I’ve just found out that my work has been chosen as a talk presentation at the 44th annual ‘LPSC’ conference in Houston, Texas in March. This is a large planetary science meeting for the international community bringing together specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of research in planetary science. The five-day conference is organized by topical symposia and problem-oriented sessions.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/
I’ll be presenting my recent research on the silicate and organic compositions of comets based on analyses of cometary dust particles in the ‘Stardust and IDPs’ session which will be on Friday March 22nd. I’ll also be convening the session with Don Brownlee so I’m really excited. I only have 15 minutes to present my findings (this is normal at large conferences) which doesn’t sound very long…and its not, it always flies by and there’s a lot to get through. Just preparing my data for the presentation will take me the best part of 3 weeks…better get started!
You can follow the conference on Twitter using #lpsc2013. There will be microbloggers this year so hopefully lots of information will be spread throughout the global community really quickly.
You can see a 2-page abstract about the work I will present here. I’ll be writing this up as my next journal paper too.