On Friday, August 19, 2020, Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium celebrated a summer of research with a daylong event featuring both our students’ work as posters and presentations and an exciting showcase of teams running the Artemis Lunar Lava Tube Exploration Challenge (LLTEC)!
The events
Posters & presentations
The poster session was in the traditional format, with displays of printed research posters and students on-site to discuss their work. Presentations were delivered both in-person as well as virtually with students Zoom-ing from around the state.
Artemis LLTEC teams
The Lunar Lava Tube Exploration Challenge was one of NASA’s Artemis Challenges for 2022–2023. The question posed was: “How would YOU go about exploring the moon’s lava tubes in order to turn them into crew habitats?” Student teams faced the challenge course — a model of a lava tube — to see how their robotic rover and programmatic solutions fared in exploring a (simulated) lunar environment.
The program
Our full program is now available as a downloadable PDF.
Posters
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Complete listing of projects
This table has been sorted as follows:
- By presentation time
- By presentation location
- Alphabetically by project title
This is a VERY wide table, so you will have to scroll on mobile.
Project Title | Time | Location | Zoom | WASGC Affiliate | Student(s) | Mentor(s) | Department | |
The effect of rugose small colony variants on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm dispersion | 10:00 AM | HUB 238 | Zoom | University of Washington | Angel Reddy | Matthew Parsek, Courtney Kleeschulte | Microbiology | |
Clustering Spectral Noise in the search for gravitational waves | 10:20 AM | HUB 238 | Zoom | University of Washington | Athena Baches | Joey Key, Ansel Neunzert | UW Bothell — Division of Physical Sciences | |
Negative 4D Photo-Patterning to Control Cell Activity in Hydrogels | 10:40 AM | HUB 238 | Zoom | Poster not published. | University of Washington | Annabella Li | Cole DeForest | Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering |
Recycling Expired Carbon Fiber Prepreg Material | 11:00 AM | HUB 238 | Zoom | University of Washington | Areesa Trevino | Navid Zobeiry | Materials Science and Engineering | |
4D Protein Photoactivation in Biomaterials and Living Cells | 12:30 PM | HUB 238 | Zoom | Poster not published. | University of Washington | Kathy Do | Cole DeForest | Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering |
Optimizing 3D Printed Tourniquets for Immediate Aid in Ukraine | 12:50 PM | HUB 238 | Zoom | No poster available. | University of Washington | Tosh Kaneala Brown-Moore | Jeff Lipton | Mechanical Engineering |
A New Spin On Modern Rocketry | 1:10 PM | HUB 238 | Zoom | Seattle Central College | Stephen Cushing, Daniel Johnson, Brennen Johnston, Parker Schulmerich | John Correy | Aeronautics & Astronautics | |
Understanding Ice Temperature in Ice Streams in Antarctica and Greenland | 1:30 PM | HUB 238 | Zoom | University of Washington | Jonathan Ortiz-Candelaria | TJ Fudge, Ben Hills | Earth and Space Sciences | |
Measuring the Electron Density of Z-Pinch Plasmas on the ZaP-HD Experiment | 10:00 AM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Harry Furey-Soper | Uri Shumlak | Aeronautics & Astronautics | |
Optimizing Spaceflight Trajectories Using Genetic Algorithms | 10:20 AM | HUB 307 | Zoom | Poster published. | Whitworth University | Margaret Fairborn, Caleb Flegel, and Connor Florey | Kamesh Sankaran | |
Single Platelet Spreading on Key Proteins | 10:40 AM | HUB 307 | Zoom | Poster not available at time of publication. | University of Washington | Francisco Morales | Wendy Thomas | Bioengineering |
Mechanical and Thermal Modeling of a High Pulse Rate Inductive Thruster | 11:00 AM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Jacob Sawyer | Justin Little | Aeronautics & Astronautics | |
Insect-Scale, Low-Power Olfactory-Based Sensing with Artificial Intelligence | 12:30 PM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Maitri Dedhia | Vikram Iyer | Computer Science and Engineering | |
A novel zebrafish mutant to elucidate the consequences of Wnt16 cysteine deletion | 12:50 PM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Emily Ramirez | Ronald Kwon | Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine | |
University of Washington – Industrial Assessment Center | 1:10 PM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Caitlin DeShazo-Couchot, Harris Nakajima, Jack Philbrick | Alexander Mamishev | Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
Fighting Vibrations With Vibrations: Towards Self Optimized Aerospace Structures | 1:30 PM | HUB 307 | Zoom | University of Washington | Roger Colglazier | Ed Habtour | Aeronautics & Astronautics | |
A Data Assimilation-Based Twentieth Century Climate Reconstruction Framework for Identifying Antarctic Ice Core Sites | University of Washington | Advik Eswaran | TJ Fudge | Earth and Space Sciences | ||||
Analyzing a Winter Cyclone with Snowbands During the Investigation of Microphysics and Percipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign | University of Washington | Sarah Phillips | Lynn McMurdie | Atmospheric Sciences | ||||
Analyzing the Position and Distribution of Centriolar Satellites | Western Washington University | Elizabeth Cameron, Jonah Goodfried | Nick Galati | Biology | ||||
Cellular Requirements for KSHV Latent Infection | University of Washington | Jessica Lee | Michael Lagunoff | Microbiology | ||||
Characterizing Vascular Organoids with Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) | University of Washington | Solhee Jin | Ying Zheng | Bioengineering | ||||
Construction & Integration of Fiber Optics Test Stands and Solutions | University of Washington | Daniel Schweizer, Benjamin Herrera | Sarah Tuttle, Travis Mandeville | Astronomy | ||||
Demonstrating and Evaluating Quantum Key Distribution | University of Washington | Suhani Jain | Kai-Mei Fu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | ||||
Developing a Graphical User Interface for Nanosecond Pulsers | University of Washington | Sophia Anderson, Elijah Carino, Ian Rain-Water, Jakob Zuraw | Eagle Harbor Technologies | |||||
Fabrication of Liquid-Filled Voronoi Foams For Impact Absorption Using Material Jetting Technology | University of Washington | Tosh Kaneala Brown-Moore | Jeff Lipton | Mechanical Engineering | ||||
Genomic analysis of cyanobacteria from the world’s largest Oxygen Deficient Zone | Poster not available at time of publication. | University of Washington | Cristian Swift | Gabrielle Rocap | School of Oceanography | |||
Guns… that save lives!? Fluid dynamics of vaccine Gene Guns | University of Washington | Treyson Gleich | Owen Williams | Aeronautics & Astronautics | ||||
ICESat-2 Observations of Ice Shelf Fracture | University of Washington | Aidan Dealy | Brad Lipovsky | Earth and Space Sciences | ||||
Investigating Fundamental Toughening Mechanisms in Nanocellular Foams | University of Washington | Ryleigh Weston | Marco Salviato, Aeronautics & Astronautics; Lucas Meza, Mechanical Engineering; Vipin Kumar, Mechanical Engineering | |||||
LOST: Open-Source Star Tracker | University of Washington | Karen Haining, Kenneth Yang, Edward Zhang | Kristi Morgansen | Aeronautics & Astronautics | ||||
Non-Native Oyster Performance in the Anthropocene | University of Washington | Emma Beck | Jennifer Ruesink | Biology | ||||
Quantifying Single Photon Purity in a Commercial Quantum Teaching Apparatus | University of Washington | Helen Lai | Kai-Mei Fu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | ||||
Relative Proximity Operations Testbed | University of Washington | Kaylee Hudson and Harry Furey-Soper | Kristi Morgansen | Aeronautics & Astronautics | ||||
SOPhy: Southern Ocean Phytoplankton Database | University of Washington | Ayush Nag | Hannah Joy-Warren | School of Oceanography | ||||
Studying Extremely High-Velocity Outflows in Sloan Digital Sky Survey | University of Washington | Veronica Powell, Tzitzi Romo Perez, Easton Pierce | Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo | UW Bothell — Division of Physical Sciences | ||||
Temperature Amplitude and Isotope Diffusion in Firn | University of Washington | Cody Cruz | TJ Fudge | Earth and Space Sciences | ||||
The effect of Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology on the foraging success of individual harbor seals | Western Washington University | Kate Clayton, Kathleen McKeegan | Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez | Biology |