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Planetary Lunch Bunch - Spring 2008
All talks take place in Lincoln Field room 209 from 12:00-1:00pm, unless otherwise noted.


January 31: Itay Halevy
The Role of SO2 in the Climate and Geochemistry of Early Mars and Earth

February 7: Caleb Fassett
New Constraints on the Surface Hydrology of Early Mars from its Open Basin Lakes

February 14: Carolyn Ernst
Evolution of the Impact Flash

February 21: TBA

February 28: Rachel Klima
Extracting Thermal Information from Near-Infrared Pyroxene Spectra

March 6: Seth Kadish
Pedestal Craters on Mars: Implications for Amazonian Climate Change

March 13: No Lunch Bunch (LPSC)

March 20: Slava Solomatov
Geodynamics of Early Mars

March 27: No Lunch Bunch (Spring Break)

April 3: Gareth Morgan
Small Scale Martian Lobate Landforms: Implications for Amazonian hydrology

April 10: Sam Schon
Latitude Dependent Mantling Deposits in Relation to Recent Obliquity Excursions

April 17: Alan Howard
Inferred flow properties in modern Mars gullies

April 24: Joe Levy
Polygons and the Mars Glacial-Periglacial Transition

May 1: Bethany Ehlmann
Aqueous Alteration on Mars During the Noachian: Insights from Hydrated Minerals Discovered by MRO-CRISM

May 8: Laura Kerber
Dispersal of Tephra from Hesperian Volcanic Centers