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2013 News

December 2013

PASSC hosted a group of Homeschooled kids from the Fredericton area on December 13. Beverley Elliott gave a Mars presentation to the kids in gr.4 to gr.12 and Lucy Thompson gave a Mars/space presentation to the kids gr.3 and under. Catrina Russell gave everyone a tour of the Quartermain Centre in the Department of Earth Sciences at UNB. It was a great success!

November 2013

Beverley Elliott attended the Annual NASA RPIF (Regional Planetary Imaging Facility) Data Manager's Meeting and ArcGIS training in Ithaca, New York (November 4-8, 2013).

October 2013

John Spray gave a presentation to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (New Brunswick branch) entitled "Orbital Debris and Micrometeoroid Impact Threats for Space Infrastructure in Earth Orbit".

Beverley Elliott gave a presentation to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (New Brunswick branch) entitled "Mars Science Laboratory-Mission Science".

Lucy Thompson gave a general public presentation in St. Andrews, NB entitled "Driving Curiosity.....the Mars Rover".

Lucy Thompson and Beverley Elliott attended the Mars Science Laboratory All Hands Meeting and the APXS team meeting from October 1-6, 2013, in Pasadena, California.

August 2013

Lucy Thompson and two undergraduate field assistants went to the Manicouagan impact structure in Quebec for 3 weeks. It was another successful field season!

Beverley Elliott and Lucy Thompson attended the 76th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) in Edmonton, AB, Canada from July 29-August 2, 2013.

July 2013

The age for the Araguainha impact structure has been updated.

June 2013

New maps added to the RPIF page.

The ages for the Brent and Rochechouart impact structures have been updated.

Lucy Thompson gave a talk to the Grade 6 & 7 students at Gagetown School about Mars and the Curiosity Rover.

May 2013

Dr. Peter Schultz (Brown University) visited PASSC this month. He was on the PhD examination committee for PASSC's James Hogan. He also gave a talk in the Department of Earth Sciences entitled “Making the Man in the Moon: Origin of the Lunar Dichotomy by a Major Lunar Impact”.

April 2013

Beverley Elliott was job shadowed by two delightful young women from grade 10 at École Sainte-Anne on April 17, 2012. Dr. Lucy Thompson gave a guided tour of impact processes, PASSC analytical microscopes and Martian meteorites. Dr. Adrian Park gave a tour of the Quartermain Centre and taught them about local fossils and rocks, as well as earthquakes. Click here to learn about Earthquake Monitoring in the Department of Earth Sciences at UNB.

March 2013

Beverley Elliott and Lucy Thompson attended the 44th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in the Woodlands, Texas from March 18-22, 2013.

A new terrestrial impact crater has been confirmed! Colônia has been added to the Earth Impact Database website. This brings the total number of confirmed terrestrial impact structures to 184!

February 2013

A new terrestrial impact crater has been confirmed! Tunnunik (formerly Prince Albert) has been added to the Earth Impact Database website. This brings the total number of confirmed terrestrial impact structures to 183!

Lucy Thompson and Beverley Elliott attended the Mars Science Laboratory All Hands Meeting and the APXS team meeting from February 10-13, 2013, in Pasadena, California.

 

 

 

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Data Manager: Beverley Elliott

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