Planetary Sample Science Seminar

Hosted by CASA Moon (UNM), SSERVI Central, UNM Grand Challenge, Institute of Meteoritics, Lunar & Planetary Institute, RASSLE (JHUAPL), CLEVER (Georgia Tech), and CLOE (SW Research Institute)

Fall 2026

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

Noah Petro (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): Perspectives on Lunar Sample Return from Artemis
September 9, 2026

Karl Hibbitts and Cold Sample Team (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory): Updates on Handling of Cold Lunar Samples
September 16, 2026

Harry Lisabeth (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): The Seismic Signature of Lunar Ice: Insights from In Situ Synchrotron Microtomography
September 23, 2026

Jeff Andrews-Hanna and Gabe Gowman (University of Arizona): Nature of the South Pole Aitken Basin
September 30, 2026

Jared Long-Fox (University of Central Florida): In Situ Regolith Characterization for Sample Selection and Resource Prospecting
October 7, 2026

Steve Parnam (Brown University): An Asymmetric Lunar Magma Ocean
October 14, 2026

Gabriel Buffo (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory): Infrared Spectroscopy of Flash-Frozen Mineral Dust: Water Ice Mixtures of Lunar Relevance
October 21, 2026

Lars Borg (The University of New Mexico): Relaxing Geochemical Constraints on the Giant Impact
October 28, 2026

Zach Gallegos and Chip Shearer (The University of New Mexico): Pyroclastic Volcanism in the Taurus-Littrow Valley
November 4, 2026

Jeremy Boyce (NASA Johnson Space Center): Stability of Volatiles in Permanently Shadowed Regions of the Moon's South Pole
November 11, 2026

Quinton Vitelli-Hawkins and Lydia Hamilton (The University of New Mexico): Highland and Mare Magmatism
November 18, 2026

Audrey Morris-Eckart (NASA HQ): Exploration and Technology Needs for the Return of Humans to the Moon
December 2, 2026