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FY 2017 DATA ACQUISITION: THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT USING GALILEO DATA FROM NASA'S PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS): CONTINUE IDENTIFICATION OF DOMES IMAGED IN GALILEO'S E6 E14 E15 AND E17 EUROPA FLYBYS WITH SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON EL5REGMAP AND EL7REGMAP IMAGES USE AMES STEREO PIPELINE (ASP) TO OBTAIN TOPOGRAPHY FOR NEWLY IDENTIFIED DOMES AND DOMES PREVIOUSLY MAPPED BY NAU INTERN DURING SUMMER 2015 (APPROXIMATELY 65 DOMES) CATALOGUE DIMENSIONS TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL SETTING FOR ALL PUTATIVE CRYOLAVA DOMES 20 PIXELS ACROSS COMPLETION OF ARCGIS MAPPING OF CRYOLAVA DOMES 20 PIXELS ACROSS ON EUROPA MODELING AND ANALYSIS: INVESTIGATE LOBATENESS PARAMETER/DEGREE OF CIRCULARITY FOR CANDIDATE CRYOLAVA DOMES CONTINUE APPLYINGTIME-INDEPENDENT MODEL TO CANDIDATE CRYOLAVA DOMES IDENTIFIED IN THE DATABASE BEGIN EMPLOYING TIME-DEPENDENT (VOLUME FLUX) MODEL TO CANDIDATE CRYOLAVA DOMES IDENTIFIED IN THE DATABASE INVESTIGATE THE FORMATION OF MOATS SURROUNDING CANDIDATE CRYOLAVA DOMES VIA: CO-EXTRUSION PROCESSES DURING ASCENT FLEXURE INITIAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE GROWTH OF MECHANICAL CRUST AND ITS EFFECTS ON CRYOLAVA RHEOLOGY AND CRYOLAVA DOME EMPLACEMENT INCLUDING E.G. EFFECTS OF YIELD STRENGTH VS. INCREASED VISCOSITY DUE TO TEMPERATURE CHANGES (SEE E.G.SCHENK 1991) ERUPTIVE BOILING VIA BREAKS IN CRYOLAVA CRUST AS THE FLOW ADVANCES AND THE EFFECTS OF CRYOLAVA QUENCHING AT THE SURFACE PUBLICATIONS: LPSC ABSTRACT (L. C. QUICK FIRST AUTHOR) ON INITIAL APPLICATION OF TIME INDEPENDENT MODEL TO DOME FORMATION AND MOAT FORMATION VIA CO-EXTRUSION PROCESSES AND/OR FLEXURE PREPARATION OF DOMES DATABASE MANUSCRIPT (L. C.QUICK FIRST AUTHOR) MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION FOR TIME-DEPENDENT (VOLUME FLUX APPROACH) DOME EMPLACEMENT MODELS PAPER (L. C. QUICK FIRST AUTHOR) FY 2018 MODELING AND ANALYSIS: COMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE GROWTH OF MECHANICAL CRUST AND ITS EFFECTS ON CRYOLAVA RHEOLOGY AND CRYOLAVA DOME EMPLACEMENT MODEL THE DYNAMICS OF CRYOLAVA ASCENT IN DIKE-LIKE AND CYLINDRICAL CONDUIT GEOMETRIES ACCOUNTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF VOLATILE EXSOLUTION IN THE VERY SHALLOW SUBSURFACE OBTAIN THE TIMESCALE FOR CONDUITS TO REMAIN OPEN AND DELIVER CRYOLAVA TO THE SURFACE VIA CRYOLAVA VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATES IN DIKES AND CONDUITS 0.5-30 KM IN LENGTH MODEL HEAT TRANSFER AND COOLING OF ASCENDING CRYOMAGMA ACCOUNTING FOR LATENT HEAT EFFECTS PLACE CONSTRAINTS ON CONDITIONS (I.E. TEMPERATURES MELT SEGREGATION ETC.) IN SUBSURFACE CRYOMAGMA RESERVOIRS DETERMINE LIKELY DOME COMPOSITIONS ACCOUNTING FOR PHASE EQUILIBRIA OF BRINE ENRICHED SOLUTIONS AND DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY IN CANDIDATE CRYOLAVAS PUBLICATIONS: LPSC ABSTRACT ON GROWTH&EFFECT OF MECHANICAL CRUST CRYOMAGMA ASCENT AND PLAUSIBLE CONDITIONS IN SUBSURFACE CRYOMAGMA RESERVOIRS (L. C.QUICK FIRST AUTHOR) COMPLETION AND SUBMISSION OF DOMES DATABASE MANUSCRIPT (L. C. QUICK FIRST AUTHOR) PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF CRYOMAGMA ASCENT&SUBSURFACE RESERVOIR CONDITIONS MANUSCRIPT (L. C. QUICK FIRST AUTHOR)

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