Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG)

List of Lunar white papers being prepared as input for the Planetary Science Division Decadal Survery process. Contact the lead author to get involved.

Title	Lead Author(s)	E-mail
Why the Moon is Important for Solar System Science	Clive Neal	neal.1@nd.edu
The Lunar Exploration Roadmap: Exploring the Moon in the 21st Century: Themes, Goals, Objectives, Investigations, and Priorities, 2009	Clive Neal	neal.1@nd.edu
Exploring the Bombardment History of the Moon	Bill Botke	bottke@boulder.swri.edu
Constraining Solar System impact history and evolution of the terrestrial planets with exploration of and samples from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin	Noah Petro Brad Jolliff	Noah.E.Petro@mail.nasa.gov blj@levee.wustl.edu
Science from the Moon: The NASA/NLSI Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR)	Jack Burns	Jack.Burns@cu.edu
Lunar polar volatiles and associated processes	Dana Hurly David Lawrence	Dana.Hurley@jhuapl.edu David.J.Lawrence@jhuapl.edu
The Lunar Dusty Exosphere: The Extreme Case of an Inner Planetary Atmosphere	Bill Farrell Mihaly Horanyi	william.m.farrell@nasa.gov horanyi@colorado.edu
Ensuring United States Competitiveness in the 21st Century Global Economy with a Long-Term Lunar Exploration Program	Carle Pieters Ian Garrick-Bethell Mike Wyatt	Carle_Pieters@brown.edu Ian_Garrick-Bethell@brown.edu Michael_Wyatt@brown.edu
Sample Return from the Earth’s Moon	Allan Treiman Clive Neal Chip Shearer	treiman@lpi.usra.edu neal.1@nd.edu cshearer@unm.edu
The Rationale for Deployment of a Long-Lived Geophysical Network on the Moon	Clive Neal	neal.1@nd.edu
Lunar Helium-3 Fusion Resource Distribution	Harrison H. Schmitt	schmitt@engr.wisc.edu
Geopolitical Context of Lunar Exploration and Settlement	Harrison H. Schmitt	schmitt@engr.wisc.edu
Lunar Field Geological Exploration	Harrison H. Schmitt	schmitt@engr.wisc.edu
Astrobiology Research Priorities for Mercury, Venus, and the Moon	Ariel D. Anbar	anbar@asu.edu
Unexplored Areas of the Moon: Nonmare Domes	Sarah Braden	sebraden@asu.edu
Sampling the Extremes of Lunar Volcanism: The Youngest and Oldest Lunar Basalts	Sam Lawrence	samuel.lawrence@asu.edu
The Lunar Swirls	Georgiana Kramer	gkramer@bearfightcenter.com
The Moon as a Test Body for General Relativity	Stephen M. Merkowitz	Stephen.M.Merkowitz@nasa.gov
Determining the Origins of Lunar Remanent Crustal Magnetism	Jasper Halekas	jasper.halekas@gmail.com
Proposal for a Lunar Exploration/Science Campaign: A commercially-leveraged, science-focused, lunar exploration program	Robert M. Kelso	robert.m.kelso@nasa.gov
The Scientific Rationale for Renewed Human Exploration of the Moon	Ian Crawford	i.crawford@ucl.ac.uk
Indicative Basic Issues About Lunar Dust in the Lunar Environment	Brian J. O'Brien	brianjobrien@ozemail.com.au
Developing Sample Return Technology using the Earth's Moon as a Testing Ground	Clive R. Neal Chip Shearer	neal.1@nd.edu cshearer@unm.edu
Lunar and Martian Lava Tube Exploration as part of an Overall Scientific Survey	Andrew Daga	andrew.daga@verizon.net
Lunar Science with ARTEMIS – A Journey from The Moon’s Exosphere to its Core	Krishan Khurana	kkhurana@igpp.ucla.edu
Summary and Highlights of the NRC 2007 Report: The Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon (SCEM)	Carle Pieters Stefanie Tompkins	Carle_Pieters@brown.edu stefanie.tompkins@darpa.mil
Lunar Light -Planetary Renewal- A Holistic Viewpoint	Amalie Sinclair	anadem@yahoo.com
Lunar Science and Lunar Laser Ranging	Jim Williams	james.g.williams@jpl.nasa.gov
Solar Radiation Output: Reading the Record of Lunar Rocks	Tore Straume	tstraume@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Global Distributions of Gas & Dust in the Lunar Atmosphere from Solar Infrared Absorption Measurements with a Fourier Transform Spectrometer	Mian Abbas	Mian.m.abbas@nasa.gov
Importance of Measurements of Changing Properties of Individual Submicron Size Lunar Dust Grains	Mian Abbas	Mian.m.abbas@nasa.gov
Electromagnetic Sounding of Solid Planets and Satellites	Robert Grimm	grimm@boulder.swri.edu
Extralunar Materials in Lunar Regolith	Marc Fries
Lunar Occultation Observer (LOCO)	Richard S. Miller	Richard.S.Miller@uah.edu
On Lunar Volatiles and Their Importance to Resource Utilization and Lunar Science	Arlin Crotts	arlin@astro.columbia.edu
Observations Necessary for Useful Global Climate Models	Harrison H. Schmitt	schmitt@engr.wisc.edu
Lunar Pyroclastic Depostis and the Origin of the Moon	Harrison H. Schmitt	schmitt@engr.wisc.edu
Development of Capabilities and Instrumentation for Curation and Analysis of Returned Samples	Andrew M. Davis	a-davis@uchicago.edu
Lunar Fluids from Carbon and Chlorine Contents of the Apollo Lunar Samples	Yas Miura	yasmiura@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
The Chemical Reactivity of Lunar Dust Relevant to Human Exploration	David J. Loftus