The seminar is held in presence in Room D215 (Seminarraum) during the semester every Thursday at 15:00 PM. We try to maintain a remote connection under:

https://bbb.planet.fu-berlin.de/b/swa-ymt-c4j

List of topics:

Summer term 2024:

Apr 18: Mark Fox-Powell (The Open University, UK), The cold chemistry of cryovolcanism: Insights from experimental and natural analogues

Apr 25: Jessica Agarwal (University of Braunschweig), Decimetre-sized chunks at comet 67P and implications for understanding cometary activity

May 02: Namitha Baby (DLR), Deciphering terrain formation on Ganymede using impact craters

May 09: no seminar (holiday Himmelfahrt)

May 16: Lucia Hortal and Maryse Napoleoni (FUB), Report on their Antarctic expedition to acquire analogue samples for icy moons

May 23: Jordy Bowman (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), Formation and Dissociation of Hydrocarbons in Space and in Planetary Atmospheres

May 30: Laura Garcia Gomez (Univ. of Malaga, Spain), LIBS for Planetary Exploration: Laboratory Approaches, Challenges and New Insights

Jun 06: Jürgen Schmidt (FUB), A new model of the Enceladus plume

Jun 13: Maja Bunke (FUB) on her Masters project: Influence of Surface Topography on the Steady State Dust Ejecta Clouds around Atmosphereless Moons

Jun 20: Ina Plesa (DLR),  Impact induced melting and surface mobilization on Europa

Jun 27: Peter Strub (FUB), A new Dust Model of the Saturnian System

Jul 04: Sebastian Walter with the Imaging subgroup report and Viktoria Franke (FUB) on her Bachelor's Project: The effects of cell lysis on the mass spectral detectability of bacterial biosignatures in ice grains ejected from icy moons

Jul 11: Maryse Napoleoni with the Cosmic Dust subgroup report and Alexa Schöpf (FUB/DLR) on her Master's project: Long Term Change Detection on Mars using HRSC images in comparison to other multi-temporal image data sets

Jul 18: Bo Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Planetary remote sensing and lunar regolith sample research at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University


Winter term 2023/2024:

Oct 26: Mirandah Ackley & Marie Dannenmann (FUB) about their PhD projects: "Assessing the environmental effects in subsurface oceans of icy moons on potential extraterrestrial life - A proposal"

Nov 02: Harald Krüger (MPI Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen), "Interstellar Dust in the Solar System" and subgroup report Cosmics Dust and icy moons

Nov 09: Emily Wang (Univ of Tokyo, remote presentation), "From modelling the crater chronology of the outer Solar System to unveiling the absolute surface ages of Enceladus" and subgroup report Planetary Imaging

Nov 16: Paula Dewey (FUB) about her PhD project, "Cosmic Dust: Linking Asteroids and Meteorites"

Nov 23: Anastasiia Ovchinnikova (FUB), "Modelling the History of water in the Jezero Crater"

Nov 30: Pablo L. Finkel (Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid): "Lipid Biomarkers in Extreme Environments and Their Significance in Astrobiology"

Dec 07: Daniela Tirsch (DLR), "HRSC on Mars Express: Operations and Selected Science Topics"

Dec 14: Jessica Agarwal (University of Braunschschweig), "Decimetre-sized chunks at comet 67P and implications for understanding cometary activity"

Dec 14: Veerle Sterken and Tim Arnet (ETH Zuerich), "Dust science from the Lunar Gateway" (exceptionally at 14:45 PM)

Dec 21: Edwin Mahlo (FUB), about his Master’s project, "Revisiting the LDEX measurements of the Lunar dust cloud"

Jan 11: Ina Plesa (DLR) , "Mars Underground: The Quest for Liquid Water"

Jan 18: Tina Rückriemen (DLR), "The thermal and dynamic state of Europa’s ice shell: Revealed by radar?"

Jan 25: René Prissang, "3D Markov simulation- a tool with a high potential for space mining"

Feb 01: Florent Borcher, SWRI (Texas), “Evaluating the Impact of Organics on the Ocean World Ice Shells using Thermodynamic Modelling”

Feb 08: Kierra Wilk (Brown University/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), "Variations in Surface Adsorbed Water on Lunar Soils and Relevant Minerals" and subgroup report Cosmic Dust and Icy Moons

Feb 15: Mustafa Yucel (Institute of Marine Sciences Middle East Technical University, Turkey), "Can particle ejecta trace possible biogeochemistry in Ocean Worlds? An Earth-centric comparative analysis of how life shapes inorganic particle signatures in pelagic and deep-sea habitats."  and subgroup report Planetary Imaging


Summer term 2023:

April 20: Imaging subgroup progress report and Clara Schmidt: "Extracting archaeal membrane lipids"

April 27: Cosmic Dust subgroup progress report, Alice Bellec: "Magnetosphere / dust interaction" and Judith Bloema: "Hydrothermal experiments for Enceladus"

May 04: Frank Postberg: "Phosphates from Enceladus Ocean"

May 11: Greg Michael: "HRSC high altitude colour mosaics of Mars"

May 18: - no seminar -

May 23 (not May 25th!) 3 PM:  Gabriel Tobie (Nantes): "Tides in the Jupiter system and beyond: a driver for the habitability of ocean worlds" (room tbd)

June 01: Edwin Kite: "Sustaining the connections that allow a sub-ice ocean to erupt into space on Saturn’s moon Enceladus (and Jupiter’s moon Europa?)"

June 08: Daniel Schirdewahn (Uni Potsdam), "Unmixing the Dust – Is There a Cleaning of Saturn's Rings?"

June 15: 3 p.m., Partha Bera (NASA ARC/BAERI), “Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Formation and Destruction of Bare and H2O-Cluster Bound Organic Molecules”

June 22: Chris Glein (Southwest Reserach Institute, Texas): "Is Saturn's moon Enceladus the most habitable world we know of beyond Earth?"

June 29: Maxwell Craddock (ELSI, Tokio): "Simulating Enceladus’ organic synthesis by hydrothermal processing and freeze cycles"

July 06: Michael Aye: "A multiscale traveling feature in Saturn rings: UV and visual observations"

July 13: Imaging subgroup report and Giacomo Nodjoumi: "DeepLandforms: asking machines to recognise landforms"

July 20: Cosmic dust subgroup report and Ralf Jaumann: "20 years Mars Express: a historic science review"


Winter term 2022/2023:

Oct 20: Imaging subgroup report and Lucia Hortal, "Introducing the Windsled: SOS Arctic 2022 expedition"

Oct 27: Cosmic Dust subgroup report  and Michael Aye, "Planetary citizen science"

Nov 03: Lígia Fonseca Coelho, "Catalogue of colors of life in ice - a guide to search for extra-terrestrial life"

Nov 10: Maja Bunke, "Influence of Surface Topography on the Steady State Dust Ejecta Clouds around Atmosphereless Moons"

Nov 17: Alessandro Airo, "The Atacama Desert: Mars Analog and Cosmic Dust Repository"

Nov 24: Yaowen Luo, "Constraint on palaeohydrological activities from deltas on Mars"

Dec 1st: Natalie Wolfenbarger, "Terrestrial Constraints on the Distribution of Brine in Europa's Ice Shell"

Dec 8: Anastasiia Ovchinnikova, "The history of climate, water and ice on Mars based on the shorelines of paleolakes, related river systems and glacial features".

Dec 15: Yu Tao, "Enhancing remote sensing imagery using super-resolution restoration and extracting 3D from single-view images of planetary surfaces".

Jan 5: Thomas O'Sullivan, "Internship Results: Laboratory Techniques and Data Analysis Methods to Understand Enceladus Subsurface Ocean Chemistry"

Jan 12: Audrey Vorburger, "Investigating Europa's Plumes with JUICE's Neutral and Ion Mass Spectrometer".

Jan 19: Oleksiy Golubov, “Yarkovsky and YORP effects: how radiation pressure moves asteroids"

Jan 26: Gregoire Danger, "Dense molecular icy grains as a source of molecular diversity for planetary systems: clues from experiments" and Alexis Bouquet, "Radiation processing of organic matter on the surface of jovian moons: Experimental investigation of sulfur and electron bombardment".

Feb 02: Alexander Borchert, "Layered outcrops and their sedimentary context in Jezero Crater, Mars".

Feb 09: Arnaud Sanderink, "Optimisation of OLYMPIA, a new Orbitrap mass spectrometer for the characterisation of subsurface oceans in the outer solar system and hypervelocity dust".

Feb 16: Francois Poulet: "18 months-exploration of the Jezero crater with the Perseverance rover".


Summer term 2022:

Apr 28 (04:30 PM!): Maximilian Hamm: "LRAD – The Radiometer of the Lunar South Pole Hopper µNova"

May 05: Imaging Subgroup report and Janine Bönigk: "Analogue experiments with Sphingopyxis alaskensis for the detection of bacterial biosignatures in ice grains from Enceladus and Europa“

May 11: Cosmic Dust subgroup report and Frank Postberg, "Update on NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon" (Attention, Wednesday, not Thursday!)

May 19: Jamey Szalay, "The Moon's Response to the Interplanetary Meteoroid Environment"

May 26: No seminar (Himmelfahrt, bank holiday)

Jun 02: Mark Fox-Powell, "Experimental insights into the products of cryovolcanism at Enceladus and other ocean worlds"

Jun 09: Erica Luzzi, "Unravelling the geological history of chaotic terrains on Mars with multiple approaches"

Jun 16: Robert Munteanu, "Spatial data management and provision and the benefit for planetary research"

Jun 23: Pietro Matteoni, "History and Philosophy of Astrobiology and of the Origin of Life" and Maryse Napoleoni, "Modifications of organic spectral signatures from the interaction with salts on the surface of Europa"

Jun 30: Aleksandra Skolowska: "About physics and numerical simulations of impact cratering, and their applications to studies of the shallow subsurface of Mars"

Jul 07: Veerle Sterken (ETH Zürich): "The heliosphere and the dust: exploring our immediate interstellar neighbourhood"

Jul 14: Demetrius Ramette, "Modeling the Martian dust cycle: On the role of surface dust reservoirs"

Jul 21: Christoph Gross, "Availability of fertilizers on Mars, a prospect for human colonization"


Winter term 2021/2022:

Oct 19: Mass Spectrometry subgroup report and Muhammad Umair: “Update on spectra processing and a Graphical User Interface for the Spectral data base”

Oct 26: Imaging subgroup erport and Wladimir Neumann: “Modelling the thermo-chemical evolution of asteroids and meteorite parent bodies: From dust to magma oceans”

Nov 2: Ralf Jaumann: "Update on recent activities of the Mars 2020 mission"

Nov 9: Jürgen Schmidt: "The mass flux of interplanetary dust at Saturn's distance from the Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer"

Nov 16: Sebastian Walter: "Coregistration of large heterogeneous datasets of planetary surfaces for the systematic creation of global image and topography models" and Frank Postberg: "Overview over the final tour of Europa flybys selected for the Europa Clipper mission"

Nov 23: Fabian Klenner: "Latest results from the FU Planetary Science Astrobiology lab"

Nov 30: Gene Schmidt: "Composition, mapping and lithostratigraphy of layered deposits on Mars"

Dec 7: Cosmic Dust subgroup report and Laura Patermann: "Oxia Planum: The Landing Site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover"

Dec 14: Imaging Subgroup report and Lenz Nölle: “The compositional variations of water ice dust in Saturn's E-ring and implication for E ring dynamics” (Pt. 1)

Dec 21: No seminar (Christmas holiday)

Jan 04: No seminar

Jan 11: René Prissang: Current developments in Space Mining

Jan 18: Ralf Srama: "DESTINY+ : New Challenges in Dust Astronomy"

Jan 25: Lenz Nölle: “The compositional variations of water ice dust in Saturn's E-ring and implication for E ring dynamics” (Pt. 2)

Feb 2: Lena noack: "Modelling volcanic outgassing on rocky (exo)planets"

Feb 8: Cosmic Dust subgroup report and Rachael Hamp: "Geochemical cycling in the subsurface environment of Enceladus"

Feb 15: Imaging subgroup report and David Haack: "Experimental Simulation of Cometary Surfaces with Volatile Outgassing".


Summer term 2021:

Apr 15: Subgroup report and Arnaud Sanderink, "Overview of Orbitrap for space application".

Apr 22: Subgroup report and Lisa Eckart & Jon Hillier: "Preparation of minerals samples as analogue materials for cosmic dust, recent achievements and future plans".

Apr 29: Dominik Neu & Björn Schreiner: "Development of new 3D and VR products for Mars".

May 6: Filip Matuszewski: "Estimating the number of exoplanets that PLATO can detect".

May 13: Holiday - no seminar

May 20: Thomas Roatsch & Ernst Hauber: "Overview about recent and future science activities at the DLR institute of Planetary Research".

May 27: Brennan Lutkewitte: "Orbital reconstruction of cosmic dust encountered at Saturn".

June 3: Tiantian Liu: "Formation of Small Craters in the Lunar Regolith: How Do They Influence the Preservation of Ancient Melt at the Surface".

June 10: Matthias Grott: "The LRAD Radiometer for the NASA South Pole Lunar Hopper Mission" and imaging subgroup report.

June 17: Mass spectrometry subgroup report, Tanner Hayes: "Terrain dependent impact ejecta simulation on Europa".

June 24: Heike Rauer: "Plato mission".

July 1: Zenghui Zou: "The composition of salt-rich ice grains emitted by Enceladus' cryo-volcanic plume and implications for the subsurface ocean".

July 8: Greg Michael: "Planetary surface dating with Craterstats3 – a new open source implementation in Python".

July 15: Jürgen Schmidt: "Circumplanetary Dust Rings".

Winter term 2020/2021:

Nov 5: Subgroup reports and Maximilian Hamm, "Dust on the surface of Ryugu"

Nov 12: Ralph Vidal, "The McLaughlin Crater as a Potential Landing Site for Future Mars Missions"

Nov 19: Simon Linti, "Peak deconvolution techniques in Cassini-CDA mass spectra of Saturn’s dusty ring material"

Nov 26: Nozair Khawaja, "The Destiny+ mission to the active asteroid Phaethon, latest developments and mission planning"

Dec 3: Christoph Gross et al., "Media and press products from Mars Express data in 2020"

Dec 10: Pietro Matteoni, "Characteristics of geological features related to the subsurface ocean of Europa - Effects on ejecta particles dynamics"

Dec 17: Maryse Napoleoni, "Radiation Chemistry of Organics in Ices - implications for Europa Clipper Space mission"

Jan 7: Daniel Angerhausen, "Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) mission concept"

Jan 14: Frank Postberg, "The Interstellar Probe Study, a mission for generations"

Jan 21: Ralf Jaumann, "ESA’s EL3 initiative to land large payloads on the moon before 2030"

Jan 28: Janine Bönigk & Miriam Pavlista, "Analogue experiments for detecting bacterial biosignatures on icy moons"

Feb 11: Arnaud Sanderink, tbd (about the Orbitrap enhancement of the lab exeriment)

Feb 11: Christoph Gross, "Juventae Chasma and its enigmatic deposits"

Feb 18: Christoph Gross, Sebastian Walter, Alicia Neesemann: "Jezero Crater, the Landing Site for the NASA Mars 2020 ”Perseverance” Rover – PR-Activity, Data Processing, Web-GIS"


Summer term 2020:

April 23: Subgroup reports and Nozair Khawaja, "Habitability Across the Solar System" (link to video recording)

April 30:  Nozair Khawaja, "Habitability Across the Solar System" (part 2) and Marie Dannenmann, "Laser induced liquid beam ion desorption (LILBID) experiments for the potential detection of microorganisms in the plume of Enceladus and other ocean worlds" (link to video recording).

May 7: Ralf Jaumann, "NASA Psyche Mission"

May 14: Alexander Dumke, "Improving Exterior Orientation of Mars Express HRSC Data for Digital Terrain Models and Orthoimages"

May 28: Alicia Neesemann, "An introduction to the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres"

June 4: Lisa Maria Eckart and John Hillier, "Asteroid Taxonomical Identification upon Low Flyby Speed Dust Detection"

June 11: Frank Postberg, "Comet Interceptor" and Lenz Nölle, "Saturn's E ring composition"

June 18: Subgroup reports and Sonja Zierke, "Interior Structure Modelling of 55 Cancri e"

June 25: Greg Michael, "Status update on HRSC mosaicking"

July 2: Patrick Köster, "Surface temperature and outgassing on stagnant-lid Super-Earths"

July 9: Maryse Napoleoni, "Organic Characterization of Mauna Loa Lava Tubes, Hawaii, as Analogs for Mars: Implications for Martian Habitability and Exploration" and Sebastian Walter, "Introduction to Python for planetary sciences" (link to presentation including links to code on last slide)

July 16: Fabian Kenner, "Europa Clipper and a review paper about habitability investigation by Clipper on Jupiter’s moon Europa" and Ralf Jaumann on "Mars 2020"

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