Presentations will be recorded in advance and posted to youtube. There will be question and answer sessions, roundtables with SSERVI leadership and early career groups, and social events during the actual conference dates.
Please note that all times are in Pacific Time.Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
| • 15:00 | "Pre-Conference Dinner" social session on gather.town. Click here to join.. |
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
Zoom link only available to registered attendees .
| • 7:30 | Pre-Conference Tech Check: Mics, Slides, Orientation with Chairs |
| • 8:00 | Gregg Schmidt: NASA SSERVI Welcome and Lightning Round Tips |
| • 8:30 | LunGradCon Welcome & Introduction |
| • 8:45 | Ice Breakers |
| SESSION I: (Lunar) Formation and Evolution | ||
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| Chairs: Mélissa Martinot and Sara Gutierrez | ||
| • 9:10 | Sara Gutierrez, Consequences of the nucleation barrier on lunar core evolution | Feedback Form |
| • 9:15 | Mélissa Martinot, Constraining the formation of the Moon's anorthositic crust | Feedback Form |
| • 9:20: | Kevin Trinh, The argument for a young metallic core in Europa | Feedback Form |
| • 9:25 | Discussion | |
| • 9:50 | Morning Breakout Room Social and Lunch (50 Minutes) | |
| • 10:40 | NextGen Lunar Science Group Panel | |
| SESSION II: Sample Science | ||
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| Chairs: Aleksandra Gawronska and Brittany Cymes | ||
| • 11:25 | Brittany Cymes, Variation in nanophase metallic iron particle occurrence in exsolved space-weathered lunar pyroxene | Feedback Form |
| • 11:30 | Aleksandra Gawronska, New insights into lunar basalt flow emplacement from Apollo sample studies via X-ray computed tomography | Feedback Form |
| • 11:35 | Gavin Tolometti, Constraining Impact Cratering Pressure and Temperature Conditions Using Zircon and Zirconia Polymorph Crystals | Feedback Form |
| • 11:40 | Ryan Galinkin, Characterizing the effects of porosity and particle size on TIR olivine spectral features | Feedback Form |
| • 11:45 | Discussion | |
| SESSION III: Lunar Regolith | ||
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| Chairs: Autumn Shackelford and Caleb Gimar | ||
| • 12:10 | Antoine Bourget, Optical polarization studies of latex beads in aqueous solution: An analog for radar scattering in lunar icy regolith | Feedback Form |
| • 12:15 | Parks Easter, High Fidelity Lunar Agglutinate Simulant | Feedback Form |
| • 12:20 | Douglas Fontes, Lunar Regolith Particles Interacting with Lander Rocket Plume at lower Altitudes | Feedback Form |
| • 12:25 | Caleb Gimar, Far-ultraviolet photometric characteristics of JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant: comparisons to Apollo soil 10084 | Feedback Form |
| • 12:30 | Ramin Lolachi, Optical monitoring of the dust environment at lunar surface exploration sites | Feedback Form |
| • 12:35 | Autumn Shackelford, Morphologic and spectral characterization of regolith breakdown due to water ice | Feedback Form |
| • 12:40 | Discussion | |
| • 13:05 | Gather.Town Social | |
Friday, July 16th, 2021
Zoom link only available to registered attendees .
| • 8:00 | Announcements | |
| SESSION IV: Remote Sensing | ||
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| Chairs: Cailin Gallinger, Jacob Kloos, and Nicholas Piskurich | ||
| • 8:05 | John Fairweather, High-Resolution Automated Impact Crater Detection on LRO-NAC Images | Feedback Form |
| • 8:10 | Cailin Gallinger, Mapping ejecta diversity of young lunar craters with thermal infrared imaging | Feedback Form |
| • 8:15 | Jacob Kloos, Analyses of long-exposure NAC imagery in lunar PSRs: implications for exposed volatiles | Feedback Form |
| • 8:20 | Shreekumari Patel, Appraisal of Physical properties of Petavius B crater using Mini-RF data | Feedback Form |
| • 8:25 | Nick Piskurich, Compositional characterization of the enigmatic irregular mare patches via M3 and Diviner data analyses | Feedback Form |
| • 8:30 | Discussion | |
| • 8:55 | Morning Break (20 Minutes) | |
| SESSION V: Experimental and Instrument Exploration | ||
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| Chairs: Nivedita Mahesh and Ethan Ayari | ||
| • 9:15 | Ethan Ayari, Visualizing Ring Currents with a Planeterrella Device | Feedback Form |
| • 9:20 | Alex Doner, Polyvinylidene Fluoride Impact Charge Production After High Temperature Exposures | Feedback Form |
| • 9:25 | Benjamin Farcy, Miniature ICPMS for in situ chemical analysis: Applications for landed lunar science | Feedback Form |
| • 9:30 | Nivedita Mahesh, Estimation of polarization effects on sky visibilities for FARSIDE | Feedback Form | • 9:35: | Discussion |
| • 10:10 | Morning Break (70 Minutes) | |
| • 11:10: | SSERVI Leadership Q&A |
| • 12:15 | The Great LunGradCon Race of 2021 |
| SESSION VI: Human Exploration and Resource Utilization | ||
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| Chairs: Samuel Halim & Gustavo Jamanca-Lino | ||
| • 12:40 | Jamie Hsing-Ming Chang, Damage provoked by exposure of human lung cells to lunar regolith simulants | Feedback Form |
| • 12:45 | Donald Hendrix, Hydroxyl radical generation of lunar dust analogs in biologically relevant human respiratory system fluids | Feedback Form |
| • 12:50 | Sam Halim, Modelling carbonaceous chondrite survival for use as a potential lunar resource | Feedback Form |
| • 12:55 | Gustavo Jamanca-Lino, A geometallurgy approach of the exploration of lunar ilmenite | Feedback Form |
| • 13:00 | Constantinos Frantzis, Spatial Magnitude Frequency Distributions for Preliminary Lunar Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessments | Feedback Form |
| • 13:05 | Edward Williams, Internal usability and surface observability of lunar lava tubes | Feedback Form |
| • 13:10 | Discussion | |
| • 13:35 | Wrap Up | |
| • 13:45 | Gather.Town Social | |
July 15th Icebreaker Session Order
Chimira Andres
Ethan Ayari
Antoine Bourget
Jamie (Hsing-Ming) Chang
David Chaparro
Aniruddha Chowdhury
Ligia Coelho
Maxwell Collins
Brittany Cymes
Alex Doner
Parks Easter
John Fairweather
Benjamin Farcy
Douglas Fontes
Constantinos Frantzis
Ryan Galinkin
Cailin Gallinger
Aleksandra Gawronska
Marina Gemma
Caleb Gimar
Barbara Giuri
Bill Goode
Sara Gutierrez
Sam Halim
Conor Hayes
Donald Hendrix
Rashi Jain
Gustavo Jamanca Lino
Jacob Kloos
Ramin Lolachi
Kristen Luchsinger
Nivedita Mahesh
Mélissa Martinot
Tatiana Mijajlovic
Rupal Nigam
Shreekumari Patel
Lori Pigue
Nicholas Piskurich
Daniel Ricardo
Autumn Shackelford
Alessondra Spriingman
Jordan Stone
Lingzhi Sun
Jennifer Sutherland
Ashka Thaker
Gavin Tolometti
Kevin Trinh
Prateek Tripathi
Zach Ulibarri
Dany Waller
Ian Wells
Edward Williams
Lihsia Yeo
Contact Information
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