2026 Schedule

Friday, September 18, 2026

Carter Auditorium of John Brooks Williams Science Center South

8:50 am: Opening Remarks by Dean Jonathan Hodge, School of Natural Sciences

9:00 am:  Exploring Mars with Curiosity and Perseverance

• Dr. Kirsten L. Siebach, Assistant Professor of Planetary Geology, Rice University

10:00 am: The Habitability of Planetary Oceans: From Earth to Europa

• Dr. Elizabeth M. Spiers, PhD, Research Associate, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin

11:00 am:  Weather on Extrasolar Worlds

• Dr. Tiffany Kataria, Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

2:00-3:30 pm: Student Poster Session, John Brooks Williams North, First Floor.  (Link to Abstracts)