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Online Lecture: Probing Worlds Beyond our Solar System
Dr. Lewis will discuss the methods used to detect exoplanets, analyze recent results, and provide a look forward to future observations that will help us to answer the question “Are we alone in the Universe?”
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Proposals Due: 2022 Funding Opportunity: Search for Life – Within or Beyond the Solar System
A private donor supporting space science and engineering at Caltech has made it possible to solicit an opportunity through the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to fund 1 grant totaling $85k (direct cost) to carry out technical development efforts.
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Proposals Due for 2022 KISS Study Programs
The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) is soliciting proposals for Study Programs to be carried out during the 2022 calendar year. Proposals are solicited in the areas of space engineering, planetary science, remote sensing and earth system science, astrobiology, and astronomy and physics from space.
Proposal Concepts Due
Proposals Due
Panel Session/Networking Event:
The Space Connection - Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus
Proposals Selections Announced
Solicitation Release Date
Proposal Concepts Due (noon)
Proposals Due (noon)
Star Formation and Nearby Galaxies with JWST
Proposal Concepts Due
KISS Affiliates Program Nominations Concepts Due
Proposals Due
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Nebulae: Deep-Space Computing Clouds
The Keck Institute for Space Studies hosted two workshops that realized practical models for the broadly applicable Nebula concept. This final report represents the findings of those two workshops, and provides concept descriptions, use cases, pragmatic considerations, and justification for this complementary operations paradigm.
Final Report DOI: 10.7907/yqde-dj03
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Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change
Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting limitations on travel and other economic sectors by countries around the globe drastically decreased air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions within just a few weeks.
(Image Credit: International Monetary Fund).
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How a Team of Young Caltech/JPL Researchers Transformed the Field of Earth Observation with Spaceborne Radars
Watch Dr. Charles Elachi, the Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus at Caltech and JPL Director (2001-2016), discuss the history of Earth observation with spaceborne radars which dramatically expanded the ability to map and monitor the changes on our planet.
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Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Next-Generation Approach for Space-Based Integration of OCS, CO2, and SIF
The workshop "Next-Generation Approach for Detecting Climate-Carbon Feedbacks: Space-Based Integration of OCS, CO2, and SIF" assembled a multi-disciplinary team to conceive a new integrated technique for measuring photosynthesis at regional to global scales. The results of this collaborative work have been presented in the Final Report for this study.
Final Report DOI: 10.7907/81y6-119
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Revolutionizing Access to the Mars Surface
Zach Putnam from the KISS study "Revolutionizing Access to the Martian Surface" presented out a short overview of Workshop #1 at the International Planetary Probe Workshop on July 8, 2021. The workshop goals and the initial findings were discussed. Four sub-teams were formed and will be gearing up for the second workshop in September 2021.
A copy of Zach’s presentation is available below.
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