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Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
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Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu
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Suggest a New Speaker HERE| Tue Feb 4, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex | 11:00 am | Isaac Smith | York University, Toronto | Ice and Climate at the Poles of Mars | |
| Webex info will be sent to our e-mail list, if you are not on our e-mail list and would like the dail-in please contact kelsi.singer@swri.org | |||||
| Abstract: | Mars famously has two ice caps, one at either pole, and two volatiles: carbon dioxide and water. Additionally, at both poles, seasonal ice deposits in the winter darkness and sublimates throughout the spring to expose the residual ice and the polar layered deposits. Investigations of the properties of the ice caps through remote sensing has led to the identification of possible climate signatures, and laboratory investigations of ice properties in Martian conditions can help explain some of the puzzling properties that we observe. In this talk, I will cover properties of the ice from the granular level up to the climate archive stored in the north polar layered deposits. In particular, I will cover new results from my own investigations using radar sounding and glacial modeling, plus results from students working with me regarding laboratory results that probe the quizzical reflective properties of carbon dioxide ice deposited annually at the south pole of Mars and the variable retreat of the seasonal caps. There will be pretty pictures! Isaac Smith Associate Professor of Earth and Space Science, York University, Toronto Canada Research Chair Tier II of Planetary Science Senior Scientist at PSI in Lakewood (visiting while on Sabbatical) | ||||
| Tue Feb 11, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Jacob Kegerreis | Durham University, UK | The destructive formation of moons and rings | |
| Tue Feb 18, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Matt Hedman | University of Idaho | The Uranian rings and small satellites are really unusual things | |
| Tue Feb 25, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Ananyo Bhattacharya | University of Michigan | TBD | |
| Tue Mar 4, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Ankit Barik | Johns Hopkins University | TBD | |
| Tue Mar 25, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex | 11:00 am | Joe Masiero | Caltech/IPAC | TBD Asteroids | |
| Tue Apr 1, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Douglas Hemingway | University of Texas | TBD | |
| Tue Apr 8, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Alessandro Morbidelli | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur | Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints | |
| Tue May 6, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Mike Wong | University of California-Berkeley | TBD | |
| Tue May 27, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Rutu Parekh | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | TBD | |