The 1-2 p.m. event will feature a panel discussion with:

• Jim Green, director, NASA’s Planetary Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington
• Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

The 2-3 p.m. event will include several New Horizons science team members giving personal accounts of their work during the Voyager Neptune encounter and their new assignments on the Pluto mission. Panel participants include:

• Moderator: David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona
• Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Bonnie Buratti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
• Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
• John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado

David will discuss (in his own words) “the current human-dominated phase of our planet’s life into a broader context, juxtaposed against previous geological eras in Earth’s history, as well as what’s known from studying changes on other planets. The goal is to better understand the essence of our current moment in geological time and what it means for intelligent life in the universe and for the future of our civilization.”

The talk will be webcast here as well!

The event was held at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress on January 28th, 2014.

Direct Youtube link here.