Presentation Format

All presentations will be oral, 10 minutes in length with 2 minutes for questions.

Monday, July 18^th, 2016

• 18:30:

Meet at Quality Inn for Pre-Conference Dinner

Tuesday, July 19^th, 2016

NASA Ames Building 152, Room 120

• 7:30:	Pre-Conference Tech Check: Mics, Slides, Orientation with Chairs
• 8:05:	Dr. Yvonne Pendleton, NLSI/SSERVI Welcome
• 8:10:	Welcome and Introduction from Evan Thomas
• 8:25:	Ice Breaker and Group Photo

SESSION I: Geophysics & Geology
Chairs: Carver Bierson, Katherine Shirley, & Akbar Whizin
• 8:40:	Ross Potter, Overview: Geophysics/Geology
• 9:05:	Akbar Whizin, Collisional accretion of centimeter-sized protoplanetesimals
• 9:17:	Carver Bierson, Using Density to Test for a Compositional Difference between Pluto and Charon
• 9:29:	Katherine Shirley, Minerals and Mixtures Under Simulated Lunar Environment
• 9:41:	Jack Conrad, Characterizing ancient impact basins discovered by GRAIL gravity data
• 9:53:	Indhu Varatharajan, Mineralogy of lunar farside mare basalts on the feldspathic highland terrain: Spectral assessment using M3 Chandrayaan-1
• 10:05:	Ross Potter, Planetary twins? Investigating the formation of asteroid impact basins on the Moon and Mercury
• 10:17:	Brian Shiro, Geophysical investigation of lava tubes at the HI-SEAS planetary analog site in Hawai‘i
• 10:29:	Michael Demasi, What do Meteorite Falls tell us about the Strength of Asteroid Boulders?
• 10:41:	Donald Hendrix, Identification of mechanically induced radical species and hydroxyl radicals via electron paramagnetic resonance
• 10:53:	DISCUSSION
• 11:05	BREAK

SESSION II: Dust/Regolith, Plasma & Volatiles Part I
Chairs: Jamey Szalay, Evan Thomas, & Marcus Piquette
• 11:17:	Jamey Szalay, Overview: Dust/Regolith, Plasma & Volatiles
• 11:42:	Yasvanth Poondla,Simulating the LCROSS plume: improvements to water ice and vapor model
• 11:54	Jamey Szalay, Meteoritic Bombardment at the Moon and LADEE/LDEX Derived Gardening Rates
• 12:06:	Marcus Piquette, The effect of asymmetric surface topography on dust dynamics in the lunar plasma environment
• 12:18:	LUNCH BREAK

SESSION II: Dust/Regolith, Plasma & Volatiles Part II
Chairs: Jamey Szalay, Evan Thomas, & Marcus Piquette
• 13:48:	Keenan Hunt-Stone,Using Apollo data to characterize the lunar environment
• 14:00:	Evan Thomas, Measurements of simulated micrometeoroids in the laboratory
• 14:12:	Ngoc Truong, Water on Phobos and Deimos: Implications of Water in Tektites for the Giant Impact Origin Hypothesis for the Moons of Mars
• 14:24:	Zach Ulibarri, The Colorado Solar Wind Experiment
• 14:36:	Alessondra Springmann, Thermal Release of Labile Elements from Primitive Meteorites: Applications for Asteroid Sample Return Science and ISRU
• 14:48:	Egboche Unobe, Experimental determination of volatile evolution and recovery from carbonaceous asteroid simulants
• 15:00	DISCUSSION
• 15:10	BREAK

SESSION III: Missions and Human Exploration
Chairs: Gen Ito, Brian Shiro, & Alessondra Springmann
• 15:40:	Alessondra Springmann, Overview: MIssions and Human Exploration
• 16:05:	Gen Ito, Incorporation of Portable Infrared Spectral Imaging into Planetary Geological Field Work: Analog Studies at Kilauea, Hawaii
• 16:17:	Lena Heffern, Neutron activation analysis of iron IV meteorite samples with the GeMini-Plus, a high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer designed for extraterrestrial missions
• 16:29:	Jonathan Harline, 3D printing exploratory and settlement structures on Mars with Martian Concrete
• 16:41:	Ariel Deutsch, Science exploration architecture for Phobos and Deimos: Are the moons of Mars in the critical pathway of human exploration of Mars?
• 16:53:	David Neumann, Owning space; the difficulties faced when opposing nations and corporations want land claims
• 17:05:	DISCUSSION
• 17:15:	Closing Remarks & Evaluations
• 18:30:	Group Dinner

Contact Information

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