February 2017 OPAG Meeting

February 22–23
Posters

OPAG Posters Overview (PDF)

Technologies
Plans Underway for Alternate to heritage PICA Development - Mairead Stackpoole, Steve Violette and Ethiraj Venkatapathy - 2-minute oral summary
Segmented Thermoelectric Module Technology Enables Right-Sizing Next Generation High Performance Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator System Concepts - Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Fivos Drymiotis and Dave Woerner - 2-minute oral summary
A Deep Subsurface Ice Probe for Europa - Brian H. Wilcox, Jason A. Carlton, Justin M. Jenkins, Fletcher A. Porter
Seismic Exploration of Europa and Other Ocean Worlds - Mark P Panning, Steve Vance, Sharon Kedar, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, W Bruce Banerdt, Bruce G Bills, Fabio Cammarano, Julie C Castillo, Hsin-Hua Huang, Philippe Henri Lognonne, Jennifer Jackson, Ralph D Lorenz, William T Pike, Simon C. Stähler and Victor C Tsai - 2-minute oral summary - Audio
EEPEC: The Europa and Enceladus Plume and Exosphere Cubesat - B.E. Schmidt, G. Lightsey, M. R. Meister, T. Hyde, J. Wray, J. J. Buffo, J. Carmona-Reyes, C. Paty
Icefin: A New AUV/ROV for Sub-Ice Exploration on Earth and Europa - B. E. Schmidt, M. R. Meister, M. E. West, A. M. Spears, J. Lutz, C. C. Walker, M. Coulter, J. J. Buffo, J. Lawrence, D. Dichek
SLIMERS: Searching for Life on Icy Moons with Absorption, Excitation, and Raman Spectroscopy - B. E. Schmidt, A. M. Stockon, C. J. Bennett, J. S. Bowman
An Organic Analyzer Instrument for Highly Sensitive Organic Detection on a Kinetic Penetrator - Amanda Stockton, Zach Duca, Michael Cato, Thomas Cantrell, Dedra Eichstedt, Jungkyu Kim, Phil Putman, Britney Schmidt - 2-minute oral summary
Ocean World sampling and data communication through significant ice depths - Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Mircea Badescu, Xiaoqi Bao, Hyeong Jae Lee, and Stewart  Sherrit
Mission & Instrument Concepts
Entry Probe Studies for Ice-Giants - Parul Agrawal, Gary Allen Jr., Milad Mahzari, Helen Hwang, Don Ellerby and Nitin Arora - 2-minute oral summary
Aerocapture Assessment at Uranus and Neptune for NASA’s Ice Giant Studies - S. Saikia, J. Millane, A. Mudek, A. Arora, P. Witsberger, E. Shibata, L. Podesta, Y. Lu, P. Edelman, J. Longuski, K. Hughes, A. Petropoulos, N. Arora, J. Cutts, J. Elliott, J. Sims, and K. Reh,, CA; T. Spilker - 2-minute oral summary
A Multi-Planet, Multi-Spacecraft Flagship Class Mission Concept to Explore a Gas Giant and an Ice Giant Planet - S. Saikia, J. Mansell, N. Kolencherry, K. Hughes, A. Mudek, L. P. Podesta, B. Libben, J. Millane, S. Fulton, E. Shibata, K. Coleman, A. Arora, Y. Lu, B. Tackett, J. Elliott, G. Smith, T. Ukai,  J. Pouplin, P. Witsberger, N. Hobar, and H. S. Chye - 2-minute oral summary
Small Next-generation Atmospheric Probe Concept – Kunio Sayanagi, Robert Dillman, David Atkinso, JPL, Amy Simon, Michael H. Wong, Tom Spilker,Sarag Saikia, Jing Li - 2-minute oral summary
Hera Saturn Probe NetFlux Radiometer - Shahid Aslam, Conor A. Nixon, Michael Amato, Olivier J. Mousis, David H. Atkinson - 2-minute oral summary
Early Career/Student Presentations
Dione's history of tectonic disruption - Emily Martin, D. Alex Patthoff and Thomas R. Watters - 2-minute oral summary
A Wunda-full world?  Carbon dioxide ice deposits on Umbriel and other large moons of Uranus - Michael M. Sori, Jonathan Bapst, Ali M. Bramson, Shane Byrne, and Margaret E. Landis - 2-minute oral summary
A Search for Temporal Changes on Pluto and Charon using New Horizons Images - Jason Hofgartner, J. Hofgartner, B. Buratti, S. Devins, R. Beyer, P. Schenk, K. Ennico, T. Lauer, C. Olkin, J. Spencer, S. A. Stern, H. Weaver, L. Young and The New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Science Theme Team - 2-minute oral summary
Surface-atmosphere coupling in Titan's hydrologic cycle - J. M. Lora, J. L. Mitchell, M. Adamkovics, S. Faulk - 2-minute oral summary