JSCAS Past Speakers


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4	2017	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
5	December	No Meeting
6	November	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Ramblings in fixing things in low earh orbit
7	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
8	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Amateur Radio Astronomy
9	August	Brandon Reddell	JSCAS	Habitability of Exoplanets
10	July	Kayla LaFrance	JSCAS	Urban Astronomy
11	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Astronomical Adventures with Paul Maley 2017 to India, Chile, South Africa, and Somali
12	May	Jeff Lepp	FBAC	My Journey in Astrophotography
13	April	Dr. Lisa Whitehead	UH-Main	Nutrinos
14	March	Dr. Heather Sartain	UH	Triton, Neptune's Moon - Geography, geology, and weather
15	February	Louise RioFrio	JSCAS	A New Look at Light
16	January	Joe Dellinger	FBAC	10+ years of chasing asteroids with the FBAC “A-team: 2000-2010, the golden age of amateur asteroid discovery
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19	2016	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
20	December	Kayla LaFrance, Doug Holland, David Haviland	JSCAS	DIY Astronomy
21	November	Dr. Pat Rieff	Rice Univ.	Space Weather and the MMS mission
22	October	No meeting		All Clubs/ADAY and Club's trip to Ft. McKavett
23	September	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Fixing things while in orbit.
24	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipses and Occulatations
25	July	Dr. Steve Clifford	LPI	The History and Distribution of Water on Mars
26	June	Mr. Justin McCollum	HAS	Hypernovae
27	May	Bill Spizzirri	FBAC	The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson Arizona
28	April	Dr. Paul Schnek	LPI	Update on New Horizons Probe
29	March	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	Adventures in Celestial Mechanics, Part 3
30	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Wintertime Planetary Nebulae
31	January	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Near Earth Asteroids
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34	2015	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
35	December	No Meeting
36	November	Leonard Ferguson	FBAC	"New Horizons Mission Status"
37	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
38	September	Dr. Walk Keifer	LPI	“GRAIL Explores the Moon’s Interior”
39	August	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	"Spectral Data, The Language of Light"
40	July	Paul Maley	JSCAS	"North Korea Adventure #2" and "Results of the great March Solar Eclipse in Svalbard"
41	June	Mark Matney	JSC	“The Challenge of Orbital Debris”
42	May	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	His Experiences as a Mission Specialist on STS-122.
43	April	Dr. Madhan Tirumalai	UH-Biochem	"Extremophiles redefine the limits of life"
44	March	Dr. Paul Schenk	LPI	"NASA’s Year of the Dwarves: Exploration of Ceres and Pluto"
45	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Paul Maley - "Results of recent JSCAS expeditions and plan for future ones"
46	January	Rodney Rocha	JSC	"An Easy-Going Introduction to Orbital Mechanics"
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49	2014	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
50	December	No Meeting
51	November	Rodney Rocha	JSC	An Easy Introduction to Orbital Mechanics
52	October	Annie Wargetz	JSC	Upcoming Orion Exploration Flight Test - 1
53	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Supernovae - A Personal Journey
54	August	Dr. Louise RioFrio	JSC	The Speed of Light
55	July	Dr. Dan McDonald	UH	Gravity Waves and the Big Bang
56	June	Dr. David Talent	TAMU	HII Regions and Planetary Nebulae -- The Making of The Elements.
57	May	Dr. Stanley Love	JSC	Going to Mars
58	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Minitar, Solar Eclipse, Auroras
59	March	Annie Wargetz	JSCAS	STEREO
60	February	Don Halter	JSCAS	Astrophotography using the Vixen Polarie
61	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2013 Year in Review
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64	2013	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
65	December	No Meeting
66	November	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Meteorite Expeditions to Antarctica
67	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
68	September	Dr. Tim Giblin	UHCL	Gamma Ray Bursts: 40 Years and the Chase Continues
69	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
70	July	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Things that go Bump in the Night: Cosmic Catactrophies
71	June	Dr. Stephen Bradshaw	Rice	The Sun at Maximum
72	May	Dr. Ross Potter	LPI/USRA	A Crash Course in Impact Cratering
73	April	No Meeting		Fort McKavett
74	March	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	NASA's solar and lunar observing missions.
75	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse
76	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2012 Year in Review
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79	2012
80	December	No Meeting
81	November	Justin McCollum	HAS	Uranus and Neptune
82	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
83	September	Dr. Ramkumar Balasubramanian	Rice	Storms from the Sun
84	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultation/Eclipes
85	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Earth Observation missions
86	June	Bob Rogers	HAS	Mosquito control while observing
87	May	Dr. Carolyn Sumners	HMNS	2012 - The Mayan Apocalypse
88	April	Doug Warrington	JSCAS	Quasar distance anomalies
89	March	Doug Holland	JSCAS	Photographing the night sky
90	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Venus Transit
91	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2011 Year in Review
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94	2011
95	December	No Meeting
96	November	Dr. Georgiana Kramer	LPI/USRA	Lunar Swirls
97	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
98	September	Fred Garcia	Land Sea & Sky	Eyepiece Considerations
99	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
100	July	Cynthia Gusava	FBAC	Dawn Spacecraft
101	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse in Iraq
102	May	Steve Goldberg	FBAC	Observing List - SkyTools
103	April	Bill Pellerin	HAS	Observing Stellar Evolution
104	March	Larry Mitchell	HAS	Observing Flat Galaxies
105	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2010 Year in Review
106	January	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclispse
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109	2010
110	December	No Meeting
111	November	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Recovering the JAXA Hayabusa probe
112	October	No Meeting
113	September	Jerry Woodfill		What Saved Apollo 13
114	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipse from the South Pacific
115	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Building an Observing Chair
116	June	Dr. C. Renee James	SHSU	The Seven Wonders of the Universe
117	May	Alecia Tristan	FBAC	Carbon Stars
118	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulations
119	March	No Meeting		Ft. McKavett
120	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2009 Year in Review
121	January	Bill Pellerin	HAS
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124	2009
125	December	No Meeting
126	November	David Garrison	UHCL	Gravitational Astronomy
127	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
128	September	David Haviland	JSCAS	Barringer Meteor Crater
129	August	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Globular Clusters
130	July	Cyntha Gustava	FBAC	Saturn
131	June	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	History of Astronomy
132	May	Navid Mahmud	Rice	Searching for the Youngest Planets
133	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
134	March	Dr. Thomas D. Jones	JSC	Planetology
135	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2008 Year in Review
136	January	Richard Underwood	JSC	A Photographic Journey to the Moon
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139	2008
140	December	No Meeting
141	November	Dr. Walter Kiefer		Volcanic Rilles of the Moon
142	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
143	September	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	Cancelled… IKE
144	August
145	July	Cynthia Gustava	FBAC	New Worlds: Exoplanets
146	June	Gary Kilper	Rice	The Sun
147	May	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
148	April	Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Keeping up with Kepler
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150	February
151	January
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154	2007
155	December
156	November
157	October
158	September
159	August
160	July	Bill Leach	NHAC	Arp Galaxies
161	June
162	May
163	April
164	March
165	February	David Haviland	JSCAS	Asteroids and Extentinctions
166	January