Below is the agenda for the NAPSA Workshop on
Volatiles Across the Solar System
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 11:30 – 5:30
USGS Flagstaff Science Campus, Building 3 Conference Room
11:30 am Welcome, Logistics, and Workshop Focus (Hagerty)
11:45 am Nebular ingassing as a source of volatiles to the terrestrial planets (Sharp, UNM)
12:05 pm Exploring the volatile record of the Solar System on a nanometer scale (Shearer, UNM)
12:25 pm NAU SICCS Department Capabilities (Flikkema, NAU SICCS)
12:40 pm Volatile sequestration: Ice caves (Williams, USGS ASC)
12:55 pm The influence of volatiles on impact crater morphologies (Barlow, NAU Phys/Astr)
1:10 pm Seasonal frost and the formation of gullies on Mars (Dundas, USGS ASC)
1:25 pm The search for volatiles in Near-Earth Asteroids (Mommert, NAU Phys/Astr)
1:40 pm The dwarf planet Ceres: A volatile reservoir in the main asteroid belt (Bland, USGS ASC)
1:55 pm Geochemistry and possible microbiology of icy ocean worlds, and insights from glacial Lake Vostok and evaporative lakes on Earth (Kargel, UA)
2:10 pm Discussion, Poster Presentations, Break
- Asteroid resource assessments (Kestay, USGS)
- Thermal weathering of asteroids on solar approach (Compton, NAU)
- Presence of water on Near Earth objects (Larson, NAU)
- The USGS dynamic surface water extent (DSWE) product evaluation strategy (Jones, USGS)
3:15 pm Mars seasonal CO2 cycle (Titus, USGS ASC)
3:30 pm Lava-volatile interactions on Jupiter’s moon Io (Milazzo, USGS ASC)
3:45 pm Ring stacking of benzene in a hydrocarbon mixture within mesopourous silica (Gochenour, NAU SESES)
4:00 pm Stability of the nitrogen, methane, ethane system (Hanley, Lowell)
4:15 pm Prediction of the eutectic phase behavior of methane and ethane (Dustrud, NAU Phys/Astr)
4:30 pm Volatiles at the Solar System’s cryogenic frontier (Grundy, Lowell)
4:45 pm Discussion
5:15 pm Capture Highlights
5:30 pm Adjourn
