Logistical Services

LPI’s professional staff works in partnership with members of the planetary science community in producing successful and cost-effective workshops and conferences as a means of disseminating research.

To enable the scientific organizer to focus on content and structure, we provide logistical services in sponsorship of meeting objectives that fall within the scope of the Institute’s mission.

We can help you with . . .

Scheduling:  We will work with you to develop tasks and timelines for your meeting.

Advertising:  We will use our extensive database of members of the planetary science community to reach potential participants.

Negotiating:  We will establish proposals, bids, and contracts with conference facilities and vendors to obtain the optimal value for your meeting venue.

Budgeting: Our experienced staff can plan budgets that are realistic and meet established guidelines.

Implementing:  We can guide you in every step of implementing the objectives for your meeting.

Managing:  We will be there to take care of the logistical details so that you don’t have to.

Here are some of the details our staff will provide . . .

Website:  Our website provides the means for distributing information, receiving abstracts, registering participants, and publishing meeting schedules and presentations.

Presenter coordination:  We provide expertise for program committee review, scheduling of abstracts, and formation of sessions.

Event materials:  We can create and provide logos, program booklets, abstract volumes or CD-ROMs, name badges, and signs.

Onsite administration:  We can provide coordination, monitoring, and troubleshooting for all your onsite logistical needs, e.g., room setup, catering, audiovisual requirements, transportation, registration, etc.

 

Upcoming Meetings

Ground-Based Geophysics on the Moon
January 21-22, 2010
Tempe, Arizona

Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC2010)
February 18-20, 2010
Boulder, Colorado

41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2010)
March 1-5, 2010
The Woodlands, Texas

First International Conference on Mars Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (with accompanying field trip)
April 19-23, 2010
El Paso, Texas

Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond
April 26-29, 2010
League City, Texas

73rd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
July 26-30, 2010
New York, New York

Recent Meetings

Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
November 16-19, 2009
Houston, Texas

Workshop on the Microstructure of the Martian Surface
August 27-29, 2009
Copenhagen, Denmark

Workshop on Robots Supporting Human Science and Exploration (OSEWG 2009)
August 5-6, 2009
Houston, Texas

The New Martian Chemistry Workshop
July 27-28, 2009
Medford, Massachusetts

Third International Workshop on Mars Polar Energy Balance and the CO2 Cycle
July 21-24, 2009
Seattle, Washington

72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
July 13-18, 2009
Nancy, France

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Targeting Meeting
June 9-11, 2009
Tempe, Arizona

Workshop on Modeling Martian Hydrous Environments
June 1-3, 2009
Houston, Texas

Upcoming Seminars

Thursday, December 3, 2009
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
John Grant, Smithsonian Institution
Selecting the Landing Site for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory

Friday, December 11, 2009
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Youxue Zhang, The University of Michigan
Bubble growth and degassing of lunar basalts

Thursday, January 14, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Ella Sciamma O'Brien, LATMOS
TBA

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
David Jewitt, UCLA
TBA

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Ryan Ogliore, Univ. of California, Berkeley
TBA

Thursday, February 11, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Jim Kasting, Penn State
TBA

Thursday, February 18, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Ulrich Riller, School of Geography and Earth Sciences and Origins Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Origin of pseudotachylite in terrestrial impact basins

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Dan Durda, SwRI, Boulder, CO
TBA

Thursday, March 11, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
William T. Reach, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Caltech
TBA

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Dan Boice, SwRI, San Antonio, TX
TBA

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Devendra Lal, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
TBA

Thursday, April 15, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Susan L. Brantley, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
TBA

Thursday, April 22, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Christine Floss, Washington University in St. Louis
TBA

Thursday, May 6, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Scott Murchie, Applied Physics Laboratory
TBA

Thursday, May 13, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Amy Louise Morrow, Stanford University
TBA

Thursday, May 20, 2010
Lecture Hall - 3:00 PM
Deanne Rogers, Stonybrook State University of New York
TBA