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ORAL/T.V. PRESENTATIONS Peter J. Mouginis-Mark (Last updated October 2019) NOTE: No data were collected for 1990 or earlier years. TALKS: February 25th 1991: "Venus and the Magellan Mission". Hawaii Space Society. March 13th 1991: "The Hawaii Space Grant College Program". National Space Grant College Directors' Meeting, Huntsville, Alabama. March 15th 1991: "Remote Sensing of Volcanic Processes and Landforms". Coastal Studies Institute Seminar, Louisiana State University. March 20th 1991: "Parent Craters for the SNC Meteorites". 22nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas. March 30th 1991: "Remote Sensing of Volcanoes". Hawaii Volcano Observatory Seminar. April 5th 1991: "Volcanoes on Mars and Venus". Geology and Geophysics Department Seminar. April 27th: "The Hawaii Space Grant College and Satellite Oceanography". Marine Option Program High School Seminar, UH. May 4th 1991: "Satellite observations of active volcanoes: Interdisciplinary investigations, EOS and other satellites". IUGS Workshop on Remote Sensing in Global Geoscience Processes. Boulder, Colorado. May 6th 1991: "Volcanoes on Earth and Mars". Seminar to the Planetary Brown-bag Talk Society, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Seminar Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. July 22nd 1991: "Back to the Planets". SPACEWEEK Talk, UH Manoa. July 25th 1991: "Planets in the Night Sky". Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian School Children Program, UH Hilo. July 31st 1991: "Volcanism in the Aleutians and Alaskan Peninsula from ERS-1". ERS-1 Team Meeting, University of Alaska. August 1st 1991: "Remote Sensing of Active Volcanoes", Geophysical Institute Seminar, University of Alaska. August 26th 1991: "Remote Sensing of Volcanoes: SIR-C, ERS-1 and EOS", National Air and Space Museum Seminar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. September 20th 1991: "Martian Meteorites: How they formed and their long trip to Earth", Geology and Geophysics Department Seminar (with Tim McCoy). September 24th 1991: "Global Change and the View from Space", PEACESAT circum- Pacific presentation. October 29th 1991: Three talks on "The Moon" to parents and students at Mililani Elementary School (~200 attendees). January 5th, 1992: “Volcanoes of Hawaii and the Solar System”, Bishop Museum Family Weekend to start the International Space Year. February 14th, 1992: “Hawaii Space Grant College”, UH Biennial Principals Forum. February 14th, 1992: “Exploring the Earth from Space”, Honolulu Adventurers’ Club, Honolulu, HI. February 21st, 1992: “Ages and origins of shergottite meteorites and volcanism on Mars”, Planetary Geosciences Seminar, (with Marc Norman). March 18th, 1992: “Emplacement of long lava flows at Elysium Mons, Mars”. 23rd Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas. March 18th, 1992: “Exciting the community about planetary sciences — Experiences of the Hawaii Space Grant College Program”. 23rd Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas. March 25th, 1992: “Opportunities for Volcano—Climate studies from the Earth Observing System” (poster), Chapman Conference on Volcanism and Climate, Hilo, Hawaii. April 15th, 1992: “The EOS Volcanology Team’s Science Experiment”, MODIS Team Meeting, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. May 27th, 1992: “Radar Studies in Physical Volcanology”, IGARSS International Conference, Houston, Texas. May 27th, 1992: “SIR-C/X-SAR Experiments in Physical Volcanology: Galapagos, Hawaii and Reunion Island”, Briefing to Space Shuttle Astronauts, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. June 1st, 1992: “Current Trends in the Remote Sensing of Volcanoes: The Earth Observing System and Other Missions”, U.S. Geological Survey Visiting Lecture Series, U.S.G.S. Menlo Park, CA. September 26th, 1992: “Space Navigation and Planetary Exploration”. Gifted and Talented Native Hawaiian Children Program, UH Hilo. September 28th, 1992: “Mars Observer: The Next Mission to Mars”. Hawaii Space Society. October 7th, 1992: “The Science and Politics of NASA’s Earth Observation Program”. Planetary Seminar series, UH Manoa. October 27th, 1992: “Planetary Calderas -- Interpreting the Way Volcanoes Work on Earth, Mars and Venus”. Invited 30-minute talk at special Planetary Geology Division Symposium, Geological Society of America Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio. November 4th, 1992: “Exploring Volcanoes of the Solar System”, Bishop Museum Distinguished Lecture Series. November 5th, 1992: “Scientific Uses of Planetary Cartography”, Western Conference of Map Librarians, University of Hawaii, Manoa. February 17th, 1993: “The 1992-1993 U.S. Antarctica Meteorite Collection Field Expedition”, Planetary Geosciences Seminar Series. March 17th, 1993: “The influence of oceans on Martian volcanism”, 24th Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. March 22nd, 1993: “Remote Sensing Applications in Hawaii”, Conference on Environmental Management Applications of Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing, Kona, HI. April 29th, 1993: “Global Climate Change”, PEACESAT lecture, Univ. Hawaii. May 6th, 1993: “Observations of the Pacific Ocean from Space”, PEACESAT lecture, Univ. Hawaii. May 19th, 1993: “Recent Progress in Monitoring Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards with Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing”, Geophysical Institute Seminar University of Alaska. May 26th, 1993: “Use of TOPSAR Digital Topographic Data for Volcano Studies: Geometry of Valleys on Mt. Somma, Italy”. Spring 1993 AGU Meeting, Baltimore, MD. June 11th, 1993: “NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth -- Observations of Hawaii and the Pacific from Space”, Invited speaker for NASA's Towards Other Planetary Systems Summer Workshop, Hilo, Hawaii. July 27, 1993: “Radar Studies of Volcanoes — An Overview”, ASF SAR Users’ Meeting, Seattle, WA. July 27, 1993: “Volcanism in Alaska and Aleutians from ERS-1”, ASF SAR Users’ Meeting, Seattle, WA. September 29, 1993: “Use of Digital Elevation Models for Analysis of Volcanic Hazards and Surface Processes”, IAVCEI Congress, Canberra, Australia. October 8, 1993: “Hot Rocks and Satellites: Recent Developments in Volcanology at SOEST”, SOEST Open House Public Lecture. October 22, 1993: “Derivation and Uses of Digital Topography for Volcano Studies”, Geology and Geophysics Department Seminar. October 28, 1993: “Current and Future Uses of TOPSAR Digital Topographic Data for Volcanological Research”, 4th JPL Aircraft Geosciences Workshop, Washington, DC. November 3, 1993: “SIR-C/X-SAR: Galapagos Islands, Hawaii and Objectives for EOS” SIR-C/X-SAR Team Meeting, Rome, Italy. November 12, 1993: “Volcano Studies from Space”. Joint Japan - U.S. Workshop on Cooperation in Space, Maui, Hawaii. November 13, 1993: “Oahu from Space”, Roosevelt High School Science Club, Honolulu, Hawaii. November 17, 1993: “Remote Sensing of Volcanic Hazards”, Joint U.S./Japan Workshop on the Application of Remote Sensing Technology to Disaster Reduction, Tsukuba, Japan. January 12th, 1994: Volcanology and Geodynamics from EOS-Era Radars: SIR-C/X-SAR, ERS-1 & 2, RADARSAT, JERS-1, and ENVISAT”, EOS IWG, San Antonio, Texas. February 16th, 1994: “The SIR-C/X-SAR Volcanology Experiments”, presentation to Dr. Charles Kennel, NASA Associate Administrator for Mission to Planet Earth, Washington, DC. March 15th, 1994: Morphology of Venus Calderas: Sif and Maat Mons, Poster presentation at 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. March 17th, 1994 “The Lesser Tharsis Volcanoes: Clues to Martian edifice building eruptions”, Poster presentation with Mark Robinson and Scott Rowland at 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. March 17th, 1994. “Volcanism at Elysium Mons, Mars”, Poster presentation with Michelle Tatsamura at 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. March 18th, 1994: “Impact Craters on Martian Volcanoes”, 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. March 25th, 1994: “Hot Rocks and Satellites: Remote Sensing of Volcanoes, Volcanic Hazards and Volcanic Inputs to the Atmosphere”, Invited Speaker — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Colloquium Series, Greenbelt, MD. May 4th, 1994: “From -20 to +1170°C: Searching for volcanic rocks throughout the solar system”. Annual Sigma Xi Initiation Dinner, Honolulu, HI. May 17th, 1994: “Monitoring Volcanic Hazards in Polar Regions Using SAR and Other Data Sets”. 3rd Circum-Polar Symposium on Remote Sensing of Arctic Environments, Fairbanks, Alaska. May 18th, 1994: “The Identification and Mapping of Antarctic Meteorite Collecting Grounds with Orbital Radar”. 3rd Circum-Polar Symposium on Remote Sensing of Arctic Environments, Fairbanks, Alaska. May 20th, 1994: Monitoring Volcanoes in Alaska with Satellites”, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory June 14th, 1994: “Radar Studies of Hawaii“, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. October 24th, 1994: “Space Shuttle Radar Observations of Volcanoes”, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. November 3rd, 1994: “What Does a Geologist Do?”, Talk to 4th Grade class, Kaimuki Christian School, Kaimuki, Hawaii. November 18th, 1994: “The SIR-C/X-SAR Radar Experiments of 1994”, Geology and Geophysics Dept. Seminar, Univ. Hawaii. December 2nd, 1994: “Analysis of volcanic and earthquake hazards using radar interferometry”, 1st Workshop on SAR Interferometry, Tokyo, Japan. January 9th - 11th, 1995: “Future of U.S. Radars in Geology and Topographic Mapping”, NRC Review, Irvine, CA. February 8th, 1995: “Hawaii from Space”, a 1-hour TV show for After School Science Club, Hawaii Educational TV (Channel 26), Honolulu, HI. February 23rd,
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