Dr. Carly Donahue Senior Scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory/Earth and Environmental Sciences *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Friday (10/09) @ 11:59 pm HST* Space exploration generates powerful physical phenomena—from the violent plume-surface interactions of lunar landings to the fiery dynamics of atmospheric re-entry—that pose hazards demanding novel sensing approaches to detect and understand them. This talk connects three projects that leverage these effects: distributed fiber optic sensing of explosion and rocket-launch experiments to investigate lunar plume–surface hazards; real-time observation of a Falcon 9 lunar impact using Chile's Very Large Telescope; and detection of