ESS 495 - Rocks-n-Stars

Time: Thursdays 2:30-3:20
Room: Johnson 102
Instructor: Dr. Erika Harnett (Earth and Space Sciences)
Email: eharnett at ess.washington.edu

Tenative Speaker List

April 2: Dr. Rob Tyler - University of Washington Applied Physics Lab/Earth and Space Sciences
"Strong ocean tidal flow and heating on the moons of the outer planets"
April 9: Dr. Joshua Bandfield - University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences
"Mars: Mineralogy, Morphology and More!"
April 16: Dr. Steven Wood - University of Washington Earth and Space Science
"Following the Water: The PHOENIX Mars Lander"
April 23: Dr. Jody Deming - University of Washington Oceanography
"Microbial life in Ice: A brief journey through the ice-covered oceans of our solar system"
April 30: Jonathan Wrobel - University of Washington Aero. Astro. Engineering
"Controlled Fusion Research at the University of Washington"
May 7: Dr. Tom Quinn - University of Washington Astronomy
"Modeling galaxy formation"
May 14: Darci Snowden - University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences
"The life and times of Titan"
May 21: Dr. James Prager - University of Washington Earth and Space Science
"Electric Propulsion"
May 28: Dr. Stan Love - Johnson Space Center and Former Astronaut
"The next generation lunar transport"
June 4: Final Quiz Scores

Evaluation

This course is credit/no credit. To receive credit for the course you needed to get at least half of the question on the final quiz correct. There will be 25-30 questions on the quiz. The quiz is based on questions each speaker answers during their talk. It will be multiple choice and you must bring a standard answer form with you to record your asnwers on. The quiz is closed book/closed notes

Syllabus

2009

Previous Years' Speaker list

2008

Last modified: Thu Jun 4 17:30:08 PDT 2009