Key research presented at fourth summer meeting of Centre for Planetary Sciences
Lecturers and students present findings from their wide-ranging research at the annual CPS meeting.
On June 16 lecturers and students from UCL Earth Sciences, Birkbeck Earth and Planetary Sciences and UCL Physics and Astronomy, held their fourth annual summer meeting. There were 17 presentations, with eight talks given by students, and five posters displayed. The day was opened by Professor Gerald Roberts, Head of Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Birkbeck, with a keynote lecture on The 2016 Mars Insight Mission.
Talks during the day looked at projects ranging across the planetary sciences: from liquid iron in Mercury to carbon and nitrogen isotopes in meteorites; from landslides on Mars and craters in the Apollo 17 lunar region to ions on Saturn’s moon Dione. The student talks were eligible for a small prize (and much kudos) and the two winners were: Abigail Calzada-Diaz (Birkbeck PhD) who presented her research on Linking lunar meteorites with possible source regions and Marco Rocchetto of UCL Physics and Astronomy, who spoke about The fraction of circumstellar debris at white dwarfs.
Acknowledgements
Birkbeck's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences supported the event financially for the second year running and the organisers would like to thank Professor Gerald Roberts for this generosity. All those involved would also like to thank Diane Calliste, and her team, for administrative support in arranging space, catering and poster boards.