Keck Institute for Space Studies - Audio: Recent Episodes
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Listen to lectures from workshops and events put on by the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS). KISS is a "think and do tank" designed to develop new planetary, Earth, and astrophysics space mission concepts and technology by bringing together a broad spectrum of scientists and engineers for sustained scientific and technical interaction. It is a joint institute of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Tom Jones, Garrett Reisman, Rusty Schweickart, and Louis Friedman present a lecture "The Future of Human Spaceflight" at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, April 8, 2014
Andrea Donnellan (JPL) presents a lecture "The Past, Present, and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations" at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, April 14, 2014
John Ziemer, Concept Innovation Methods Chief at JPL, presents "Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team" at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on January 15, 2014.
Yi Chao, from Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., discusses the future of remote sensing. This talk was part of the Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on October 7, 2013.
Craig Lee from the University of Washington discusses the physical dynamics of the marine carbon cycle. This talk was part of the Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on October 7, 2013.
Douglas Wallace from Dalhousie University discusses the ocean carbon cycle. This talk was part of the Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on October 7, 2013.
Steve Chien from JPL/Caltech discusses science driven autonomy for space exploration and parallels to ocean science. This talk was part of the Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on October 7, 2013.
Mike Jakuba from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution discusses the successes, challenges and opportunities for autonomy in robotics for oceanographic science. This talk was part of the Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on October 7, 2013.
Eric Rignot from UC Irvine discusses Observing Antarctic Glaciers. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.
Anna Wahlin from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden discusses Oceanography at the Antarctic Margins. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.
Tony Payne from the University of Bristol discusses Ocean-Ice Interactions: A Cryospheric Perspective. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.
David Holland from New York University discusses Ocean-Ice Interactions: An Oceanic Perspective. This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.
Dave Stevenson from Caltech discusses magnetic fields in solar system planets. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.
Jospeh Lazio from JPL discusses magnetic fields in extrasolar planets: observational approaches. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.
Wes Traub from JPL discusses exoplanets. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.
Evgenya Shkolnik from Lowell Observatory discusses detecting exoplanetary magnetic fields with star-planet interactions. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.
Gerald Schubert from UCLA prepared a talk which is presented by Dave Stevenson from Caltech. This talk was part of the Short Course on Magnetic Fields: A Window to a Planet's Interior and Habitability at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on August 12, 2013.
Robert Staehle from JPL discusses new technology for smallsat missions. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Leon Alkalai from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory discusses future lunar missions. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Matt Golombek, Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist at JPL, discusses remote sensing of physical properties of surface materials on Mars during this Keck Institute for Space Studies technical lecture at Caltech on July 8, 2013.
Jerry Sanders from NASA/JSC discusses future missions and in situ resource utilization requirements. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Dave Paige from UCLA discusses recent thermal results. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Catherine Neish from NASA/GSFC discusses radar observations of the lunar poles. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Tim McClanahan from NASA/GSFC discusses lunar hydrogen sequestration towards poleward facing slopes. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Paul Lucey from University of Hawaii and Dave Paige from UCLA discuss recent results. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Andy Ingersoll from Caltech Institute discusses volatiles on airless bodies. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Jean-Philippe Combe from Bear Fight Institute discusses lunar OH/H2O. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Tony Colaprete from NASA Ames Research Center discusses results from the LCROSS Solar Viewing NIR Spectrometer. This talk was part of the Short Course on Lunar Volatiles during the New Approaches to Lunar Ice Detection and Mapping workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on July 22, 2013.
Titan, the moon of Saturn with a thick atmosphere and liquid hydrocarbon lakes, is considered the best target in the solar system for the study of organic chemistry on a planetary scale. Solar radiation and energetic particles activate methane and nitrogen in the atmosphere of Titan, which react to form complex organic aerosols. Dr. Cable describes how we can use lab on a chip technologies to tease apart these complex organic mixtures and identify key species (June 19, 2013).
Over the last decade, a few commercial telecommunication ventures as well as several well-funded military programs have attempted to develop autonomous, solar powered, high-altitude light-than-air (LTA) vehicles known as airships, which could maneuver and station-keep for weeks, months, or even years. (May 2, 2013).
Rob Fesen from Dartmouth discusses the timeliness of science on airships at the Airships Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Sarah Miller, from UC Riverside and Caltech, gives an introduction to the Airships: A New Horizon for Science Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Jens Kauffmann from Caltech compares airships to other science platforms during this Keck Institute for Space Studies Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Paul Goldsmith from JPL discusses airship platform for long-wavelength astrophysics at the Airships Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Michael Werner from JPL/Caltech gives a talk on Astrophysics v. Airships during this Keck Institute for Space Studies short course on Airships (April 30, 2013).
Geoff Blake from Caltech discusses key science opportunities from airships in planetary and small bodies science at the Airships Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Steve Lord from Caltech discusses atmospheric considerations and advantages during the Airships Short Course (April 30, 2013).
Randy Friedl from JPL discusses airships and Earth science opportunities during the Airships Short Course (April 30, 2013).
George Washington University Professor Emeritus John Logsdon will discuss the factors that led President John F. Kennedy to set sending Americans to the Moon as a national goal (February 20, 2013).
Professor Jim Bell from Arizona State University reviews some of the recent highlights from Mars surface missions (especially the continuing adventures of the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers), discusses the kinds of up-close contact science measurements that can be done from such robotic vehicles, and talks about how the lessons learned from these missions can influence future Mars, asteroid, and comet rovers and landers. (February 20, 2013).
Space agencies around the world, including in the United States, are increasing their reliance on private corporations to reduce costs and avoid long development cycles. But what is the impact on the space, planetary, and earth sciences? How will we strike a balance between scientific inquiry and the bottom line? An internationally renowned panel of scientists, industry executives, and policy experts discuss these issues and more (January 10, 2013).
JPL's Suzanne Smrekar discusses how Venus ended up so different from Earth today given its similar birth position in the solar disk (November 5, 2012).
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo's Jordi Puig-Suari discusses how miniature spacecrafts are the choice for student satellites worldwide and are becoming a serious option for many missions being developed by traditional space organizations (October 30, 2012).
Colorado State University's Ian Baker discusses the global carbon cycle (August 26, 2012).
Joe Berry from Carnegie Institution for Sciences at Stanford gives a primer into photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence (August 26, 2012).
JPL's Christian Frankenberg discusses retrieval of chlorophyll fluorescence from space (August 26, 2012).
JPL's Kim Gostelow discusses capturing flight software architecture using domain specific languages (July 30, 2012).
Henry Garrett from JPL discusses ultra-reliability for interstellar missions (July 30, 2012).
JPL's Julie Castillo-Rogez discusses SmallSats mission concepts for planetary exploration (July 16, 2012).
Ranga Ram Chary from Caltech, Chris Martin from Caltech, Phil Nicholson from Cornell and Vassilis Angelopoulos from UCLA discuss small satellites in a panel moderated by Sterl Phinney (July 16, 2012).
Glenn Lightsey from UT Austin discusses the capabilities of the SmallSat platform (July 16, 2012).
Pumpkin Inc.'s Andrew Kalman discusses a nanosatellite designer's perspective (July 16, 2012).
James Cutler from the University of Michigan discusses the NSF CubeSat experiment (July 16, 2012).
Caltech's Yanbei Chen discusses fundamentals of optical interferometry for gravitational wave detection (June 25, 2012).
Markus Aspelmeyer from the University of Vienna discusses the quantum experiments in space (June 25, 2012).
JPL's Slava Turyshev discusses the history, recent progress and possible future directions for solar system tests of relativistic gravity in space (June 25, 2012).
JPL's Sam Dolinar discusses the fundamentals of free-space optical communication (June 25, 2012).
Scuola Normale Superiore's Vittorio Giovannetti discusses quantum measurements (June 25, 2012).
JPL's Julie Castillo-Rogez discusses the current state of knowledge about origins from remote, in situ and returned sample exploration (April 30, 2012).
JPL's Carol Raymond discusses the Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres, the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt (April 30, 2012).
Hal Levison from Southwest Research Institute discusses preliminary results of new work they have been doing that may revolutionize our understanding of how and when planets formed (April 30, 2012).
Arizona State Professor Jim Bell discusses geology and geophysical observations of small bodies (April 30, 2012).
Dartmouth Professor Eric Fossum discusses the science and technology of digital image sensors (November 11, 2011).
Caltech Professor S. George Djorgovski discusses how science, scholarship, and education are being transformed by the advances in computation and information technology (December 13, 2011).
John Lewis from the University of Arizona discusses resource potential of NEAs in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Brian Wilcox discusses capturing non-cooperative objects in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) and The Planetary Society present a panel discussion examining novel ideas for capturing and moving a small Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) closer to Earth (September 28, 2011).
Tom Jones from Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition discusses human exploration in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Aerospace Corporation's Bill Ailor discusses planetary defense in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
Marco Tantardini from The Planetary Society discusses low delta-V trajectories in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Damon Landau discusses low-thrust SEP trajectories in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Don Yeomans discusses the discovery of small NEAs in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's John Brophy gives a summary of previous study and SEP technology in this short course during the Asteroid Retrieval Mission Study (September 27, 2011).
Andrew Cheng, Chief Scientist in the Applied Physics Laboratory at the John Hopkins University, discusses surveys for NEO exploration during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Don Yeomans, Senior Research Scientist and JPL Fellow, Manager Near Earth Object Program Office, NASA - JPL, discusses why to go to a Near Earth Object during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Ron Turner, Analytic Services Inc. Fellow, discusses radiation risks and challenges associated with a human mission to an asteroid during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Pascal Renten, University of Stuttgart, discusses ISECG and NEA scenarios from a student's perspective during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Paul Abell, Lead Scientist of Astromaterial Research and Exploration Science at NASA-Johnson Space Center, discusses Near-Earth Objects: Targets for Future Human Exploration, Solar System Science, and Planetary Defense during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
John Baker, Manager of Human and Robotic Mission Systems Office at NASA-JPL, discusses building blocks for sending humans to a NEO during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Damon Landau, Mission Design Engineer, Outer Planet Mission Analysis Group, NASA-JPL, discusses trajectory design and optimization for human exploration of Near Earth Objects during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Takashi Kubota, Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, JAXA, discusses advanced challenges in Hayabusa Asteroid sample return mission during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Josh Hopkins, Space Exploration Architect at Lockheed Martin Space Company, discusses the Plymouth Rock concept of keeping asteroid missions simple during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Bret Drake, Teleconference, Exploration Architect at the NASA-Johnson Space Center Exploration Systems and Mission Office, discusses architectures for human exploration of near Earth asteroids during the Caltech Space Challenge (September 12, 2011).
Nai-Chang Yeh from Caltech and Doug Bell from JPL discuss nanotechnology and its relevance to UV science in this short course (August 29, 2011).
Michael Hoenk and Frank Greer from JPL discuss what is on the surface in this short course (August 29, 2011).
Arizona State University's Paul Scowen discusses UV spectroscopy/imaging and science questions in this short course (August 29, 2011).
Kevin France, Chris Martin, Bruce Woodgate, Amanda Hendrix, Hakeem Olusheyi, and Wes Traub participate in a panel discussion on UV/optical science as part of this short course (August 29, 2011).
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Robert C. Anderson discusses Mars surface analogues on Earth - mechanical properties of regoilth in this short course (June 20, 2011).
MIT's Karl Iagnemma discusses engineering methods for surface interaction modeling in this short course (June 20, 2011).
Caltech's Jose Andrade gives an intro to soil mechanics in this short course (June 20, 2011).
Washington University's Ray Arvidson discusses remote sensing of Mars in this short course (June 20, 2011).
Jeff Scargle from NASA Ames discusses new developments in time series analysis in this short course (June 7, 2011).
The Albert Einstein Institute's Badri Krishnan discusses gravitational wave data analysis in this short course (June 7, 2011).
Pavlos Protopapas from CfA discusses machine learning and statistics applications in this short course (June 7, 2011).
Caltech's Ashish Mahabal discusses automated classification of transients in this short course (June 7, 2011).
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Phil Rasch discusses modeling climate physics: challenges and climate sensivity studies in this short course (May 23, 2011).
JPL's Thomas H. Painter discusses influences of dust and black carbon on melt of snow and ice: mitigation and geoengineering in this short course (May 23, 2011).
The Climate Institute's Mike McCracken discusses the potential for climate (geo-) engineering to help to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial in this short course (May 23, 2011).
NOAA's Graham Feingold discusses aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in warm clouds in this short course (May 23, 2011).
Tom Prince, Director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies, and Bill Nye, Executive Director of the Planetary Society, introduce the exoplanet discussion (October 4, 2010).
Professor Jason Wright of Pennsylvania State University discusses exoplanets (October 4, 2010).
Dr. Mark Swain of the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory discusses exoplanets (October 4, 2010).
Professor Natalie Batalha of San Jose State university discusses exoplanets (October 4, 2010).
Professor Eric Ford of the University of Florida discusses exoplanets (October 4, 2010).
Jens Chluba from CITA discusses atomic lines from the recombination era, Compton parameter (y), and chemical potential (mu) in this short course (August 16, 2010).
Mike Seiffert from JPL discusses CMB spectral distortion constraints from ground, sub-orbital, and space experiments in this short course (August 16, 2010).
Steve Furlanetto from UCLA discusses the redshifted 21 cm signal in this short course (August 16, 2010).
Chris Hirata from Caltech discusses molecular and metal lines from early galaxies in this short course (August 16, 2010).
Jonathan Lunine from the University of Rome discusses Titan in this short course (May 25, 2010).
Jonathan Lunine from the University of Rome discusses Titan in this short course (May 25, 2010).