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 ess.washington.edu

This course is credit/no credit. Students of all levels and backgrounds are welcome. There are no prerequisites for this course.

Note: Click on the title of the speaker's talk to access the questions for each week.
Questions will not be handed out in class. You must bring them with you.

Tentative Speaker List for Spring 2013 and Weekly Questions

April 4: Dr. Rob Hoyt - President and Founder Tethers Unlimited
"Tethers in Space"
April 11: Dr. Rory Barnes - University of Washington Astronomy
"Exo-moons: The Case For (or Against) Pandora"
April 18: Dr. Dale Winebrenner - University of Washington Applied Physics Lab
"Climate History of Mars"
April 25: Dr. Sarah Ballard - University of Washington Astronomy
"Planets, planets everywhere!"
May 2: Giada Arney - University of Washington Astronomy & Astrobiology
"Seeing through the clouds of Venus"
May 9: Dr. Ron Sletten - University of Washington Earth and Space Science
"Initial Results from Curiosity (the Mars Science Lab)"
May 16: Megan Smith - University of Washington Earth and Space Science & Astrobiology
"Martian Atmospheric Evolution"
May 23: Ian Johnson - University of Washington Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
"Plasma thrusters"
May 30: Dr. Georginia Kramer - Lunar and Planetary Institute
"Lunar Spectroscopy and the Swirl Anomalies "
June 6: Final Quiz - This is the last day of class, not during finals week.

Final Exam Scores

A grade of 12 or higher means you will receive credit for the course.

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

How to view Webcast

Each talk will be webcast live via an ESS Webstream. Recordings will not be archived until after Spring Quarter is over. If you can not attend a class, you can watch the broadcast live but you will not be able to watch a recording later during the quarter in order to prepare for the exam.

To connect you first need Adobe Flash installed on your computer (sorry, IPads won't work). Go to https://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/dwp/video/ls_php/channel.php?n=ESS-495 . Video will begin streaming approximately 5 minutes before the seminar begins. You can move the windows around and resize them. To ask a question, send it via the Chat feature. I will ask the question for you either during the seminar (if it is a point of clarification) or at the end (for a general question). Please be aware that there is few second delay in what you are viewing.

Previous Years' Speaker list

2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Last modified: Wed May 16 14:23:26 PDT 2012