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2012

Al-Dayeh, M.A. Imaging the Edge of Our Solar System. Presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society Meeting, Austin Chapter, Austin, Texas, January 2012. 

Al-Dayeh, M.A. Plasma Sheet Structure as Observed by IBEX. Presented at the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Science Team Workshop, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 2012. 

Al-Dayeh, M.A. Spectral Properties of ENA Sky Maps and the Effects of Fast and Slow Solar Wind. Presented at the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Science Team Workshop, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, m 2012. 

Allegrini, F., M.A. Al-Dayeh, R. DeMajistre, M.I. Desai, H.O. Funsten, S.A. Fuselier, P.H. Janzen, D.J. McComas, D.B. Reisenfeld, N.A. Schwadron, and R. Vanderspek. IBEX-Hi Energy Passbands. Presented at the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Science Working Team Meeting, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 2012. 

Anderson, F.S., K.J. Nowicki, V.E. Hamilton, and T.J. Whitaker. Portable Geochronology with LDRIMS: Learning to Date Meteorites Like Zagami with the Boulder Creek Granite. Presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Anderson, F.S., J.H. Waite, J. Pierce, K. Zacny, B. Cohen, G. Miller, T.J. Whitaker, K.J. Nowicki, P. Wilson, and H.Y. McSween. In-situ Life Detection and Dating: A MSR Precursor Mission Concept. Presented at the Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration Meeting, Houston, June 2012. 

Anderson, F.S., K.J. Nowicki, T.J. Whitaker, J. Mahoney, D.T. Young, G.P. Miller, J.H. Waite, M. Norman, J. Boyce, and J. Taylor. A Laser Desorption Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometer for Rb-Sr Geochronology: Sr Isotope Results. Presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Mont., March 2012. 

Barth, E.L., W.M. Farrell, and S.C. Rafkin. Modeling Electric Field Generation in Martian Dust Devils. Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Bayless, A.J., K.D. Retherford, G.R. Gladstone, S.A. Stern, A.F. Egan, P. Miles, J.W. Parker, D.E. Kaufmann, D.G. Horvath, T.K. Greathouse, M.H. Versteeg, A.J. Steffl, J. Mukherjee, M.W. Davis, D.C. Slater, P Rojas, P.D. Feldman, D.M. Hurley, W.R. Pryor, and A.R. Hendrix. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Maps of the Permanently Shaded Regions (PSR) at the Lunar Poles. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 2012. 

Boice, D.C. and A. de Almeida. Prospects for Phosphorus-bearing Molecules in Cometary Comae. Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Boice, D.C. and A. de Almeida. The Phosphorous Inventory of Comets. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Boice, D.C. and A. de Almeida. Where is the Phosphorous in Comets? Presented at the Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, April 2012. 

Boice, D.C., H. Kawakita, H. Kobayashi, C. Naka, and L. Phelps. Physico-chemical Modeling of the Coma of Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd). Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Boice, D.C., H. Kawakita, H. Kobayashi, C. Naka, and L. Phelps. The Coma Chemistry of Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd). Presented at the Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors Conference, Niigata, Japan, May 2012. 

Boice, D.C. Comets: Ghostly Apparitions or Cosmic Rosetta Stones? Presented at the Friday Nights, Celestial Lights, The University of Texas at San Antonio, March 2012. 

Boice, D.C. Comets: Ghostly Apparitions or Cosmic Rosetta Stones? Presented at the Oasis Center, San Antonio, June 2012. 

Boice, D.C. Danger! The Biggest Cosmic Threats to Earth. Presented at the Oasis Center, San Antonio, April 2012. 

Boice, D.C. Modeling the Physics and Chemistry in the Comae of Comets. Presented at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Japan, May 2012. 

Boice, D.C. The Cometary Dust Environment. Presented at the Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma Environment of the Moon and Small Bodies Workshop, Boulder, Colo., June 2012. 

Boice, D.C. The Compleat Astronomical Library — Rare Astronomical Works and Their Authors. Presented at the Oasis Center, San Antonio, June 2012. 

Buie, M., J.R. Spencer, A.H. Parker, S.A. Stern, M.J. Holman, D.J. Tholen, D. Borncamp, D.E. Trilling, D.J. Osip, P.L. Gay, C. Fuentes, J.J. Kavelaars, J.M. Petit, S. Fabbro, S.D. Benecchi, S.S. Sheppard, F. DeMeo, R.P. Binzel, L.H. Wasserman, A.J. Steffl, H. Karoji, D. Kinoshita, T. Yanagisawa, S. Miyazaki, H. Furusawa, F. Yoshida, T. Yamashida, and A. Tajitsu. Searching for Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Flyby Targets for the New Horizons Mission. Presented at the 2012 Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM) Meeting, Niigata, Japan, May 2012. 

Bzowski, M., M.A. Kubiak, J.M. Sokol, E. Moebius, D.M. Heirtzler, D. Alexashov, V. Izmodenov, P. Bochsler, N.A. Schwadron, and D.J. McComas. First Look at the Secondary Population of Neutral Interstellar Helium Observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Conrad, C. and K. Davidian. Industry Structural Analysis of the Emerging Commercial Suborbital Research Market. Presented at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Palo Alto, Calif., February 2012. 

Davis, M.W., T.K. Greathouse, K.D. Retherford, G.S. Winters, Y. Bai, and J.W. Beletic. Far Ultraviolet Sensitivity of Silicon CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors) Detectors. Presented at the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2012. 

DeForest, C.E., B. Poduval, and J. Schmelz. Fix Up Your AIA Images: A Complete Empirically Determined Set of PSFs And Their Inverses for the AIA EUV Channels. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

DeForest, C.E., D.A. Lamb, A.R. Davey, and R. Timmons. Southwest Automatic Magnetic Identification Suite (SWAMIS) Magnetic Feature Tracking for Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

DeForest, C.E. and T.A. Howard. Imaging the Solar Wind in the Corona and Heliosphere. Presented at the From the Heliosphere Into the Sun Meeting, Bad Honnef, Germany, February 2012. 

DeForest, C.E. Quantitative Imaging of the Solar Wind: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Mass Evolution and the Interplanetary Magnetic Flux Balance. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

Desai, M.I., F. Allegrini, M.A. Al-Dayeh, B. De Majistre, H. Funsten, S.A. Fuselier, J. Heerikhuisen, D.J. McComas, N. Pogorelov, N.A. Schwadron, and G.P. Zank. Spectral Properties of 0.5-6 keV Energetic Neutral Atoms Measured by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Along the Lines-of-sight of the Voyager Directions. Presented at the 39th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Desai, M.I., M.A. Al-Dayeh, R.W. Ebert, G. Li, C.W. Smith, and G.M. Mason. Understanding the Physical Links Between Energetic Storm Particle (ESP) Events and Large Gradual Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Events. Presented at the 11th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Space Weather: The Space Radiation Environment, Palm Springs, Calif., March 2012. 

Desai, M.I., M.A. Al-Dayeh, R.W. Ebert, and G. Mason. Multi-spacecraft Observations of Solar Particle Events. Presented at the 2012 Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary (SHINE) Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Desai, M.I., R.W. Ebert, M.A. Al-Dayeh, G, Mason, and G. Li. Energetic Particles Associated with Corotating Interaction Regions During Solar Cycles 23 and 24. Presented at the 2012 Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, June 2012, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Dinwiddie, C.L., R.N. McGinnis, D.E. Stillman, K.L. Bjella, and R.E. Grimm. Internal Sedimentary Structure and Aqueous-phase Distribution of the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Northwestern Alaska: Insights from an Arctic Aeolian Analog. Presented at the 3rd International Planetary Dunes Workshop, Flagstaff, Ariz., June 2012. 

Dinwiddie, C.L., T.I. Michaels, D.M. Hooper, and D.E. Stillman. Environmental Conditions and Meteorologic Context for Modification of the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Northwestern Alaska. Presented at the 3rd International Planetary Dunes Workshop: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis of Planetary Dunes, Flagstaff, Ariz., June 2012. 

Ebert, R.W., F. Allegrini, M.A. Al-Dayeh, M.I. Desai, J.-M. Jahn, R.G. Michell, K. Ogasawara, and M. Samara. Potential Science Targets Using Suborbital Spacecraft. Presented at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Palo Alto, Calif., February 2012. 

Ebert, R.W., M.I. Desai, M.A. Al-Dayeh, and G.M, Mason. Helium Ion Anisotropies in Corotating Interaction Regions at 1 AU. Presented at the Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary (SHINE) Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Elliott, H.A., D.J. McComas, P.A. Delamere, J. Richardson, C.W. Smith, and B.J. Vasquez. Solar Wind Temperature and Speed From 5 to 23 AU. Presented at the 2012 Solar Wind 13 Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Elliott, H.A., R.A. Frahm, J.R. Sharber, T.A. Howard, D. Odstrcil, H.J. Opgenoorth, D. Andrews, O.G. Witasse, and M. Franz. The Influence of Corotating Interaction Regions on Electrons in the Martian Magnetosheath and Ionosphere. Presented at the Solar Wind 13 Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Feldman, P.D., D.M. Hurley, K.D. Retherford, G.R. Gladstone, S.A. Stern, W.R. Pryor, J.W. Parker, D.E. Kaufmann, M.W. Davis, and M.H. Versteeg. Exospheric Helium During January 2012 from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP). Presented at the NASA Lunar Science Forum, Moffett Field, Calif., July 2012. 

Frahm, R.A., J.R. Sharber, J.D. Winningham, H.A. Elliott, T.A. Howard, C.E. DeForest, D. Odstrcil, E. Kallio, S. McKenna-Lawler, and S. Barabash. Solar Energetic Particle Arrival at Mars due to the 27 January 2012 Solar Storm. Presented at the Solar Wind 13 Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Frahm, R.A., J.R. Sharber, J.D. Winningham, H.A. Elliott, T.A. Howard, C.E. DeForest, D. Odstrcil, E. Kallio, S. McKenna-Lawler, and S. Barabash. The Coronal Mass Ejection Interaction with the Induced Magnetosphere of Mars Due to the 27 January 2012 Solar Storm. Presented at the Solar Wind 13 Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Goldstein, J. and D.J. McComas. Dynamics and Energization of the Ring Current. Presented at the Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., May 2012. 

Goldstein, J. and D.J. McComas. Dynamics of the Ring Current from TWINS ENAs and In-Situ Measurements. Presented at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., January 2012. 

Goldstein, J., P.W. Valek, D.J. McComas, F. Soraas, and J.A. Redfern. TWINS Observations of Injected and Precipitating Ions. Presented at the 2012 Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop, Snowmass, Colo., June 2012. 

Goldstein, J., P.W. Valek, D.J. McComas, and J.A. Redfern. TWINS Observations of Ring Current Pitch-angle Anisotropy. Presented at the 2nd Inner Magnetosphere Coupling (IMC-2) Workshop, Los Angeles, March 2012. 

Goldstein, J., P.W. Valek, D.J. McComas, and J.A. Redfern. TWINS Stereo Observations of the Anisotropy of Injected Ions. Presented at the 2012 Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop, Snowmass, Colo., June 2012. 

Goldstein, J. Inner Magnetospheric Electrodynamics. Presented at the Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., May 2012. 

Goldstein, J. The Inner Magnetospheric Electric Field. Presented at the 2nd Inner Magnetosphere Coupling (IMC-2) Workshop, Los Angeles, March 2012. 

Hassler, D.M., C.J. Zeitlin, R. Wimmer-Schweingruber, S. Boettcher, C. Martin, D. Brinza, S.C. Rafkin, A. Posner, and F. Cucinotta. Early Cruise Observations from the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) Instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

Henden, A.A., T.A. Smith, S.E. Levine, and D.C. Terrell. The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Photometric All-sky Survey Completes the Sky. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

Hendrix, A.D., K.D. Retherford, G.R. Gladstone, et al. The Ultraviolet Reflectance of the Moon: Hydrated Species, Weathering and Photometric Effects. Presented at the NASA Lunar Science Forum, Moffett Field, Calif., July 2012. 

Jahn, J.-M., M.A. Al-Dayeh, and H.A. Elliott. Dynamics of Earth’s Magnetotail Observed in a Cross-tail View. Presented at the 2012 European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2012. 

Jahn, J.-M., M.A. Al-Dayeh, and H.A. Elliott. The Dynamic Plasmasheet. Presented at the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Science Team Workshop, Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany, March 2012. 

Kawakita, H., Y. Shinnaka, H. Kobayashi, and D.C. Boice. High-dispersion Spectra of Cometary H2O+ as Probes to the Ortho-to-Para Abundance Ratios of Water in Comets. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Kirchoff, M.R., C.R. Chapman, S. Marchi, W.F. Bottke, K.M. Sherman, and B.L. Enke. Results of Examining Small Impact Crater Populations on the Moon. Presented at the Lunar Science Forum, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., July 2012. 

Kirchoff, M.R., K.M. Sherman, and C.R. Chapman. Preliminary Results on the Evolution of Small Crater Populations on the Moon. Presented at the Early Solar System Bombardment II Workshop, Houston, February 2012. 

Kubiak, M.A., M. Bzowski, E. Moebius, J.M. Sokol, N.A. Schwadron, P. Wurz, D.J. McComas, S.A. Fuselier, and T.E. Moore. Detectability of Neutral Interstellar Deuterium by Direct Sampling at 1 AU. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Li, G., L. Zhao, Z. Wu, Y. Chen, R.W. Ebert, M.A. Al-Dayeh, M.I. Desai, and G. Mason. Observation and Modeling of Particle Acceleration at CIR Pairs. Presented at the Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary (SHINE) Workshop, Maui, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Ma, S.Y., W.N. Yan, L. Xu, J. Goldstein, and D.J. McComas. Ion Distributions in RC at Different Energy Levels Retrieved from TWINS ENA Images by Voxel CT Tech. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Mandt, K.E., E.L. Patrick, J.N. Mitchell, M. Libardoni, and K.N. Younkin. In-situ Mass Spectrometer Measurements of Cave Atmospheres as an Analogue to Future Planetary Cave Missions. Presented at the 23rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Mandt, K.E., J.H. Waite, C.A. Nixon, and O. Mousis. The Evolution of Titan’s Atmosphere and Implications for Climate Change. Presented at the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Institute Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets, Boulder, Colo., June 2012. 

Mandt, K.E., J.H. Waite, J. Westlake, B. Magee, M.C. Liang, and J.M. Bell. The Influence of Photochemical Fractionation on the Evolution of the Nitrogen Isotope Ratios — Detailed Analysis of Current Photochemical Loss Rates. Presented at the Titan Through Time II Workshop, Greenbelt, Md., April 2012. 

Mason, G.M., M.I. Desai, and G. Li. Solar Cycle Heavy Ion Abundance Variations in CIRs. Presented at the 11th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Space Weather: The Space Radiation Environment, Palm Springs, Calif., March 2012. 

McComas, D.J. Physics Derived from IBEX ENA Fluxes and Direct Interstellar Neutral Measurements. Presented at the Solar Wind 13 Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

McComas, D.J. The Heliosphere from IBEX — Results and Consequences. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

McComas, D.J. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers 2012 Conference, Ontario, Calif., February 2012. 

McComas, D.J. Update on IBEX and the Outer Boundary of the Space Radiation Environment. Presented at the 11th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Palm Springs, Calif., March 2012. 

Moore, T.Z. and F.S. Anderson. Generating Multiple Wavelengths, Simultaneously, in a Ti: Sapphire Ring Laser with a Ramp-Hold-Fire Seeding Technique. Presented at the SPIE Exhibition, San Francisco, January 2012. 

Nixon, C.A., K.E. Mandt, and R.D. Lorenz. Titan’s Timescales: Constraints on the Age of the Methane-supported Atmosphere. Presented at the Titan Through Time II Workshop, Greenbelt, Md., April 2012. 

Ogasawara, K., S.A. Livi, M.A. Al-Dayeh, F. Allegrini, M.I. Desai, and D.J. McComas. Low-energy Ion Detection by Avalanche Photodiodes. Presented at the 2012 Society of Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA-West), Oakland, Calif., May 2012. 

Olkin, C.B. and C. Tsang. Lessons Learned Regarding Payload Usability from Training for Suborbital Spaceflights. Presented at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Palo Alto, Calif., February 2012. 

Patrick, E.L., K.E. Mandt, M. Libardoni, J.N. Mitchell, G.C. Williams, E. Mitchell, C.J. Seifert, and K. Younkin. In-situ Study of Cave Atmospheres in Central Texas. Presented at the Texas Speleological Association Spring Convention, Boerne, Texas, March 2012. 

Peterson, J., N.A. Schwadron, C. Reno, J.P. Carrico Jr., K. Fairchild, R. Vanderspek, and R. DeMajistre. Science Operation for the Orbit Change on the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission. Presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Mont., March 2012. 

Pogorelov, N., S. Wu, J. Linker, G. Zank, S. Borovikov, B. Jackson, R.W. Ebert, and T. Kim. Modeling Heliosheath Flow with Observational Boundary Conditions. Presented at the COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Pogorelov, N.V., S.N. Borovikov, L.A. Burlaga, R.W. Ebert, B.V. Jackson, T.K. Kim, I.A. Kryukov, S.T. Suess, H. Yu, and G.P. Zank. Unsteady Processes in the Vicinity of the Heliopause. Presented at the 13th International Solar Wind (Solar Wind 13) Conference, Kona, Hawaii, June 2012. 

Pogorelov, N.V., S.N. Borovikov, L.F. Burlaga, R.W. Ebert, J. Heerikhuisen, Q. Hu, I.A. Kryukov, S.T. Suess, and G.P. Zank. Numerical Modeling of Transient Phenomena in the Distant Solar Wind and in the Heliosheath. Presented at and published in the 10th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Physics of the Heliosphere: A 10 Year Retrospective, doi:10.1063/1.4723626, Vol. 1436, pp. 321-330, 2012. 

Putzig, N., B.A. Campbell, R.J. Phillips, and M.T. Mellon. SHARAD Sounding and Surface Roughness of Once and Future Mars Landing Sites. Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Randol, B.M., D.J. McComas, and H.A. Elliott. Solar Wind and Pick-up Ion Energy Spectra Measured with New Horizons/SWAP Between 11 and 12 AU. Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 13-17, San Francisco, California, United States, 2012. 

Retherford, K.D., G.R. Gladstone, S.A. Stern, A.F. Egan, P. Miles, D.E. Kaufmann, J.W. Parker, W.R. Pryor, A.D. Hendrix, D.M. Hurley, P.D. Feldman, T.K. Greathouse, M.H. Versteeg, M.W. Davis, J. Mukherjee, A.J. Bayless, P Rojas, and A.J. Steffl. Lunar Far-UV Albedos Reveal Water Frost and Porosity in Permanently Shaded Regions (PSRs). Presented at the NASA Lunar Science Forum, Moffett Field, Calif., July 2012. 

Retherford, K.D., G.R. Gladstone, S.A. Stern, A.F. Egan, P. Miles, J.W. Parker, D.E. Kaufmann, T.K. Greathouse, M.H. Versteeg, A.J. Steffl, J. Mukherjee, M.W. Davis, D.C. Slater, A.J. Bayless, P Rojas, P.L. Karnes, P.D. Feldman, D.M. Hurley, W.R. Pryor, and A.R. Hendrix. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Maps of Far-UV Albedo. Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Sciences Meeting, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Retherford, K.D., M.W. Davis, G.S. Winters, E.L. Patrick, S.M. Escobedo, M. Nagengast, G.R. Gladstone, P. Miles, J.W. Parker, S.A. Stern, and A.R. Hendrix. Experiment (LURE): Far-UV Signatures of Water Ice. Presented at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Meeting, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Retherford, K.D. New Horizons Observations of Io Aurora and Oxygen Neutral Clouds. Presented at the Io Workshop, Boulder, Colo., June 2012. 

Rojas, P, K.D. Retherford, G.R. Gladstone, S.A. Stern, A.F. Egan, P. Miles, J.W. Parker, D.E. Kaufmann, D.G. Horvath, T.K. Greathouse, M.H. Versteeg, A.J. Steffl, J. Mukherjee, M.W. Davis, D.C. Slater, A.J. Bayless, P.D. Feldman, D.M. Hurley, W.R. Pryor, and A.R. Hendrix. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) Maps of the Permanently Shaded Regions (PSR) at the Lunar Poles. Presented at the American Physical Society Meeting, Atlanta, March 2012. 

Roming, P.W.A. Addressing Super Massive Black Hole Assemblage at High-z. Presented at the Science with a Wide-Field InfraRed Telescope in Space Conference, Pasadena, Calif., February 2012. 

Roming, P.W.A. Answering Tough Questions About the Early Universe with Space-based All-sky Surveys. Presented at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., January 2012. 

Roming, P.W.A. The Rest Frame UV Properties of Type IIn Supernovae. Presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 2012. 

Roth, L., J. Saur, P.D. Feldman, D.F. Strobel, and K.D. Retherford. Variations of the UV Emission from the Atmosphere of the Jovian Moon Io. Presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2012. 

Salmon, J and R.M. Canup. How Much Earth-like Material Could the Moon Accrete? Presented at the Early Solar System Bombardment II Workshop, Houston, February 2012. 

Salmon, J and R.M. Canup. Three-stage Lunar Accretion: Slow Growth of the Moon and Implications for Earth-Moon Isotopic Similarities. Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Seifert, C.J., E.J. Mitchell, K.E. Mandt, and E.L. Patrick. Comparison of Infrared and Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Measurements of Carbon Dioxide in Cave Environments. Presented at the GSA South Central Meeting, Alpine, Texas, March 2012. 

Sillanpaa, I.J., R.W. Ebert, H.A. Elliott, and E. Kallio. Preliminary Model for the Solar Wind Interaction with Pluto’s Extended Plasma Tail. Presented at the 2012 European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2012. 

Smith Jr., I.S., M.L. Fortenberry, J.R. Noll, and W.D. Perry. Stratospheric Airship Design Sensitivity. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Sokol, J.M., M.A. Kubiak, M. Bzowski, M. Tokumaru, K. Fujiki, D.J. McComas, P. Bochsler, and P. Wurz. Survival Probabilities of ENAs in the Heliosphere. Presented at the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India, July 2012. 

Spencer, J.R., K.L. Jessup, C. Tsang, N. Cunningham, and K.D. Retherford. Evidence for Volcanic Support of Io’s Jupiter-facing Atmosphere from Constraints on Post-eclipse Atmospheric Changes. Presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Tsang, C., J.R. Spencer, and K.L. Jessup. “Io’s Atmosphere in 2010: Synergistic Observations of Longitudinal Distribution in the Near-ultraviolet and Mid-infrared. Presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Tsang, C., J.R. Spencer, and K.L. Jessup. Improving Tilting-pad Journal Bearing Predictions: Part II — Comparison of Measured and Predicted Rotor-pad Transfer Functions for a Rocker-pivot Tilting-pad Journal Bearing. Presented at the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute Turbo Expo, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012. 

Tsang, C., J.R. Spencer, and K.L. Jessup. Io’s Atmosphere: Support by Direct Volcanic Injection or Ice Sublimation. Presented at the Volcano-ice Interactions on Earth and Other Planets Conference III, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2012. 

Tsang, C., J.R. Spencer, and K.L. Jessup. Synergistic Observations of Io’s Atmosphere from Near-UV and Mid-IR. Presented at the Io Workshop 2012, Boulder, Colo., June 2012. 

Tsang, C. Venus Near-infrared Atmosphere from a Suborbital Platform. Presented at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Palo Alto, Calif., February 2012. 

Visscher, C.W. Chemical Processes in Exoplanet Atmospheres. Presented at the Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets Meeting, Boulder, Colo., June 2012. 

Westlake, J.H., H.T. Smith, D.G. Mitchell, C.P. Paranicas, A.M. Rymer, J.M. Bell, and J.H. Waite. Energetic Particle Energy Deposition in Titan’s Upper Atmosphere. Presented at the Titan Through Time II, Greenbelt, Md., April 2012. 

Wimmer-Schweingruber, R.F., D.M. Hassler, C.J. Zeitlin, S. Bottcher, C. Martin, J.P. Andrews, E. Bohm, G.E. Weigle II, D. Brinza, A. Posner, S. Burmeister, M.E. Epperly, G. Reitz, O. Kortmann, J. Kohler, B. Ehresmann, K.L. Neal, S.C. Rafkin, J. Peterson, Y.D. Tyler, K.D. Smith, M.A. Bullock, and F. Cucinotta. Determining the Martian Radiation Environment — The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Presented at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, March 2012. 

Yamauchi, M., Y. Futaana, R.A. Frahm, E. Dubinin, R. Lundin, J.-A. Sauvaud, J.D. Winningham, S. Barabash, and H. Holmstrom. Ion Acceleration by Multiple Reflections at Martian Bow Shock. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, April 22-27, 2012, Vienna, Austria, p. 2853, April 2012. 

Young, E.F., J. Percival, K. Jaehnig, R. Mellon, J. Fox, T. Lachenmeier, B. Oglevie, and M. Bingenheimer. Sub-Arcsecond Performance of the ST5000 Star Tracker on a Balloon-borne Platform. Presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Mont., March 2012.