THE PSI SEMINAR SERIES: WEDNESDAYS AT 11:00 AM

NOTE: Seminars are held in PSI's west wing. For maps and directions click here.

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Title (link to abstract)
Jan 21	Bryan Travis (Los Alamos National Lab)	Brine Aquifers, Salt Deposits and Ice Lenses on Mars
Monday Jan 26	Kenneth Tanaka (Astrogeology Team, U.S. Geological Survey)	Advances in Mars' north polar stratigraphy and geomorphology
Jan 28	Eric Palmer (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, UA)	The Detection, Production and Stability of Carbon Dioxide on Iapetus and other Saturnian Moons
Thursday Feb 19	James M. Dohm (Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, UA)	Claritas rise, Valles Marineris, and Tharsis/Elysium corridor: markers for the early-, middle-, and late-stage development of Tharsis'
Tuesday Feb 24	Alfonso F. Davila (NASA Ames Research Center)	Follow the water-Follow the salts. Learnings from the Atacama Desert about the search for life on Mars
Thursday Mar 12	Jeffrey Kargel (Department of Hydrology & Water Resources, UA)	Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) and Satellite Image Classification and Glacier Dynamics in Alaska
Monday Mar 16	Jon Clarke (Mars Society Australia)	Relief inversion on Earth and Mars
Mar 25	LPSC Meeting, The Woodlands, TX
Apr 01	Gareth Collins (Imperial College, London)	Numerical simulations of oblique impact crater formation
Friday Apr 03	Goro Komatsu (International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Italy)	Cataclysmic flooding from paleolakes in cold environment: A comparative study on Earth and Mars
Apr 08	Robert G. Strom (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, UA)	Mercury and the MESSENGER First and Second Flyby Results
Friday Apr 24	Jani Radebaugh (Brigham Young University)	Titan's Mobile Surface: Eolian Activity, Erosion, and Tectonism on Titan from Cassini Radar
May 13	Alfred McEwen (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, UA)	Exploring Mars with HiRISE
Friday May 15	Mary Chapman (U.S. Geological Survey)	Evidence of Young Outflow Materials in Echus Chasma, Mars
May 20	Alice Baldridge (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)	Contemporaneous Deposition of Phyllosilicates and Sulfates; Using Australian Acidic Saline Lake Deposits to Describe Geochemical Variability on Mars
May 27	Alberto Fairen (NASA Ames)	Cancelled
Friday May 29	Nick Tosca (Harvard University)	Water on Ancient Mars: Mineralogical Constraints on Timing, Duration and Chemistry
Friday June 12	Barbara Cohen (NASA Marshall)	The Moon is a Planet Too: Lunar Science and Robotic Exploration

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