After the conference there will be an opportunity to:

• Visit the new RIS⁴E Team Lab on the second floor of the ESS Building rooms 265 to 281 or
• Attend a field trip to the "Wall" on campus meet at entrance to ESS Building near ESS 001

RIS⁴E Team Lab 

Led by Prof. Tim Glotch

The RIS⁴E team consists of leading researchers at a variety of institutions, each of which brings unique capabilities and talents to the team, ranging from laboratory analysis to field studies. By working to improve comparative measurements between samples and the surface of airless bodies, studying how we will one day safely explore those surfaces, and maximizing our measurements of all samples, especially small, precious returned samples, RIS4E will produce a wealth of information and a team of well-trained next generation scientists.The Remote, In Situ, and Synchrotron Studies for Science and Exploration (RIS4E) team, led by Professor Timothy Glotch of Stony Brook University, is one of nine nodes of NASA’s Solar System Exploration and Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). Our team will address key aspects of the science and exploration of airless bodies in the Solar System, which include the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and the moons of Mars.

https://ris4e.labs.stonybrook.edu/about-us/     

Field Trip to the Wall
Led by Prof. Dan Davis, Jamie Burgher and Michael Itskin
The "Wall” is a prominent (≈15 m high) hill on the Stony Brook Campus, about 400 m SSW of the conference site.  With slopes of up to 25° on both its NNW and NE facing flanks, The Wall is unlike any other nearby topographic features.  During this short field trip, we will visit this site to explore its surface morphology and we will image its subsurface structure using GPR (ground-penetrating radar).  Weather permitting, we will climb to the top of the hill and while there we will review the results of a series of recent surveys using resistivity and GPR and participants will have the opportunity to collect data using medium-frequency (250 MHz) GPR.  The data show that the radar stratigraphy of the interior of the hill consists of nearly horizontally-layered strata consistent with outwash.  The near-surface sediment, however, is replete with the dense clumping of diffraction hyperbolae characteristic of a diamict.  The numerous boulders and cobbles visible scattered across the surface are also consistent with a capping diamict, indicating that the glacier stepped up over this surface.  The isolated nature of The Wall is suggestive of a model in which its NNW and NE facing slopes are the relicts of a frontal and lateral ramp, respectively, in the glacier’s advance through and across the sediments deposited in front of it.
Geophysical Insights into ‘The Wall’,a Prominent Glacial Feature on the SBU Campus