We'd just like to thank EVERYONE who came along to BPSC2026, who made it such a friendly, fascinating and supportive conference! Here's to BSPC2028!
British Planetary Science Conference 2026
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BPSC2026 will take place between 9th-11th June 2026. https://bpsc2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Our final keynote of the conference is by Thomas Barrett (Manchester + Lunar and Planetary Institute): 'Probing the early lunar crust: volatile measurements in paired troctolites' 🌙 #BPSC26
Carly Howett (Oxford): 'Surface Temperatures of the Outer Solar System’s Major Satellites – and Implications for Observing Them' #BPSC26
Joseph Penn (Oxford): 'Accelerating Atmospheric Retrievals with a Neural Network Emulator: Mapping H₂S on Uranus' #BPSC26
Joshua Ford (Bristol): 'Time-variability and north pole enhancement of Titan’s atmospheric water abundance' #BPSC26
Outer solar system session 🪐🛰️ Chrysa Avdellidou (Leicester): 'The Minor Planet Physical Properties Catalogue' #BPSC26
Thomas Dyer (Côte d’Azur + CNES + Leicester): 'The dependence of asteroid rotation on composition' #BPSC26
Vincent Okoth (Edinburgh): 'Tracing Coma Jets and Nucleus Rotation in Comets via Narrowband Imaging' #BPSC26
Jake Hanlon (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL): 'Identifying a comet dust tail disruption event with temporal mapping' #BPSC26
Comets and small bodies session ☄️ Abbie Donaldson (Edinburgh): 'The ESA Comet Interceptor mission' #BPSC26
Day 3 of the British Planetary Society Conference starts with a keynote by Joseph m McNeil (Natural History Museum, London): 'Technicolour Mars: seeing the red planet in new light' #BPSC26
Louisa Preston (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL): 'PanCam and Astrobiology – Finding Biosignatures on Mars' #BPSC26
Astrobiology session 👾🔬🦠 James Salmon (Birkbeck, University of London): 'Characterising Archean Biosignatures in the 3.2 Ga Moodies Formation of the Barberton Greenstones Belt in South Africa: The Oldest Direct Evidence of Terrestrial Life on Earth, and a Possible Mars Analogue' #BPSC26
Maureen Cohen (Open University): 'How long could volcanic plumes persist in the Venus atmosphere?' #BPSC26
Switching to Venus now 🌕🔥 Joanna Egan (Leeds + Open University): 'FeCl 3 : the Venusian unknown UV absorber?' #BPSC26
Anna Parsec-Wallis (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London): 'Further analysis into the plumes of Enceladus' #BPSC26
Jessie Hogan (Open University): 'Segregation of Enceladus’ ocean salts within rapidly frozen droplets at vent-relevant pressures' #BPSC26
Georgina Miles (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder + Oxford): 'Constraining Enceladus’ conductive heat flux' #BPSC26
Icy Worlds & Astrobiology session 🥶👾 Angus Aldis (Open University): 'Microbes ejected into terrestrial aerosol plumes formed by mechanisms relevant to those at Enceladus' #BPSC26
Our next keynote is from Olena Kompaniiets (Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine): 'Curiosity as an Attention Engine: the Science Kids Framework for Effective STEAM Learning (a Ukrainian Case Study)' #BPSC26
Hyunseong Kim (Glasgow): 'Roles of lateral variation in surface temperature and tidal heating in Europa’s ice shell' #BPSC26
Kya Sorli (Oxford): 'Detangling Endogenic Heat Signatures on Europa Through Thermophysical Modelling' #BPSC26
Solomon Hirsch (Imperial College London): 'Organic biosignatures from alkaline hydrothermal environments at icy moons' #BPSC26
Nicole Sutherland (Natural History Museum, London + UCL): 'Novel salt hydrates at the conditions of icy worlds' #BPSC26
Duncan Lyster (Oxford): 'Thermophysical Modelling of Europa's Surface: Detectability of Habitability Indicators' #BPSC26
Hannah Chinnery (Open University): 'Microstructure Controls Sublimation Timescales of Exposed Salt-Rich Ices on Icy Worlds' #BPSC26
Rachael Hamp (Open University): 'Sodium Chloride Hydrates as a Proxy for Ocean Fluid Freezing Rates on Icy Worlds' #BPSC26
Icy Worlds session 🥶 ❄️ Mark Fox-Powell (Open University): 'Large volumes of eutectic brines quasi-stable under near-vacuum conditions' #BPSC26
