David discusses the Earth as being a living system, examining it through its history and how life and humans have shaped and changed Earth’s appearance over time, in a TEDx talk titled “Terra Sapiens: Planetary Changes of the fourth kind”.
MUMBAI! Please join us for a special event (September 23rd, 2014) discussing two exciting Mars missions about to enter Martian orbit: NASA’s MAVEN and ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Spacecraft. David will be a guest speaker connecting virtually!
Join David for his lecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday Sept. 15th, at an event titled: Planetary Changes from Deep Time to the 4th Kind! Click me for more information.
Also check out the facebook event page!
CLICK HERE FOR THE PROGRAM! –> PlanetsLifeHumans_Fall2014_Program_Official
David talks about Venus today at the European Planetary Science Congress in Portugal!
EVENT IN DC! Monday August 25th 1-3pm EST: NASA’S NEW HORIZONS PLUTO MISSION. Not in DC? Click on me for information on how to stream the event!
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
Watch the panel discussion→ Ancient Earth, Alien Earths: What Earth History Can Tell Us About Planets Around Other Stars
EVENT in DC AUGUST 20th at NASA Headquarters: Ancient Earth, Alien Earths: What Earth History Can Tell Us About Planets Around Other Stars
