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 10th MCC
meeting, Oct. 18-19, 2007. From left to right: Ken Tanaka (USGS),
Nathalia Alzate (NAU), Nadine Barlow (NAU), Livio Tornabene (UA), Don Burt
(ASU), Trent Hare (USGS), Joe Boyce (UHi), John Armstrong (Weber State), Rose
Hayward (USGS), Tom Stepinski (LPI), and Stuart Robbins (UCo).
UPCOMING MARS CRATER CONSORTIUM MEETING:
11th Mars Crater Consortium Meeting, Sept. 29-30, 2008, US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ
Abstracts are now on line
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.