Planetary Sample Science Seminar Fall 2026
Hosted by CASA Moon (UNM), SSERVI Central, UNM Grand Challenge, Institute of Meteoritics, Lunar and Planetary Institute, RASSLE (JHUAPL) and CLEVER (Georgia Tech).
Fall 2026 Schedule Wednesday 11AM (Mountain) Northrop Hall 340. Virtual attendance link: https://sservi.nasa.gov/casa-moon-seminar-series/.
Updates on the Artemis Program.
September 9, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Noah Petro
NASA-GSDC
Updates on handling of cold lunar samples
September 16, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Karl Hibbitts and Cold Sample Team
JHUAPL
The seismic signature of lunar ice: insights from in situ synchrotron microtomography
September 23, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Harry Lisabeth
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nature of the South Pole Aitken Basin
September 30, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Jeff Andrews-Hanna and Gabe Gowman
University of Arizona
In situ Regolith Characterization for Sample Selection and Resource Prospecting
October 7, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Jared Long-Fox
University of Central Florida
An Asymmetric Lunar Magma Ocean
October 14, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Steve Parman
Brown University
Infrared Spectroscopy of Flash-Frozen Mineral Dust: Water Ice Mixtures of Lunar Relevance
October 21, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Gabriel Buffo
JHUAPL
Relaxing geochemical constraints on the giant impact
October 28, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Lars Borg
UNM
Pyroclastic Volcanism in the Taurus-Littrow Valley
November 4, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Zach Gallegos, Chip Shearer
UNM
Stability of volatiles in permanently shadowed regions of the Moon’s South Pole
November 11, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Jeremy Boyce
NASA JSC
Highland and mare magmatism
November 18, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Quinton Vitelli-Hawkins, Lydia Hamilton
UNM
Exploration and technology needs for the Return of Humans to the Moon
December 2, 2026 11:00 am
Northrop Hall 340
Audrey Morris-Eckart
NASA HQ