50th DPS Meeting

Meeting Videos

DPS 50
Annual Meeting for Division for Planetary Sciences
Knoxville, TN
12 – 16 October 2018

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Plenary Sessions

These links point to slidecasts, i.e., presentation slides accompanied by audio of the lectures. Some invited talks and prize lectures aren't included here, for one or more of the following reasons: (1) the speaker didn't give us permission to record and post their presentation, (2) the quality of the recording was substandard, or (3) a technical glitch prevented the successful recording of the audio and/or presentation slides.


  • 108.01: "The First Fifteen Years of the Division for Planetary Sciences," Clark Chapman (Southwest Research Institute)
  • 108.02: "Meandering Around with the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society: The Middle-Aged Years," Anita Cochran (University of Texas, Austin)
  • 108.03: "Let’s Talk EDI in Science," Christina Richey (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • 109. Historical Panel: "Planetary Particles and Fields," Fran Bagenal (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • 109. Historical Panel: "Mars," Tom McCord (The Bear Fight Institute)
  • 109. Historical Panel: "The Moon," Carle Pieters (Brown University)
  • 109. Historical Panel: "Asteroids," David Morrison (NASA Ames Research Center)
  • 109. Historical Panel: "Planetary Spectroscopy," Dale Cruikshank, Chair (NASA Ames Research Center)
  • Agency Update, Lori S. Glaze (Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA)

  • Plenary Prizes 207-208:
    • Presentation of Masursky Award to Faith Vilas (National Science Foundation)
    • Presentation of Eberhart Award to Alexandra Witze (Freelance Journalist)
    • Presentation of Sagan Medal to Bonnie Buratti (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • 207. Harold C. Urey Prize: "The Compositional Medley of Asteroids," Francesca DeMeo (MIT)
  • 208. Gerard P. Kuiper Prize: "The Transneptunian Belt. Past, Present and Future," Julio Fernandez (Universidad de la Repúblicain Montevideo)

  • 308.01: "Early Solar System Dynamics Constrained Using Cosmochemistry," Thomas Kruijer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  • 308.02: "Dynamical Models of Solar System Formation," André Izidoro (São Paulo State University)
  • 309.01: "The History of the Search for Life on Mars," Jennifer L. Eigenbrode (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • 309.02: "Searching for Pale Blue Dots: The Quest for Habitable Exoplanets," Courtney Dressing (University of California, Berkeley)
  • 309.03: "Hayabusa2 Has Kicked into Full Gear: Cosmochemical Significance of C-Type Asteroids in the Solar System Formation," Hikaru Yabuta (Hiroshima University)