Planetary Sciences Community Meetings Calendar
Organized by LPI/USRA *
July 2013
1-3 |
Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) Open Science Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The international Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) Open Science Workshop will provide an update on the status of EChO. The conference will be open to all the scientific, technical and industrial community, to encourage feedback in advance of the ESA Cosmic Vision review process. |
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1-4 |
International Symposium on Planetary Sciences (IAPS2013),
Shanghai, China
The International Symposium on Planetary Sciences (IAPS2013) will be held at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 1-4, 2013, Shanghai, China, which brings together international scientists to present the latest results of research and development in planetary exploration and science. Topics include planetary geodesy, navigation, remote sensing, atmosphere, ionosphere/plasma physics, magnetic and gravity field, geomorphology, geophysics, geology, petrology, geochemistry, interior physics, Life & Astrobiology, Giant & Extrasolar Planets, etc. |
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7-12 |
19th IAA Humans in Space Symposium,
Cologne, Germany
The organizers of the 19th IAA Humans in Space Conference will organize a program that focuses on basic major questions and challenges and will try to attract respective specialists, regardless of whether they are from the space research community or not. |
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7-14 |
Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013
(DACA-13),
Davos Switzerland
The conference will bring together some 1’200 scientists from both fields to present and discuss the latest research in separate or joint sessions. A large variety of topics will be covered, from ice-sheet modelling to extreme climate events, from solar UV radiation to avalanche formation and permafrost – be sure to contribute and benefit from the possibility to extend your network and meet excellent scientists from a wide range of fields. |
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8-12 | Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets 2013, Athens, Greece | |
8-13 | European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland | |
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Target NEO 2 Workshop,
Washington, D.C.
Support the development of a robust human exploration program by ensuring that the technical viewpoints of experts in fields pertinent to robotic and human NEO exploration are provided and documented. Key questions: What are the technical challenges involved and what new capabilities are needed for the newly proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM)? Are there any alternative approaches? What technical information is still needed to support and sustain a robust human exploration program to a NEO? |
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9-11 |
Comets as Tracers of Solar System Formation and Evolution,
Toulouse, France
The workshop will cover topics ranging from the dynamical and chemical evolution of the solar nebula during formation, to the techniques for measuring the composition of comets. Invited speakers include some of the community leaders in cometary science, measurements and technology development. We will discuss the role that Rosetta measurements will play in understanding the origin of Solar System bodies, and what future missions to comets are being planned. There will be a special issue of the journal Planetary and Space Science devoted to the works presented at this meeting. |
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10 |
4th Annual Lunar Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2013),
Moffett Field, California
LunGradCon 2013 will address the three main research areas of the NASA Lunar Science Institute: • Of the Moon: Investigations of the nature and history of the Moon (including research on lunar samples) to learn about this specific object and thereby provide insights into the evolution of our solar system. • On the Moon: Investigations of the effects of the lunar environment on terrestrial life and the equipment that supports lunar inhabitants, and the effects of robotic and human presence on the lunar environment. • From the Moon: Use of the Moon as a platform for performing scientific investigations, including observations of the Earth and other celestial phenomena that are uniquely enabled by being on the lunar surface. |
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10-11 | Ninth Meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group, Pasadena, California | |
12 |
Rocks in our Solar System — Bridging the Gap Between Meteor, Meteorite and Asteroid Studies (European Week of Astronomy and Space Science EWASS 2013 Special Session Sp11),
Turku, Finland
The session will bring together scientists working on all aspects of solar system rocky material properties. The topic includes laboratory analysis of meteorites and cosmic dust as well as observations and modeling of both meteoroids and asteroids. The contributions bridging the gap between properties of meteors, meteorites, and asteroids are highly welcome. The session will also focus on the recent Chelyabinsk fireball/Chebarkul meteorite fall event in order to put together knowledge acquired from studies of fireball trajectory, orbital analysis, and recovered meteorites. |
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13-14 |
LunGradCon 2013,
Virtual Meeting
LunGradCon provides an opportunity for grad students and early-career postdocs to present their research in a low-stress, friendly environment, being critiqued only by their peers. In addition to oral presentations, the conference presents opportunities for professional development and networking with fellow grad students and postdocs, as well as senior members of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). In keeping with the future direction of the NLSI, we encourage participation from all students and postdocs investigating the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, Phobos and Deimos, and the near-space environments of these target bodies. |
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15-16 | Outer Planets Analysis Group (OPAG) Meeting, Washington, DC area | |
15-20 | Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, Germany | |
16-18 |
NASA Lunar Science Forum,
Virtual Meeting
The conference consists of invited and contributed oral and poster presentations, together with breakout sessions to plan for the future of lunar science. The session summaries, along with the abstracts, list of organizers, and participants, will be included in a final report to be posted on the NASA Lunar Science Institute website. |
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17-19 |
Dusty Visions 2013,
Stuttgart, Germany
In a workshop style we want to discuss the present state and new venues in cosmic dust research. There are exciting new results from Cassini, Stardust, Spitzer, Herschel, Stereo, as well as other missions. Major topics of the workshop will cover new ideas and theories. We will also discuss observational results and the outcome of laboratory experiments, for they give implications for future space missions. Of special emphasis is cosmochemistry and compositional analysis of dust, also in view of upcoming space missions presently under way or in preparation (e.g. Juice, Lunar Lander, Rosetta, Ladee). |
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22-25 |
13th European Workshop on Astrobiology,
Szczecin, Poland
The list of main topics that will be the subject of EANA 13 is given below: • Astrochemistry, interstellar medium; • Astrophysics, protoplanetary discs and planets; • Planetary habitability and exploration; • Macromolecules and models of prebiotic molecules; • Origin and evolution of life, extremophiles; • Rocks, fossils and meteorites; • Space technology, medicine and industry; • Miscellaneous subjects in astrobiolog |
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22-26 |
The Pluto System on the Eve of Exploration by New Horizons: Perspectives and Predictions,
Columbia, Maryland
NASA’s New Horizons mission is now over 22 AU from the Sun en route to a reconnaissance flyby of the Pluto system at 32 AU in July, 2015. In advance of that historic flyby, the New Horizons mission is sponsoring a scientific meeting to review knowledge of the Pluto System, to inform the planetary science community about the flyby and collaboration/DAP funding opportunities, to discuss and begin to prepare groundbased and spacebased observing proposals, and to provide a venue for scientific predictions. |
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22-Aug 9 |
The University of California International Summer School on AstroComputing 2013: Star and Planet Formation,
Santa Cruz, California
The objective of the 2013 UC-HiPACC AstroComputing Summer School is to train the next generation of researchers in the use of large-scale simulations in star and planet formation problems. The school will cover many of the major public codes in use today, including tutorials and hands-on experience running and analyzing simulations. Students will receive accounts on the new 3,000-core supercomputer Hyades on the UCSC campus for the duration of the school. |
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29-31 |
PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
PLATO 2.0 is an ESA M3 candidate mission and has been designed and optimized from the outset specifically to detect habitable zone rocky sized planets around bright solar type stars. Not only are these host stars suitable for planetary confirmation and follow-up studies, but they are ideal for asteroseismology studies whose impact has been proven from the CoRoT and Kepler missions. Thus PLATO 2.0 will produce catalogues of accurate parameters of terrestrial planets and planetary systems. It will be the first large-scale survey determining the ages of its detected planetary systems from their host stars. PLATO 2.0 data will be vital to test and develop planetary formation and evolution models and to address planetary science questions via its large numbers of accurate bulk planet parameters in systems of all kinds. As a result of the many hundred thousands of stars observed, PLATO 2.0 has furthermore a large complementary and legacy science program, from stellar to galactic science. |
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29-Aug 2 |
2013 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop (CANCELED),
Pasadena, California
The 2013 workshop will explore current techniques and technology used to detect exoplanets and debris disks, as well as the underlying science driving the modeling of exoplanetary atmospheres and disk structure. Leaders in the field will summarize the current state of the art in science, hardware, and software. Prospects for future space instruments will also be discussed. Attendees will participate in hands-on exercises to gain experience working with imaging data, astrophysical models, and instrument design. Attendees will also have the opportunity to present their own work through short presentations (research POPs) and posters. |
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29-Aug 2 |
25th Annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School (Session I),
Pasadena, California
An intensive one-week team exercise, preceded by several weekly webinars and assignments, to learn the process of developing a robotic mission concept into reality through concurrent engineering. |
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29-Aug 2 | 76th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society *, Edmonton, Canada |
August 2013
1-2 |
Comet ISON Observer's Workshop,
Laurel, MD
The meeting's overarching goal is to maximize the scientific return from ISON's 2013 apparition. |
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5-7 |
Analog Sites for Mars Missions II: Past, Present and Future Missions to Mars *,
Washington, DC
The Analog Sites Workshop is planned as an interactive process that consists of online discussions that will take place in advance of the in-person meeting and breakout sessions during the workshop with assessment of proposed analog sites against the science objectives. The open online forum will be used to discuss and identify outstanding Mars science questions that might be answered through previous, ongoing, or future missions, including the 2020 rover mission. The discussion will then turn to how our ability to address these questions could be augmented with analog research on Earth. The online discussion will be open in May and will remain open until the end of the workshop. On June 5 the topics discussed will be summarized and identified as science objectives to be addressed through abstracts on analog research. |
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5-8 | Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V *, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada | |
5-9 |
The 6th Meeting on Cosmic Dust,
Kobe, Japan
This series of Cosmic Dust meetings aims at finding a consensus among experts on the formation and evolution of cosmic dust: where it comes from and where it goes. The meeting is organized by dust freaks who are very enthusiastic not only to make the goal achievable but also to establish a dust community across every scientifically relevant discipline for the development of cosmic dust research. For this reason, the primary objectives of the meeting are to bring together professionals who deal with cosmic dust and to provide an opportunity for participants to develop human relations and interactions between the participants. |
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12-16 |
25th Annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School (Session II),
Pasadena, California
An intensive one-week team exercise, preceded by several weekly webinars and assignments, to learn the process of developing a robotic mission concept into reality through concurrent engineering. |
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14-16 | 4th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona | |
14-16 |
International Conference on Astronomy and Cosmology,
Chicago-North Shore, Illinois
OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the International Conference on Astronomy & Cosmology during August 14-16, 2013 at Chicago-North shore, USA. Astronomy-2013 is a remarkable event which facilitate the education, development, and participation of atmospheric scientists from developing countries as a conference. It initiates, encourages, facilitates and coordinates international cooperation in scientific research and stimulates discussion, presentation and publication of scientific results. To promote public education and awareness of the role and importance of the atmosphere and atmospheric sciences. |
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15-18 | 2013 International Mars Society Convention, Boulder, Colorado | |
16-25 | Summer Course: "Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life", Kuressaare, Estonia | |
19-22 |
The Annual Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing,
Logan, Utah
The Annual Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and managers to present, discuss, and learn. Experts in the calibration community offer relevant knowledge and suggestions about calibration, characterization, and radiometric issues within the microwave, IR, visible, and UV spectral ranges. |
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22-25 |
International Meteor Conference,
Poznan, Poland
The 2013 International Meteor Conference will be held in Poznań, the capital of the western Poland. This conference will be organized by the Polish Comets and Meteors Workshop (CMW/PKiM) and will take place from 2013 August 22–25. This IMC will be closely connected with Meteoroids 2013 Conference organized a few days later in the same city. Such location of the IMC will help both amateurs and professionals to meet and exchange their scientific results. There are many traveling possibilities to reach Poznań; the city is very easy reachable for all European participants. |
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25-30 | Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Florence, Italy | |
26-30 |
Exploiting the Herschel Science Archive: A Data Processing Workshop,
Pasadena, California
The goal of this workshop is to showcase the contents and capabilities of the Herschel Archive, and to provide information and training about how to best exploit it. This workshop is directed to astronomers new to Herschel, interested in exploiting the Herschel archive; beginner Herschel users who want to learn how to reduce their data; and intermediate Herschel users who want to learn about the latest software capabilities. Workshop topics will include an introduction to the Herschel Space Observatory, the contents of the Herschel Archive, and how to reduce Herschel data. |
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26-30 | Meteoroids 2013, Poznan, Poland | |
27-31 |
IAG/AIG International Conference on Geomorphology,
Paris, France
The main topic of this 8th Conference is “Geomorphology and Sustainability”. |
September 2013
2-5 |
Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs: Mind the Gap,
Hatfield, UK
The aim of this meeting is to bring the exoplanet and brown dwarf communities together to explore common science questions, share exciting results, and foster collaboration to overcome shared challenges. |
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8-13 | European Planetary Science Conference (EPSC 2013), London, United Kingdom | |
9-12 |
LSST @ Europe: The Path to Science,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
The meeting will provide an opportunity to review the current status of the LSST, and the key science programmes which are underpinning its development. The conference will include presentations identifying current science challenges where a combination of LSST and major new European facilities and expertise will result in major leaps in understanding. These topics will range from studies of our Solar System and the Milky Way, to the Universe at the largest scales. |
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9-12 |
The 11th Hellenic Astronomical Conference,
Athens, Greece
The Hellenic Astronomical Conference, organized by the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), is the major scientific event of the greek astronomical community. The Conference, which takes place every two years in a different part of Greece, typically brings together over 100 scientists with research interests in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Physics. |
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9-21 |
The 2013 VLTI School: High Angular Resolution for Stellar Astrophysics,
Bercelonnette, France
The aim of the school is to offer Ph.D. students, post-doctoral and permanent researchers an introduction to the technique of long-baseline optical/infrared interferometry and data reduction in astrophysics, namely, stellar physics including the hot topics of stellar activity, evolution, hydrodynamics, planet-hosting stars, determination of fundamental parameters, circumstellar envelopes, young stellar objects, as well as the role of binaries. |
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16-18 |
Uranus Beyond Voyager 2: From Recent Advances to Future Missions,
Meudon, France
The purpose of the meeting will be to review our current knowledge of Uranus from past measurements, to highlight recent advances and ongoing studies on this planetary environment, and summarize the important unsolved scientific questions together with the key measurements required to address them. The meeting will culminate in discussing the status of future international mission concepts in Europe and in the United States to explore the Uranus System, including updates on feasibility studies and available technologies, together with next Earth-based observing campaigns. |
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21 |
Bob Lin Memorial Symposium,
Berkeley, California
The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship will be used to support outstanding graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley who pursue research related to space sciences, including, but not limited to, students with training in Physics, Astronomy or Engineering. |
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23-24 |
Origin of the Moon,
London, United Kingdom
Despite widespread acceptance of the giant impact hypothesis for lunar origin, our understanding continues to be challenged by remarkable new geochemical data, improved simulations and theory, and spacecraft exploration. This will be a timely consideration of our current understanding, how this relates to our Earth and planetary systems and an opportunity to identify the directions of future research. |
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23-26 |
Polarimetry of Planetary Systems,
Florence, Italy
The purpose of the meeting will be to review our current knowledge of Uranus from past measurements, to highlight recent advances and ongoing studies on this planetary environment, and summarize the important unsolved scientific questions together with the key measurements required to address them. The meeting will culminate in discussing the status of future international mission concepts in Europe and in the United States to explore the Uranus System, including updates on feasibility studies and available technologies, together with next Earth-based observing campaigns. |
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23-27 |
Improving the Performances of Current Optical Interferometers and Future Designs,
Haute-Provence Observatory, France
This workshop is partly dedicated to the technologies that could improve the performances of interferometers: optimized telescope array geometries, solutions with and without delay-lines, fringe tracking optimizations, and « Adaptive Optics » for diluted telescopes, progress in the field of optical fibers and integrated optics, focal recombiner, etc. Experiment reports, new optical designs to improve the sensitivity and the quality of interferometer observables (accuracy on the visibilities, and closure phases), and any new theoretical ideas are particularly welcome. Presentations on new telemetry techniques for very accurate delay-line positioning, in particular for astrometry, are encouraged. Progress in the field of nulling interferometry are also welcome. We plan to discuss the best optical design for a post-VLTI facility. In this context, several talks on astrophysical goals achievable with such an interferometer will be selected. |
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24-28 | Second International Congress of Astrobiology in Columbia, Medellin, Columbia | |
25-26 |
Origin of the Moon — Challenges and Prospects,
Chicheley, United Kingdom
Our understanding of the origin of Earth’s moon is challenged by recent isotopic data, simulations of physical processes for giant impacts and evolution of the resulting disk, and new spacecraft studies. This meeting follows on from a Royal Society meeting in London on the same topic by focusing on the unsolved problems and assessing the prospects for future directions of research. |
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29-Oct 4 |
Sudbury Field Camp,
Sudbury, Canada
The Short Course and Field School at the Sudbury Impact Structure is a week long classroom and field training program based in Sudbury, Ontario. The goal of the program will be to introduce students to impact cratering processes and observe, in the field, the attributes of an immense basin-size impact structure. |
October 2013
3-4 |
Workshop on Golden Spike Lunar Human Expeditions: Opportunities for Intensive Lunar Scientific Exploration *,
Houston, Texas
Commercial spaceflight is rapidly beginning to impact capabilities for scientific research in numerous ways, including commercial suborbital spaceflight, commercial robotic lunar missions, and commercial near-Earth asteroid (NEA) exploration. In late 2012, the Golden Spike Company, consisting of space professionals and numerous veteran NASA engineers and executives, announced plans to mount a series of commercial human lunar expeditions in the 2020s, primarily for space and science agencies in countries around the world. The goals of this workshop are to provide a detailed overview of Golden Spike expedition capabilities to the worldwide lunar science community, and to seek feedback and input on science and exploration priorities and associated landing sites, surface experiment packages, and sample return requirements. The meeting will also explore desired future capabilities for more advanced Golden Spike missions, and the synergistic roles of Golden Spike human expeditions and robotic exploration missions. |
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6-11 | 45th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS 2013), Denver, Colorado | |
7-11 |
Astrophysical Turbulence: From Galaxies to Planets,
Dresden, Germany
In astrophysics and cosmology, fluid flow occurs on a large range of scales and under very different conditions, from the dense interior of stars and planets to the highly rarefied intergalactic medium. These flows share the fact that they are generally turbulent, i.e. highly disordered both in space and time. Turbulence is one of the key processes for the structure and evolution of a large variety of geo- and astrophysical systems. The universality of astrophysical turbulence interlinks the physics of the interior of planets or stars with proto-planetary or galactic disks, as well as the intergalactic gas outside of galaxies. For example, angular momentum transport by turbulence is a central question that must beanswered to understand how galaxies or stars form, how proto-planetary disks evolve, how metals are mixed in the interstellar and intergalactic medium, or how differential rotation is established in stars and planets. Magnetic field amplification through turbulent dynamo processes is ubiquitous in planets, stars, and galaxies. The onset of instabilities due to dust particles or newly formed planets in proto-planetary disks controls the properties of the evolving structures. We can observe a variety of interactions between stars, planets and galaxies with their environment leading to the exchange of energy and (angular-) momentum. This compilation highlights the enormous potential and perspective of a combined workshop/school to discuss and deepen our knowledge in this very rapidly moving field of research. |
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7-11 |
ESO/NUVA/IAG Workshop on Challenges in UV Astronomy,
Garching, Germany
The network for UV astronomy (NUVA) has been organizing interdisciplinary meetings every three years where scientists and instrumentalists working in the UV can obtain updated information on the current status of the field. The third meeting of the NUVA will come at a crucial time in UV astronomy. The ESA/NASA programs that created the community are reaching completion and future missions, apart from WSO-UV, are small-class, some operating from balloons. The purpose of this ESO/NUVA/IAG workshop is to bring together the international community interested in UV astronomy to discuss the present and future of the field and in particular to examine and broaden the scientific case of CUBES, the joint ESO-Brazil high-resolution UV spectrograph. Invited talks and reviews will cover the topics of UV astronomy of the solar system, exoplanets, abundances of stars at various stages of evolution, resolved stellar populations in the galaxy and beyond, the star-formation history of the universe, and the properties of the diffuse interstellar and intergalactic medium near and far. |
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7-11 |
Third Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories,
Torremolinos, Spain
The main focus of the workshop will be on the new and existing astronomical facilities whose goal is to observe a wide variety of astrophysical targets with no (or very little) human interaction. The workshop will become an international forum for researchers to summarise the most recent developments and ideas in the field, with a special emphasis given to the technical and observational results and public outreach (including Citizen Science) and educational applications achieved within the last five years as well as the future strategies foreseen. |
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12 |
Io Workshop 2013,
Boulder, Colorado
We warmly welcome talks for the 2013 Io Workshop to discuss the newest discoveries concerning Io. Topics include observations and modeling of surface geology and evolution, volcanic plumes and sources, the atmosphere and it’s surface coupling and plasma science. |
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14-16 | Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group *, Laurel, Maryland | |
14-18 |
Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2013 (CAP 2013),
Warsaw, Poland
CAP2013 will consider challenges in communication of astronomy and space exploration, as well as the influence of these activities on science outreach and education. The meeting will include unconference and workshops sessions as well as interactive planetarium shows and special events. |
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14-18 |
Fourth Moscow international Solar System Symposium (4M-S3),
Moscow, Russia
Starting in 2010, the Space Research Institute has held annual international symposia on solar system exploration. Main topics of these symposia include a wide range of problems related to formation and evolution of the solar system; planetary systems of other stars; exploration of solar system planets, their moons, and small bodies; study of the Sun, interplanetary environment, exobiology problems. Experimental planetary studies and preparation for space missions are also considered at these symposia. The fourth Moscow international Solar System Symposium (4M-S3) will covers many problems of solar system science with the central topic “Moon and Mars Exploration.” This topic relates to scientific problems of several projects, which are under development in Russia: “Luna-Glob”, “Luna-Resource,” and “ExoMars,” a project that is developed under cooperation between Roscosmos and ESA. |
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15-18 |
The (F)IR Universe Three Years Later — The Contributions by Herschel,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The overall objective of the meeting will be to present and take stock of what has been learned to date based on Herschel observations. The symposium will feature invited and contributed talks, and poster sessions. More information and the formal first announcement will be issued about a year ahead of the meeting date. |
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16-18 |
Hayabusa 2013: Symposium of Solar System Materials,
Sagamihara, Japan
Since the return of samples from Itokawa by Hayabusa in 2010, the preliminary examinations followed by studies selected in the 1st International Announcement of Oppotunity (A/O) have been performed. Now is the right time to review these results as a whole. Furthermore, multiple asteroid sample return missions are in progress, implying that science of returned samples is becoming one of the key components of planetary science. Now is the right time to set a perspective on the driving force that returned samples will give to the future of solar system science. It in these spirits that the workshop"HAYABUSA 2013: Symposium of Solar System Materials" is designed. |
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20-25 | Planet Mars 4, Les Houches, France | |
21-23 |
Solar System Formation and Observation Conference (SFO),
Bern, Switzerland
The conference is divided in five sessions, covering the topics of planetary interaction with the space plasma, investigating planet atmospheres and exospheres and planetary surfaces. Invited review speakers (see webpage and poster) will open each session. By abstract submission participants can contribute to the program with oral or poster presentations. Abstracts about simulations, observations, investigations, instrumentation and data analysis are welcome. |
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21-24 |
Venus Express VIRTIS and VMC Data Workshop,
Madrid, Spain
The overall goal of the workshop is to introduce users to the Planetary Science Archive on which data from ESA planetary missions are archived. This workshop will focus on the VIRTIS and VMC instruments of the Venus Express orbiter. |
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27-29 |
Workshop on Planetesimal Formation and Differentiation *,
Washington, DC
Evidence from meteorites and, increasingly, from asteroids indicates that some early-forming bodies had sufficient heat to melt and differentiate into a core and mantle. Partial or complete melting can allow core formation and silicate differentiation, and can also remove volatiles. Other small bodies are apparently primitive (i.e., undifferentiated). We are now at a point where targeted interdisciplinary work can create a leap in our understanding. What bulk compositions and time frames of accretion would have allowed differentiation? Where in the solar system did these bodies originate? What can we observe of differentiated bodies in the asteroid belt today? Can we link asteroid observations to meteorites from differentiated parent bodies? What was the history and large-scale structure of meteorite parent bodies? These questions bear on the critical transition from a protoplanetary disk to a solar system with rocky planets, on the habitability of those planets, and on resources in our solar system today for future space exploration. Progress in understanding these processes will depend upon communication among the fields of meteorite and asteroid/icy body observations including space missions, theory, and modeling. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers on all these subjects as they pertain to differentiation, asteroid observations, and meteorite compositions. |
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27-30 | 2013 GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, Colorado | |
30-31 | International Space Exploration Symposium in Japan: Space Exploration for Humanity and the Future, Tokyo, Japan |
November 2013
4-8 | Second Kepler Science Conference, Moffett Field, California | |
5-7 |
Optical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols Workshop,
Smolenice, Slovak Republic
The main goal of the workshop is to present an opportunity for scientist in different fields to meet and form efficient collaborations in the research of atmospheric aerosols. |
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11-14 | Second Exobiology Workshop, Frejus, France | |
11-15 |
First COSPAR Symposium: Planetary Systems of Our Sun and Other Stars, and the Future of Space Astronomy,
Bangkok, Thailand
This first Symposium will address the theme “Planetary Systems of our Sun and other Stars, and the Future of Space Astronomy”. It is open to participants from all regions, but scientists, young professionals and students in the Asian region are particularly encouraged to participate. The Symposium will feature plenary lectures as well as parallel and poster sessions. |
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13-15 |
International Workshop on LunarCubes (LCW),
Mountain View, California
Flexure Engineering is creating the LunarCubes Working Group and LunarCube workshops to promote the creation of a standard to facilitate the development of low cost, rapid development payloads that could be easily added to the many lunar opportunities that will exist in the coming decades. |
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19-21 | 11th Meeting of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG 11), Washington, DC | |
19-21 |
Young Researchers Exobiology Conference (EJC'13),
Paris, France
It will bring together and support exchanges between young researchers, astrophysicists, chemists, biologists, geologists and historians of science together to show their latest work. All topics related to astrobiology will be discussed, the first exoplanets living organisms, divided into three themes: (1) Astrobiology and Space Exploration, (2) Primitive Earth and the first traces of life, and (3) Prebiotic chemistry and early life. |
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20-22 | Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop (RESCHEDULED) *, Houston, Texas | |
28-30 |
International Astrobiology Workshop,
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
“Astrobiology” has been created as a new interdisciplinary academic field that integrates astronomy, solar system science, geochemistry, microbiology, and other disciplines. One of the most profound themes of modern science is to judge if “terrestrial” biology can be “universal” outside the Earth and even outside the Solar System just like physics and chemistry both of which are applicable at anywhere in this Universe. It is expected to derive great contributions for astrobiology from space science, such as space astronomy, Solar System exploration, and planetary science including space environment experiments. Now, a number of international refereed journals in the astrobiology field have been publishes while NASA has established virtual institutes to invest research grants in this field the most effectively. In Japan, there have been also recent publications of both professional and public books in astrobiology and new organizations to support this research area have been founded. This workshop is the 6th of the Japan Astrobiology Network (JABN) annual workshop series founded since 2008. It aims to promote interdisciplinary interactions among astrobiology researchers and advancement of this field in Japan. At this time, we will hold this workshop as a 3-days-long international workshop with English as the working language, for the first time of this series; thus we encourage inviting both astrobiology experts from overseas as well as young researchers in Japan. In addition, there will be public lectures in the last day of the event. |
December 2013
8-12 |
Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity,
Keauhou Kona, Hawaii
Major topics include (1) Direct imaging of disks/exoplanets; (2) Spectroscopy of disks/exoplanets; (3) Various approaches toward earth-like planet detection; (4) Theory for planet formation; (5) Theory and simulation of exoplanet atmospheres; (6) Dust formation and evolution in disks; (7) Current/future instrumentation for direct observations. |
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9-13 | AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California | |
9-13 |
ASTROBIO 2013: An International Workshop on Astrobiology,
Santiago, Chile
Topics include (1) Life on Earth: Origin of Life, Evolution, Climate Change; (2) Extremophiles in Local Environments: Antarctica, Atacama, and the Deep Ocean; (3) Exploration of the Solar System: Life searches on Mars, Europa, Titan, and elsewhere; (4) Beyond our Solar System: Search and Study of Extrasolar Planets, Biomarkers; (5) Molecules of life: first observations with ALMA, astrochemistry; (6) Stellar Habitable Zones and Galactic Habitable Zone, Artificial life, Communication; (7) Future Perspectives on Astrobiology: the role of JWST, E-ELT and GMT |
January 2014
5-9 | 223rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC | |
8-9 | Small Bodies Assessment Group Meeting, Washington, DC | |
10 | Ionising Processes in Atmospheric Environments of Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and M-Dwarfs, London, United Kingdom | |
13-14 | Outer Planets Analysis Group (OPAG) Meeting, Tucson, Arizona | |
13-16 |
Fifth International Workshop on the Mars Atmosphere: Modelling and Observations,
Oxford, United Kingdom
The scope of the workshop is to bring together experts in observations and modelling of the present and past Mars climate systems and discuss the nature of the atmospheric circulation and the photochemistry (up to the exobase), the dust cycle, the water cycle (vapor, clouds and frost) and the carbon dioxide cycle (polar caps). |
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19-22 | Science with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Rottach-Egern, Germany | |
20-24 |
18th International Conference on Microlensing,
Santa Barbara, California
Topics will include: Microlensing Discoveries; Microlensing Results in the Wider Context, including planet frequency, free-floating planets, implications for planetary formation/evolution, galactic structure and stellar mass function; Observing Microlensing Phenomenon, including the status & developments of ground-based survey and follow-up teams, strategies, instrumentation, space-based missions and future opportunities; and Lensing Theory, Modeling and Computation. |
February 2014
3-4 | Vesta in the Light of Dawn: First Exploration of a Protoplanet in the Asteroid Belt *, Houston, Texas | |
3-6 | Exoplanet Observations with the E-ELT, Garching, Germany | |
5-7 |
Workshop on the Habitability of Icy Worlds *,
Pasadena, California
The primary objective of this workshop will be to focus on the astrobiological potential of icy worlds in the outer solar system — including Europa, Ganymede, Enceladus, Titan, and beyond — with discussion on future research directions and spacecraft missions that can best assess that potential. The agenda for the workshop will be organized around the unique planetary environments of the outer solar system. Presentations on research involving terrestrial analogs are also encouraged. The format of the workshop will be 2.5 to 3 days of presentations and discussion divided into thematic sessions that cover topics including (but not necessarily limited to) habitability in extreme environments; the Galilean satellites; the saturnian satellites; the icy worlds of Uranus and Neptune; the Kuiper belt and beyond; the Cassini solstice mission; the Europa Clipper study; the ESA JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE); and the future of outer solar system exploration. |
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9-14 |
AGU Chapman Conference on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System,
Yosemite National Park, California
This cross-discipline AGU Chapman conference, will examine the details of the ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling processes using results from both measurements and modeling. Topics that will be discussed include the ionosphere as a source of magnetospheric plasma, the effects of the low energy ionospheric plasma on the stability of the more energetic plasmas in the magnetosphere, the role of currents and electric/magnetic fields in coupling the two regions, the unified global modeling of the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and the coupling of the ionosphere and magnetosphere at other planets and moons throughout the solar system. |
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9-14 |
Exoclimes III: The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres,
Davos, Switzerland
Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realize while attempting to understand, forecast, and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the solar system, our neighbors Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution: runaway greenhouse and loss of atmosphere to space. The variety of extrasolar planets brings a wider angle to the issue: from scorching “hot Jupiters” to ocean worlds, exo-atmospheres explore many configurations unknown in the solar system, such as iron clouds, silicate rains, extreme plate tectonics, and steam volcanos. Exoplanetary atmospheres have recently become accessible to observations, starting with hot gas giants, and gradually moving toward more Earth-like planets. This meeting will bring together Earth, solar system, and exoplanet specialists to discuss recent results and the way ahead. |
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17-18 | First FISICA Workshop: Science Goals of a Sub-Arcsecond Far-Infrared Space Observatory, Rome, Italy | |
18-19 |
Science and Challenges of Lunar Sample Return Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The Moon is an important exploration destination for ESA and is considered to be the next destination for humans beyond Low Earth Orbit. European access to the lunar surface is most likely to be made through cooperation with international partners and opportunities for international cooperation in the broad area of lunar exploration are being investigated. Sample return missions are an important element in the future cooperative exploration scenarios under discussion, as a next step after surface missions. They are a means of building international partnerships, developing and demonstrating technologies and capabilities, and performing detailed analyses to answer fundamental scientific questions and address exploration enabling knowledge gaps through analyses which cannot be performed in situ. Such missions may be required to access extreme environments, perform complex surface operations, and handle uniquely demanding sample requirements. Such activities can result in major advances in planetary sciences, astrobiology and the future of exploration. A Lunar Polar Sample Return mission, envisaged in the early 2020s by Roscosmos, has been identified by ESA as an important cooperative mission opportunity, and as a logical follow-on from a possible European participation to the Luna-Resurs Lander mission planned by Roscosmos before the end of this decade. In addition a human tended deep space capability, as initiated with the Orion vehicle currently developed by NASA in cooperation with ESA, can be of benefit to a sample return mission and may lead to a future integration of robotic and human exploration. In preparation for these missions it is important to review our current knowledge and understanding of the Moon, establish the scientific and technical goals that should be targeted and the associated challenges that lie ahead. This workshop will explore the possible benefits and scientific return from Lunar Sample Return missions and investigate the implications for future mission systems. |
March 2014
1-8 |
IEEE Aerospace Conference,
Big Sky, Montana
The international IEEE Aerospace Conference, with AIAA and PHM Society as technical cosponsors, is organized to promote interdisciplinary understanding of aerospace systems, their underlying science and technology, and their applications to government and commercial endeavors. |
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4-5 |
SELENE Symposium 2014: International Symposium of Lunar Science and Exploration Using Data from Multi-Instruments,
Tokyo, Japan
Significant progress in lunar science and technology has been made in the last decade by orbiter missions including our SELENE (Kaguya). It is time to start new analyses, for instance using data from multi-instruments and/or lunar samples. For this purpose, we held an international symposium of lunar science, the SELENE SYMPOSIUM 2013, at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Sagamihara, Japan, last January. The symposium was very fruitful with more than 90 participants from 7 countries. Here, we are pleased to announce the 2nd symposium, the SELENE SYMPOSIUM 2014, in Japan again. The meeting will be held at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Mitaka City, Tokyo. All scientists and engineers around the world who are interested in lunar science are invited to come together for beneficial discussions on the new views of the origin and evolution of the Moon. Presentation topics will be widely opened. |
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16 |
International Workshop on Scientific Opportunities in Cislunar Space (SOCS),
Houston, Texas
Cislunar space, from low Earth orbit to the Lunar far side halo orbit (LL2), is a uniquely accessible environment for planetary scientists and explorers providing physical analogs for many extreme conditions from Mercury to Pluto. Cislunar space provides two primary environments for in situ and prepared experimentation: Long duration cryogenic environments down to 25 Kelvin with natural or manmade volatile ices and hard vacuum deep space partials, and plasma and radiation environments. The SOCS workshops and challenges will focus on developing the technologies and techniques to illuminate the chemistry and physics of deep space targets such as the ice giants, icy moons, or the partials and plasmas around near Earth objects (NEOs). |
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16 | SHARAD/MARSIS Data Users' Workshop, The Woodlands, Texas | |
17-20 | Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV: Looking to the Future, Rome, Italy | |
17-21 | 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#LPSC2014) *, The Woodlands, Texas | |
17-21 |
Search for Life Beyond the Solar System — Exoplanets, Biomarkers and Instruments,
Tucson, Arizona
The goal of the conference is to bring together the interdisciplinary community required to address this multi-faceted challenge: experts on exoplanet observations, early and extreme life on earth, atmospheric biomarkers, and planet-finding telescopes. |
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18-21 | International Workshop on Scientific Use, Digitization and Preserving Astronomical Photographic Records, Prague, Czech Republic | |
20-22 | Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India 2014, Mohali, India | |
26-28 | First ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection Workshop, Madrid, Spain |
April 2014
1-3 |
International Cometary Workshop,
Toulouse, France
The workshop will cover topics ranging from the dynamical and chemical evolution of the solar nebula during formation, to the techniques for measuring the composition of comets. Invited speakers include some of the community leaders in cometary science, measurements and technology development. We will discuss the role that Rosetta measurements will play in understanding the origin of Solar System bodies, and what future missions to comets are being planned. |
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8-10 |
Titan Through Time Workshop 3,
Laurel, Maryland
We are pleased to announce a third workshop on "Titan Through Time" in 2014 at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD, following the success of the previous workshops in 2010 and 2012 at nearby Goddard Space Flight Center. The third meeting will have a similar format, with a 2 1/2 day science program comprised of themed sessions, and featuring a mixture of invited reviews, and contributed talks and posters. As in previous years, we welcome scientific reports and attendance from the widest possible cross-section of the scientific community, including both those studying Titan directly, but also those whose research interests have intersections with Titan science in areas such as laboratory chemistry and spectroscopy; modeling of planetary atmospheres, surfaces and interiors; terrestrial analogs and comparative planetology; and the formation and evolution of the solar system. |
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8-11 |
4th International Workshop on on Lunar and Planetary Compact and Cryogenic Science and Technology Applications (LSA 4),
Cocoa Beach, Florida
LSA 4 will be a crossroads for scientist, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are building and flying lunar missions now. After 30 years of neglect, the Moon is becoming a very active and crowded place. Russia, China, and the U.S. all plan to have active lander/rover missions on the lunar surface in 2017-2018. In addition, there will be many secondary payloads and LunarCube missions to the surface of the Moon and throughout Cislunar space with rides provided by smaller national and private programs such as the Google Lunar X Prize teams. In response, LSA 4 will bring together the best, the brightest and the most passionate to deliver progress updates, the latest discoveries and newest opportunities, technical presentations and discussions on lander rover technologies; ISRU, especially cryogenic volatiles deposits; and cryogenic planetary science and processes. The latest results from LRO, LCROSS, and LADEE will be presented, and Astrobotic, MoonExpress, Luna, and Resource Prospector will provide updates on the progress of their missions. LSA 4 is the anchor event for a week of activities in and around the Kennedy Space Center including the 43rd Space Congress sponsored by Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS), Yuri's Night and a banquet co-sponsored by the Missile, Space and Range Pioneers, a member of CCTS. |
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22-24 | Humans to Mars Summit, Washington, DC | |
27-May 2 | European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria | |
28-29 | Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference, Pasadena, California | |
28-May 1 | 45th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
28-May 1 | Habitable Worlds Across Time and Space, Baltimore, Maryland | |
28-May 3 | 21st Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kiev, Ukraine |
May 2014
5-9 | 13th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2014), Pasadena, California | |
13 |
EnVision: M4 Venus Orbiter Workshop,
London, England
A meeting is to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 13 May 2014 in support of EnVision, an ESA Medium-class proposed Venus orbiter, in preparation for the anticipated M4 call. All are welcome; please confirm your interest by email to [email protected]. If you would like to put forward an idea for discussion, for example for science investigations to carry out with this mission, please also submit a short abstract (150-300 words) by the end of February. |
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13-14 | Mars Exploration Analysis Group (MEPAG) Meeting, Washington, DC | |
13-15 | The Formation of the Solar System Conference, Bonn, Germany | |
14-16 | First Landing Site Workshop for the 2020 Mars Rover Mission, Washington, DC | |
17-21 | 51st Annual Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society, College Station, Texas | |
19-21 | Venus Exploration Targets Workshop (#venus2014) *, Houston, Texas | |
20-22 | Biosignatures Across Space and Time, Bergen, Norway | |
26-31 |
Accretion and Early Differentiation of the Earth and Terrestrial Planets (ACCRETE),
Nice, France
This will be a small workshop with up to 120 participants, including a significant number of students and young scientists. The topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, chemistry of small bodies in the early solar system; planetary accretion; core-mantle differentiation; delivery of volatile elements, including water; nature and timing of the "late veneer"; consequences of giant impacts; etc. The workshop will be held at La Maison du Seminaire, which is located on the sea front in downtown Nice. |
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27-28 | 3rd Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop (iCubeSat 2014), Pasadena, California | |
28-30 |
Workshop on Planetary Volcanism POSTPONED
(#planetlava) *,
Houston, Texas
Over the last few years we have had a revolution in our understanding of the surface of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon through a variety of robust orbital, landed in situ, and rover missions. Recent imagery has identified for perhaps the first time the existence of lavatubes, skylights, and pit craters on the surfaces of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon. Skylights, tubes, and pits are unique in that they are relevant to all aspects of the space initiative — exploration, potential habitability, resources, human ops, and habitation. Furthermore, the role of volatiles has been a major breakthrough in mare volcanism. The goal of this workshop is to summarize what we know as well as what we need to know about the origin, evolution, structure, and astrobiological significance of planetary volcanism — specifically as it relates to the newly discovered lavatubes, skylights, and pit craters. This is critical to understanding the role of mantle processes in shaping the planetary surface, as well as similarities and differences in evolutionary pathways that shaped the terrestrial planets. We hope to gain insights into future mission concepts and to stimulate cross-discipline interactions. |
June 2014
1-5 | Second Annual Meeting of the AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD 2014), Boston, Massachusetts | |
3-5 |
International Symposium on Lunar and Planetary Science,
Macau, China
This international Symposium aims for the international academic exchange on the topics of processing, analysis, research, and application of lunar and planetary exploration data, especially related to Chang’e-3, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and other missions. |
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3-5 | Mars — Connecting Planetary Scientists in Europe (MPSE 2014), Warsaw, Poland | |
8-14 | Goldschmidt 2014, Sacramento, California | |
9-12 | Fifth Meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium, Golden, Colorado | |
10-14 |
International Venus Workshop,
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Following previous Venus conferences organised by the Venus Express team in 2007 and 2008 (La Thuile) and 2010 (Aussois), this fourth conference invites talks on all aspects of Venus science, whether related to Venus Express or not. The conference will include invited and contributed talks, and an opportunity to display posters. The scientific programme will be arranged thematically with topics including atmospheric dynamics; atmospheric structure; atmospheric chemistry & clouds; thermosphere, ionosphere & escape processes; surface & interior; supporting laboratory investigations; and planetary evolution. Interdisciplinary talks, and comparative planetology talks highlighting parallels with other planets in our solar system or beyond, are particularly encouraged. To emphasize the central role of volcanism in shaping the history of Venus and its climate, the conference will be held at the foot of Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily in the town of Catania. A half-day field trip to the summit of Etna is foreseen during the conference. |
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15-19 |
11th International GeoRaman Conference *,
St. Louis, Missouri
The 11th International GeoRaman conference in St. Louis will focus on two major aspects of laser Raman spectroscopy: (1) The most advanced technologies and instrumentation, from laboratories to a wide variety of field applications, e.g., industrial and security monitoring, geo-fields, deep ocean, and on other planets; (2) The newest applications in studying inorganic, organic, and bio-genetic materials in Earth Sciences, Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, Forensic Science, Archaeology and Archaeometry, Gemmology, and Astrobiology. |
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16-20 | 11th International Planetary Probe Workshop (#IPPW11) *, Pasadena, California | |
16-20 |
48th ESLAB Symposium: New Insights into Volcanism Across the Solar System,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The aim of the 2014 ESLAB symposium is to review the different mechanisms, sources and surface expressions of volcanism, both effusive and explosive. Special, but not exclusive, emphasis will be put on moons and Mercury, target bodies of future ESA missions (BepiColombo to Mercury and the Jupiter icy moon explorer mission, JUICE). |
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16-20 | Annual Planetary Science Summer School, Session 1, Pasadena, California | |
23-26 | Science Results from Pan-STARRS1, Baltimore, Maryland | |
24-27 | 6th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS), Lausanne, Switzerland | |
30-Jul 4 |
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM),
Helsinki, Finland
The Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM) meeting is the premier international gathering of scientists who study small bodies. The 2014 ACM meeting will be the twelfth in the series. |
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30-Jul 4 | The Outer Regions of Extrasolar Planetary Systems, Geneva, Switzerland | |
30-Aug 8 | ISIMA 2014: Gravitational Dynamics, Toronto, Canada |
July 2014
4-11 | 6th International Summer School on Radar/SAR Systems, Bonn, Germany | |
6-11 | CoRoT3-KASC7: The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse, France | |
6-11 |
Origins 2014,
Nara, Japan
This conference will provide an opportunity with chemists, biologists, geologists, astronomers, planetary scientists, and those from other research fields to meet and discuss on mutual research interests for addressing questions of the origin and evolution of life on this planet and elsewhere in the Universe. |
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7-11 | 6th Alfven Conference: Plasma Interactions with Solar System Objects, Anticipating Rosetta, MAVEN, and Mars Orbiter Mission, London, United Kingdom | |
7-11 | Complex Planetary Systems, Namur, Belgium | |
7-11 |
Nuclei in the Cosmos,
Debrecen, Hungary
Bi-annual conference of cosmochemists, nuclear physicists, astrophysicists; accompanied with a one week school for students. |
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9-11 | The Universe in the Light of Akari and Synergy with Future Large Space Telescopes, Oxford, United Kingdom | |
14-18 | Annual Planetary Science Summer School, Session 2, Pasadena, California | |
14-18 |
Eighth International Mars Conference
(#8thMars) *,
Pasadena, California
Reschedule of conference originally planned for July 2013. |
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20 |
5th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2014),
Moffett Field, California
LunGradCon 2014 will address the following research topics of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute: Dust/Regolith and Plasma; Geology and Geophysics; Volatiles/Exospheres; Missions and Human Exploration. LunGradCon 2014 will also present opportunities for social networking among LGC participants and senior scientists and engineers from NASA ARC and the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. |
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21-23 | NASA Exploration Science Forum (ESF), Moffett Field, California | |
21-25 | 2014 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: Imaging Planets and Disks, Pasadena, California | |
21-25 |
Eighth International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR VIII),
Lanzhou, China
The International Conferences for Aeolian Research (ICAR conferences) are sponsored by the International Society for Aeolian Research (ISAR). They attract aeolian geomorphologists, geologists, physical scientists, soil scientists, climatologists, ecologists and erosion specialists from around the world to discuss the latest challenges and discoveries of aeolian research. |
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23-24 | Outer Planets Analysis Group (OPAG) Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland | |
28-30 |
Workshop on the Study of the Ice Giant Planets
(#Icegiant) *,
Laurel, Maryland
The goal of this 2.5-day workshop is to raise awareness of the uniqueness/importance of ice giants in our solar system and others and lay out key science goals and a potential suite of investigations for New Frontiers-Flagship mission concepts. We will review the current state of knowledge of all aspects of the ice giant planetary systems (planets, satellites, rings, etc.), and how it relates to our knowledge of the gas giants, planetary formation models, and the study of exoplanets, incorporating outcomes of the 2013 Paris Uranus meeting. We will initiate a major effort to prioritize the science goals of future Uranus and Neptune missions and review studied architectures for these mission concepts. Contributed talks/posters are welcome, particularly those that focus on the state of knowledge and mission studies. Abstract submission will open in early May 2014. |
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28-Aug 1 | 11th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Sapporo, Japan | |
28-Aug 1 |
Characterizing Planetary Systems Across the HR Diagram,
Cambridge, England
The meeting will focus on the full lifetime of planetary systems, from pre- to post-main sequence host star stages, and the connections that can be made by viewing these evolutionary stages as parts of a whole. In this way, the program aims to provide an integrative approach rather than focusing on each stellar stage separately. |
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29-31 | 11th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG), Washington, DC |