Education and Outreach

GSFC Summer Student Presentations

By Keith Cowing
July 31, 2009

August 5, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific – Please join us as this year’s students present the results of their summer’s research. The 2009 Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology is a ten-week internship in astrobiology held each year at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Presenters:

Joseph Angelo – Drexel University – “Investigating the Autocatalytic Mechanisms Producing Homochirality”

William Herlands – Princeton University – “Empirical Model for Methanol in Comets”

Nadya Radeva – Connecticut College – “Mapping the D/H of water on Mars: Searching for active vents”

Renuka Ramanathan – Massachusetts Inst of Technology – “Laser Desorption ToF-MS for In Situ Analysis of Organics”

Karen Whelley – Penn State University – “Derivatization of Dicarboxylic and Hydroxy Acids with IPA/TFAA”

Keara Wright – University of Missouri – “H2O in Comet C/2001 LINEAR A2 and C/2007 W1 Boattini” Participation Instructions

TO JOIN USING A VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM:

Please RSVP to Marco Boldt ([email protected]) if you will be joining by Polycom.

To view the slides, connect to http://nasa-nai.acrobat.com/gsfcstudent/

Do not connect to the teleconference if you will be joining by Polycom.

TO JOIN USING PHONE and WEB BROWSER:

The slides for this meeting will be presented using Adobe Connect. To join the meeting, connect to:

http://nasa-nai.acrobat.com/gsfcstudent/

The teleconference number will be displayed when joining the meeting. http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/seminars/detail/157

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