Planetary Sciences



A Multi-Instrument View from Juno: Galilean Moons, Inner Satellites and Rings
Primary Convener:  Anton Ermakov, Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hao Cao, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Zhimeng Zhang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Alessandro Mura, IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yash Sarkango, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States


Artemis II: Science from the First Crewed Voyage to the Moon in the 21st Century
Primary Convener:  Noah E Petro, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kristina Gibbs, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, United States and Amy Fagan, Western Carolina University, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources, Cullowhee, United States


Co-evolution of Life and Environment: Insights from Early Earth and Modern Analog Systems
Primary Convener:  Siqi Li, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Aoshuang Ji1,2, Timothy Lyons1 and Rui-Lin Cheng3, (1)University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, United States(2)University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States(3)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States


Creating Sustainable Habitats and Ecosystems Beyond Earth
Primary Convener:  Edwin S Kite, Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States; University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
Conveners:  Chuanfei Dong, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Nils Averesch, University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


Data-Driven Astrobiology: New Insights and Foundations
Primary Convener:  Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sunanda Sharma, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, United States, Matt B Weller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States and Rachel Slank, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States


Dual-Spacecraft Exploration of Jupiter’s Icy Moons: Synergies from Europa Clipper and JUICE
Primary Convener:  Caroline Haslebacher, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Shivangi Sharan, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Sean Hsu, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael Louis Stevens, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Francesca Furnari, INAF - IAPS, Rome, Italy


Dust Across the Solar System: Rings, Meteors, Comets, Asteroids, Populations, Processes, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Camille Yoke, University of Colorado Boulder, Physics, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Nico Haslebacher, Independent Researcher, Boulder, United States, Mitchell Shen, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, United States and Richard Jerousek, University of Central Florida, Physics, Orlando, FL, United States


Dynamic Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies Throughout the Solar System and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Dolon Bhattacharyya, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Edwin Mierkiewicz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States and Orenthal Tucker, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States


Expectations and Limitations in the Search for Life: Toward a Coherent Framework for Life Detection
Primary Convener:  Devan Nisson, Astrobiology Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Conveners:  Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States and Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Carlos Gary-Bicas, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States


Ice and Ocean Worlds: Geology, Oceanography, Chemistry, and Habitability
Primary Convener:  Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kevin T Trinh, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Elizabeth Marie Spiers, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Maheenuz Zaman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States


Interior Dynamics as Drivers of Planetary Evolution and Habitability: From Rocky Planets to Ocean Worlds
Primary Convener:  Yishen Zhang, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Paolo A Sossi, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, Nicholas J Dygert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States and Maitrayee Bose, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Juan Hernández-Montenegro, Rice University, Houston, United States


Machine Learning and Data Science Methods for Planetary Science
Primary Convener:  Lior Rubanenko, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States
Conveners:  Abigail Azari, University of Alberta, Physics Department, Vancouver, Canada, Ramanakumar Sankar, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Hannah Rae Kerner, Arizona State University, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Tempe, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Brian Amaro, Stanford University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States


Planetary Atmospheric, Surface, and Interior Science Using Spacecraft Radio Links
Primary Convener:  Sami W Asmar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Convener:  Panagiotis Vergados, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Planetary Magnetism Beyond Earth
Primary Convener:  Isaac Narrett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Rachel Maxwell, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Douglas Hemingway, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, Sarah Steele, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Rezvan Soltanabadi, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Angelina Serafini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States


Planetary Volcanism: Processes and Observations
Primary Convener:  Eleni Maria Ravanis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Ann Fagents, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Indujaa Ganesh, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Eleni Maria Ravanis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Indujaa Ganesh, University of Arizona, Department of Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States


Processes in the present-day Atmosphere of Mars
Primary Convener:  Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Majd Mayyasi, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, Joseph Michael Battalio, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Yuni Lee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


Radar Investigations of Planetary Surfaces and Subsurfaces
Primary Convener:  Sean Thomas Peters, University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Indujaa Ganesh, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, Kristian Chan, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Wes Patterson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Respiratory and Musculoskeletal Contributions to Phonation in a Partial-Gravity Analog: A Pilot Acoustic Analysis
Primary Convener:  Ameri Wheeler, Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., United States
Convener:  Dr. Spencer Wheeler, Chatham Orthopaedic Associates, Savannah, United States


Small Solar System Bodies: Sample Returns, JWST, Ground-Based Astronomy, and More
Primary Convener:  Julie C Castillo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States and Bryan Holler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, United States


Space Environments of Unmagnetized or Weakly Magnetized Solar System Bodies and the Effects of Space Weather on These Systems
Primary Convener:  Catherine Regan, West Virginia University, Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States
Conveners:  Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, Valeria Mangano, INAF-Inst Nazionale Astrofisca, ROMA, ITALY, ITALY, Yingjuan Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Lina Hadid, CNRS-LPP, Paris, France
Student/Early Career Convener:  Catherine Regan, West Virginia University, Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States


Stars to Exoplanets, Sun to Earth: Bridging Disciplines in Search of Habitability
Primary Convener:  Ofer Cohen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
Conveners:  Hilairy Ellen Hartnett, University of Washington, Seattle, United States and Linda Sohl, NASA GISS, United States


The Emergence of Life and the Early Earth Environment: Prebiotic Chemistry and Planetary Habitability
Primary Convener:  Prof. Meng Guo, The University of Hong Kong, The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Conveners:  Joshua Krissansen-Totton, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States and Eugenia Hyung, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States


The Emergence of Life as a Planetary Process
Primary Convener:  Adomas Valantinas, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Convener:  Michael L Wong, Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States


The Gas Giants: Atmospheres, Interiors and Evolution of Jupiter and Saturn
Primary Convener:  Cheng Li, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Benjamin Idini, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States and Scott J Bolton, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ananyo Bhattacharya, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, Surat, India


The New Mars Underground IX: Maximizing Martian Subsurface Science Return
Primary Convener:  David G Burtt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  John P Ortiz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hanover, United States, Dr. Yu-Feng Forrest Lin, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States; Illinois Water Resources Center, Champaign, United States, Mohammad Afzal Shadab, University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, United States and Julian matthews Chesnutt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


The Ice Giants: Exploring the Planetary Systems of Uranus and Neptune
Primary Convener:  Michael Thomas Roman, Universidad Adolfo Ibåñez, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Santiago, Chile
Conveners:  Kunio Sayanagi, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Heidi B Hammel, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington D.C., United States and Erin Janelle Leonard, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sushen Joshi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden


To the Moon - A New Era of Science
Primary Convener:  Li Hsia Yeo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Phillip H. Phipps, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA, Baltimore, United States, Jan Deca, KU Leuven, Dover, NH, United States and Paul Stefan Szabo, TU Wien, Vienna, United States


Venus and Other Planets as Laboratories for Atmospheric Escape and Heliophysics
Primary Convener:  Michael Chaffin, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Dr. Yuta Notsu, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Kathleen Gwen Hanley, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Ryoya Sakata, The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan


Venus: A Brave New World
Primary Convener:  Debra Buczkowski, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Tracy K P Gregg, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States and Noam Izenberg, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States


Young or Old?  New Insights into the Inner Saturn system
Primary Convener:  Robin M Canup, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Matthew M Hedman, University of Idaho, Moscow, United States