Late Amazonian Epoch climate 1. Orbital (climatic) forcing and its
imprint on the global landscape Recent surface water at/near the
mid-latitudes? 2. Unraveling the mysteries of recurring slope
lineae (RSL) 3. Gullies and their connection with the climate 4.
Recent fluvial-channels, -landforms and fresh shallow-valleys in
the Olympus Mons lava plains
The Polar Regions 5. Active geomorphological processes involving
exotic agents 6. CO2-driven geomorphological processes
Glacial and periglacial landscapes 7. Paleo-periglacial and
“ice-rich complexes in Utopia Planitia 8. Bi-hemispheric
(periglacial) mass wasting
Volcanism 9. Volcanic disruption of recent ice-deposits in the
Argyre Basin
Aeolian processes 10. Dust devils: stirring up the surface 11. Dark
Dunes of Mars: An orbit-to-ground multidisciplinary perspective of
aeolian science
Other surface-modification processes 12. Modification of the
surface by impact cratering 13. Stone pavements, lag deposits, and
contemporary landscape-evolution 14. Karst landforms as markers of
recent climate change: en example from the late Amazonian Epoch
evaporite karst within a trough in western Noctis Labyrinthus
Richard Soare is a physical geographer specializing in periglacial
(cold-climate, non-glacial landscapes). Through the last twenty
years he has spent considerable time in the Canadian arctic
(physically) and off-planet (intellectually), attempting to
identify landscapes on Mars present or past possibly molded by the
freeze-thaw cycling of water. His work spans the red planet
geographically, ranging from the plains of Utopia Planitia in the
northern hemisphere and the Moreux impact-crater at the Mars
dichotomy through to the Argyre impact-crater in the southern
hemisphere. Recently, he lead-edited “Mars Geological Enigmas: from
the late Noachian Epoch to the present day and a special issue of
Icarus: “Current and Recent Landscape Evolution on Mars.
Susan Conway is a CNRS research scientist in Nantes, France, having
graduated with a PhD in planetary science from the Open University
(United Kingdom) in 2010. She is chair of the International
Association for Geomorphologists (IAG) Planetary Geomorphology
Working Group, and has run the Planetary Geomorphology session at
the European Geoscience Union since 2011. She is lead editor for a
collection of papers on Martian gullies and their Earth analogues,
based on the workshop she organized at the Geological Society of
London in June 2016 and is co-editor on a collection of papers
entitled "Frontiers in Geomorphometry". She is a team member on the
High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument on
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Guest Investigator on the
ESA Trace Gas Orbiter mission to Mars, specifically focused on the
CaSSIS camera and NOMAD/ACS spectrometer instruments. She is on the
author list of 35 peer-reviewed papers concerning the geomorphology
of Earth, Mars, Mercury, the Moon and the asteroid Vesta. Her work
is concentrated around glacial, periglacial and fluvial landforms
on Mars, encompassing field, remote sensing and laboratory
simulation data, with a specialty in analysis of 3D terrain data.
Stephen Clifford is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science
Institute in Tucson, Arizona. He received his PhD in Astronomy from
the University of Massachusetts in 1984. His research focuses on
the nature, evolution and geophysical investigation of planetary
volatiles, with a special emphasis on water on Mars. He is the
author/co-author of 70 peer-reviewed publications whose topical
focus has varied from investigations of H2O transport in cold
planetary regoliths; large-scale groundwater transport;
low-temperature hydrothermal convection in a sub-permafrost vadose
zone; the formation and stability of gas hydrates; glacial flow and
polar evolution; thermal modelling of planetary surfaces; the
thermal, seismic and hydrologic effects of impact catering; and
radar investigations of subsurface geology and the distribution and
state of H2O. He was the principal convener of the 1st-4th
International Conferences on Early Mars, 1st-5th International
Conferences on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, and the
Conference on the Geophysical Detection of Subsurface Water on
Mars. Steve is the Deputy Science Team Leader for the WISDOM Ground
Penetrating Radar which is part of the payload of ESA’s 2020
ExoMars Rover. He is also a U.S. Participating Scientist on the
MARSIS orbital radar sounder on ESA’s Mars Express mission. Prior
to joining the science staff at PSI in February 2018, Steve was a
Senior Staff Scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in
Houston, Texas, where he conducted his Mars research for 34 years.
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