New Horizons Workshop on Icy Surface Processes

2011 August 30-31

Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff Arizona

New Horizons Pluto System Science Workshop #2

Purposes

• Update the New Horizons science team on current research relevant to geology and compositions of icy outer Solar System surfaces.
• Encourage new research over the next few years that can yield scientific results in time to help interpret results from New Horizons at the Pluto system in 2015.

Meeting Schedule

• Monday August 29: 4:00 PM tour of the DCT
• Monday August 29: 6:00 PM welcome reception in the Lowell rotunda, followed by stargazing
• Tuesday August 30: Surface Compositions and Volatile Transport Processes.
• Evening of August 30: Poster presentations
• Wednesday August 31: Endogenic and Exogenic Influences on Icy Surface Geology.

Organizers

• Scientific Program Committee chair: Jeff Moore (NASA Ames Research Ctr.).
• Local Organizing Committee chair: Will Grundy (Lowell Observatory).