Public Lecture: The Moon as Earth's Asset: Why Lunar Resources Could be the Key

Co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Alumni Community in Baltimore. Speaker: Dr. Clive Neal, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame. Dr. Clive Neal, has been described as a lunar evangelist. He is a planetary geologist who has focused on the origin and history of the moon. He studies the rock types and minerals that comprise lunar rocks and uses geochemical and geophysical methods to interpret the turbulent history of the moon. Dr. Neal describes his work by noting that “when humans first visited the Moon during Apollo it was descri