MARS CRATER CONSORTIUM

The Mars Crater Consortium (MCC) was founded in 1997 when David Roddy, Joseph Boyce, and Nadine Barlow began discussing the potential value of combining all the Martian impact crater datasets which had been compiled from Viking data.  Investigators interested in Martian impact craters from observational, experimental, and theoretical perspectives were invited to attend the first MCC meeting at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff in 1998.  The Consortium membership continues to grow as new crater data are obtained from Mars spacecraft and theoretical/experimental advances are made in understanding the processes involved in Martian crater formation.

Some of the participants at the 9th MCC meeting, October 16-17, 2006, at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, AZ.  Snow-capped San Francisco Peaks are in the background.  Left to right:  Tom Stepinski (LPI), Joe Boyce (U. HI), Audrey Rager-Hughes (UNLV), Trent Hare (USGS), Ken Tanaka (USGS), Robbie Herrick (U. AK), Robert Frampton (Boeing), Jim Skinner (USGS), Nadine Barlow (NAU), and Bill Hartmann (PSI)
 

UPCOMING MARS CRATER CONSORTIUM MEETING:

11th Mars Crater Consortium Meeting, Sept. 29-30, 2008, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ

               Abstracts due Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, by 5 PM MST

Following the 11th MCC meeting, USGS will be hosting a 2-day (Oct. 1-2) hands-on training session on the use of GIS in planetary mapping applications.  For more information and to register for the meeting, click here.

Other Mars and Crater Meetings:

   33rd International Geological Congress, Aug. 6-14, 2008, Oslo, Norway

     Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV, Aug. 17-21, 2008, Vredefort Dome, South Africa 

     Workshop on Early Solar System Impact Bombardment, Sept. 15-17, 2008, Houston, TX 

     Second Workshop on Mars Valley Networks, Oct. 20-24, 2008, Moab, UT