Colloquia are normally on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in the 4th-floor conference
room, except as indicated below in bold text.
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the SwRI colloquium organizers:
Raluca Rufu, 303-226-0879 or raluca(at)boulder.swri.edu
Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
Sierra Ferguson, sierra.ferguson(at)swri.org
Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Lena Heffern, lena.heffern(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu
To be added to the SwRI Boulder Colloquia email list, please contact Kelsi Singer, ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
| Tue Sep 26, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Natalie Wolfenbarger | Stanford University | Brine, salt, and everything ice: Ingredients for interpreting future radar observations of Europa | |
| Abstract: | Evidence of sub-ice oceans hidden beneath the surfaces of icy moons has extended the search for life beyond Earth within our Solar System from Mars to the outer planets. However, it is the evidence for surface-ice-ocean exchange that has brought Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa to the forefront in the search for habitable worlds. The heavily cracked and mottled surface hints at an even more dynamic and heterogeneous subsurface, capable of transporting food, in the form of radiolytically-produced surface oxidants, to the potentially inhabited ocean below. Upcoming missions to Europa will conduct detailed reconnaissance of the moon using a suite of remote sensing and in situ instruments. Of these instruments, ice-penetrating radar is uniquely capable of contributing a third dimension to observations of Europa. In this presentation I will describe a novel approach which uses geochemical models to guide the interpretation of radar echoes from Europa’s subsurface, enabling these critical subsurface properties and processes to be constrained and characterized. | ||||
| Thu Sep 28, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Erica Jawin | Smithsonian Air and Space Museum | The evolution of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Global geology and predictions for the OSIRIS-REx sample | |
| Tue Oct 17, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Kathrine Bermingham | Rutgers University | TBD | |
| Tue Oct 31, 2023
In CR4 + virtual | 11:00 am | Vishaal Singh | Columbia University/ Lamont Doherty | TBD | |
| Tue Dec 5, 2023
In CR4+ webex | 11:00 am | Edwin Bergin | University of Michigan | TBD | |