Space Science Track
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Track: Track Program
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Resort: Colorado Ballroom
Presented in Association with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Space Science track allows for in-depth discussions of a range of space science and research matters. Government and industry speakers will address the NASA science roadmap, Earth and climate science, advanced rockets, exploration initiatives, and space weather.
10:00am – Welcome Remarks
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- Dipak Srinivasan, JHU APL
10:05am – Astrobiology
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- Dr. Alexandra Pontefract, JHU APL
10:30am – Doing Science with Samples from Space
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- Dr. Nancy Chabot, JHU APL – Moderator
- Dr. Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA
- Dr. Yang Liu, NASA’s JPL
- Dr. Kathleen Vander Kaaden, NASA
11:15am – Climate and Earth Science
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- Alicia Carey, JHU APL – Moderator
- Dr. Karen St. Germain, NASA Earth Science Division
11:45am – Lunch
1:00pm – Welcome Back Remarks
1:05pm – Helio Big Year
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- Dr. Jim Kinnison, JHU APL – Moderator
- Dr. Joe Westlake, NASA
1:35pm – Habitable Worlds Observatory
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- Dr. Jason Kalirai, JHU APL – Moderator
- Dr. Mark Clampin, NASA
- Lee Feinberg, NASA
- Martin Frederick, NGC
- Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX
- Dr. Sara Seager, MIT
- Tiffany Wong Hall, Blue Origin
2:20pm – Uranus
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- Michael Amato, NASA – Moderator
- Richard Cartwright, JHU APL
- Dr. Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Julianna Scheiman, SpaceX
3:05pm – Break
3:25pm – Are We Ready for Space Weather?
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- John Hicks, JHU APL – Moderator
- Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund, Committee on Research COSPAR
- Lt. Col. Haley Homan, USAF
- Robert Steenburgh, NOAA
- Dr. Elsayed Talaat, NESDIS
- Lt. Col. Sarah Winfrey, USAF
4:10pm – Fireside Chat
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- Steve Arnold, JHU APL – Moderator
- Dr. Nicola Fox, NASA
Separate Registration or Purchase Required