Tuesday, October 22
8 a.m.
Expo Hall Opening
Walk around the expo hall and hear about the latest products and services.
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Luncheon and Keynote
Have lunch with your fellow attendees and hear from our keynote speaker, Dr. Daniel Glavin.
Dr. Daniel GlavinSenior Scientist for Sample Return in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Glavin will be discussing recent discoveries from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.
In 2003, Dr. Glavin joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In 2004, he co-founded the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA Goddard which specializes in the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and other organic compounds important to life in meteorites, lunar samples and samples returned from asteroids and comets. Dr. Glavin is a Co-Investigator on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. He was selected to be a Participating Scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission in 2011 and was part of the team that discovered the first evidence of indigenous organic compounds on Mars using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. Dr. Glavin is a Co-Investigator on the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) instrument on the ExoMars rover and is a member of the NASA Mars 2020 rover Standing Review Board. He became NASA Goddard’s Associate Director for Strategic Science in the Solar System Exploration Division in 2014.
In recognition of Dr. Glavin’s meteorite research, the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him, asteroid (24480) Glavin. He was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States (2003), the Meteoritical Society’s Nier Prize (2010), the NASA Goddard Internal Research and Development Innovator of the Year Award (2007), and the NASA Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award for Science (2009 and 2014).
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception and Visit with the Exhibitors
Networking with your colleagues and get an opportunity to walk around and speak with exhibitors. Appetizers and a cash bar will be available.
Wednesday, October 23
2 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Naval Academy Walking Tour and Reception
Attendees will be guided by experts around the grounds of the Naval Academy to learn about the history and midshipment experience. Afterwards, we will head over to the Naval Academy club to network with fellow attendees. Heavy appetizers and a "cash" (credit card payments only) bar.
Note: This is a walking tour that will last 90 minutes in length. Please dress accordingly. Government-issued photo ID will be required for admittance into the Naval Academy.
Attendees will need to meet in the hotel lobby at 1:45 p.m. Ticket required.
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Thursday, October 24
8 a.m.
Closing Keynote Speaker
Dr. Betsy PugelContamination Control Engineer and Planetary Protection Group Lead and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Pugel will discuss planetary protection challenges on NASA projects.
Dr. Betsy Pugel is the Planetary Protection Group Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her areas of interest are wide-ranging and always in the support of innovative approaches to low-level signal measurements, whether they are photons in the ultraviolet or microoorganisms. She had the pleasure of spending some time at the University of Michigan Medical School prior to working on her PhD in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and never thought it would be useful until she started working in planetary protection more than a decade ago. She is a fellow of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) in the Center for Health Security. She encourages the next generation of Principal Investigators for future NASA missions via NASA’s PI Launchpad program. She has worked across the full span of the solar system in planetary protection—from Heliophysics missions and Mercury, all the way out to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt as a planetary protection engineer, systems engineer, project manager and for five years as the Deputy Planetary Protection Officer at NASA Headquarters and for a full spectrum of hardware from instruments, to spacecraft, smallsats , launch vehicles and even the Tesla Roadster. She has received the Women In Aerospace Achievement Award and for her work in supporting a range of planetary protection missions, an asteroid was named after her, 36994 Pugel. She is currently the planetary protection lead for the Venus DAVINCI mission and supports interagency efforts for the future use of Germidical UV. She is the chair for the recently formed ASTM subcommittee on planetary protection: E21.09.