LunGradCon: Conference Organizers

The Organizing Committee is comprised of grad students from a variety of institutions and areas of research.

Email the conference organizers.

• Zach Ulibarri, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Zach is a graduate student in the Physics department at the University of Colorado, Boulder working on accelerator studies and ion gun experiments.

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• Marcus Piquette, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Marcus is a sixth-year graduate student in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works with Mihály Horányi on data analysis from the Student Dust Counter aboard the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto.

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• Li Hsia Yeo, University of Colorado Boulder

  

  Li Hsia is a second year graduate student in the Department of Physics working with Xu Wang and Mihály Horányi on the Colorado Solar Wind Experiment (CSWE).

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• Alessondra Springmann, University of Arizona

  

  Alessondra Springmann is a third-year graduate student in the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona studying asteroids, comets, and meteorites with Dante S. Lauretta and Walter M. Harris. She spent two years working on the thermal properties of primitive meteorites and their relevance to preserving samples returned from asteroids, and currently observes three Jupiter-family comets passing close by Earth, the last time comets will be this well positioned for observing until 2038.

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• Marina Gemma, Columbia University

  

  Marina Gemma is a third-year graduate student at Columbia University who does her research in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the American Museum of Natural History. She studies meteorites with Denton S. Ebel, focusing on the spectral characteristics and trace element chemistry of ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites.

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