The Europlanet Science Congress was attended by 1180 participants from 48 countries.
Congratulations to Prof. Nigel Mason and the Europlanet team, whose head office is based in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent, for the organization and execution of a very successful conference.
The Europlanet Science Congress (formerly the European Planetary Science Congress) is the annual meeting place of the Europlanet Society. With a track record of 16 years and regularly attracting around 1,000 participants, the Europlanet Science Congress is the largest planetary science meeting in Europe. It covers the entire range of planetary sciences with an extensive mix of talks, workshops and poster sessions while providing a unique space for networking and exchange of experiences.
Prof. Nigel Mason comments:
This was a marvellous opportunity for the planetary science community to meet once again face to face. Thanks to all the ‘Europlanet team’ at Kent! That so many chose to come in person (this was our highest ever attendance at a European meeting) is a testimony to the need for scientists to meet and discuss their work. The meetings was also held at a time where the future of planetary and space exploration is entering a new and exciting era with ESA and NASA decadal strategies being announced, our return to the Moon and plans for missions that have the possibility of answering perhaps the greatest question of all ‘Are we alone.’
Some pictures of the exhibits provided by Allie Corrigan.
Congratulations also go to our postgraduate students Allie Corrigan, Dan Le Corre and Reese Wilkinson who presented posters and gave talks during the conference.
Above is the poster presented by Reese Wilkinson. You can download a pdf copy of this poster here.
Dan Le Corre particpated in two of the outreach events about Lunar exploration and Machine Learning that he helped run in a local school. Below are links to the abstracts for these events:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2022/EPSC2022-982.html
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2022/EPSC2022-997.html
His final thoughts are:
It was just nice to be at a conference where I’m not one of the only planetary scientists in the room. It was also good to see a lot of my colleagues through the Europlanet Machine Learning group in person for the first time after having worked with many of them for over a year now. Apart from that, everyone else that I spoke to was really nice and eager to share their research.