Planetary Surfaces Group Meeting

Spring 2023: Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in person (Room 309). Email vgulick "at" arizona.edu for the Zoom link if you need it.

Date  Speaker Topic Associated Paper or Abstract/Additional Materials/INFORMATION

January 11, 2023

Ginny Gulick

Introduction, syllabus, presentations schedule, and Planetary Surfaces News  
January 18, 2023 Dr. Adrien Broquet, LPL
Presentation on: 
Geophysical Evidence for an Active Mantle Plume Underneath Elysium Planitia on Mars
Geophysical evidence for an active mantle plume underneath Elysium Planitia on Mars
January 25, 2023 Dr. Sarah Sutton, LPL
Presentation on: 
Sinuous channels east of Olympus Mons, Mars: Implications for volcanic, hydrological, and tectonic processes
Sinuous channels east of Olympus Mons, Mars: Implications for volcanic, hydrological, and tectonic processes
February 1, 2023 Tyler Meng, LPL
"Photogrammetric monitoring of terrestrial rock glacier surface motion with applications to glaciological principles."

Talk will summarize new research which will be compared to previous research in this paper

Rock glacier dynamics and paleoclimatic implications

February 8, 2023 Dr. Henrik Hargitai - 

Eötvös Loránd University

Navua Valles: Mapping Evidence for Streams, Floods, and Lakes through Mars Geologic History

Talk will highlight research from these papers: (Students pick one to read)

Discontinuous Drainage Systems Formed by Highland Precipitation and Ground-water Outflow in the Navua Valles and Southwest Hadriacus Mons Regions, Mars.

Paleolakes of Northeast Hellas: Precipitation, Groundwater-fed, and Fluvial Lakes in the Navua–Hadriacus–Ausonia Region.

Evolution of the Navua Valles region: Implications for Mars' paleoclimatic history.

Video - Henrik HargitaiNavua Valles: Mapping Evidence for Streams, Floods, and Lakes through Mars Geologic History

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February 15, 2023 Rowan Huang, LPL

Morphologic Analysis of Crater Gullies in the Northern Lowlands of Mars

Morphologic Analysis of Martian Gullies in Four High-Northern Latitude Craters (pdf)

Video - Rowan Huang - Morphologic Analysis of Crater Gullies in the Northern Lowlands of Mars

February 22, 2023

Reed Spurling, AEE &

Dalia Portillo, HAS

 

Crater-Based Surface Age Dating of the Osuga Valles Region, Mars

A Lens into the Past: Using HEC-RAS to Visualize Probable Paleoflood Conditions in Osuga Valles.

Crater-based Surface Age Dating of the Osuga Valles Region, Mars (pdf)

Modeling Catastrophic Discharges in Osuga Valles, Mars (pdf)

Video - Reed Spurling - Crater-Based Surface Age Dating of the Osuga Valles and Hebrus Valles Regions, Mars

Video - Dalia Portillo - A Lens into the Past: Using HEC-RAS to Visualize Probable Paleoflood Conditions in Osuga Valles

March 1, 2023   No class. Start working on LPSC summaries! LPL HI Field Trip March 1-11, 2023
March 8, 2023   Spring recess - no classes  
March 15, 2023   No class- Work on LPSC session review assignment Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), March 13-17, 2023 
March 22, 2023   LPSC Review speakers: Reed, Dalia, Rishi

LPSC Review

Video Review of LPSC Abstracts

Rishi Chandra
Reed Spurling
Dalia Portillo

March 29, 2023

Mackenzie Mills, LPL Distribution of Pitted Cone Features in Utopia Planitia Follow Basin Contours Spatial Distribution of Pitted Cones in Utopia Planitia Follow Basin Contours (pdf)
Video - Mackenzie Mills - Spatial Distribution of Pitted Cones in Utopia Planitia Follow Basin Contours
April 5, 2023 Roberto Aguilar, LPL  

Lake Ice Detection from Sentinel-1 SAR with Deep Learning (pdf)

Video - Roberto Aguilar - Machine Learning Based Lake Ice Detection from Space

April 12, 2023 Dr. Stefano Nerozzi, LPL

Geologic Mapping and Radar Sounding Analysis of the Hebrus Valles and Hephaestus Fossae Region

NOTE: Today we will be meeting in Kuiper 312

 

Evidence of a Magmatic Trigger of Water Release and Widespread Volcanic Activity in the Hebrus Valles and Hephaestus Fossae Outflow Channel Region, Mars (pdf)

Video - Stefano Nerozzi - Geologic Mapping and Radar Sounding Analysis of the Hebrus Valles and Hephaestus Fossae Region

April 19, 2023 Roy Naor, Weizmann Institute Subsurface Volume Loss and Surface Collapse by Salt-Dissolution of Terminal Cavi in Osuga Valles

Subsurface Volume Loss and Surface Collapse by Salt-Dissolution of Terminal Cavi in Osuga Valles (pdf)

Another part of Roy's PhD thesis is a study of another terrestrial analog for planetary pit formation in volcanic terrain may be briefly discussed if there is time. Here is a ink to his paper: Morphometric constraints on the formation of new terrestrial analogs for planetary pits

Video - Roy Naor - Subsurface Volume Loss and Surface Collapse by Salt-Dissolution of Terminal Cavi in Osuga Valles

April 26, 2023

David Cantillo, LPL

Grain Size Effects on the Classification of Near-Earth Asteroids

Grain Size Effects on UV-MIR (0.2-15 μm) Spectra of Carbonaceous Chondrite Groups (pdf)

Video - David Cantillo - Grain Size Effects on the Taxonomic Classification of Near-Earth Asteroids

May 3, 2023

Rishi Chandra, LPL

/ Dr. Victor Baker, LPL/HAS/GEOS

Seismic Autocorrelation to Explore Subglacial Crustal Structure

/Use of Analogs in Planetary Geology: The Example of the Channeled Scabland

Seismic Autocorrelation to Explore Subglacial Crustal Structure

/The Channeled Scabland: A Retrospective (pdf)

Terrestrial Analogs, Planetary Geology, and the Nature of Geological Reasoning

Video - Rishi Chandra - Seismic Autocorrelation to Explore Subglacial Crustal Structure

Video - Victor Baker - Use of Analogs in Planetary Geology: The Example of the Channeled Scabland

       

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