Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) Meeting Programme



All meetings this term will be at 13:00 on Thursdays in the Pearson Lecture Theatre (G22 on the ground floor of the UCL Pearson Building)

     
13 October       Dr Simon Drake (BBK) and Evidence for meteorite impact triggering Paleogene volcanism on the Isle of Skye, and
      Dr Andy Beard (BBK)      the wider North Atlantic Igneous Province
 
20 October       Dr Louisa Preston (BBK) Life at the extremes
 
27 October       Dr Dominic Papineau (UCL) The biosignatures of putrefaction after global oxidation events
 
03 November       Angelos Tsiaras (UCL) Revealing the atmospheres of exoplanets with the Hubble Space Telescope
      Giuseppe Morello (UCL) Searching for molecules in exoplanet atmospheres through infrared differential photometry and spectroscopy
 
10 November       Dr Nick Lane (UCL) The origins of heredity in protocells
 
17 November       Matthew Dodd (UCL) Early life in Earth's oldest hydrothermal vent deposits
      Ravindra Desai (MSSL) Cassini observations of complex organic molecules in Titan's upper atmosphere
 
24 November       Alfiah Putri (MSSL) Mapping changes over the Martian South Polar Residual Cap
      Dr John Pernet-Fisher (Manchester)       Apatite: Insights into lunar magmatic water
 
01 December       Joel Davis (UCL) Melas Chasma Basin, Mars: Evidence for a Valles Marineris micro-climate in the Hesperian
      Roger Stabbins (MSSL) Multi-spectral imaging with ExoMars PanCam
 
08 December       Dr Jennifer Harris (BBK) Searching for Mars in Utah: MURFI, a recent UK Mars rover simulation in the Utah desert