Agenda & Papers

2007 Planetary Defense Conference
Invited Presentations and Papers

The following are the presentations and papers associated with the 2007 Planetary Defense Conference. Included are copies of papers and presentation materials, where available, and videos of the presentations themselves. The conference White Paper summarizes consensus findings and reccomendations. Papers and presentations are posted in printable format (pdf).

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Keynote:
Bill Burrows, Director, Science and Environmental Reporting, New York University

SESSION 4: Impacts & Effects

Chair: Clark Chapman, Southwest Research Institute

Invited Presentations

• Overview of Asteroid Impact Phenomenology
  Clark Chapman, Southwest Research Institute (Presentation)
  
• Low-Altitude Airburst Contribution to the Impact Hazard
  Mark Boslough, Sandia National Laboratory (Presentation) (Abstract)
  
• Tsunamis from Asteroid Impacts in Deep Water
  Galen Gisler, University of Oslo (Presentation) (Paper)
  
• Impact Tsunami Hazard—My Best Guess
  Steven N. Ward, University of California, Santa Cruz (Presentation)
  
• Human Hazards from Impact Effects
  Steven Chesley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Poster Papers

• Comet and Asteroid Threat Impact Analysis,
  James A. Marusek (Paper) (Presentation)
• Quasi Three-Dimensional Modeling of Tunguska Comet Impact (1908),
  Andrei E. Zlobin (Paper)
  
• Entry of the Tunguska Cosmic Body into the Atmosphere: Final Decision,
  V.P. Stulov (Paper)
  

SESSION 5: Preparing the Public

Chair: Caron Chess, Rutgers University

Invited Presentations

• The NEO Hazard: Interfaces between Scientists and the Public
  Clark Chapman, Southwest Research Institute (Presentation)
  
• Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness and Response to the Denver Asteroid Impact Event
  Richard Davies, Executive Director, Western Disaster Center (Paper) (Presentation)
  
• Planetary Defense in the Context of Current Approaches to Societal Security
  Geoffrey Sommer, Homeland Security Institute (Presentation)
  
• A Tool for Assessing the Consequences for Populations and Infrastructure resulting from an Asteroid Impact
  Nick Bailey (Paper) (Presentation)
  
• Composure and Panic in Time of Catastrophe: An Empowerment Approach to NEO Disaster Management
  Albert A. Harrison, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis (Paper) (Presentation)
  
• Information is Not Enough
  Caron Chess, Sociology Department, Rutgers University (Presentation)

Poster Papers

• Impact Disaster Preparedness Planning
  James A. Marusek (Presentation) (Paper)
  
• Financing a Planetary Defense System
  William F. Mitchell (Presentation) (Paper)
• Developing a Three Period Strategy to Face a Global Threat: A Preliminary Analysis
  Adeel Ghayur, University Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan (Presentation) (Paper)