"This lecture is about my life, my struggle with depression and how I overcame it to discover 23 comets and have lived the rest of my life as I did. It also explores the work I did in finding connections between the night sky in literature. It is the story of a life lived under the stars."

Event Date: 2/13/2020

A major milestone in America's Moon to Mars exploration is the Artemis III landing of two astronauts at the lunar south pole in 2024. The terrain there is ancient, shaped dramatically by impacting asteroids and comets, producing topography that dwarfs that of the Earth's Grand Canyon. David Kring will introduce that region and describe exploration options at the nation's seventh landing site on the Moon.

Event Date: 1 / 23 / 2020

Efforts are already underway to create human settlements beyond Earth. If these efforts are successful, how will subsequent generations of humans by affected by life on other planets, like Mars? Studies of astronauts on the International Space Station have provided a wealth of information about the effects of spaceflight on the human body and mind. Likewise, the biological basis for adapting to new environments is well understood by the biologists that study isolated populations of plants and animals here on Earth. By combining these two fields of study we can make meaningful predictions about how each generation born on Mars will be better adapted to life on the red planet than those that came before.

Event Date: 12/03/2019