SUNDAY, AUGUST 21

PSI West Wing office at 1650 E. Fort Lowell, Suite 201

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Board of Trustees meeting (Kitt Peak, depart and return to WW)

5:00 - 7:00 PM Pre-Retreat Soiree!

• Sandwiches, wine, beer
• Visit with old friends and make new ones!
• Get a jump on picking up your iPad 2 and making the switch!

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 22

Westward Look Resort

 

8:00-9:00 Rooms available for poster setup.

8:30-9:00 Registration

• Individual pictures (Alan Fischer)

9:00-9:15 Welcome, Introduction of Trustees, Corporate Staff Introductions, Volunteers, Announcements (Sykes)

• David Crown (Assistant Director)
• Elaine Owens (Office Manager)
• Chris Holmberg (Assistant Administrator and Newsletter Editor)
• Bruce Barnett (Chief Financial Officer)
• Kelly Yoder (Sponsored Projects Manager)
• Michelle Greer (Accountant)
• Linda Rueger (Human Resources Specialist)
• Amy Hartmann-Gordon (Development Officer)
• Alan Fischer (Public Information Officer)
• Terrill Yuhas (Information Technology Manager)
• Kathi Gardner (Information Technology Technician)
• Gavin Nelson (Infrastructure Systems Administrator)
• Pasquale Tricarico (Research Scientist) – Cluster Administrator
• Frank Chuang (Research Associate/Software Specialist) - support for institutional software licenses & field equipment
• Dan Berman (Research Scientist) - provides support for SOCET Set
• Jeff Morgenthaler (Senior Scientist) – Red Team lead
• Eric Palmer (Postdoctoral Research Scientist) – Seminar organizer

 9:15-10:00 State of PSI (Sykes)

• Friend-raising & Thanks (Hartmann-Gordon)
• Software Licenses & Field Equipment (Chuang)
• WISER & EPO activities (Crown)

10:00-10:30 Poster previews!         

• Marc Fries – Weather Radar Detection of Meteorite Falls: Recent Updates
• Karly Pitman – Astronomy Graduate Student Longitudinal Survey 2
• Tommy Grav - A WISE Look at the Hilda Population
• Becky Williams – PSI in the Field!
• Becky Williams & Frank Chuang - Valley Network Preservation in Oxia Palus, Mars
• Henry Throop - Introducing GV: A Geometry Visualizer for Planning Spacecraft and Ground-Based Observations
• Candy Hansen - Mars’ Northern Dunes: Volatiles and Geology
• Brent Garry - Evidence for Inflated Lava Flows on the Moon
• Catherine Johnson – Investigation of Scattering and Attenuation in Lunar Seismic Code/Characterizing Crater Topography with LOLA Data
• Sanlyn Buxner –  Supporting Your Education and Public Outreach Efforts:  The Science Mission Directorate Planetary Science Forum
• Kristin Lawrence - Interactions Between the Early Martian Dynamo, Surface Water,Atmosphere and Solar Wind
• Susan Benecchi - KBO Colors, Variability and Lightcurves
• Mark Bishop - Linear Dune Spacing and the Influence of Topography,Simpson Desert: An Analoguefor the Understanding of Dune Formation on Earth and Titan
• Larry Lebofsky - Small Bodies, Big Concepts: Professional Development Workshops for Middle School Teachers
• Steve Metzger - A Call for Interest in Teaching Science with Supplemental EPO Funds

10:30-10:45 Candy Hansen - Volatile Atmospheres in Vapor Pressure Equilibrium with Surface Ices, Plumes, and Tori

10:45-11:00 Joe Spitale - Detection of Free Unstable Modes and Massive Bodies in Saturn's Outer B Ring

11:00-Noon [Open Time]

• Posters
• PSiPad -> PSiPad 2 migration for offsite scientists (IT Staff )
• Frank Chuang - PSI institutional software licenses (installation help, licensing issues, general questions)

Noon-1:30 Lunch

1:30-1:45 Rebecca Ghent (applicant) - An Investigation of Regolith Cover on Ejecta Blocks: Implications for Regolith Development

1:45-2:00 Catherine Johnson - MESSENGER Observations of Mercury's Magnetic Field

2:00-2:15 Henry Throop - Planet Formation in Dense Star Clusters

2:15-2:30 Dave Vaniman - Curiosity’s Exploration of Mineralogy at Gale Crater

2:30-4:00 [Open Time]

• Posters
• PSiPad -> PSiPad 2 migration for offsite scientists (IT Staff )
• Frank Chuang - PSI institutional software licenses (installation help, licensing issues, general questions)

2:30 Breakout on PSI financial management, Cover sheets, GSRs, managing your accounts, and things generally fiscal (with Sykes, Barnett & Yoder)
3:30 Breakout on using and supporting the Remote Controlled Telescope (RCT) (Tedesco and Davis)

4:00-4:15 Susanne Douglas – Microbes and Minerals on Earth and Mars (?)

4:15-4:30 Tommy Grav - The Jupiter Trojans as seen from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

4:30-4:45 Brent Garry - Analog Studies - A Year in Review

4:45-5:00 Jim McElwaine – Levees in Geophysical Flows

 

Banquet (Janos) - 6 PM Cash Bar. 6:30 Dinner.

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23

Westward Look Resort

 

8:30-9:00 Individual photos continued!

9:00-9:15 Welcome back, Admin items

9:15-9:45 Group Photo

9:45-10:00   Liz Jensen – Measuring the "Invisible" Magnetic Field in the Solar Atmosphere

10:00-10:15 Kristin Lawrence - Lunar Paleomagnetism: Fitting Together Sample and Satellite Measurements

10:15-10:30 Luke Sollitt - The Atsa Suborbital Observatory: turning a new Eagle’s eye on the heavens

10:30-10:45 Eric Palmer – Project Mercator:  Helping Rovers Find Themselves

10:45-Noon [Open Time]

• Posters
• PSiPad -> PSiPad 2 migration for offsite scientists (IT Staff )
• Frank Chuang - PSI institutional software licenses (installation help, licensing issues, general questions)

11:00 Dawn Mission Breakout (Sykes & PSI Dawn Team)

Noon-1:30 Lunch

1:30-1:45 Alexis Rodriguez (Special Report) - Surveying tsunami damage in Tohoku, Japan

1:45-3:45 [Open Time]

• Posters
• PSiPad -> PSiPad 2 migration for offsite scientists (IT Staff )
• Frank Chuang - PSI institutional software licenses (installation help, licensing issues, general questions)

1:45 WISER and EPO Breakout (Crown)
2:45 PSiPad tutorial (IT Staff)

3:45-4:15 NASA Update, funding prospects & strategies

4:15-4:30 Meeting Wrap-up

4:30 End