CASA Moon Planetary Sample Science Seminar

Fall 2025

Held in-person at Northrop Hall, room 340 on Wednesdays at 11AM or virtually by SSERVI here

Chip Shearer (The University of New Mexico): Melts on the lunar surface. Impact or mantle melting?
September 3, 2025

Clive R. Neal (University of Notre Dame): Lunar Resources: Enabling Assets or Futuristic Unobtainium?
September 10, 2025

Nick Dygret (University of Tennessee): Europium in the Lunar Crust
September 17, 2025

Laura Rodriguez (Lunar & Planetary Institute): Computational Approaches to Characterizing Organic Matter with Machine Learning and the Astrobiology Spectral Database
September 24, 2025

Tony Gargano (Lunar & Planetary Institute): Constraints on the impactor flux to the Earth-Moon system from oxygen isotopes of lunar regolith
October 1, 2025

Ann Olilla (Los Alamos National Laboratory): Advancing Spectroscopy Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration from the Subsurface to the Sky
October 8, 2025

Josh Wimpenny (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory): Behavior of moderately volatile elements on the Moon
October 15, 2025

Adrian Brearley (The University of New Mexico): Applications of Advanced Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques to Understand Processes in Planetary Materials
October 22, 2025

Lingzhi Sun (University of Hawaii): Remotely exploring the interior of the Moon
October 29, 2025

Thomas Kruijer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and Katie Goss (The University of New Mexico): Interpreting lunar zircon chronology at the nano-scale
November 5, 2025

Mousumi Roy (The University of New Mexico): Diffusion/Exchnage Driven Equilibration During Melt-Wallrock Interaction on the Moon
November 12, 2025

Scott Eckley (NASA Johnson Space Center): Utilization of X-ray computed tomography during the preliminary examination of unopened Apollo drive tube samples 73001 and 73002
November 19, 2025

William Bottke (Southwest Research institute): New Views on Terrestrial Planet Formation and Early Lunar Bombardment
December 3, 2025