Presentation Format
All presentations will be oral, 12 minutes in length with 3 minutes for questions. The presentations will be streaming live on and we will be accepting questions using Adobe Connect, found here: https://connect.arc.nasa.gov/lgc2014/
Saturday, July 19, 2014
• 18:30: | Meet at Quality Inn for Pre-Conference Dinner |
Sunday, July 20, 2014
NASA Ames Building 152, Room 171
• 8:00: | Pre-Conference Tech Check: Mics, Slides, Orientation with Chairs |
• 8:30: | Welcome and Introduction |
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• 8:40: | Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, NLSI/SSERVI Welcome |
• 8:55: | Ice Breaker and Group Photo |
SESSION I: Dust/Regolith, Plasma, and Volatiles |
Chairs: Jamey Szalay & Alessondra Springmann |
• 9:10: | Jamey Szalay, Overview: Dust/Plasma |
• 9:25: | Marcus Piquette, Effects of lunar topography on charged dust dynamics in the near-surface environment |
• 9:40: | Monique Hollick, Revisiting lunar weather measurements from Apollo 12, 14 & 15 |
• 9:55: | Gen Ito, Calculating the scattering properties of fine-grained particulates of planetary surfaces |
• 10:10: | Parvathy Prem, Comets as a source of lunar volatiles: tracking water from impact to permanent shadows |
• 10:25: | Alessondra Springmann, Overview: Radar Studies of Asteroids |
• 10:40: | Elizabeth Palmer, The bistatic radar experiment at Vesta using the Dawn communications antennas |
• 10:55: | Alessondra Springmann, Arecibo Observatory planetary radar observations of near-Earth asteroid surfaces |
• 11:10: | DISCUSSION |
• 11:20: | BREAK |
SESSION III: Geology and Geophysics |
Chairs: Dan Moriarty & Elise Rumpf |
• 14:15: | Dan Moriarty, Overview |
• 14:45: | Kiichiro DeLuca, Characterization of the Exterior Spherical Harmonic Gravity Potential Divergence |
• 15:00: | Lauren Jozwiak, Lunar floor-fractured craters: constraining the timing of intrusion formation within the lunar volcanic history. |
• 15:15: | James Keane, Evidence for lunar true polar wander, and a past low-eccentricity, synchronous lunar orbit |
• 15:30: | BREAK |
• 15:45: | Cameron Mercer, Over 500 million years of lunar impact history quantified by laser microprobe 40Ar/39Ar dating of two Apollo 17 breccias |
• 16:00: | Elise Rumpf, Thicknesses of Lunar Lava Flows: Comparison of Layered Mare Units with Terrestrial Analogs |
• 16:15: | Jennifer Scully, Gullies as geomorphological evidence for transient water flow on Vesta, with a comparison to lunar gullies |
• 16:30: | Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Constraints on the Physical Properties of Main Belt Comet P/2013 R3 from its Breakup Event |
• 16:45: | DISCUSSION |
• 17:00: | Closing Remarks & Evaluations |