The 2024 Dinner Meeting will be held at
St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
On Tuesday, May 21 2024
A map can be found here. You can find more information on how to register with details below.
6:00pm - Social Hour
7:00pm - Dinner served
8:30pm - Awards presentations and guest speaker
Our 2024 Guest Speaker is:
Dr. Jessica Noviello
Presenting:
"The Mysteries of Cryovolcanism"
Many icy moons and dwarf planets in the Solar System show evidence of at least partial resurfacing possibly due to cryovolcanism, which is the eruption of water, ice, and dissolved volatiles onto a body’s surface. Details about how cryovolcanism works and how it might be expressed on different bodies, however, are open questions in planetary science. The New Horizons mission to the Pluto system returned the first images of Pluto and its moons, the largest of which is Charon. Charon’s surface shows evidence of cryovolcanic resurfacing, but the presence of discrepancies between the estimated surface age from crater counts and the estimated start time of cryovolcanism raise major questions about the moon’s history. In this talk, Dr. Noviello will lead you on a tour of cryovolcanoes of the Solar System, explain the basics of cryovolcanism, and present on why Charon might provide the best opportunity to study a major geological process that we know little about.
Bio:
Dr. Jessica Noviello is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Center for Space Science and Technology. On a daily basis, she works at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on a variety of projects ranging from cryovolcanism in the outer solar system to running a professional development workshop series for early career scientists to modeling the interior structure of exoplanets. She earned her PhD in planetary geology from the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University in 2019 studying Europa’s geomorphology. In her spare time, she enjoys running, baking treats for her friends’ birthdays, and doing embroidery.
The Menu:
- Bread & butter
- Salad
- Meat or Vegan Lasagna Bolognese served with a vegetable
- Dessert
- Water & soda
- Beer & wine by free will donation
** note -please contact
Please make your reservation by: Wednesday, May 15th at 11:30 pm.
Sorry, reservations for the dinner meeting are now closed. If you registered, we hope to see you there!
The parking lot at the Chuch has a limited number of spaces. If you find the lot full, street parking is allowed on these yellow highlighted roads:
