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Public Lectures

Barringer Lecture Series

2/11/2008 - "Meteorites, Comets, and the Origins of Life on Earth"

Dr. George W. Cooper - NASA - Ames Research Center (Click on talk to access photos)

2/12/2007 - "The Moon: Inspiring the World 40 Year After Apollo"

Dr. Clive Neal - University of Notre Dame

12/4/2006 - "The Chemistry That Preceded Life's Origin: A Study Guide from Meteorites"

Dr. Sandra Pizzarello - Arizona State University

4/10/2006 - "Meteorite Porosity and Asteroid Structure: Are Asteroids Fluffy?"

Dr. Guy J. Consolmagno - University of Arizona

11/8/2005 - "The Cassini/Huygens Mission and the Saturn System"

Dr. Robert M. Nelson - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

2/28/2005 - “The NEAR Mission at Eros: A Close Look at a Close Asteroid”

Dr. Larry R. Nittler - Carnegie Institute, Washington, D.C.

10/25/2004 - "Exploring Mars"

Dr. Daniel J. McCleese - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

3/8/2004 - "Asteroids: Friends or Foes?"

Dr. Bruce Jakosky - University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado

9/29/2003 - "Dark Moon"

Dr. Bruce Hapke - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2/24/2003 - "Very Recent Water-Related Activity on Mars"

Dr. Victor Baker - The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

10/30/2002 - "Asteroids: Friends or Foes?"

Dr. Richard P. Binzel - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2/25/2002 - "Is the Sky Falling? The Asteroid Impact Hazard"

Dr. Alan Harris - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

11/12/2001 - "Impacts, Volcanoes, Glaciers, Coral Reefs, and Lunar Cows: A History of Theories of the Origin of Craters on the Moon and Earth"

Dr. Christian Koeberl - University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

2/26/2001 - "Odessey: A Space Mission for 2001"

Dr. R. Stephen Saunders - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

11/13/2000 - "Eros and Psyche: Studying Small Bodies in the Solar System with Spacecraft"

Dr. Lucy-Ann McFadden - University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

3/27/2000 - "The Real Armageddon"

Dr. David Kring - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

11/15/1999 - "Beauty is Skin Deep..., but Craters Probe Further"

Dr. Carle M. Pieters - Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

4/19/1999 - "Extraterrestrial Impacts and Earth History"

Dr. Richard A. F. Grieve - Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada

10/12/1998 - "Tax Payers, Football Players, and the Exploration of Mars"

Dr. Harry Y. McSween, Jr. - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

3/2/1998 - "Artists on the Space Frontier"

Dr. William K. Hartmann - Planetary Sciences Institute, Tucson, Arizona

9/8/1997 - "The Evolution of Planetary Regoliths: An Experimental Perspective"

Dr. Friedrich Horz - NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

3/24/1997 - "In Praise of Idleness: RELAXing with Meteorites from Mars"

Professor Grenville Turner - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K

9/23/1996 - "Asteroids and Meteorites: Two Sides of the Same Coin"

Professor Michael J. Gaffey - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

3/25/1996 - "Fiery Rains on Baby Planets: The Age and Origin of Chondrules"

Dr. Robert Hutchison - Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London

11/27/1995 - "When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object: The Mechanics of Meteorite Impact"

Professor H. Jay Melosh - Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

5/1/1995 - "Lifetime of the Solar Nebula"

Professor Frank Podosek - McDonnell Center for Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

10/10/1994 - "Use of Lunar Rocks to Study the Sun"

Dr. Donald D. Bogard - NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

3/11/1994 - "Shock Metamorphism of Quartz in Nature and Experiment"

Professor Dieter Stoffler - Museum Fur Naturkunde, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

9/24/1993 - "Explosive Volcanism on Small Solar System Bodies: Implications for Core Compositions of Differentiated Asteroids"

Professor Klaus Keil - Planetary Geosciences Division, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Manoa

4/26/1993 - "From Ensisheim to Peekskill, 1492 to 1992: 500 Years of Advances in Meteorites"

Professor Ursula Marvin - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

11/30/1992 - "Interstellar Grains in Meteorites"

Professor Edward Anders - University of Chicago

4/6/1992 - "The Fall, Collection and Clasification of Meteorites"

Professor William A. Cassidy - University of Pittsburgh

10/7/1991 - "Planetary Collisions in the Early Solar System and Some Extraordinary Chemistry"

Professor Alastair W. G. Cameron - Harvard College Observatory

2/25/1991 - "Comets are Sources of Volatiles on the Earth and Other Planets"

Professor Ronald G. Prinn - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts

Arkansas Public Lectures in Space and Planetary Science

3/26/2008 - "Returning to the Moon and Mars Using 21st Century Technology"

Dr. Alan Mantooth - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2/20/2008 - "Why Did Alice Say to Kitty 'Perhaps Looking-Glass Milk Isn't Good to Drink?'. A Brief Explanation of Handedness, From Weak Bosons to the Double Helix"

Dr. Bob Gawley - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

11/14/2007 - "Formation and Evolution of the Surface of Mars"

Dr. Vincent Chevrier - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

9/19/2007 - "Microbial 'Survivor': Life at the Limits"

Dr. Mack Ivey - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

4/9/2007 - "Geology in Frozen Places"

Dr. John Dixon - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2/21/2007 - "Distance Across the Cosmos: From Hipparchus to the Accelerating Universe"

Dr. Julia Kennefick - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

11/15/2006 - "Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein, Astronomy and the Early History of Gravitational Waves"

Dr. Daniel Kennefick - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

9/20/2006 - "The Hera Project: Searching for our Beginnings to Find our Future"

Dr. Derek Sears - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

4/12/2006 - "Life on Mars"

Dr. Tim Kral - University of Arkansas

2/22/2006 - "Human and Natural Influences on Climate Change: Who's Doing What?"

Dr. Rick Ulrich - University of Arkansas

11/16/2005 - "The Star of Bethlehem"

Dr. Claud Lacy - University of Arkansas

10/5/2005 - "The Origins of Flight"

Dr. Larry Roe - University of Arkansas

Other Events

4/9/2008 - "Chemical Weathering and Landscape Evolution in Swedish Lapland"

Dr. John Dixon - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

4/4/2008 - "The Ontong Java Plateau large igneous province: Recent results from Solomon Island fieldwork and ocean drilling"

Dr. Clive Neal - University of Notre Dame (Click on talk to access photos)

12/3/2007 - "New Approaches for Determining the Dark Matter Content of Spiral Galaxies"

Dr. Marc Siegar - University of Arkansas, Little Rock

9/28/2007 - Space Center External Board Meeting

Various speakers - University of Arkansas

9/27/2007 - "Methanogens: A Model for Life on Mars and Beyond"

Dr. Tim Kral - University of Arkansas

9/19/2007 - "Remote Sensing of the Environment: Advances and Challenges"

Dr. John R. Jensen - University of South Carolina

7/26/2007 - REU Final Oral Presentations

SPAC Summer 2007 REU Students - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville

6/22/2007 - REU Mid-term Poster Presentations
6/19/2007 - "OPRA"

Dr. Rick Ulrich - University of Arkansas - Fayetteville

6/14/2007 - WebScopes in the Classroom/STORI Teacher Workshops

Dr. Claud Lacy (WebScopes); Dr. Larry Lebofsky (STORI) - University of Arkansas

3/8/2007 - "Investigating Oxygen Isotopic Exchange in Chondrules in the Early Solar Nebula"

Dr. Joe Bosenberg - American Museum of Natural History

3/2/2007 - "Lithium Isotopic Systematics of the Continental Crust"

Dr. Fang-Zhen Teng - University of Chicago

2/26/2007 - "In a Strange Land: Reduced Meteorite Minerals in the Origin of Life and Space Exploration"

Dr. Matthew Pasek - Laplace NAI Center at the University of Arizona

2/16/2007 - "Nobel Gas Isotopic Signatures as Tracers to Solar System Processes"

Dr. K.J. Mathew - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

1/26/2007 - "The Physics of Quasars"

Dr. Julia Kennefick - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

11/16/2006 - "Kepler, A Search for Habitable Planets"

Dr. Janice Voss - NASA Ames Research Center

9/8/2006 - "JPL and Deep Space Missions"

James Chase - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

7/27/2006 - Space Center REU 2006 Final Oral Presentation Day

Space center summer 2006 REU students - University of Arkansas, Fayeteville

6/30/2006 - Space Center General Meeting

Various speakers - University of Arkansas

3/31/2006 - "Impact Events and Effects on the Terrestrial Planets"

Dr. Barbara Cohen - University of New Mexico

3/30/2006 - "Testing the Lunar Cataclysm"

Dr. Barbara Cohen - University of New Mexico

11/4/2005 - "The Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn"

Dr. Robert T. Mitchell - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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