JSCAS Past Speakers - Google Drive


1	Past JSCAS Speakers
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3	2021	Speaker
4	December	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	"The Scale of the Universe in the Amateur Eyepiece: an Observing Plan for 18 Orders of Magnitude"	Virtual
5	November	Don Selle	HAS	“I Have This Scope and Want to do Astrophotography”	Virtual
6	October	All Club's Meeting - Dr. Pat Rieff	Rice Univ.	"Texas Nexus - observing the upcoming eclipses"	Virtual
7	September	David Haviland	JSCAS	"My Journey in Taking Lunar Images - an update"	Virtual
8	August	Justin McCollum	JSCAS	"Using the Planetarium Program Stellarium"	Virtual
9	July	Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	"Galileo's TOES"	Virtual
10	June	University of Toronto Group	Univ of Toronto	"Investigating the effect of changes in gravity on the genetic regulation of human telomeres"	Virtual
11	May	Leonard Ferguson & Annie Wargetz	FBAC	"The challenges of Mars – A long series of Circumstances”	Virtual
12	April	Dr. Brandon Reddell	JSCAS & JSC	"Estimating the Age of the Universe from Globular Clusters"	Virtual
13	March	No Meeting - Club's Trip to Ft. McKavett
14	February	Dr. German Martinez	LPI	“The Mars 2020 mission: T-minus 6 days”	Virtual
15	January	Dr. Andrea Isella	Rice Univ.	"Update: C.L.E.V.E.R Planets Project"	Virtual
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18	2020	Speaker
19	December	David Haviland	JSCAS	"Cleaning, and Collimating a Reflector Telescope"	Virtual
20	November	Dr. Chistohper Johns-Krull	Rice Univ.	"Characterizing Planets Around Other Stars: The Quest for Life on Other Worlds"	Virtual
21	October	Jai and Neil Shet	FBAC	“A Journey Through Space and Time: On The Road To Milky Way"	Virtual
22	September	Tom Field	Sky&Tel	"You can almost touch the stars (Astronomical Spectroscopy)"	Virtual
23	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS, UHCL	"Around the world for an eclipse plus STARLINK and the future of the night skies"	Virtual
24	July	Bill Spizzirri	FBAC	"Meteors and Meteorites"	Virtual
25	June	Leonard Ferguson & Annie Wargetz	FBAC	“The Road Goes Ever On: The Martian Rovers and Our Path to the Red Planet”	Virtual
26	May	Dr Brandon Reddel	JSCAS, UHCL	"Astrophysics Using the ISS: An overview of the AMS and NICER experiments"	Virtual
27	April	Justin McCollum	HAS	"Mechanics of Lunar Motion"	Virtual
28	March	Postponed - Covid concerns
29	February	Dr. Aaron Clevenson, NHAC	NHAC	"The Wonders of Saturn"
30	January	Cancelled - Rescheduled per weather
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32	2019	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
33	December	Dr. Aurore Hutzler	LPI	"Exploring Space through Sample Return Missions: How, Where, and What Do We Do with the Rocks?"
34	November	David Haviland	JSCAS	"A Primer of the Moon, & My Ongoing Travels in Lunar Photography."
35	October	Dr. David Kring	LPI	"Earth’s Oldest Rock on the Moon?"
36	September	Brad Thomas	FBAC	"Microcomputers and the Portable Observatory."
37	August	Dr. Walt Kieffer	LPI	"Apollo 11 at 50: The Legacy of “One Small Step"
38	July	Jimmy Newland	HAS	"Finding the distance to a globular cluster using short period variable stars: an amateurs guide"
39	June	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	"The Gravitas of Gravitation"
40	May	Dr. Conrad Wells	JSC	"Segmented space telescopes: coronographic imaging of earth like planets."
41	April	Marc Fries	JSC	"Meteor Showers and Their Effects on Solar System Bodies"
42	March	No Meeting		Club's trip to Ft. McKavett
43	February	Justin McCollum	FBAC	"The Icy Giants: Uranus & Neptune"
44	January	Charles Phillips	JSC	"Satellite Tracking From the Gulf Coast - Why and How"
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47	2018	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
48	December	LaFrance, Wells, Holland, Haviland, Roy	JSCAS	Homespun DIY Astronomy & Oberving
49	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!
50	October	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Astronomical Travels in 2018 and Future Adventures
51	September	No Meeting		All Clubs Meeting and ADAY at the George
52	August	Brandon Ridell	JSCAS	Conditions for Habitability: A Galactic Perspective
53	July	Jimmy Newland	HAS	The Life Cycle of Sun-like Stars
54	June	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	The Hyperboles of Hyperbolas
55	May	Darrin Lewin	LS&S	Trends in Telescopes, Eyepieces & Binoculars for Astronomy
56	April	Leonard Ferguson & Annie Wargetz	FBAC	Mars InSight - Looking Below the Surface
57	March	Al Kelly	JSCAS	Travels in Astrophotography
58	February	David Haviland	JSCAS	Inside the 2017 Eclipse, DIY astronomy and other tools
59	January	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	Messier 51, things you might not know
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62	2017	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
63	December	No Meeting
64	November	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Ramblings in fixing things in low earh orbit
65	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
66	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Amateur Radio Astronomy
67	August	Brandon Reddell	JSCAS	Habitability of Exoplanets
68	July	Kayla LaFrance	JSCAS	Urban Astronomy
69	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Astronomical Adventures with Paul Maley 2017 to India, Chile, South Africa, and Somali
70	May	Jeff Lepp	FBAC	My Journey in Astrophotography
71	April	Dr. Lisa Whitehead	UH-Main	Nutrinos
72	March	Dr. Heather Sartain	UH	Triton, Neptune's Moon - Geography, geology, and weather
73	February	Louise RioFrio	JSCAS	A New Look at Light
74	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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77	2016	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
78	December	Kayla LaFrance, Doug Holland, David Haviland	JSCAS	DIY Astronomy
79	November	Dr. Pat Rieff	Rice Univ.	Space Weather and the MMS mission
80	October	No meeting		All Clubs/ADAY and Club's trip to Ft. McKavett
81	September	Jeff Stone	JSCAS	Fixing things while in orbit.
82	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipses and Occulatations
83	July	Dr. Steve Clifford	LPI	The History and Distribution of Water on Mars
84	June	Mr. Justin McCollum	HAS	Hypernovae
85	May	Bill Spizzirri	FBAC	The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson Arizona
86	April	Dr. Paul Schnek	LPI	Update on New Horizons Probe
87	March	Rodney Rocha	JSCAS	Adventures in Celestial Mechanics, Part 3
88	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Wintertime Planetary Nebulae
89	January	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Near Earth Asteroids
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92	2015	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
93	December	No Meeting
94	November	Leonard Ferguson	FBAC	"New Horizons Mission Status"
95	October	No Meeting		All Clubs and ADAY/Ft. McKavett
96	September	Dr. Walk Keifer	LPI	“GRAIL Explores the Moon’s Interior”
97	August	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	"Spectral Data, The Language of Light"
98	July	Paul Maley	JSCAS	"North Korea Adventure #2" and "Results of the great March Solar Eclipse in Svalbard"
99	June	Mark Matney	JSC	“The Challenge of Orbital Debris”
100	May	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	His Experiences as a Mission Specialist on STS-122.
101	April	Dr. Madhan Tirumalai	UH-Biochem	"Extremophiles redefine the limits of life"
102	March	Dr. Paul Schenk	LPI	"NASA’s Year of the Dwarves: Exploration of Ceres and Pluto"
103	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Paul Maley - "Results of recent JSCAS expeditions and plan for future ones"
104	January	Rodney Rocha	JSC	"An Easy-Going Introduction to Orbital Mechanics"
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107	2014	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
108	December	No Meeting
109	November	Rodney Rocha	JSC	An Easy Introduction to Orbital Mechanics
110	October	Annie Wargetz	JSC	Upcoming Orion Exploration Flight Test - 1
111	September	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Supernovae - A Personal Journey
112	August	Dr. Louise RioFrio	JSC	The Speed of Light
113	July	Dr. Dan McDonald	UH	Gravity Waves and the Big Bang
114	June	Dr. David Talent	TAMU	HII Regions and Planetary Nebulae -- The Making of The Elements.
115	May	Dr. Stanley Love	JSC	Going to Mars
116	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Minitar, Solar Eclipse, Auroras
117	March	Annie Wargetz	JSCAS	STEREO
118	February	Don Halter	JSCAS	Astrophotography using the Vixen Polarie
119	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2013 Year in Review
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122	2013	Speaker		Title (Not Exact for brevity)
123	December	No Meeting
124	November	Dr. Stan Love	JSC	Meteorite Expeditions to Antarctica
125	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
126	September	Dr. Tim Giblin	UHCL	Gamma Ray Bursts: 40 Years and the Chase Continues
127	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
128	July	Dr. Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Things that go Bump in the Night: Cosmic Catactrophies
129	June	Dr. Stephen Bradshaw	Rice	The Sun at Maximum
130	May	Dr. Ross Potter	LPI/USRA	A Crash Course in Impact Cratering
131	April	No Meeting		Fort McKavett
132	March	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	NASA's solar and lunar observing missions.
133	February	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse
134	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2012 Year in Review
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137	2012
138	December	No Meeting
139	November	Justin McCollum	HAS	Uranus and Neptune
140	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
141	September	Dr. Ramkumar Balasubramanian	Rice	Storms from the Sun
142	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultation/Eclipes
143	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Earth Observation missions
144	June	Bob Rogers	HAS	Mosquito control while observing
145	May	Dr. Carolyn Sumners	HMNS	2012 - The Mayan Apocalypse
146	April	Doug Warrington	JSCAS	Quasar distance anomalies
147	March	Doug Holland	JSCAS	Photographing the night sky
148	February	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Venus Transit
149	January	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2011 Year in Review
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152	2011
153	December	No Meeting
154	November	Dr. Georgiana Kramer	LPI/USRA	Lunar Swirls
155	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
156	September	Fred Garcia	Land Sea & Sky	Eyepiece Considerations
157	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
158	July	Cynthia Gusava	FBAC	Dawn Spacecraft
159	June	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Solar Eclipse in Iraq
160	May	Steve Goldberg	FBAC	Observing List - SkyTools
161	April	Bill Pellerin	HAS	Observing Stellar Evolution
162	March	Larry Mitchell	HAS	Observing Flat Galaxies
163	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2010 Year in Review
164	January	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclispse
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167	2010
168	December	No Meeting
169	November	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Recovering the JAXA Hayabusa probe
170	October	No Meeting
171	September	Jerry Woodfill		What Saved Apollo 13
172	August	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Eclipse from the South Pacific
173	July	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Building an Observing Chair
174	June	Dr. C. Renee James	SHSU	The Seven Wonders of the Universe
175	May	Alecia Tristan	FBAC	Carbon Stars
176	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulations
177	March	No Meeting		Ft. McKavett
178	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2009 Year in Review
179	January	Bill Pellerin	HAS
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182	2009
183	December	No Meeting
184	November	David Garrison	UHCL	Gravitational Astronomy
185	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
186	September	David Haviland	JSCAS	Barringer Meteor Crater
187	August	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	Globular Clusters
188	July	Cyntha Gustava	FBAC	Saturn
189	June	Jim Wessel	JSCAS	History of Astronomy
190	May	Navid Mahmud	Rice	Searching for the Youngest Planets
191	April	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occulatations
192	March	Dr. Thomas D. Jones	JSC	Planetology
193	February	Bob Taylor	JSCAS	2008 Year in Review
194	January	Richard Underwood	JSC	A Photographic Journey to the Moon
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197	2008
198	December	No Meeting
199	November	Dr. Walter Kiefer		Volcanic Rilles of the Moon
200	October	No Meeting		ADAY/Ft. McKavett
201	September	Dennis Webb	JSCAS	Cancelled… IKE
202	August
203	July	Cynthia Gustava	FBAC	New Worlds: Exoplanets
204	June	Gary Kilper	Rice	The Sun
205	May	Paul Maley	JSCAS	Occultations
206	April	Aaron Clevenson	NHAC	Keeping up with Kepler
207	March
208	February
209	January
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212	2007
213	December
214	November
215	October
216	September
217	August
218	July	Bill Leach	NHAC	Arp Galaxies
219	June
220	May
221	April
222	March
223	February	David Haviland	JSCAS	Asteroids and Extentinctions
224	January