ESS 495 - NASA Space Grant Seminar: Rocks-n-Stars
Time: Thursdays 2:30-3:20
Room: Johnson 102
Instructor: Dr. Erika Harnett (Earth and Space Sciences)
Email: eharnett at uw.edu
This course is credit/no credit. Students of all
levels and backgrounds are welcome. There are no prerequisites for this course.
Note: To access the questions for each week, visit the home page of the Canvas site for this class.
Questions will not be handed out in class. You must
bring them with you.
Tentative Speaker List for Spring 2017
- March 30:Max Showalter - University of Washington Oceanography & Astrobiology
"Life in Extreme Environments"
- April 6: Kristi Bradford - Planetary Resources
"Asteroid Mining"
- April 13: Mariah Danner - University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences
"Searching for life on icy moons with high velocity impactors"
- April 20: Michael Wennerstrom - University of Washington Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
"Using Lunar and Martian Regolith as Rocket Fuel"
- April 27: Brett Morris - University of Washington Astronomy & Astrobiology
"Finding extrasolar planets and biosignatures"
- May 4: Steven Sholes - University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences
"Finding water on Mars from space"
- May 11: Hunter Swain - University of Washington Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
"My summer internship at SpaceX"
- May 18: Angela Kimber - University of Washington Chemical Engineering
"UW CubeSat Team"
- May 25: TBA - University of Washington TBA
"TBD"
- June 1: Final Quiz - This is the last day of class, not during finals week.
Raw scores for final quiz Evaluation
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 (scantron) answer form with you to record your answers on.
The quiz is closed book/closed notes
Video Capture
Videos of each talk will be available on the course Canvas site, via Panopto.
Please be warned that while we will do everything in our power to ensure
high quality videos are available for each seminar, the nature of the shared
lecture hall means that sometimes microphones do not work or are just missing.
In those cases, audio may not be available.
Previous Years' Speaker list
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Last modified: Wed May 16 14:23:26 PDT 2012