PSJC Archive

This is the history page for the Planetary Science Journal Club, giving a list of all the speakers we’ve had in previous semesters.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a summary of who has given presentations at this series.

Fall 2023
#	Date	Who	What
#422	12/01	Humberto Campins	O-Rex updates
#421	11/24	————	Thanksgiving
#420	11/17	Rachel Lowers	A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud
#419	11/10	————-	Veterans Day
#418	11/03	Dan Britt	mission updates
#417	10/27	Kayla Schang	Releasing Atmospheric Martian Dust in Sand Grain Impacts
#416	10/20	Lorraine Rosello Del Valle	Lab Experiments to Support Remote Sensing Data and Sample Return Missions
#415	10/13	Donaldson Hanna, Dove, Karalidi, Ramirez	Proposal writing
#414	10/06	———–	DPS week
#413	09/29	Genevieve (Jenny) Markees & Max Galloway	TOI-332b and the Neptunian Desert & Potential Biosignature Detection on Hycean World
#412	09/22	DPS practice week	——–
#411	09/15	Brandon Dotson	Analysis of dust samples from the Starship oribital test flight
#410	09/08	Jared Long-Fox	Coupling Experimentalism and Theorism in Planetary Science
#409	09/01	——-	———
#408	08/25	Everyone	Welcome/open discussion

Spring 2023
#	Date	Who	What
#407	4/21	Christina Moraitis	1 Year of Imaging with JWST (the highlight reel)
#406	4/14	Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin &  TBD	2020BX12: The Last binary Observed at Arecibo Observatory & TBD
#405	4/7	Joe Harrington	JWST ERS exoplanet papers.
#404	3/31	———–	Jenny’s defense @ 10am
#403	3/24	Brittany Harvison & N. Pinilla-Alonso	A JWST transmission spectrum of a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet & TBD
#402	3/17	——	LPSC week
#401	3/10	Nick Piskurich & TBD	TBD & TBD
#400	3/3	faculty	lightning talks
#399	2/24	Kenneth Gordon & Alex Wolszczan	What would happen if the Solar System had a super Earth?    & Introduction to group
#398	2/17	Richard Jerousek	Saturn’s obliquity and rings
#397	2/10	Autumn Shackelford	Ice on Mercury
#396	2/3	Lorraine Rosello Del Valle	Polarimetric Study of Near-Earth Asteroid (1566) Icarus
#395	1/27	Everyone	PSJC – style status – how we move forward
#394	1/20	——–	CUWiP
#393	1/13	Everyone	Welcome/open discussion
#392	12/2	Peter Braunschweig	Detectability of satellites around directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs
#391	11/25	——	Thanksgiving
#390	11/18	Max Galloway	Modeling Polarization Signals from Cloudy Brown Dwarfs Luhman 16 A and B in Three Dimensions
#389	11/11	——	Veteran’s day
#388	11/4	Rachel Belton	A dusty starburst masquerading as an ultra-high redshift galaxy in JWST CEERS observations
#387	10/28	everyone (leads: Addie, Theodora)	Decadal Survey (planetary & astro)
#386	10/21	——-	STEM day
#385	10/14	Chris Bennett	The Ladder of Life Detection
#384	10/7	——	DPS week
#383	9/30	everyone presenting at DPS	DPS practice talks
#382	9/23	Mary Hinkle	Arecibo S-band Radar Characterization of Local-scale Heterogeneities within Mercury’s North Polar Deposits
#381	9/16	Kerri Donaldson Hanna	Lunar-VISE
#380	9/9	Lucas McClure	Space Weathering within C-complex Main Belt Asteroid Families
#379	9/2	Kayla Schang	Lunar PAD
#378	8/26	Everyone	Welcome/open discussion
Spring 2022
#	Date	Who	What
#377	4/22	Karl Slumba & Nick Piskurich	Ammonium salts are a reservoir of nitrogen on a cometary nucleus and possibly on some asteroids & Lunar-like silicate material forms the Earth quasi-satellite (469219) 2016 HO3 Kamoʻoalewa
#376	4/15	——
#375	4/8	Peter Braunschweig	Detectability of CFCs as technosignatures
#374	4/1	Autumn Shackelford & Kayla Schang	Carbon on Mercury (p1 & p2) & Habitat Design for Long Term Lunar Exploration: Benefits and Concerns with ISRU Materials and Regolith-based Construction Methods
#373	3/25	——–	no PSJC
#372	3/18	Brittany Harvison & Max Galloway	Life detection, exoplanets, and the Copernican principle & A Snowball in Hell: The Potential Steam Atmosphere of TOI-1266c
#371	3/11	———	LPSC week
#370	3/4	everyone interested	LPSC Practice Talks
#369	2/25	Kerri Donaldson Hanna	Analyses of lunar samples returned by Chang’E 5 mission (p1 and p2)
#368	2/18	Genevieve Markees	An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i
#367	2/11	Anish Roshi	Arecibo-Green Bank-LOFAR Carbon Radio Recombination Line observations toward cold HI Clouds
#366	2/4	Christina Moraitis	The Art of Combining Light with OPA- the Original PolyOculus Array
#365	1/28	—–	no PSJC
#364	1/21	Dale Cruikshank	Ices, Organics, and Cryovolcanism in the Outer Solar System
#363	1/14	everyone	JWST and other news
Fall 2021
#362	3 Dec	Dr. Lisa Prato (Lowell)	Finding the Youngest Exoplanets and Understanding Their Formation
#361	26 Nov	————	Thanksgiving
#360	19 Nov	everyone	open discussion
#359	12 Nov	Dan Britt	Lucy
#358	5 Nov	——	No PSJC
#357	29 Oct	Humberto Campins	Osiris-Rex updates
#356	22 Oct	Open discussion	Decadal survey white paper paper1 and paper2
#355	15 Oct	Katie McIntyre	The science case for a return to Enceladus
#354	8 Oct	—–	DPS
#353	1 Oct	Theodora Karalidi	What’s the weather really like on Luhman 16B? (paper1 and paper2)
#352	24 Sept	Michael Himes	The orbit of planet 9
#351	17 Sept	Mary Hinkle	The Surface of (16) Psyche from Thermal Emission and Polarization Mapping
#350	10 Sept	Melissa Martinot	The search for lunar mantle rocks exposed on the surface of the Moon
#349	3 Sept	students presenting at DPS	DPS practice talks
#348	27 Aug	everyone	Introductions
Spring 2021
#347	23 Apr	Kenny Gordon	The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres
#346	16 Apr	——	no meeting – Spring break
#345	9 Apr	David Wright	thesis presentation – Simulating Systematic Errors in Exoplanetary Transits for the James Webb Space Telescope
#344	2 Apr	Katie Slavicinska	Investigating Space Weathering of C-Complex Asteroids via Laboratory Simulations on Carbonaceous Chondrites ( paper 1 and 2)
#343	26 Mar	Nick Piskurich	Bifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation
#342	19 Mar	———	no meeting – LPSC week
#341	12 Mar	Autumn Shackelford	Ethics & logistics of terraforming & colonizing Mars
#340	5 Mar	Anicia Arredondo	VALENTInE: A CONCEPT FOR A NEW FRONTIERS CLASS LONG DURATION IN-SITU BALLOON MISSION TO VENUS
#339	26 Feb	Stephanie Eckert	Selection and Characteristics of the Dragonfly Landing Site near Selk Crater, Titan
#338	19 Feb	Isabel Rivera	Overview of White Papers Submitted for the Decadal Survey in Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032
#337	12 Feb	Yan Fernandez	Contemporaneous Multi-Wavelength and Precovery Observations of Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS)
#336	5 Feb	Keanna Jardine	Europa’s Glow
#335	29 Jan	everyone	General discussion
#334	22 Jan	Katie McIntyre	Mission concepts to Enceladus and what it takes to do astrobio at Enceladus
Fall 2020
#332	4 Dec	Space Policy, Economics, Ethics, and Societal Impacts Group (SPESIG)	Colonial History and Decolonization of Planetary Science and Lunar Exploration
#331	20 Nov	Addie Dove	open discussion Arecibo Observatory
#330	13 Nov	Vanessa Lowry	A Centaur in the Gateway (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2008/2008.02943.pdf and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3fb3/pdf)
#329	6 Nov	Brynn Presler-Marshall	Cold Traps and Sunlit Regions: Recent Results on Lunar Hydration (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05369 and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01222-x)
#328	30 Oct	DPS week	check DPS schedule on spreadsheet
#327	23 Oct	Ryan Galinkin	Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu
#326	16 Oct	Mary Hinkle	Thermophysical properties of the surface of asteroid 162173 Ryugu: Infrared observations and thermal inertia mapping
#325	9 Oct	grad students presenting @ DPS – part II	DPS practice talks
#324	2 Oct	grad students presenting @ DPS – part I	DPS practice talks
#323	25 Sep	Luisa Zambrano-Marin, Anicia Arredondo, and Amy LeBleu-DeBartola	Venus mission planning workshop
#322	18 Sep	Michael Himes	Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus
#321	11 Sep	Amy LeBleu-DeBartola	Food in Space
#320	4 Sep	Jenny Larson	Assessing the risk of potentially hazardous asteroids through mean motion resonances analyses – Li et al (2019)
Spring 2020
#318	Apr. 17	Allison Wing (FSU)	Hurricanes and climate
#317	Apr. 10	Ryan Galinkin	Is the Late Heavy Bombardment Real? (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103517304487)
#316	Apr. 3	Kenny Gordon	The Possibility of Exomoons Around Giant Exoplanets ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.08049.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.11896.pdf )
#315	Mar. 27	Jaydeep Mukherjee	NASA Opportunities for students through the Florida Space Grant Consortium
#314	Mar. 20	———	(would be) LPSC week
#313	Mar. 13	———	SPRING BREAK
#312	Mar. 6	Katie Slavicinska	Evidence for Proteogenic Peptide-like Sequences in Meteorites Through an Enzyme-Catalysed Stereoselective Hydrolysis Strategy
#311	Feb. 28	Michael Himes	Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02977)
#310	Feb. 21	Mary Hinkle	Characterizing Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.02547.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05422.pdf)
#309	Feb. 14	open discussion
#308	Feb. 7	Kevin Ortiz (UPR)	Mapping the Habitable Universe from Puerto Rico
#307	Jan. 31	Stephanie Eckert	lead discussion on https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1884
#306	Jan. 24	Carolyn Knowles	2020 NASA Fellowship Activity and 2020 International Astronautical Congress
#305	Jan. 17	Jennifer Larson	Uncovering the Origins of the Sudbury Impact Basin Through Analysis of Geological Formatios
Fall 2019
#304	Dec. 6	Vanessa Lowry	Comet 2I/Borisov
#303	Nov. 22	Isabel Rivera	First Results from TESS Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
#302	Nov. 15	Humberto Campins	OSIRIS REx
#301	Nov. 8	Anicia Arredondo	Pluto’s far side (Stern+2019)
#300	Nov. 1	Kerri Donaldson Hanna	Taking the Temperature of the Moon: Current and Future Observations
#299	Oct. 25	—-	Cancelled due to room unavailability
#298	Oct. 18	—-	no PSJC
#297	Oct. 11	Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego)	The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection: Atmospheres, Host Stars and the End of the Main Sequence
#296	Oct. 4	—-	no PSJC
#295	Sept. 27	Keanna Jardine	Possible explosion crater origin of small lake basins with raised rims on Titan (Mitri+2019)
#294	Sept. 20	No meeting	DPS
#293	Sept. 13	Open discussion (Katie McIntyre lead)	First detection of water vapor on a habitable zone exoplanet (Benneke+2019 and Tsiaras+2019)
#292	Aug. 30	Open discussion (Stephanie Jarmak lead)	Open discussion & Europa missions
Spring 2019
#291	Apr. 19	Humberto Campins	New results from OSIRIS-REx
#290	Apr. 12	Charles Schambeau	The first active red Centaur (Mazzotta Epifani et al. 2018, A&A)
#289	Apr. 5	Vanessa Lowry	The Lucy mission
#288	Mar. 29	Theodora Karalidi	The Kepler-107 system: evidence for a giant impact event on an exoplanet (Bonomo et al. 2019)
#287	Mar. 22	No Meeting	LPSC
#286	Mar. 15	No Meeting	Spring Break
#285	Mar. 8	Isabel Rivera	Dragonfly: A Rotorcraft Lander Concept for Scientific Exploration at Titan (Lorenz et al. 2018)
#284	Mar. 1	Jennifer Larson	The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ejecta
#283	Feb. 22	Freeform	Round-up of recent advancements
#282	Feb. 15	Amy LeBleu-DeBartola	A survey of Space laws and ethics
#281	Feb. 8	Wesley Chambers	A story of regolith told by Lunar Penetrating Radar (Zhang et al. 2019, Icarus)
#280	Feb. 1	Ana Carolina	NASA Lucy Mission: How ground-based observations can support the exploration of primitive objects in the Solar System
#279	Jan. 25	Stephanie Jarmak	QUEST: A New Frontiers Uranus Orbiter Mission Concept from the 30th Annual JPL Planetary Science Summer Seminar
#278	Jan. 18	Freeform (Zoe Landsman lead)	Science news
Fall 2018
#277	Nov. 30	Adriana Marais (SAP Africa, Foundation for Space Development South Africa)	The Allure of the Unknown (life’s origin, life off Earth, life elsewhere)
#276	Nov. 23	No meeting	Thanksgiving
#275	Nov. 16	Gal Sarid	‘Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft. Again. (Bialy & Loeb 2018, arXiv link)
#274	Nov. 9	Everybody (Addie Dove lead)	Discussion with graduate students
#273	Nov. 2	Anicia Arredondo	Composition of Pluto’s small satellites: Analysis of New Horizons spectral images (Cook et al. 2018, Icarus – Journal)
#272	Oct. 26	No Meeting	DPS Meeting
#271	Oct. 19	Group	DPS: Oral and Poster presentation preparation
#270	Oct. 12	Stephanie Eckert	Tectonic patterns of shortening landforms in Mercury’s northern smooth plains (Crane & Klimczak 2019, Icarus – Journal)
#269	Oct. 5	Ryan Challener	Confirming Variability in the Secondary Eclipse Depth of the Super-Earth 55 Cancri e (Tamburo et al. 2018, AJ – Journal, astro-ph)
#268	Sep. 28	Amy Lebleu	Where are all the aliens? SETI and the Fermi Paradox (“Dissolving the Fermi Paradox”, Sandberg et al. 2018, arXiv link)
#267	Sep. 21	Michael Himes	Determining Exoplanetary Atmospheric Compositions and Potential Biosignatures Using Machine Learning
#266	Sep. 14	Katie McIntyre	Detectability of Biosignatures in Anoxic Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e Case Study (Krissansen-Totton et al. 2018, AJ – Journal, astro-ph)
#265	Sep. 7	Mary Hinkle	Evidence for OH or H2O on the surface of 433 Eros and 1036 Ganymed (Rivkin et al. 2017, Icarus – astro-ph link)
#264	Aug. 31	Isabel Rivera	Asteroid mining with small spacecraft and its economic feasibility (Calla et al. 2018)
Spring 2018
#263	Apr. 20	Rob Wittenmyer (University of Southern Queensland)	MINERVA: Driving a new golden age of exoplanetary science with small telescopes
#262	Apr. 13	Leos Pohl	Resurfacing asteroids from YORP spin-up and failure (Graves et al. 2018)
#261	Apr. 6	Zoe Landsman	Widespread distribution of OH/H2O on the lunar surface interred from spectral data (Bandfield et al. 2018)
	Mar. 30	No Meeting
	Mar. 23	No Meeting	LPSC week
	Mar. 16	No Meeting	Spring Break
#260	Mar. 9	Phil Metzger	Measuring the Fidelity of Asteroid Regolith and Cobble Simulants (Metzger et al., 49th LPSC (2018), Poster abstract #2926)
#259	Mar. 2	Group discussion	Thoughts about Astrobiology exploration of Ocean Worlds
#258	Feb. 23	Michael Himes	Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope: a low-cost flat configuration for a 100+ meter ground based telescope (Monreal et al., 2018)
#257	Feb. 16	Anicia Arredondo	Sublimation as a landform-shaping process on Pluto (Moore et al. 2017)
#256	Feb. 9	Erika Kohler (NASA, GSFC)	A Caustic Winter: Finding Snow on Venus
#255	Feb. 2	Yan Fernandez	Strong CO+ and N+2 Emission in Comet C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS (Cochran & McKay 2018)
#254	Jan. 26	Althea Moorhead (NASA, MSFC)	Fireballs and meteor showers as seen by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network
#253	Jan. 19	Gal Sarid + freeform	PSJC introduction and logistics + The next NASA New Frontiers mission(s)
Fall 2017
#252	Dec 1	Stephanie Grant	The longevity of water ice on Ganymedes and Europas around migrated giant planets (Lehmer et al. 2017)
	Nov 24	No meeting	Thanksgiving
#251	Nov 17	Amy LeBleu-DeBartola	Nature’s Starships: Observed Abundances and Relative Frequencies of Amino Acids in Meteorites (Kobb & Pudritz 2014)
	Nov 10	No meeting	Veteran’s Day
#250	Nov 3	Kevin Cannon	Primordial clays on Mars
#249	Oct 27	Fran Bagenal (University of Colorado, Boulder)	Exploration of the Outer Solar System: New Horizons at Pluto and Juno at Jupiter
	Oct 20	No meeting	DPS
#248	Oct 13	Jennifer Larson	Impact-induced melting during accretion of the Earth (de Vries et al. 2016)
#247	Oct 6	Mary Hinkle	2004 TT357: A potential contact binary in the Trans-Neptunian belt (Thirouin, Sheppard & Noll 2017)
#246	Sep 29	Stephanie Jarmak	A Cubesat Centrifuge for Long Duration Milligravity Research (Asphaug et al. 2017)
#245	Sep 22	Kathleen McIntyre	Atmospheric Circulation and Cloud Evolution on the Highly Eccentric Extrasolar Planet HD80606b (Lewis et al. 2017)
#244	Sep 15	Cancelled	Post Hurricane Irma
#243	Sep 8	Cancelled	Hurricane Irma
#242	Sep 1	Ryan Challener	BiLinearly Interpolated Subpixel Sensitivity and Pixel-Level Decorrelation Applied to WASP-29b
#241	Aug 25	Gal Sarid	PSJC introduction and logistics + Your favorite NASA New Frontiers theme
Spring 2017
#240	Apr 21	Wesley Chambers	Winds measured by the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) during the MSL rover’s Bagnold Dunes Campaign (Newmann et al. 2017, Icarus)
#239	Apr 14	Jennifer Larson	New approaches to inferences for steep-sided domes on Venus (Quick et al. 2016, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research)
#238	Apr 7	Tomas Kohout (University of Helsinki)	Asteroid Spectral Imaging Mission (ASPECT) CubeSat
#237	Mar 31	Estela Fernández-Valenzuela (IAC)	Physical properties of TNOs from photometry
	Mar 24	No Meeting	No Meeting – LPSC 2017
	Mar 17	No Meeting	Spring Break
#236	Mar 10	Charles Schambeau	Analysis of Hubble Observations of Comet 29P/SW1 and Preparation of a Cycle 25 Hubble Proposal
#235	Mar 3	Phil Metzger	Diviner radiometer measurements of lunar cooling curves (Williams et al. 2017, Icarus)
#234	Feb 24	various	Group presentation – Visiting prospective students
#233	Feb 17	Stephanie Jarmak	Atmospheric Signatures of Giant Exoplanet Formation by Pebble Accretion (Madhusudhan et al. 2016, astro-ph, arxiv)
#232	Feb 10	Humberto Campins	Comet-Asteroid Transition Objects: Two Case Studies
#231	Feb 3	Julie Brisset	The many mysteries of active asteroids (Jewitt et al. 2015, Asteroids IV)
#230	Jan 27	Josh Colwell	The mass and age of Saturn’s rings
#229	Jan 20	G. Sarid, D. Britt, Z. Landsman	Overview of NASA’s newly-selected Discovery missions – Psyche & Lucy
Fall 2016
#228	Dec 2	Akbar Whizin	Surface and Dust Properties of Comets – 67P’s view (Bentley et al., 2016, Nature; Roll et al., 2016, Icarus)
#227	Nov 25	No meeting	No meeting – Thanksgiving
#226	Nov 18	Ryan Challener	Exploring biases of atmospheric retrievals in simulated JWST transmission spectra (Rocchetto et al., 2016, astro-ph)
	Nov 11	No meeting	No meeting – Veteran’s Day
#225	Nov 4	Stephanie Eckert	Liquid Filled Canyons on Titan (Poggiali et al., 2016, JGR, 43)
#224	Oct 28	Wesley Chambers	Constraints on the Microphysics of Pluto’s Photochemical Haze from New Horizons Observations (Gao et al., 2016, Icarus, In press)
	Oct 21	No meeting	No meeting – DPS
#223	Oct 14	Leos Pohl	Statistics of meteor showers
#222	Oct 7	Z. Landsman, A. Dove, J. Brisset, J. Crowell	CLASS/SSERVI trip the AOGS conference in Beijing
#221	Sep 30	Dan Britt	Geology of Iceland
#220	Sep 23	Stephanie Jarmak	Failed Growth at the Bouncing Barrier in Planetesimal Formation (Kruss et al., 2016, arXiv:1609.00501)
#219	Sep 16	Matthew Pasek (USF)	Phosphorus in Planet Formation
#218	Sep 9	Jurgen Blum (TU Braunschweig)	The Regolith Story
#217	Sep 2	Gal Sarid	Introduction, logistics, SpaceX’s exploding rocket
Spring 2016
#216	Apr 22	Leos Pohl	Asteroid Update from LPSC
#215	Apr 15	Zoe Landsman	Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle (Hallis et al., 2015, Science, 350, 6262, pp. 795-797)
#214	Apr 8	Andrew Foster	Atmospheric, Orbital, and Eclipse Depth Analysis of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-30-WASP-51Ab
#213	Apr 1	Joe Donoghue	Anthropocene for all [Humans, anthropogenic change, and the Anthropocene (Braje & Erlandson 2013), The cost of living in the Anthropocene (Gillings & Hagan-Lawson 2014), Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? (Steffen et al. 2007), Are we now living in the Anthropocene? (Zalasiewicz et al. 2008)]
#212	Mar 25	Stephanie Eckert	Remote sensing evidence for an ancient carbon-bearing crust on Mercury (Peplowski et al. 2016, Nature Geoscience)
#211	Mar 18	Gal Sarid	New Horizons and the Pluto system: Top new results
#210	Mar 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#209	Feb 26	Julie Brisset	Studying planet formation on the ISS: results of the NanoRocks experiment
#208	Feb 19	Stephanie Jarmak	Moon Zoo citizen science project (Bugiolacchi et al., 2016, Icaus)
#207	Feb 12	Jim Cooney	The chirping of gravitational waves
#206	Feb 5	Joe Harrington et al.	AAS 227 exoplanet showdown II
#205	Jan 29	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#204	Jan 22	Joe Harrington et al.	AAS 227 exoplanet showdown
Fall 2015
#203	Dec 4	Phil Metzger	3D Additive Manufacturing in Space
	Nov 27	no meeting	no meeting – Thanksgiving
#202	Nov 20	Sally Blumethal	Formation of amino acids in Titan’s atmosphere
	Nov 13	no meeting	DPS
#201	Nov 6	various	Students Practice DPS presentations
#200	Oct 30	Em Delarme	A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf
#199	Oct 23	Ryan Challener	Transmission spectrum of a cold gas giant
#198	Oct 16	(freeform)	Discussion of strange Kepler signal and Cassini images
#197	Oct 9	(freeform)	Discussion of recent discovery selections
#196	Oct 2	Andrew Foster	Recent Salt Water Discovery on Mars
#195	Sep 25	Jenna Jones	New Images and Science from New Horizons
#194	Sep 18	Wesley Chambers	Research from NASA LaRC Summer Internship
#193	Sep 11	(freeform)	Discussion of new results from New Horizons and Rosetta
#192	Sep 4	Leos Pohl	Cross-country adventures and Free-form discussion
Spring 2015
#191	Apr 24	Eric Ford (PSU)	Insights into Planet Formation from the Architectures of Exoplanet Systems
#190	Apr 17	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#189	Apr 10	Jasmina Blecic	False Positive Biosignatures in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
#188	Apr 3	Boris Galperin (USF)	Anisotropic turbulence and zonal jets on giant planets, in the ocean and in a laboratory
#187	Mar 27	Akbar Whizin	Jupiter’s Decisive Role in the Inner Solar System’s Early Evolution
#186	Mar 20	Patricio Cubillos	Possible Role of GRBs on Life Extinction in the Universe
	Mar 13	no meeting	spring break
#185	Mar 6	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#184	Feb 27	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#183	Feb 20 (PS 161)	Charles Schambeau	Overview of the First Published Results from the Rosetta Mission
#182	Feb 13	Zoe Landsman	Mars Methane Detection and Variability at Gale Crater
#181	Feb 6	Gal Sarid	Things That Go Whack & Oomph in the Night: Ideas about Collisional Processing Near (Mercury’s Formation) and Far (Icy Planetoids)
#180	Jan 30	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#179	Jan 23	Basmah Riaz (U.Maryland)	Cometary Dust Composition Signatures in Circum(sub)stellar Disks
#178	Jan 16	Daniel Angerhausen (NASA/GSFC)	Exoplanet Spectrophotometry (from Ground-, Airborne- and Space-based Observatories)
Fall 2014
#177	Nov 21	Philip Metzger	The Mystery of the Surveyor III Dust Deposits
	Nov 14	no meeting	DPS
#176	Nov 7	various	Preview of DPS Presentations
#175	Oct 31	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#174	Oct 24	Dan Durda (SwRI)	More Results on Impacts, Cratering, and Debris
#173	Oct 17	Jenna Jones	Perturbation of the Mars Atmosphere by the Near-Collision with Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
#172	Wed Oct 8 (11am, Room 445)	Kunio Sayanagi (Hampton U.)	Hexagon and Polar Vortex: Observing Saturn’s Northern High Latitudes from NASA’s Cassini Orbiter
#171	Oct 3 (Room 248)	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#170	Sep 26 (Room 248)	Yan Fernandez	Comet 67P: Up Close and Personal
#169	Sep 19	Tracy Becker	Plate Tectonics on Europa
#168	Sep 12	Julie Brisset	Studying Planet Formation in Microgravity Experiments
#167	Sep 5	Vishnu Reddy (PSI)	(Meet and Greet with Students)
Spring 2014
#166	Apr 18	Javier Licandro (IAC)	Are Comets the Asteroids in Cometary Orbits?
#165	Apr 11	Charles Schambeau	The Nucleus of Comet 29P
#164	Apr 4	various	Recent News: New Detached Object, Asteroidal Rings, CMB Polarization
#163	Mar 28	Thomas Statler (UMd. & OU)	What Every Astronomer Should Understand About the NSF
#162	Mar 21	Jürgen Blum (TU Braunschweig)	Comets Formed In Solar-Nebula Instabilities
#161	Mar 14	Mehmet Yesiltas	The Sutter’s Mill Meteorite
	Mar 7	no meeting	spring break
	Feb 28	no meeting	event cancelled
#160	Feb 21	Ellen Howell (Arecibo Obs.)	Radar Observations of Asteroids
#159	Feb 14	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#158	Feb 7	Nate Lust	Asteroid 2577 Litva
#157	Jan 31	Peter Brown (UWO)	Global Airburst Detection
#156	Jan 24	various	Water on Ceres
#155	Jan 17	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
Fall 2013
#154	Nov 22	Tracy Becker	Plume Activity and Tidal Stresses on Enceladus
#153	Nov 15	Patricio Cubillos	A Rocky Composition for an Earth-sized Exoplanet
#152	Nov 8	Akbar Whizin	Stability of Satellites in Closely Packed Planetary Systems
#151	Nov 1	Charles Schambeau	Activity in Comet 67P
#150	Oct 25	Zoe Landsman	The Taxonomic Distribution of Asteroids from Multiyear All-Sky Photometric Surveys
#149	Oct 21 (Monday)	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
	Oct 11	no meeting	DPS
#148	Oct 4	various	Preview of DPS Presentations
#147	Sep 27	Catherine Neish (FIT)	Radar Love: Mini-RF Observes the Moon
#146	Sep 20	Mehmet Yesiltas	Infrared Imaging Micro-Spectroscopy of Meteorites with High Spatial Resolution
#145	Sep 13 (BA1 212)	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#144	Sep 6	Dan Britt	How many hurricanes are normal? The Atlantic hurricane record for the past 5000 years
#143	Aug 30	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
Spring 2013
#142	Apr 19	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#141	Apr 11 (special day)	Geza Kovacs (UND & Konkoly)	From Small Signals to Big Planets
#140	Apr 5	Nate Lust	Traces of Ancient Lunar Water
#139	Mar 29	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#138	Mar 22	Phil Nicholson (Cornell)	Saturn and Titan stellar and solar occultations with Cassini-VIMS
#137	Mar 15 (PS248)	Emily Kramer	Curiosity Finds Habitability
	Mar 8	no meeting	spring break
#136	Mar 1	Peter Thomas (Cornell)	Eggs in Space: The Mysterious Ring Arc-Embedded Moons of Saturn
#135	Feb 22	Dan Britt	The Chelyabinsk Event
	Feb 15	no meeting	2012 DA14 event
#134	Feb 8	Josh Colwell	Of Horseshoes and Heliotropes: Dynamics of Dust in the Encke Gap
#133	Feb 1	Ashley Espy Kehoe	Constraining the cometary flux through the asteroid belt during the late heavy bombardment
#132	Jan 25	George Hatcher	Albedo and atmospheric constraints of dwarf planet Makemake from a stellar occultation
#131	Jan 18	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
Fall 2012
#130	Nov 30	William Reach (SOFIA)	SMOG Check for Comets
	Nov 23	no meeting	holiday
#129	Nov 16	Adrienne Dove	The Origin of Phobos Grooves from Ejecta Launched From Impact Craters on Mars: Tests of the Hypothesis
#128	Nov 9	Akbar Whizin	On the Formation of the Martian Moons From a Circum-Martian Accretion Disk
#127	Nov 2	various	Highlights from DPS, Part II
#126	Oct 26 in PS248	various	Highlights from DPS
	Oct 19	no meeting	DPS
#125	Oct 12	various	Preview of DPS Presentations
#124	Oct 5	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#123	Sep 28	Laura Seward	Follow Your Curiosity
#122	Sep 21	Jarrad Pond	Impacts on Jupiter
#121	Sep 14	Kelsey Hargrove	Irradiation of Astronomical Ices
#120	Sep 7	Tracy Becker	SHAPE Modeling of First Triple NEA 2001 SN263
#119	Aug 31	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
Spring 2012
#118	Apr 20	Nate Lust	A Thermodynamic and Mechanical Model for Formation of the Solar System via 3-Dimensional Collapse of the Dusty Pre-solar Nebula
#117	Apr 13	Todd Bradley	Recent Results on Grains
#116	Apr 6	Patricio Cubillos	Direct imaging of the planetary system HR 8799
#115	Mar 30	Jasmina Blecic	Modeling Exoplanetary Atmospheres
#114	Mar 28	Drake Deming (UMd)	Transiting Exoplanets: From Kepler to TESS
#113	Mar 27	Adrienne Dove (CU)	Experimental investigations of lunar plasma and dust dynamics
#112	Mar 23	Travis Gabriel	21 Lutetia: The Rosetta Flyby
#111	Mar 16	Henry Hsieh (UH IfA)	Activity in the Asteroid Belt: Main-Belt Comets and Disrupted Asteroids
	Mar 9	no meeting	spring break
#110	Mar 2	Jarrad Pond	3D Simulations of Pillars Formation around HII Regions: The Importance of Shock Curvature
#109	Feb 24	Noemi Rebeli	Life & Light: Exotic Photosynthesis in Binary and Multiple Star Systems
#108	Feb 17	Amanda Hendrix (JPL)	Saturn’s Icy Moons: Understanding the Effects of Exogenic Processes
#107	Feb 10	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#106	Feb 3	Jason Steffen (Fermilab)	Cosmology Results from Kepler
#105	Jan 27	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#104	Jan 20	Humberto Campins	Origin of Spacecraft-Accessible Near-Earth Asteroids
Fall 2011
#103	Nov 30	Mehmet Yesiltas	Laboratory Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Phyllosilicates to Support Planetary and Astronomical Remote Sensing
	Nov 23	no meeting	holiday creep
#102	Nov 16	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#101	Nov 9	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#100	Nov 2	various	Highlights from DPS, Part III
#99	Oct 26	Emily Kramer & Humberto Campins	Highlights from DPS, Part II
#98	Oct 19	Emily Kramer	Highlights from DPS
#97	Oct 12	Akbar Whizin	Ocean-like Water in the Jupiter-family Comet 103P/Hartley 2
	Oct 5	no meeting	DPS
#96	Sep 28	various	Preview of DPS presentations
#95	Sep 21	Laura Seward	Plutonium for Peaceful Planetary Purposes
#94	Sep 14	Tracy Becker	Formation of the Lunar Farside Highlnads
#93	Sep 7	Eric Robinett	Recent Results from the Hayabusa Sample Return
#92	Aug 31	Yan Fernandez	A Trojan for Earth, 2010 TK7
Spring 2011
#91	Apr 22	Stan Peale (UCSB)	The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury
#90	Apr 15	Jarrad Pond	Impacts on Jupiter: Past and Present
#89	Apr 8	Jonathan Fortney (UCSC)	Exoplanets
#88	Apr 1	Bob Macke	Chondrites as Samples of Differentiated Planetesimals
#87	Mar 25	Eduardo Martín	Inflated Hot Jupiters Do Not Require Inflated Physics
#86	Mar 18	Jim Cooney	A Candidate Redshift z=10 Galaxy
	Mar 11	no meeting	spring break
#85	Mar 4	Rob French (SETI)	Cupid is Doomed: The Instability of the Inner Uranian Satellites
#84	Feb 25	Kelsey Hargrove	On the Puzzle of Space Weathering Alteration of Basaltic Asteroids
#83	Feb 18	Jasmina Blecic	Planetary Magnetospheres and Aurorae
#82	Feb 11	Robert Peale	Far-IR Spectroscopy of Moon-Relevant Minerals
#81	Feb 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#80	Jan 28	Jessica Sunshine (U-Md)	Water on the Surface of the Moon
#79	Jan 21	Bryce Bolin	The Protoplanetary Disk Around the M4 Star RECX 5
Fall 2010
#78	Dec 3	Mitch Gordon (SETI)	What’s New with PDS
	Nov 26	no meeting	holiday
#77	Nov 19	Emily Kramer	Encounter with Comet Hartley 2
#76	Nov 12	Kevin Baillie	The Occurence and Mass Distribution of Close-in Super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters
#75	Nov 5	Kevin Stevenson	GJ 581g: Earth 2.0?
	Oct 29	no meeting	go to Star Formation Day instead
#74	Oct 22 (11-12)	Laura Seward	Ganymede Interior, Surface, and Magnetosphere Observer
#73	Oct 15 (11-12)	Bryce Bolin	On the Origin of South Polar Folds on Enceladus
	Oct 8	no meeting	DPS
#72	Oct 1 (11-12)	various	Preview of DPS presentations
#71	Sep 22	Eduardo Martín	Science with the GTC
#70	Sep 17	Dave Jewitt (UCLA)	Three Freaks of the Solar System (And Why They Matter)
#69	Sep 10	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#68	Sep 3	Humberto Campins	The Main-Belt Origin of NEA 1999 RQ36, and More Ice and Organics on Asteroids: 65 Cybele
#67	Aug 27	Bryce Bolin	Geology of the Selk crater region on Titan from Cassini VIMS observations
Spring 2010
#66	Apr 23	Bob Macke	Characterization of Meteorite Structure and Porosity
#65	Apr 16	Rachel Stevenson (UCLA)	The Aftermath of the Comet Holmes Outburst
	Apr 9	no meeting	distinguished speaker meeting preempts
#64	Apr 5	Hannah Jang-Condell (UMd)	Catching Planet Formation in the Act: Connecting Protoplanetary Disk Theory to Observations
#63	Apr 2	Ryan Hardy	On the Orbit of Exoplanet WASP-12b
#62	Mar 26	Nate Lust	Compressed sensing
#61	Mar 19	Akbar Whizin	Stable and habitable systems with two giant planets
	Mar 12	no meeting	spring break
#60	Mar 5	Florian Rodler (IAC)	The Search for Planets Around Low-Mass Stars: An Introduction to Radial Velocity Technique in the Near-Infrared
#59	Feb 26	Patricio Cubillos	An Infrared Spectroscopic Search of the Exoplanet HD 217107b
#58	Feb 19	Mercedes López-Morales (CIW)	Ground-based Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres
	Feb 12	no meeting	program review preempts
#57	Feb 5	Phil Chamberlin (GSFC)	The Solar Dynamics Observatory, Studying the Sun and its Influence on Other Bodies in the Solar System
#56	Jan 29	Robert French (SETI)	The Brightening of Saturn’s F Ring
#55	Jan 22	Emily Kramer	2008 TC3, A Small Object that May Help to Answer Big Questions
#54	Jan 15	Bryce Bolin	Detectability of Oort cloud objects using Kepler
Fall 2009
#53	Dec 4	Ashely Espy (UF)	Dynamics of Asteroidal Structure in the Zodiacal Cloud
	Nov 27	no meeting	holiday
	Nov 20	no meeting	schedule conflict
#52	Nov 13	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#51	Nov 6	Richard Eastes	The short-term relationship between solar soft X-ray irradiances and equatorial total electron content (TEC)
#50	Oct 30	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#49	Oct 23	Mark Swain (JPL)	Exoplanet Spectroscopy: a bright present, a brilliant future
#48	Oct 16	Stuart Pilorz (SETI)	Thermal Emission from Saturn Ring Particles
	Oct 9	no meeting	DPS
#47	Oct 2	various	UCF Presentations at DPS
#46	Sep 25	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#45	Sep 18	Dan Britt	The Dar al Gani Meteorite Field
#44	Sep 11	Bob Macke	Enstatite Chondrite Physical Properties
#43	Sep 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#42	Aug 28	Josh Colwell	Science in a Suborbital Program
Spring 2009
#41	Apr 22	Nate Lust	Significance Analysis of Asteroid Pairs
#40	Apr 15	Emily Kramer	Infrared Studies of Cometary Gas
#39	Apr 8	Richard Eastes	The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission
#38	Apr 1	Eduardo Martin	A Concept for an M Dwarf Planet Hunter
#37	Mar 25	Rohit Deshpande	Lithium: A Litmus Test for Brown Dwarfs
#36	Mar 18	Yan Fernandez	Some Unsolved Problems in Comets
	Mar 11	no meeting	spring break
#35	Mar 4	Kevin Baillie	Did Saturn’s rings form during the Late Heavy Bombardment?
#34	Feb 25	various	How to Write, Read, and Judge an Observing Proposal
#33	Feb 18	Adam Burgasser (MIT)	The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection
#32	Feb 11	Dan Britt	Porosity in Asteroids
#31	Feb 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#30	Jan 28	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#29	Jan 21	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#28	Jan 14	Csaba Palotai	Precipitation
Fall 2008
#27	Dec 1	Yan Fernandez	Spins of Small MBAs
#26	Nov 17	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#25	Nov 10	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#24	Nov 3	Kelsey Hargrove	Spectra in Spain
#23	Oct 27	Florian Rodler (IAC)	The Search for Starlight Reflected from Hot Jupiters
#22	Oct 20	Michael Kelley	Gemini Mid-IR Polarimetry of NGC 1068: Polarized Structures around the Nucleus
	Oct 13	no meeting	DPS
#21	Oct 6	Kevin Stevenson	Secondary Eclipse Photometry of GJ 436b in Six Spitzer Channels
#20	Sep 29	Jim Cooney	Cosmology and the LHC
#19	Sep 22	Bob Macke	What I Did on My Summer Vacation
#18	Sep 15	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#17	Sep 8	Joe Harrington	Photometry and Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Spring 2008
#16	May 21	Kelsey Hargrove	Infrared Spectra of Comet-Asteroid Transition Object 944 Hidalgo
#15	Apr 23	Nicolas Lodieu (IAC)	UKIDSS Discoveries of Brown Dwarfs in the Upper Sco OB Association and the Pleiades Cluster
#14	Apr 16	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#13	Apr 9	Kevin Stevenson	Pulsation Velocity Curves of Cepheid Variables
#12	Apr 2	Bob Macke	Pre-Solar Grains in Meteorite Matrix
#11	Mar 26	Todd Bradley	Mercury Exospheric and Surface Spectral Measurements
#10	Mar 19	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
	Mar 12	no meeting	spring break
#9	Mar 5	Yan Fernandez	Shiny Trojans
#8	Feb 27	Nate Lust	Old Observatory; New Technologies
#7	Feb 20	Josh Colwell	Saturn’s Small Inner Satellites. The Equatorial Ridges of Pan an Atlas
#6	Feb 13	Jim Cooney	Measuring CMB Anisotropies: WMAP Results and Planck Goals
#5	Feb 6	Mike Kelley	Chondrule Formation and Early Solar System Mixing, or, Why Did STARDUST Return So Little Star Dust?
#4	Jan 30	Jonathan Langton (UCSC)	Atmospheric Dynamics on Unevenly Irradiated Jovian Planets
#3	Jan 23	Dan Britt	Orbital Forcing and Global Climate
#2	Jan 16	Humberto Campins	Marco Polo Mission and Proposed Work
#1	Jan 9	Joe Harrington	A Painless (but Quantitative) Introduction to Wavelets, with Planetary Examples

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Stats on speakers through Fall ’18 (263 events):

	non-UCF	UCF	freeform	cancelled
All Sems:	50	179	43	4

UCF
	fac.	pdoc.	g.s.	u.g.	mult.
All Sems:	44	12	96	9	19