ChGeo.339...43Y. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.037. ISSN 0009-2541.
^ Yokochi, Reika; Heraty, Linnea J.; Sturchio, Neil C. (2008). "Method for Purification of Krypton from Environmental Samples for Analysis of Radiokrypton Isotopes". Analytical Chemistry. 80 (22): 8688–8693. doi:10.1021/ac801804x. PMID 18947236.
^ Yokochi, R.; Ram, R.; Zappala, J.C.; Jiang, W.; Adar, E.; Bernier, R.; Burg, A.; Dayan, U.; Lu, Z.T.; Mueller, P.; Purtschert, R. (2019). "Radiokrypton unveils dual moisture sources of a deep desert aquifer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (33): 16222–16227. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11616222Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904260116. PMC 6697870. PMID 31358637.
^ Yokochi, Reika; Marboeuf, Ulysse; Quirico, Eric; Schmitt, Bernard (2012). "Pressure dependent trace gas trapping in amorphous water ice at 77K: Implications for determining conditions of comet formation". Icarus. 218 (2): 760–770. Bibcode:2012Icar..218..760Y. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.003. ISSN 0019-1035.
^ Yokochi, Reika (2022). "Adsorption-driven Gas Trapping in Cometary Ice Analogs". The Astrophysical Journal. 940 (2). American Astronomical Society: 153. Bibcode:2022ApJ...940..153Y. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac9621.
^ Lerner, Louise (2022-06-09). "Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid". University of Chicago News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Okazaki, Ryuji; Marty, Bernard; Busemann, Henner; Hashizume, Ko; Gilmour, Jamie D.; Meshik, Alex; Yada, Toru; Kitajima, Fumio; Broadley, Michael W.; Byrne, David; Füri, Evelyn; Riebe, My E. I.; Krietsch, Daniela; Maden, Colin; Ishida, Akizumi (2023-02-24). "Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution". Science. 379 (6634): eabo0431. Bibcode:2023Sci...379.0431O. doi:10.1126/science.abo0431. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 36264828. S2CID 253045328. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ "Reika Yokochi". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2022-04-18. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
^ Ha, S. Y.; Choi, S. J.; Cho, J. H.; Choi, H. J.; Lee, J.; Jung, K.; Irwin, D.; Liu, X.; Lira, M. E.; Mao, M.; Kim, H. K.; Choi, Y. S.; Shim, Y. M.; Park, W. Y.; Choi, Y. L.; Kim, J. (2015). "Lung cancer in never-smoker Asian females is driven by oncogenic mutations, most often involving EGFR". Oncotarget. 6 (7): 5465–5474. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2925. PMC 4467161. PMID 25760072.
^ "Just 3 Years of Air Pollution Can Increase Lung Cancer Risk, Study Warns". ScienceAlert. 10 April 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-01.

[auto2-1] "Reika Yokochi". Department of the Geological Sciences, University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2023-07-14. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[2] "Reika Yokochi". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[auto-3] Yokochi, Reika (2005-01-01). L' azote, le néon et le xénon dans le manteau : sources, processus et hétérogénéités (PhD thesis thesis) (in French). National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine. Archived from the original on 2021-02-07. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[4] Yokochi, Reika; Marty, Bernard (2005). "Geochemical constraints on mantle dynamics in the Hadean". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 238 (1–2): 17–30. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.020. ISSN 0012-821X.

[5] Lu, Z.-T.; Schlosser, P.; Smethie, W.M.; Sturchio, N.C.; Fischer, T.P.; Kennedy, B.M.; Purtschert, R.; Severinghaus, J.P.; Solomon, D.K.; Tanhua, T.; Yokochi, R. (2014). "Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences". Earth-Science Reviews. 138: 196–214. arXiv:1305.4608. Bibcode:2014ESRv..138..196L. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.09.002.

[nubianaq-6] Spizzirri, John; Lerner, Louise (2019-07-29). "Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert". University of Chicago News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[7] Strongin, Ronni (2019-07-30). "Krypton Reveals Ancient Water Beneath the Negev". Americans for Ben-Gurion University. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[FloridianYokochi-8] Mitchem, Savannah (2021-09-30). "Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change". Argonne National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[9] Yokochi, R.; Sturchio, N. C.; Purtschert, R.; Jiang, W.; Lu, Z. -T.; Mueller, P.; Yang, G. -M.; Kennedy, B. M.; Kharaka, Y. (2013-02-15). "Noble gas radionuclides in Yellowstone geothermal gas emissions: A reconnaissance". Chemical Geology. Frontiers in Gas Geochemistry. 339: 43–51. Bibcode:2013ChGeo.339...43Y. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.037. ISSN 0009-2541.

[10] Yokochi, Reika; Heraty, Linnea J.; Sturchio, Neil C. (2008). "Method for Purification of Krypton from Environmental Samples for Analysis of Radiokrypton Isotopes". Analytical Chemistry. 80 (22): 8688–8693. doi:10.1021/ac801804x. PMID 18947236.

[11] Yokochi, R.; Ram, R.; Zappala, J.C.; Jiang, W.; Adar, E.; Bernier, R.; Burg, A.; Dayan, U.; Lu, Z.T.; Mueller, P.; Purtschert, R. (2019). "Radiokrypton unveils dual moisture sources of a deep desert aquifer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (33): 16222–16227. Bibcode:2019PNAS..11616222Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904260116. PMC 6697870. PMID 31358637.

[12] Yokochi, Reika; Marboeuf, Ulysse; Quirico, Eric; Schmitt, Bernard (2012). "Pressure dependent trace gas trapping in amorphous water ice at 77K: Implications for determining conditions of comet formation". Icarus. 218 (2): 760–770. Bibcode:2012Icar..218..760Y. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.003. ISSN 0019-1035.

[13] Yokochi, Reika (2022). "Adsorption-driven Gas Trapping in Cometary Ice Analogs". The Astrophysical Journal. 940 (2). American Astronomical Society: 153. Bibcode:2022ApJ...940..153Y. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac9621.

[14] Lerner, Louise (2022-06-09). "Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid". University of Chicago News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[15] Okazaki, Ryuji; Marty, Bernard; Busemann, Henner; Hashizume, Ko; Gilmour, Jamie D.; Meshik, Alex; Yada, Toru; Kitajima, Fumio; Broadley, Michael W.; Byrne, David; Füri, Evelyn; Riebe, My E. I.; Krietsch, Daniela; Maden, Colin; Ishida, Akizumi (2023-02-24). "Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution". Science. 379 (6634): eabo0431. Bibcode:2023Sci...379.0431O. doi:10.1126/science.abo0431. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 36264828. S2CID 253045328. Archived from the original on 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[auto1-16] "Reika Yokochi". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2022-04-18. Retrieved 2023-12-25.

[17] Ha, S. Y.; Choi, S. J.; Cho, J. H.; Choi, H. J.; Lee, J.; Jung, K.; Irwin, D.; Liu, X.; Lira, M. E.; Mao, M.; Kim, H. K.; Choi, Y. S.; Shim, Y. M.; Park, W. Y.; Choi, Y. L.; Kim, J. (2015). "Lung cancer in never-smoker Asian females is driven by oncogenic mutations, most often involving EGFR". Oncotarget. 6 (7): 5465–5474. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2925. PMC 4467161. PMID 25760072.

[18] "Just 3 Years of Air Pollution Can Increase Lung Cancer Risk, Study Warns". ScienceAlert. 10 April 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-01.

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+'''Reika Yokochi''' (横地玲果, born November 9, 1975 in [[Saga Prefecture|Saga]], [[Kyushu]] Prefecture, [[Japan]]; died on February 17, 2024 in Chicago, USA) was a Japanese geochemist who worked on the origin and geological behavior of volatile elements. She held the position of Research Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |title=Reika Yokochi |url=https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/reika-yokochi/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Department of the Geological Sciences, [[University of Chicago]] |archive-date=2023-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714064042/https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/reika-yokochi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Yokochi led a laboratory specializing in the purification and analysis of noble gases for dating and tracing water circulation within Earth's crust.<ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Reika Yokochi |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zfnBg1AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[Google Scholar]]}}</ref>
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-'''Reika Yokochi''' (born 1975 in [[Saga Prefecture|Saga]], [[Kyushu]] Prefecture, [[Japan]]) is a Japanese geochemist working on the origin and geological behavior of volatile elements. She currently holds the position of Research Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |title=Reika Yokochi |url=https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/reika-yokochi/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Department of the Geological Sciences, [[University of Chicago]] |archive-date=2023-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714064042/https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/reika-yokochi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Yokochi leads a laboratory specializing in the purification and analysis of noble gases for dating and tracing water circulation within Earth's crust.<ref name="auto2"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Reika Yokochi |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zfnBg1AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[Google Scholar]]}}</ref>
 == Education and early career ==
-Yokochi completed her doctoral studies in earth sciences at [[National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine]] ([[French language|French]]: ''L'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine'') in 2005, supervised by Bernard Marty. Her PhD thesis focused on understanding the origin of volatile elements in Earth. She identified the presence of noble gases of solar origin in Earth's deep mantle. She also worked out the contribution of <sup>244</sup>Pu-decay (t<sub>1/2</sub>=81 Myr) to fissiogenic <sup>136</sup>Xe* in the deep Earth, suggesting a protracted loss of volatiles from Earth's mantle.<ref name="auto">{{Cite thesis |title=L' azote, le néon et le xénon dans le manteau : sources, processus et hétérogénéités |url=https://www.theses.fr/2005INPL045N |publisher=[[National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine]] |date=2005-01-01 |degree=PhD thesis |first=Reika |last=Yokochi |language=fr |access-date=2023-12-25 |archive-date=2021-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207114208/http://www.theses.fr/2005INPL045N |url-status=live }}</ref> Between 2005 and 2008, she was a [[postdoctoral researcher]] with Neil C. Sturchio at the [[University of Illinois Chicago]], after which she joined the University of Chicago as researcher in 2008.<ref name="auto2"/>
+Yokochi completed her doctoral studies in earth sciences at [[National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine]] ([[French language|French]]: ''L'Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine'') in 2005, supervised by Bernard Marty. Her PhD thesis focused on understanding the origin of volatile elements in Earth. She identified noble gases of solar origin in Earth's deep mantle. She also worked out the contribution of <sup>244</sup>Pu-decay (t<sub>1/2</sub>=81 Myr) to fissiogenic <sup>136</sup>Xe* in the deep Earth, suggesting a protracted loss of volatiles from Earth's mantle.<ref name="auto">{{Cite thesis |title=L' azote, le néon et le xénon dans le manteau : sources, processus et hétérogénéités |url=https://www.theses.fr/2005INPL045N |publisher=[[National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine]] |date=2005-01-01 |degree=PhD thesis |first=Reika |last=Yokochi |language=fr |access-date=2023-12-25 |archive-date=2021-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207114208/http://www.theses.fr/2005INPL045N |url-status=live }}</ref> Between 2005 and 2008, she was a [[postdoctoral researcher]] with Neil C. Sturchio at the [[University of Illinois Chicago]], after which she joined the University of Chicago as researcher in 2008.<ref name="auto2"/>
+[[File:XenonGood.jpg|left|thumb|260x260px|Variations in  <sup>136</sup>Xe*/<sup>4</sup>He* and <sup>21</sup>Ne*/<sup>4</sup>He* in deep mantle samples from the Kola Peninsula reflect magmatic processes. By interpolating this correlation to the known <sup>21</sup>Ne*/<sup>4</sup>He* production ratio of the mantle, Yokochi and Marty estimated the deep mantle <sup>136</sup>Xe*/<sup>4</sup>He*, indicating that 33-60% of <sup>136</sup>Xe*  comes from decay of <sup>244</sup>Pu (t<sub>1/2</sub>=81 Myr) while the rest comes from decay of <sup>238</sup>U (t<sub>1/2</sub>=4.5 Gyr).<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Yokochi | first1 = Reika | last2 = Marty | first2 = Bernard | title = Geochemical constraints on mantle dynamics in the Hadean | journal = Earth and Planetary Science Letters | volume = 238 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 17–30 | year = 2005 | issn = 0012-821X | doi = 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.020 }}</ref>]]
 == Research activities ==
-Yokochi's research focuses on noble gas geochemistry. She uses noble gases [[Radionuclide|radionuclides]], notably Krypton-81 (<sup>81</sup>Kr), to study the age and circulation of groundwater in major [[Aquifer|aquifers]] worldwide, including the [[Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System|Nubian Sandstone Aquifer]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spizzirri |first=John |last2=Lerner |first2=Louise |date=2019-07-29 |title=Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-israeli-desert |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[University of Chicago News]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702233751/https://news.uchicago.edu/story/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-israeli-desert |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Strongin |first=Ronni |date=2019-07-30 |title=Krypton Reveals Ancient Water Beneath the Negev |url=https://americansforbgu.org/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-the-negev/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Americans for Ben-Gurion University |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Floridan aquifer|Floridan Aquifer]],<ref name="FloridianYokochi">{{Cite web |last=Mitchem |first=Savannah |date=2021-09-30 |title=Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change |url=https://www.anl.gov/article/scientists-use-nuclear-physics-to-probe-floridan-aquifer-threatened-by-climate-change |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[Argonne National Laboratory]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209115551/https://www.anl.gov/article/scientists-use-nuclear-physics-to-probe-floridan-aquifer-threatened-by-climate-change |url-status=live }}</ref> and the geothermal waters of [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yokochi |first=R. |last2=Sturchio |first2=N. C. |last3=Purtschert |first3=R. |last4=Jiang |first4=W. |last5=Lu |first5=Z. -T. |last6=Mueller |first6=P. |last7=Yang |first7=G. -M. |last8=Kennedy |first8=B. M. |last9=Kharaka |first9=Y. |date=2013-02-15 |title=Noble gas radionuclides in Yellowstone geothermal gas emissions: A reconnaissance |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254112004779 |journal=Chemical Geology |series=Frontiers in Gas Geochemistry |volume=339 |pages=43–51 |doi=10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.037 |issn=0009-2541}}</ref>
+Yokochi's research focuses on noble gas geochemistry. She uses noble gases [[Radionuclide|radionuclides]], notably Krypton-81 (<sup>81</sup>Kr; t<sub>1/2</sub>=230,000 yr),<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lu |first1=Z.-T. |last2=Schlosser |first2=P. |last3=Smethie |first3=W.M. |last4=Sturchio |first4=N.C. |last5=Fischer |first5=T.P. |last6=Kennedy |first6=B.M. |last7=Purtschert |first7=R. |last8=Severinghaus |first8=J.P. |last9=Solomon |first9=D.K. |last10=Tanhua |first10=T. |last11=Yokochi |first11=R. |year=2014 |title=Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |volume=138 |pages=196–214 |arxiv=1305.4608 |bibcode=2014ESRv..138..196L |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.09.002}}</ref> to study the age and circulation of groundwater in major [[Aquifer|aquifers]] worldwide, including the [[Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System|Nubian Sandstone Aquifer]],<ref name="nubianaq">{{Cite web |last1=Spizzirri |first1=John |last2=Lerner |first2=Louise |date=2019-07-29 |title=Krypton reveals ancient water beneath the Israeli desert |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-israeli-desert |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[University of Chicago News]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702233751/https://news.uchicago.edu/story/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-israeli-desert |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Strongin |first=Ronni |date=2019-07-30 |title=Krypton Reveals Ancient Water Beneath the Negev |url=https://americansforbgu.org/krypton-reveals-ancient-water-beneath-the-negev/ |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Americans for Ben-Gurion University |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Floridan aquifer|Floridan Aquifer]],<ref name="FloridianYokochi">{{Cite web |last=Mitchem |first=Savannah |date=2021-09-30 |title=Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change |url=https://www.anl.gov/article/scientists-use-nuclear-physics-to-probe-floridan-aquifer-threatened-by-climate-change |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[Argonne National Laboratory]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209115551/https://www.anl.gov/article/scientists-use-nuclear-physics-to-probe-floridan-aquifer-threatened-by-climate-change |url-status=live }}</ref> and the geothermal waters of [[Yellowstone National Park|Yellowstone]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=R. |last2=Sturchio |first2=N. C. |last3=Purtschert |first3=R. |last4=Jiang |first4=W. |last5=Lu |first5=Z. -T. |last6=Mueller |first6=P. |last7=Yang |first7=G. -M. |last8=Kennedy |first8=B. M. |last9=Kharaka |first9=Y. |date=2013-02-15 |title=Noble gas radionuclides in Yellowstone geothermal gas emissions: A reconnaissance |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254112004779 |journal=Chemical Geology |series=Frontiers in Gas Geochemistry |volume=339 |pages=43–51 |doi=10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.037 |bibcode=2013ChGeo.339...43Y |issn=0009-2541}}</ref> Krypton-81 is produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere and then dissolves into rainwater, eventually seeping into groundwater. The overall abundance of krypton in the atmosphere is only about 1.10 parts per million by volume (ppmv), and within this, the fraction of <sup>81</sup>Kr is extremely small, about 5 × 10<sup>−13</sup>. Yokochi crafted a device capable of efficiently extracting krypton from vast quantities of groundwater, thus facilitating the accurate quantification of <sup>81</sup>Kr using Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA). <ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=Reika |last2=Heraty |first2=Linnea J. |last3=Sturchio |first3=Neil C. |title=Method for Purification of Krypton from Environmental Samples for Analysis of Radiokrypton Isotopes |journal=Analytical Chemistry |year=2008 |volume=80 |issue=22 |pages=8688–8693 |doi=10.1021/ac801804x |pmid=18947236 |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac801804x }}</ref>
+[[File:Krypton81b.jpg|left|thumb|350x350px|<sup>81</sup>Kr forms in the atmosphere from cosmic ray interactions. In the Sinai, rainwater dissolves this isotope and stable krypton, infusing it into groundwater at recharge sites. As groundwater flows from these sites, <sup>81</sup>Kr decays. Analyzing the <sup>81</sup>Kr/krypton ratio in groundwater from the Negev indicates a recharge time of 360 kyr.<ref name="nubianaq" />]]
-Krypton-81 dating is a scientific method used to determine the age of groundwater. This rare isotope is produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere and then dissolves into rainwater, eventually seeping into groundwater. With a half-life of 230,000 years, <sup>81</sup>Kr can be used for dating groundwater up to a million years old. The overall abundance of krypton in the atmosphere is only about 1.10 parts per million by volume (ppmv), and within this, the fraction of <sup>81</sup>Kr is extremely small, about 5 × 10<sup>−13</sup>. Extracting krypton from groundwater is challenging, requiring processing of large volumes of water.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=Reika |last2=Heraty |first2=Linnea J. |last3=Sturchio |first3=Neil C. |title=Method for Purification of Krypton from Environmental Samples for Analysis of Radiokrypton Isotopes |journal=Analytical Chemistry |year=2008 |volume=80 |issue=22 |pages=8688–8693 |doi=10.1021/ac801804x |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac801804x }}</ref> The isotopic abundance of <sup>81</sup>Kr is measured using Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA). Despite these technical challenges, <sup>81</sup>Kr dating is a valuable tool for understanding groundwater history as krypton behaves as an inert tracer during groundwater transport.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lu |first1=Z.-T. |last2=Schlosser |first2=P. |last3=Smethie |first3=W.M. |last4=Sturchio |first4=N.C. |last5=Fischer |first5=T.P. |last6=Kennedy |first6=B.M. |last7=Purtschert |first7=R. |last8=Severinghaus |first8=J.P. |last9=Solomon |first9=D.K. |last10=Tanhua |first10=T. |last11=Yokochi |first11=R. |title=Tracer applications of noble gas radionuclides in the geosciences |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |year=2014 |volume=138 |pages=196-214 }}</ref>
+In a study of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in Israel's Negev Desert, Yokochi and colleagues utilized radiokrypton (<sup>81</sup>Kr) to date groundwater, discovering two major water recharge events.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=R. |last2=Ram |first2=R. |last3=Zappala |first3=J.C. |last4=Jiang |first4=W. |last5=Adar |first5=E. |last6=Bernier |first6=R. |last7=Burg |first7=A. |last8=Dayan |first8=U. |last9=Lu |first9=Z.T. |last10=Mueller |first10=P. |last11=Purtschert |first11=R. |year=2019 |title=Radiokrypton unveils dual moisture sources of a deep desert aquifer |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=116 |issue=33 |pages=16222–16227|doi=10.1073/pnas.1904260116 |doi-access=free |pmid=31358637 |pmc=6697870 |bibcode=2019PNAS..11616222Y }}</ref> The first, about 38,000 years ago, originated from the Mediterranean, and the second, around 361,000 years ago, from the tropical Atlantic. These events, coinciding with periods of low orbital eccentricity, reveal the sensitivity of moisture transport to orbital forcing. The study highlights groundwater's potential as a record of ancient precipitation and long-term subsurface water storage.
-In a study of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in Israel's Negev Desert, Yokochi and colleagues utilized radiokrypton (81Kr) to date groundwater, discovering two major water recharge events.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=R. |last2=Ram |first2=R. |last3=Zappala |first3=J.C. |last4=Jiang |first4=W. |last5=Adar |first5=E. |last6=Bernier |first6=R. |last7=Burg |first7=A. |last8=Dayan |first8=U. |last9=Lu |first9=Z.T. |last10=Mueller |first10=P. |last11=Purtschert |first11=R. |year=2019 |title=Radiokrypton unveils dual moisture sources of a deep desert aquifer |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=116 |issue=33 |pages=16222–16227}}</ref> The first, about 38,000 years ago, originated from the Mediterranean, and the second, around 361,000 years ago, from the tropical Atlantic. These events, coinciding with periods of low orbital eccentricity, reveal the sensitivity of moisture transport to orbital forcing. The study highlights groundwater's potential as a record of ancient precipitation and long-term subsurface water storage.
 Application of <sup>81</sup>Kr to the Floridan Aquifer revealed freshwater recharge from the Last Glacial Period.<ref name="FloridianYokochi" /> Additionally, it detected fossil seawater predating the Last Glacial Maximum, indicating slow seawater movement and a limited but significant exchange of solutes with the ocean, contributing to the aquifer's dolomitization.
+Yokochi also conducted experiments aimed at understanding how volatile elements are trapped in ices under conditions relevant to the formation of comets and icy moons.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=Reika |last2=Marboeuf |first2=Ulysse |last3=Quirico |first3=Eric |last4=Schmitt |first4=Bernard |title=Pressure dependent trace gas trapping in amorphous water ice at 77K: Implications for determining conditions of comet formation |journal=Icarus |volume=218 |issue=2 |pages=760–770 |year=2012 |issn=0019-1035 |doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.003|bibcode=2012Icar..218..760Y }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yokochi |first1=Reika |title=Adsorption-driven Gas Trapping in Cometary Ice Analogs |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=940 |number=2 |pages=153 |year=2022 |doi=10.3847/1538-4357/ac9621 |publisher=American Astronomical Society|doi-access=free |bibcode=2022ApJ...940..153Y }}</ref> The results of those experiments showed that ice surfaces have heterogeneous adsorption energies, influenced by initial ice-deposition temperatures and thermal annealing. Adsorption sites with higher energy play a significant role at low pressures and higher temperatures, conditions relevant to the protosolar nebula. The experiments also showed that gas trapping occurs primarily through the burial of gas adsorbed on newly formed ice surfaces. Yokochi's experiments indicate that the formation temperature of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as suggested by the observed Ar/H<sub>2</sub>O ratio, was around 40 K.
-Yokochi also contributed to the analysis of gases in samples returned from the [[162173 Ryugu|Ryugu asteroid]] by [[JAXA]]'s [[Hayabusa2|Hayabusa2 mission]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lerner |first=Louise |date=2022-06-09 |title=Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-release-first-analysis-rocks-plucked-speeding-asteroid |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[University of Chicago News]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702232404/https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-release-first-analysis-rocks-plucked-speeding-asteroid |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Okazaki |first=Ryuji |last2=Marty |first2=Bernard |last3=Busemann |first3=Henner |last4=Hashizume |first4=Ko |last5=Gilmour |first5=Jamie D. |last6=Meshik |first6=Alex |last7=Yada |first7=Toru |last8=Kitajima |first8=Fumio |last9=Broadley |first9=Michael W. |last10=Byrne |first10=David |last11=Füri |first11=Evelyn |last12=Riebe |first12=My E. I. |last13=Krietsch |first13=Daniela |last14=Maden |first14=Colin |last15=Ishida |first15=Akizumi |date=2023-02-24 |title=Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0431 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=379 |issue=6634 |doi=10.1126/science.abo0431 |issn=0036-8075 |access-date=2023-12-25 |archive-date=2023-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521060642/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0431 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Yokochi contributed to the analysis of gases in samples returned from the [[162173 Ryugu|Ryugu asteroid]] by [[JAXA]]'s [[Hayabusa2|Hayabusa2 mission]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lerner |first=Louise |date=2022-06-09 |title=Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-release-first-analysis-rocks-plucked-speeding-asteroid |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=[[University of Chicago News]] |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702232404/https://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-release-first-analysis-rocks-plucked-speeding-asteroid |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Okazaki |first1=Ryuji |last2=Marty |first2=Bernard |last3=Busemann |first3=Henner |last4=Hashizume |first4=Ko |last5=Gilmour |first5=Jamie D. |last6=Meshik |first6=Alex |last7=Yada |first7=Toru |last8=Kitajima |first8=Fumio |last9=Broadley |first9=Michael W. |last10=Byrne |first10=David |last11=Füri |first11=Evelyn |last12=Riebe |first12=My E. I. |last13=Krietsch |first13=Daniela |last14=Maden |first14=Colin |last15=Ishida |first15=Akizumi |date=2023-02-24 |title=Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0431 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=379 |issue=6634 |pages=eabo0431 |doi=10.1126/science.abo0431 |pmid=36264828 |bibcode=2023Sci...379.0431O |s2cid=253045328 |issn=0036-8075 |access-date=2023-12-25 |archive-date=2023-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521060642/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0431 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 == Personal life ==
+Reika Yokochi was married to [[Nicolas Dauphas]], a fellow planetary scientist; the couple has two children. She died on February 17, 2024 from EGFR-driven lung cancer, a disease that disproportionately affects nonsmoking women of East asian ancestry.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Lung cancer in never-smoker Asian females is driven by oncogenic mutations, most often involving EGFR |date=2015 |pmc=4467161 |last1=Ha |first1=S. Y. |last2=Choi |first2=S. J. |last3=Cho |first3=J. H. |last4=Choi |first4=H. J. |last5=Lee |first5=J. |last6=Jung |first6=K. |last7=Irwin |first7=D. |last8=Liu |first8=X. |last9=Lira |first9=M. E. |last10=Mao |first10=M. |last11=Kim |first11=H. K. |last12=Choi |first12=Y. S. |last13=Shim |first13=Y. M. |last14=Park |first14=W. Y. |last15=Choi |first15=Y. L. |last16=Kim |first16=J. |journal=Oncotarget |volume=6 |issue=7 |pages=5465–5474 |doi=10.18632/oncotarget.2925 |pmid=25760072 }}</ref> Air pollution by particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter seems to be a factor contributing to the onset of EGFR-driven lung cancer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sciencealert.com/just-3-years-of-air-pollution-can-increase-lung-cancer-risk-study-warns |title=Just 3 Years of Air Pollution Can Increase Lung Cancer Risk, Study Warns |website=ScienceAlert |date=10 April 2023 |access-date=2024-03-01}}</ref>
-Reika Yokochi is married to [[Nicolas Dauphas]], a fellow planetary scientist; the couple has two children.{{cn|date=December 2023}}
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