53rd DPS Meeting
Plenary Speakers
Mars Session
In this plenary session, we will hear new results from five different Mars missions: NASA's Perseverance Rover, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter, UAE's Emirates Mars Mission Hope Probe, NASA's MAVEN mission, and NASA's InSight Mission.
Hessa Al Matroushi
William "Bruce" Banerdt
Shannon Curry
Ken Farley
Matthew Golombek
Venus Session
Venus is the HOT planet of the year! Come hear about new results from Akatsuki, and upcoming Venus missions: DAVINCI, VERITAS, and EnVision!
Stephanie Getty
Richard Ghail
Takeshi Imamura
Sue Smrekar
Jupiter & Galilean Satellites Session
Juno's extended mission has enabled close flybys and observations of the Galilean satellites (most recently: Ganymede). This plenary will showcase new results from both Juno and ground-based observations of the Galilean satellites, along with plans for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission.
Kate Craft
Candy Hansen
Julie Rathbun
Federico Tosi
Exoplanets Session
Not all planets are in our Solar System! This plenary will be dedicated to the science of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, including their characterization, formation, and evolution.
James Owen
Laura Schaefer
Hilke Schlichting
Myriam Telus
Johanna Teske
IDEA Plenary
Since March 2020, the global pandemic pushed us all into virtual conferences, yielding many lessons about accessibility challenges. As we look forward to in-person and hybrid meetings, we seek to consider these experiences, along with those of people with disabilities who have long faced access difficulties with in-person conferences, to find ways to improve science conference participation for all attendees. SciAccess (https://sciaccess.org/), founded by Anna Voelker, is an organization at the forefront of inspiring, developing, and promoting innovative approaches to equitable science access, from inclusive space science outreach pedagogies to accessible conference strategies to enabling the future of disabled astronauts.
Anna Voelker
Prize Announcements and Winners Q&A
Join us as we announce this year's prize winners! We will also have a special greeting from Suzanne Alexander in recognition of the first Claudia J. Alexander Prize. Following the 2021 prize announcements, we will have a live Q&A discussion of the 2020 Urey and Kuiper Prize winners’ talks, and the 2021 Urey, Kuiper and Alexander Prize winners’ talks. Come celebrate with us!
Rebekah Dawson
Wing-Huen Ip
Therese Encrenaz
Lynnae C. Quick
