Meeting Highlights

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) was held on July 22–27, 2018, in Moscow, Russia. The conference was hosted in the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences building, also called “Golden Brains.” Three hundred and two participants from 28 different countries registered for the meeting, including 213 professionals (scientists + exhibitors), 71 student participants, […]

  NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has fostered and shepherded a multidisciplinary dialogue on climate processes, which resulted in the 2012 first Comparative Climatology for Terrestrial Planets (CCTP) conference in Boulder, Colorado. CCTP-1 promoted interdisciplinary dialogue on a wide range of planetary climates. Out of this first CCTP, a University of Arizona Press book of the […]

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) was held November 14 and 15 at the Universities Space Research Association Headquarters in Columbia, Maryland. With almost 300 attendees, this was the most highly attended LEAG meeting in history. The meeting opened with the presentation of the Bernard Ray Hawke Next Lunar Generation Career […]

The 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) was held in March at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in The Woodlands, Texas, and was co-chaired by Louise Prockter (Lunar and Planetary Institute) and Eileen Stansbery (NASA Johnson Space Center). Attendance was the highest in the history of the conference, with 2095 attendees […]