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LUNAR SCIENCE FORUM, July 17-19, 2012
Time/Date	Monday, July 16, 2012			LOCATION
5-7:00pm	Early registration			NASA Ames NLSI Building 17
Time/Date	DAY 1 Tuesday, July 17, 2012			LOCATION
7:00	Poster setup begins			NASA Ames Bldg. 152
7:30	Student lightning round presenters: Breakfast with NLSI Director			NASA Ames Bldg. 152
8-8:30AM	REGISTRATION: NASA Ames Building 152			NASA Ames Bldg. 152
8:30-8:45	Welcome speakers: Pete Worden, Michael Wargo, Jim Green, and Yvonne Pendleton			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
8:45-9:15	Welcome talk: Shoemaker Award, Stuart Ross Taylor			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
	PLENARY SESSION I: Missions (Chair: Yvonne Pendleton)			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
9:15-9:35	Maria Zuber, Overview and first science results from the GRAIL mission (Invited)
9:35-9:55	David Smith, Combined GRAIL and LOLA observations of the lunar crust (Invited)
9:55-10:15	Jasper Halekas, First results from the ARTEMIS mission (Invited)
10:15-10:30	BREAK
10:30-10:50	Richard Vondrak, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: status, recent science results, and extended mission plans (Invited)
10:50-11:10	Mark Robinson, Exploring the Moon with LROC (Invited)
11:10-11:30	David Paige, Diviner measurements of temperature and composition (Invited)
11:30-11:50	Greg Delory, Overview and status update of the LADEE mission to the Moon (Invited)
11:50-12:00	Lightning Round #1: Student Poster Previews			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
12:00-2:00	LUNCH / POSTER VIEWING / Focus Group Meetings
START 2:00 PM	PLENARY SESSION II: Astro & Heliophysics, Lunar Exosphere Chair: Greg Schmidt			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
2:00-2:30	Joseph Lazio, Astrophysics and heliophysics: science from the Moon (Invited)
2:30-3:00	Kurt Retherford, Lunar far-UV albedos reveal surface water frost and porosity in permanently shadowed regions (Invited)
3:00-3:10	Lightning Round #2: Student Poster Previews			NASA Ames Bldg. 152 MAIN ROOM
3:10-3:15	Transition to Parallel Session Rooms
	Parallel Session #1. FROM THE MOON: Astrophysics/Heliophysics	LOCATION	Parallel Session #2. OF THE MOON: Exosphere	LOCATION
	Chairs: Andrew Poppe, Joseph Lazio	NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room	Chairs: Jasper Halekas, Menelaos Sarantos	NASA Ames Bldg 152 Side Room
3:15-3:30	Andrew Poppe, 1.5-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of the solar wind interaction with lunar crustal magnetic anomalies		Rosemary Killen, Observations and models of the lunar sodium exosphere 1988 - 1999
3:30-3:45	Timothy Stubbs, Interplanetary conditions during the Apollo missions: Implications for the lunar environment		Jasper Halekas, Lunar pickup ion observations from ARTEMIS
3:45-4:00	Robert MacDowall, Polyimide film antenna deployment for a pathfinder lunar radio observatory		David Glenar, Upper limits for the abundance of lunar exospheric dust from Clementine star tracker limb measurements
4:00-4:15	Jordan Mirocha, Disentangling the assembly history of galaxies and super-massive black holes with 21-cm observations from the lunar farside		Paul Feldman, Temporal variability of lunar exospheric helium during January 2012 from LRO/LAMP
4:15-4:30	P.J. Chi, Narrowband ion cyclotron waves at and near the Moon in the Earth's magnetotail and the association with the plasma environment		Menelaos Sarantos, Relative abundance of lunar pickup ions inferred from ARTEMIS observations and implications for the exosphere
4:30-5:30	NASA "Night", Jim Green, Michael Wargo			NASA Ames Bldg. 152
5:30-7:30	POSTER SESSION			NASA Ames Bldg. 152 MAIN ROOM

DAY 2
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Time/Date				LOCATION
8-8:30AM	REGISTRATION: NASA Ames Building 152			NASA Ames Building 152 Main Room
START 8:30 AM	PLENARY SESSION III: Geology: Impacts and Dust / Regolith Chair: Yvonne Pendleton			NASA Ames Building 152
8:30-9:00	James Head, Lunar impact basins: Orientale Basin as a key to basin-related processes in lunar history (Invited)
9:00-9:30	Mihaly Horanyi, Dusty plasma processes on the surfaces of airless planetary objects (Invited)
9:30-9:40	Lightning Round #3: Student Poster Previews			Bldg. 152 MAIN ROOM
9:40-9:45	Transition to Parallel Session Rooms
	Parallel Session #3. OF THE MOON: Geology: Impacts	LOCATION	Parallel Session #4: OF THE MOON: Dust / Regolith	LOCATION
	Chairs: Carle Pieters, Jeff Moore	NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room	Chairs: Bonnie Cooper, Christine Hartzell	NASA Ames Bldg 152 Side Room
9:45-10:00	Jerome Johnson, Excavation and mobility modeling of lunar regolith as part of the NLSI the Scientific Exploration Potential of the Lunar Poles Project		Tobin Munsat, Overview of recent science results from the CCLDAS dust accelerator
10:00-10:15	William Vaughan, Geology and petrology of massive impact melt deposits: A case study of the Orientale basin melt lake		Jean-Pierre Williams, The influence of surface roughness and rocks on LRO Diviner observations
10:15-10:30	Michelle Kirchoff, Results of examining small impact crater populations on the Moon		Christine Hartzell, Experimental demonstration of the importance of cohesion in electrostatic dust lofting
10:30-10:45	Robert Wagner, Spatial distribution of pits in impact melts		Ryan Clegg, Photometric analysis of the Apollo landing sites using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter NAC images
10:45-11:00	BREAK
11:00-11:15	Julie Stopar, Characterizing exterior impact melt deposits associated with small lunar craters		Andrew Collette, Time-resolved temperature measurements in hypervelocity dust grain impact
11:15-11:30	Ross Potter: Numerical modeling of the Orientale basin-forming event		Bonnie Cooper, New measurements of lunar soils using isopropanol show a smaller average diameter compared to sieve measurements
11:30-11:45	Rachel Klima, Bullialdus Crater: probing mineralogy and local hydroxyl abundance		Sasha Kempf, The lunar dust cloud
11:45-12:00	Lauren Jozwiak, Lunar floor- fractured craters: classification, distribution, origin and implications for magmatism and shallow crustal structure		Paul Duvoy, Analysis of bevameter/regolith interaction mechanics using the COUPi discrete element method model
12:00-2:00	LUNCH / POSTER VIEWING, Focus Group Sessions
START 2:00PM	PLENARY SESSION IV: Volatiles & Geology: Bombardment & Mapping Chair: Greg Schmidt			NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room
2:00-2:30	Jerry Sanders and Bill Larson, RESOLVE lunar rover field campaign, Live from Hawaii (Invited) Part 1: Part 2:
2:30-3:00	I. Mitrofanov, W .Boynton, M. Litvak on behalf of the LEND Team, (Invited) The origin of water ice permafrost in the local neutron suppression regions at lunar poles
3:00-3:10	Lightning Round #4: Student Poster Previews			NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room
3:10-3:15	Transition to Parallel Session Rooms
	Parallel Session #5. OF THE MOON: Volatiles 1	LOCATION	Parallel Session #6. OF THE MOON: Geology: Bombardment and Mapping	LOCATION
	Chairs: Richard Miller, Michael Zimmerman	NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room	Chairs: Matthew Siegler, William Bottke	NASA Ames Bldg 152 Side Room
3:15-3:30	Emily Law, The Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project: the application of information system technologies to support return to the Moon and beyond		William Bottke, Reconciling meteorite collisional ages with the lunar late heavy bombardment
3:30-3:45	Aaron Zent, Dynamics and population of OH/H2O on the lunar surface		Simone Marchi, The lunar "sawtooth" bombardment
3:45-4:00	Friedemann Freund, Lunar water – hide 'n seek		Lon Hood, More detailed regional mapping of lunar magnetic anomalies in the north and south polar regions
4:00-4:15	Michael Zimmerman, Doubly-shadowed regions in lunar polar craters: hydrogen accumulation in the presence of recursive plasma wakes		Matthew Siegler, The lowest temperatures on the Moon: what can we learn?
4:15-4:30	Richard Miller, Enhanced hydrogen at the lunar poles: new insights from the detection of epithermal and fast neutron signatures		Prasun Mahanti, In-flight absolute radiometric calibration of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Wide Angle Camera
4:30-5:30	LEAG meeting			NASA Ames Bldg. 152
5:30-7:30	POSTER SESSION			NASA Ames Bldg.152

DAY 3
Thursday July 19, 2012

Time/Date				LOCATION
8-8:30AM	REGISTRATION: NASA Ames Building 152			NASA Ames Building 152
START 8:30 AM	PARALLEL SESSIONS: Volatiles 2 and Geology			NASA Ames Building 152
	Parallel Session #7. OF THE MOON: Volatiles 2	LOCATION	Parallel Session #8. OF THE MOON: Geology	LOCATION
	Chairs: Michael Poston, Kurt Retherford	NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room	Chairs: Benjamin Greenhagen, Michelle Hopkins	NASA Ames Bldg 152 Side Room
8:30-8:45	William Farrell, Redistribution of lunar polar water to mid-latitudes and its role in forming an OH veneer – revisited		Charles Byrne, The shape and history of the Moon
8:45-9:00	Ben Bussey, Exploring for ice with bistatic radar observations of the Moon using the Arecibo Observatory and the Mini-RF instrument on LRO		Alexander Basilevsky, Geologic analysis and interpretation of new spacecraft data for the Luna 24 sampling site
9:00-9:15	Charles Shearer, Exploring for volatiles in the regolith outside of the lunar polar regions		Benjamin Greenhagen, Compositional and thermophysical properties of Moscoviense Basin and Tsiolkovskiy Crater revealed by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer
9:15-9:30	Dana Hurley, Surface hydration and solar wind bombardment of the Moon		Bradley Jolliff, LRO targeting of the South Pole-Aitken Basin for the extended science mission
9:30-9:45	Michael Poston, Hydroxyl formation and diffusion within the near-surface of a lunar regolith grain	G. Wesley Patterson, The m-chi decomposition of hybrid dual-polarimetric radar data with application to lunar craters
9:45-10:00	Amanda Hendrix, The ultraviolet reflectance of the Moon: hydrated species, weathering and photometric effects		Andrew Jordan, Deep dielectric charging of the Moon
10:00-10:15	Larry Taylor, A reservoir of water on the Moon: your Tennessee Valley Authority at work		Buck Sharpton, Rim crest variations measured at Dawes Crater: do they reflect pre-existing target weaknesses?
10:15-10:30	BREAK / Transition to Parallel Session Rooms
	PLENARY SESSION V: NASA HQ Perspective, Geology: Impacts and Dust / Regolith Chair: Yvonne Pendleton
10:30-11:15	Bill Gerstenmaier & John Grunsfeld, Looking forward: science and human exploration collaboration, (Invited)			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
11:15-11:45	Eileen Stansbery, The importance of lunar geology in exploration and understanding our Solar System, (Invited)
11:45-12:15	Charles Hibbitts, (Invited) Adsorbed near-surface water at the poles as tattletales for ancient cometary impacts
12:15-2:00	LUNCH/POSTER VIEWING
START 2:00PM	PLENARY SESSION VI: Missions & Geology: Petrology / Mineralogy Chair: Greg Schmidt			NASA Ames Building 152 MAIN ROOM
2:00-2:30	Jack Burns, The first human-robotic mission to the lunar farside using the Orion MPCV at Earth-Moon L2 and a tele operated rover, (Invited)
2:30-2:40	Noah Petro, The Next Generation Lunar Scientists and Engineers: recent activities and future plans
2:40-2:50	Pamela Gay, CosmoQuest MoonMappers: a facility for learning and doing science
2:50-3:00	Brian Day, New frontiers for lunar citizen science
3:00-3:05	Transition to Parallel Session Rooms
	Parallel Session #9. OF THE MOON: Missions	LOCATION	Parallel Session #10. OF THE MOON: Geology: Petrology/Mineralogy	LOCATION
	Chairs: Pamela Clark, Douglas Currie	NASA Ames Bldg. 152 Main Room	Chairs: Katie O'Sullivan, Amy Fagan	NASA Ames Bldg 152 Side Room
3:05-3:20	Pamela Clark, LunarCube and the future of lunar exploration		Stephen Elardo, The origin of chromite symplectites in Mg-suite troctolite 76535: a new look at an old rock
3:20-3:35	Russell Cox, Gateway to the solar system: a mass driver launch platform at the L1 and L2 libration Launch points		Katie O'Sullivan, Comparison of basaltic parental liquids at the Apollo 12 landing site
3:35-3:50	Douglas Currie, Next generation of lunar laser ranging: optical/thermal analysis and a science review		Patrick Donohue, Melt inclusions of high-Ti olivine cumulate 71597
3:50-4:05	John Cooper, Heliophysics from and of the Moon - the Solar Occultation Explorer (SOX)		Amy Fagan, 60639 Basalt identity crisis: origin from Apollo 11, 12 or elsewhere?
4:05-4:10	Transition to MAIN ROOM
4:10-4:20	Student Poster Awards
4:20-4:50	David Kring, Towards the future of lunar science and exploration, (Invited)
4:50-5:00	Closing Remarks

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