Planetary Sample Science Seminar Fall 2025
Hosted by CASA Moon (UNM), SSERVI Central, UNM Grand Challenge, Institute of Meteoritics, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and RASSLE (JHUAPL).
Fall 2025 Schedule Wednesday 11AM (Mountain) Northrop Hall 340. Virtual attendance link: https://sservi.nasa.gov/casa-moon-seminar-series/.
Welcome. Melts on the lunar surface. Impact or mantle melting?
September 3, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Chip Shearer
University of New Mexico
Lunar Resources: Enabling Assets or Futuristic Unobtainium?
September 10, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Clive R Neal
University of Notre Dame
Europium in the Lunar Crust
September 17, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Nick Dygert
University of Tennessee
Computational Approaches to Characterizing Organic Matter with Machine Learning and the Astrobiology Spectral Database
September 24, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Laura Rodriguez
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Constraints on the impactor flux to the Earth-Moon system from oxygen isotopes of the lunar regolith
October 1, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Tony Gargano
LPI
Advancing Spectroscopy Instrumentation for Planetary Exploration from the Subsurface to the Sky
October 8, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Ann Ollila
LANL
Behavior of moderately volatile elements on the Moon
October 15, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Josh Wimpenny
LLNL
Applications of Advanced Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques to Understand Processes in Planetary Materials
October 22, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Adrian Brearley
UNM
Remotely exploring the interior of the Moon
October 29, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Lingzhi Sun
University of Hawaii
Interpreting lunar zircon chronology at the nano-scale
November 5, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Thomas Kruijer and Katie Goss
LLNL and UNM (respectively)
Diffusion/Exchange Driven Equilibration During Melt-Wallrock Interaction on the Moon
November 12, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Mousumi Roy
UNM
Utilization of X‐ray computed tomography during the preliminary examination of unopened Apollo drive tube samples 73001 and 73002
November 19, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Scott Eckley
NASA JSC
New Views on Terrestrial Planet Formation and Early Lunar Bombardment
December 3, 2025 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
William Bottke
SSWRI