This workshop will examine non-destructive instrumentation to detect biosignatures and sampling techniques to collect and preserve microhabitats while retaining the spatial context. We will bring together multiple disciplines, including experts in Ocean Worlds, cryosphere, state-of-the-art biological imaging, microbe-environment interactions, robotic acquisition and micro-manipulation, and environmental capture and culture in extreme environments.
For this lecture, Prof. Amanda Stockton will present lessons learned from the various FELDSPAR rocky terrains, and their potential applicability, or lack thereof, to icy terrains.
KISS Affiliates joined Dr. Leshin for an intimate discussion as she talked about her journey to becoming JPL’s 10th director and her vision for JPL moving forward.
Dr. Laurie Leshin, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since May 2022, is a distinguished geochemist and space scientist with extensive leadership experience in academia and government, including senior NASA positions.
View »Watch Dr. Bruce Banerdt, InSight Principal Investigator, as he describes the InSight mission, its science goals and some of its outstanding scientific results.
This lecture was recorded on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall at the California Institute of Technology.
Watch Video »The authors of this recent paper acknowledge the W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) for providing collaboration space and its support of the KISS workshops "Bridging the Gap: Observations and Theory of Star Formation Meet on Large and Small Scales" in 2014 and "Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies with JWST" in 2017.
View »The Keck Institute for Space Studies welcomed our 2023 KISS affiliates on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at the Keck Center. Nominated by the Caltech faculty, KISS Affiliates are an ongoing cohort of Campus graduate students and postdocs who are seen as the next generation of space exploration leaders. Congratulations to the 2023 KISS Affiliates!
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