March Monthly Meeting

Join us for Skyscrapers' March Monthly Meeting

at 

The North Scituate Community House

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Featuring Dr. Samuel Birch, Brown University

Social hour at 6:00pm, Presentation at 6:30pm

Skyscrapers, Inc. is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: March Monthly Meeting
Time: Mar 7, 2026 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Bio:
Sam is a geomorphologist and planetary scientist by training, and has been an assistant professor at Brown University since July 2023. His group combines remote sensing analyses of planetary surfaces, with theory, simulations, field work, and lab experiments. We apply any assortment of these tools to worlds like Titan, Earth, and Mars to understand what their fluvially- and aeolian-shaped landscapes record about their coupled climate-tectonic histories. We also look at icy worlds and small bodies like comets, using their landscapes to infer the nature of their materials and what they record about processes occurring the our solar system’s protoplanetary disk.

Abstract:
Dragonfly may be the most ambitious science mission NASA has ever attempted: sending a car-sized, nuclear-powered octocopter to explore the surface of a distant ocean world. In a voyage straight out of science fiction, Dragonfly will deliver the most expansive suite of science instruments ever dispatched to another celestial body. Dragonfly will cover more than 50 miles of the organics-rich Titan surface, landing, collecting and returning results that could change our understanding of life in the universe. But Dragonfly won’t carry out this task on its own. The mission includes a team of experts from around the world, collaborating to turn these game-changing space science and flight plans into reality. In this talk, I will detail Titan, why it's a world worth exploring, and how Dragonfly will go about doing so.