Selected Abstracts

Boslough, M, "Groundwater Surveys to Cosmic Catastrophes: Addressing Questionable Geology with New Mexico Links." 76th Annual Meeting of the GSA Rocky Mountain Section, Albuquerque, NM (2026). Link to abstract. GSA link.

Boslough, M., TerBeek, R., Bailey, B., Cohen, A., Lubin, P., Egan, S., Plesko, C., Caldwell, W., “Using Impact Flash to Initiate Nuclear Explosive Devices in Planetary Defense Missions.” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT (2026). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Schultz P., and Harris, R.S. "Bolide Airburst Chains on Earth and Venus: Tidal Breakup from a Previous Encounter." 16th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Boulder, CO (2025). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Brown, P., Bruno A., Chodas, P., Collins, G., Daulton, T.L., Harris, A., Koeberl, C., Losiak A., Morrison, D., Popova, O., Robertson, D., Silber, E.A., and van Ginneken, M. “Preventing and Correcting Spread of Misinformation about NEOS, Impacts, Airbursts, and Planetary Defense.” 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (2025). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Brown, P., Clark, D., Wiegert, P, and Ye, Q. “2032 and 2036 Risk Enhancement from NEOs in the Taurid Stream.” 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (2025). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M. and Titov, V., “Lamb Wave Driven Tsunami Damage Quantification along the 2025 PDC Risk Corridor.” 9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Cape Town, South Africa (2025). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Titov, V. "Air-Driven Tsunamis from Impacts and Airbursts: Is there Evidence in the Geological or Historical Record?" American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC (2024). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. "How Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Informed Planetary Defense Risk Assessment." American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC (2024). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Titov, V. "Global Tsunamis from Impacts and Airbursts: Is there a Paleo Record?" Geological Society of America Connects, Anaheim, CA (2024). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Brown, P., Bruno A., Chodas, P., Collins, G., Daulton, T.L., Harris, A., Koeberl, C., Losiak A., Morrison, D., Popova, O., Robertson, D., Silber, E.A., and van Ginneken, M. “Myths and Misinformation about Tunguska and Cosmic Airbursts.” Geological Society of America Connects, Anaheim, CA (2024). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Titov, V. "Air-Driven Tsunamis from Impacts and Airbursts: Is there Evidence in the Geological Record?" 15th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ (2024). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Koeberl, C. "Tektite Formation by Selective Ejection Through Uprange Entry Wake: Clues From Shoemaker-Levy 9." 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX (2024) Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Titov, V. "Explosion-Induced Lamb-Wave Tsunami Trigger for the Younger Dryas?" American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2023). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Chodas P., and Brown, P. "Analysis of the Tunguska Event as a Semi-Hypothetical Impact Scenario." American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2023). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Koeberl, C. "Selective Ejection: are Tektites Launched up Low-Density Entry Wakes?." 85th Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Westwood, CA (2023). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Titov, V. "2023 PDC Exercise: Global Tsunami from Land or Ocean Impact." 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, Austria (2023). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., and Koeberl, C. "Selective Ejection: are Tektites Launched up Low-Density Entry Wakes?." 14th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ (2023). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., Schultz P., and Harris, R.S. "Hypervelocity Airburst Shower Formation of the Pica Glass." 13th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Boulder, CO (2022). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., “Hydrocode Simulations for the PDC 2021 Tabletop Exercise using Artificial Ablation.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL (2021). Link to abstract.

Plesko, C., Becker, S.,  Biwer, C.,  Boslough, M., Caldwell, M., Harwell, M. and Margolin, L., “Preparation for the DART Mission at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2021.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL (2021). Link to abstract.

Hausfather, Z., Rohde, R., Mann, M., Wuebbles, D., and Boslough, M. “An improved assessment of record-setting US daily temperatures using homogenized data.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL (2021). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M. “Airburst Consequence Modeling Using Artificial Ablation.” 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Virtual (2021). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., “Artificial Ablation in Hydrocode Simulations of Collisional Airbursts.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere (2020). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., “Using the Nextdoor Social Platform to Communicate Facts and Refute Misinformation about Climate Change and COVID-19.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere (2020). Link to abstract.

Plesko, C., Becker, S.,  Biwer, C.,  Boslough, M., Caldwell, M., Harwell, M. and Margolin, L., “Impact Hazard Mitigation Work at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2020: Target Property Parameter Studies, Airburst Effects, and Preparation for the DART Mission.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere (2020). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M., “Airburst Surface Damage and Risk Assessment: Sensitivity to Assumptions.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2019). Link to abstract.

Nastan, A., Boslough, A., Garay M., Kalashnikova, O. and Chodas, P., “December 18, 2018 Bering Sea Bolide: NASA Multi-Angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Observations and Hydrocode Simulations.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2019). Link to abstract.

Plesko, C., Becker, S.,  Biwer, C.,  Boslough, M., Caldwell, M., Harwell, M. and Margolin, L., “Impact Hazard Mitigation of a Highly Porous Contact Binary Asteroid.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2019). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M. and Truitt, A. “‘Effective Height of Burst’ Revisited.” 6th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Bethesda, MD (2019). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. and Brown, P. “‘Tunguska and the June 2019 Beta Taurid Observational Opportunity.” 6th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Bethesda, MD (2019). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. and Brown, P., “Was Tunguska a Beta Taurid? 2019 Observational Campaigns can Test Hypothesis.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC (2018). Link to abstract.

Truitt, A., Weaver, R., Boslough, M., Plesko, C., and Gisler, G. “Comparison Study for 2D and 3D Simulations of the Tunguska Event with RAGE and CTH.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, DC (2018). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M. and Titov, V. “Airburst-Generated Tsunami by Various Coupling Mechanisms.” 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Tokyo, Japan (2017). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. and Lewis, L. “Shelter-in-Place as an Effective Means of Civil Protection.” 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Tokyo, Japan (2017). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., Brown, P., and Harris, A. “New Risk Assessment and Early Warning of Airbursts from Small NEOs.” 4th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Frascati, Italy (2015). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. and Gisler, G. “Tsunami from Plume-Forming Collisional Airbursts.” 3rd IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, AZ (2013). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. “A New Business Plan for Planetary Defense.” 3rd IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, AZ (2013). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. “Airburst Warning and Response.” 2nd IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Bucharest, Romania (2011). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. “Impact Decision Support Diagrams.” 2nd IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Bucharest, Romania (2011). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., et al. “Impact did not Cause Climate Change, Extinction, or Clovis Termination at 12.9 ka.” AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations, Santa Fe, NM (2011). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., “Problems with the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) Impact Hypothesis.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2009). Link to abstract.

Boslough, M. “The Nature of Airbursts and their Contribution to the Impact Threat.” 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Granada, Spain (2009). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M. “Large Aerial Bursts and the Impact Threat.” 2007 Planetary Defense Conference, Washington, DC (2007). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., Kipp. M., and Remo, J. “NEO Defense by Impulsive Interactions.” 2007 Planetary Defense Conference, Washington, DC (2007). Link to Abstract.

Boslough, M., and Crawford, D. " Interacting Atmospheric Plumes from Bolide Swarms." 27th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, TX (1996) Link to abstract.