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PDS/SBN New Horizons Pluto Encounter Review
University of Maryland, College Park, ATL* 1250. (Formerly CSS)
19-20 June 2017
Logistics
Last update:Wednesday May 06, 2020, EMW
The PDS/SBN 19-20 June 2017 New Horizons Pluto Encounter Review will take place at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland (UMCP), located north of the District of Columbia, just inside the Washington Beltway (Rte.495 & 95). The review will begin at 8:00am (EDT), Mon 19 June 2017 in room ATL 1250 of the Atlantic Building. The review will conclude at 10:15am, Tue 20 June 2017. Following are links to information about the campus, local amenities and meeting logistics.
- Agenda
- Local Contacts:
- Ludmilla Kolokolova, ATL Room 1207D, 301-405-1539 o, 301-675-5905 c
- Anne Raugh, ATL Room 1249, 301-405-6855
- Gerbs Bauer, ATL Room 1245,
Campus & Vicinity
PARKING!Summer 2017: We will not have access to Regents Drive Garage which was the closest visitor lot. Please review alternate visitor lots for locations of other lots. Details about Summer 2017 Parking Disruptions. |
- The University maintains a general on-line Visitors site.
- Here is a collection of directions for finding us, by car, shuttle, and/or foot.
- Here are the directions to campus and an online campus map. (When the interactive map opens, the Atlantic Building is at the top middle, just above Regents Dr. Garage.)
- A list of area hotels
- Nearby restaurants (note that, particularly for on-campus establishments, schedules may vary drastically during finals week or between semesters):
Notes for Drivers
- Rush Hour: Rush hour around the Capitol Beltway (I-495 and I-95) is well underway by 6:00am and lasts until 9:30-10am. In the area of campus it affects the outer (westbound) beltway and southbound surface roads in the morning and the inner (eastbound) beltway and northbound surface roads in the evening. Evening rush begins at about 3:30-4pm and lasts until about 7pm. The suspension of classes at the University has a small positive effect on the Beltway and a large positive effect on the surface roads running past the campus. Plan accordingly.
- Traffic Reports: Radio station WTOP (a CBS affiliate all-news station) provides traffic reports for the DC, Beltway, and Northern Virginia areas every 10 minutes starting 8 minutes past the hour, 24 hours a day. They are at 103.5FM (103.9FM in western MD) and wtop.com.
- Local Road Lingo:
- Baltimore Ave = Baltimore Blvd = Route 1. The main entrance to campus is located at about the 7600 block of Baltimore Ave.
- University Blvd = Greenbelt Road. It's called "University Blvd" west of Route 1 and "Greenbelt Rd" east of Route 1. The Stadium Drive entrance to campus is on University Blvd.
- The Washington, D.C. Beltway is a circular road comprised of routes 495 and 95. It runs around Washington, through Maryland and Virginia, crossing the Potomac River at two points. The "Outer Loop" of the Beltway is those lanes of traffic which travel counter-clockwise around D.C.; the "Inner Loop" is the lanes that travel clockwise around D.C. The Inner and Outer loops are just the two sets of travel lanes of the same road - the Beltway.
- Baltimore also has a Beltway, but its route number is 695. Traffic reports on WTOP seldom mention the Baltimore Beltway, and when they do they always identify it as "the Baltimore Beltway," frequently adding "Route 695."
- ASCII character map of the main campus entrance and the Atlantic (ATL, #224) Building.
