LASP Science Seminars

LASP Science Seminars

LASP seminars are generally held every Thursday at 4:00 PM on Zoom and in person.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Heather Mallander to be added to the mailing list.

We are currently seeking speakers for our Spring 2024 seminar series. If you or a colleague would like to give a seminar, please contact one of our Science Seminar Committee members:

Sonal Jain (Planetary)
Hadi Madanian (Space Physics)
David Wilson (Solar/Stellar)
Chihoko Cullens (Earth Atmospheres)

Upcoming Science Seminars

March 21, 2024
Measuring the stratosphere: what balloons are really doing
Matthew Norgren
(LASP)
The Earth’s stratosphere, which sits above the troposphere, is a difficult place to make measurements. The highest-flying aircraft can only reach the lowermost portion of the stratosphere, while space-based sensors orbiting well above are limited by...
April 4, 2024
Brines and Habitability on Mars
Alejandro Soto
(SwRI)
The search for ancient or current life on Mars begins with the search for surface and subsurface environments that are habitable. Before we begin this search in situ with robotic and human missions, it’s important to...

Past Science Seminars

March 14, 2024
Ultraviolet Mars: The Search for More Science
Justin Deighan
(LASP, CU)
Tremendous new insights into the Martian atmosphere have been achieved in recent years by two ultraviolet spectrographs built at LASP: the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) aboard the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, and the...
March 12, 2024
Earth Science Applications: Lessons Learned
Lawrence Friedl
(NASA)
NASA Earth Science has put significant attention towards enabling uses of Earth science information to support decision making activities by public and private sector organizations. In addition to supporting technical innovations, NASA also pursued several programmatic...
March 7, 2024
Climate Responses Under an Extreme Quiet Sun Scenario
Hanli Liu
(NCAR/HAO)
Fundamental understanding of the climate responses to solar variability is obscured by the large and complex climate variability. This long-standing issue is addressed here by examining climate responses under an extreme quiet sun (EQS) scenario, obtained...
February 22, 2024
Dynamical Surprises in Saturn’s Rings
Glen Stewart
(CU/LASP)
Our current understanding of planet formation is informed by ongoing observations of circumstellar disks around young stars.   The improving spatial resolution of these observations has revealed a variety of structures in these dusty gas disks, including...
February 8, 2024
Filling the Gap: Observing Coronal Mass Ejections Continuously Through the Low-, Middle-, and Outer Corona
Phil Chamberlin
(LASP)
On April 8 of this year a large portion of the United States will be able to view one of the most amazing natural phenomena – a total solar eclipse that will sweep across the nation....
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