JSCAS Past Speakers - Google Drive


1	Past JSCAS Speakers
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5	December	David Haviland	JSCAS	"Cleaning, and Collimating a Reflector Telescope"	Virtual
6	November	Dr. Chistohper Johns-Krull	Rice Univ.	"Characterizing Planets Around Other Stars: The Quest for Life on Other Worlds"	Virtual
7	October	Jai and Neil Shet	FBAC	“A Journey Through Space and Time: On The Road To Milky Way"	Virtual
8	September	Tom Field	Sky&Tel	"You can almost touch the stars (Astronomical Spectroscopy)"	Virtual
9	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS, UHCL	"Around the world for an eclipse plus STARLINK and the future of the night skies"	Virtual
10	July	Bill Spizzirri	FBAC	"Meteors and Meteorites"	Virtual
11	June	Leonard Ferguson & Annie Wargetz	FBAC	“The Road Goes Ever On: The Martian Rovers and Our Path to the Red Planet”	Virtual
12	May	Dr Brandon Reddel	JSCAS, UHCL	"Astrophysics Using the ISS: An overview of the AMS and NICER experiments"	Virtual
13	April	Justin McCollum	HAS	"Mechanics of Lunar Motion"	Virtual
14	March	Postponed - Covid concerns
15	February	Dr. Aaron Clevenson, NHAC	NHAC	"The Wonders of Saturn"
16	January	Cancelled - Rescheduled per weather
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18	2019	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
19	December	Dr. Aurore Hutzler	LPI	"Exploring Space through Sample Return Missions: How, Where, and What Do We Do with the Rocks?"
20	November	David Haviland	JSCAS	"A Primer of the Moon, & My Ongoing Travels in Lunar Photography."
21	October	Dr. David Kring	LPI	"Earth’s Oldest Rock on the Moon?"
22	September	Brad Thomas	FBAC	"Microcomputers and the Portable Observatory."
23	August	Dr. Walt Kieffer	LPI	"Apollo 11 at 50: The Legacy of “One Small Step"
24	July	Jimmy Newland	HAS	"Finding the distance to a globular cluster using short period variable stars: an amateurs guide"
25	June	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	"The Gravitas of Gravitation"
26	May	Dr. Conrad Wells	JSC	"Segmented space telescopes: coronographic imaging of earth like planets."
27	April	Marc Fries	JSC	"Meteor Showers and Their Effects on Solar System Bodies"
28	March	No Meeting		Club's trip to Ft. McKavett
29	February	Justin McCollum	FBAC	"The Icy Giants: Uranus & Neptune"
30	January	Charles Phillips	JSC	"Satellite Tracking From the Gulf Coast - Why and How"
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33	2018	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
34	December	LaFrance, Wells, Holland, Haviland, Roy	JSCAS	Homespun DIY Astronomy & Oberving
35	November	Dr. Conrad Wells	JSC	Testing the James Webb Space Telescope in Chamber A at JSC. Lessons learned at 20 Kelvin, including how to survive Harvey!
36	October	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Astronomical Travels in 2018 and Future Adventures
37	September	No Meeting		All Clubs Meeting and ADAY at the George
38	August	Brandon Ridell	JSCAS	Conditions for Habitability: A Galactic Perspective
39	July	Jimmy Newland	HAS	The Life Cycle of Sun-like Stars
40	June	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	The Hyperboles of Hyperbolas
41	May	Darrin Lewin	LS&S	Trends in Telescopes, Eyepieces & Binoculars for Astronomy
42	April	Leonard Ferguson & Annie Wargetz	FBAC	Mars InSight - Looking Below the Surface
43	March	Al Kelly	JSCAS	Travels in Astrophotography
44	February	David Haviland	JSCAS	Inside the 2017 Eclipse, DIY astronomy and other tools
45	January	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	Messier 51, things you might not know
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48	2017	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
49	December	No Meeting
50	November	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Ramblings in fixing things in low earh orbit
51	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
52	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Amateur Radio Astronomy
53	August	Brandon Reddell	JSCAS	Habitability of Exoplanets
54	July	Kayla LaFrance	JSCAS	Urban Astronomy
55	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Astronomical Adventures with Paul Maley 2017 to India, Chile, South Africa, and Somali
56	May	Jeff Lepp	FBAC	My Journey in Astrophotography
57	April	Dr. Lisa Whitehead	UH-Main	Nutrinos
58	March	Dr. Heather Sartain	UH	Triton, Neptune's Moon - Geography, geology, and weather
59	February	Louise RioFrio	JSCAS	A New Look at Light
60	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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63	2016	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
64	December	Kayla LaFrance, Doug Holland, David Haviland	JSCAS	DIY Astronomy
65	November	Dr. Pat Rieff	Rice Univ.	Space Weather and the MMS mission
66	October	No meeting		All Clubs/ADAY and Club's trip to Ft. McKavett
67	September	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Fixing things while in orbit.
68	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipses and Occulatations
69	July	Dr. Steve Clifford	LPI	The History and Distribution of Water on Mars
70	June	Mr. Justin McCollum	HAS	Hypernovae
71	May	Bill Spizzirri	FBAC	The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson Arizona
72	April	Dr. Paul Schnek	LPI	Update on New Horizons Probe
73	March	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	Adventures in Celestial Mechanics, Part 3
74	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Wintertime Planetary Nebulae
75	January	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Near Earth Asteroids
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78	2015	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
79	December	No Meeting
80	November	Leonard Ferguson	FBAC	"New Horizons Mission Status"
81	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
82	September	Dr. Walk Keifer	LPI	“GRAIL Explores the Moon’s Interior”
83	August	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	"Spectral Data, The Language of Light"
84	July	Paul Maley	JSCAS	"North Korea Adventure #2" and "Results of the great March Solar Eclipse in Svalbard"
85	June	Mark Matney	JSC	“The Challenge of Orbital Debris”
86	May	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	His Experiences as a Mission Specialist on STS-122.
87	April	Dr. Madhan Tirumalai	UH-Biochem	"Extremophiles redefine the limits of life"
88	March	Dr. Paul Schenk	LPI	"NASA’s Year of the Dwarves: Exploration of Ceres and Pluto"
89	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Paul Maley - "Results of recent JSCAS expeditions and plan for future ones"
90	January	Rodney Rocha	JSC	"An Easy-Going Introduction to Orbital Mechanics"
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93	2014	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
94	December	No Meeting
95	November	Rodney Rocha	JSC	An Easy Introduction to Orbital Mechanics
96	October	Annie Wargetz	JSC	Upcoming Orion Exploration Flight Test - 1
97	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Supernovae - A Personal Journey
98	August	Dr. Louise RioFrio	JSC	The Speed of Light
99	July	Dr. Dan McDonald	UH	Gravity Waves and the Big Bang
100	June	Dr. David Talent	TAMU	HII Regions and Planetary Nebulae -- The Making of The Elements.
101	May	Dr. Stanley Love	JSC	Going to Mars
102	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Minitar, Solar Eclipse, Auroras
103	March	Annie Wargetz	JSCAS	STEREO
104	February	Don Halter	JSCAS	Astrophotography using the Vixen Polarie
105	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2013 Year in Review
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108	2013	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
109	December	No Meeting
110	November	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Meteorite Expeditions to Antarctica
111	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
112	September	Dr. Tim Giblin	UHCL	Gamma Ray Bursts: 40 Years and the Chase Continues
113	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
114	July	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Things that go Bump in the Night: Cosmic Catactrophies
115	June	Dr. Stephen Bradshaw	Rice	The Sun at Maximum
116	May	Dr. Ross Potter	LPI/USRA	A Crash Course in Impact Cratering
117	April	No Meeting		Fort McKavett
118	March	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	NASA's solar and lunar observing missions.
119	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse
120	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2012 Year in Review
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124	December	No Meeting
125	November	Justin McCollum	HAS	Uranus and Neptune
126	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
127	September	Dr. Ramkumar Balasubramanian	Rice	Storms from the Sun
128	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultation/Eclipes
129	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Earth Observation missions
130	June	Bob Rogers	HAS	Mosquito control while observing
131	May	Dr. Carolyn Sumners	HMNS	2012 - The Mayan Apocalypse
132	April	Doug Warrington	JSCAS	Quasar distance anomalies
133	March	Doug Holland	JSCAS	Photographing the night sky
134	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Venus Transit
135	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2011 Year in Review
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138	2011
139	December	No Meeting
140	November	Dr. Georgiana Kramer	LPI/USRA	Lunar Swirls
141	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
142	September	Fred Garcia	Land Sea & Sky	Eyepiece Considerations
143	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
144	July	Cynthia Gusava	FBAC	Dawn Spacecraft
145	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse in Iraq
146	May	Steve Goldberg	FBAC	Observing List - SkyTools
147	April	Bill Pellerin	HAS	Observing Stellar Evolution
148	March	Larry Mitchell	HAS	Observing Flat Galaxies
149	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2010 Year in Review
150	January	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclispse
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153	2010
154	December	No Meeting
155	November	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Recovering the JAXA Hayabusa probe
156	October	No Meeting
157	September	Jerry Woodfill		What Saved Apollo 13
158	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipse from the South Pacific
159	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Building an Observing Chair
160	June	Dr. C. Renee James	SHSU	The Seven Wonders of the Universe
161	May	Alecia Tristan	FBAC	Carbon Stars
162	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulations
163	March	No Meeting		Ft. McKavett
164	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2009 Year in Review
165	January	Bill Pellerin	HAS
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168	2009
169	December	No Meeting
170	November	David Garrison	UHCL	Gravitational Astronomy
171	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
172	September	David Haviland	JSCAS	Barringer Meteor Crater
173	August	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Globular Clusters
174	July	Cyntha Gustava	FBAC	Saturn
175	June	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	History of Astronomy
176	May	Navid Mahmud	Rice	Searching for the Youngest Planets
177	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
178	March	Dr. Thomas D. Jones	JSC	Planetology
179	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2008 Year in Review
180	January	Richard Underwood	JSC	A Photographic Journey to the Moon
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183	2008
184	December	No Meeting
185	November	Dr. Walter Kiefer		Volcanic Rilles of the Moon
186	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
187	September	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	Cancelled… IKE
188	August
189	July	Cynthia Gustava	FBAC	New Worlds: Exoplanets
190	June	Gary Kilper	Rice	The Sun
191	May	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
192	April	Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Keeping up with Kepler
193	March
194	February
195	January
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198	2007
199	December
200	November
201	October
202	September
203	August
204	July	Bill Leach	NHAC	Arp Galaxies
205	June
206	May
207	April
208	March
209	February	David Haviland	JSCAS	Asteroids and Extentinctions
210	January