Searching for Life Across Space and Time: Proceedings of a Workshop (2017)
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"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Searching for Life Across Space and Time: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/24860.
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Workshop Agenda
DECEMBER 5, 2016
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome |
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Michael Moloney, Director, Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board |
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| 8:35 | Introduction to the Workshop |
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Jim Kasting, Workshop Planning Committee Chair |
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| Session 1: Setting the Stage | |
| Moderator: Jim Kasting, Penn State University | |
| 8:40 | How Likely Is It that Life Exists off the Earth? |
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John Baross, University of Washington |
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| 9:15 | Current Understanding of the Environmental Limits of Life and Life’s Interactions with Its Environment |
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Tori Hoehler, NASA Ames |
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| 9:50 | Is Life a Cosmic Imperative: How Did Thermodynamics Force Life into Existence? |
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Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute |
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| 10:25 | Break |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Searching for Life Across Space and Time: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/24860.
| Session 2: Habitable Environments in the Solar System | |
| Moderators: Bethany Ehlmann, Caltech and Britney Schmidt, Georgia Tech | |
| 11:00 | Habitable Environments on Present and Ancient Mars |
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John Grotzinger, Caltech |
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| 11:35 | Habitable Environments on Ocean Worlds |
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Kevin Hand, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| 12:10 p.m. | Planning for the Exploration of Mars and Ocean Worlds |
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Ellen Stofan, NASA |
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| 12:30 | Lunch (Poster Viewing Opportunity) |
| Session 3: Exoplanets | |
| Moderators: David Des Marais, NASA Ames and Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | |
| 2:00 | Current State of Knowledge of Exoplanets and Their Habitability |
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Vikki Meadows, University of Washington |
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| 2:35 | Extrasolar Biosignatures: Thinking Out of the Box |
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William Bains, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 3:10 | Break (Poster Viewing Opportunity) |
| 3:30 | Technology Needs to Discover Earth 2.0 |
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Nick Siegler, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| 4:05 | Prospects for Ground-Based Characterization of Proxima Centauri b |
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Matteo Brogi, University of Colorado, Boulder |
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| 4:40 | General Discussion: Practical Biosignatures that Can Be Exploited to Search for Life In Situ in the Solar System and from Afar on Extrasolar Worlds |
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Moderator: Gary Blackwood, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Searching for Life Across Space and Time: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/24860.
| Session 4: Poster Session | |
| 5:30 | Small Bites, and Reception in Atrium |
| 8:30 | Adjourn for the Day |
| DECEMBER 6, 2016 | |
| Session 5: Life Detection Techniques | |
| Moderators: Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School and John Baross, University of Washington | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Life Detection: 40 Years after Viking |
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Ben Clark, Space Science Institute |
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| 9:05 | Signatures of Life as We Know It |
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Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital |
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| 9:40 | Signatures of Life as We Don’t Know It |
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Steve Benner, the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution |
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| 10:15 | Break: Poster Viewing Opportunity |
| Session 6: Instrumentation | |
| Moderators: Phil Neches, Teradata Corporation and Nilton Renno, University of Michigan | |
| 10:45 | In Situ Life Detection in the Context of Plume Fly Thru Missions |
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Morgan Cable, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| 11:15 | Life Detection Capabilities of LUVOIR and HabEx |
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Shawn Domagal-Goldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| 11:45 | In Situ Detection of Organics on Mars |
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Jen Eigenbrode, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| 12:15 p.m. | Instructions for Afternoon Breakout Groups |
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Jim Kasting, Workshop Planning Committee Chair |
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| 12:25 | Lunch (Poster Viewing Opportunity) |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Searching for Life Across Space and Time: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/24860.
| Session 7: Future Directions | |
| 2:00 | Breakout Groups |
| Focus Question: How Could Targeted Research Over the Next 5-10 Years Help Advance the State of the Art for Life Detection, Including Instrumentation and Precursor Research | |
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| 3:15 | Break (Poster Viewing Opportunity) |
| Session Moderators to Collect Thoughts in Preparation for Report Back to the Group | |
| 4:00 | Report Back from Breakout Group |
| General Discussion | |
| Moderator: John Grunsfeld, NASA (retired) | |
| Session 8: Conclusions | |
| 5:30 | Summary of Key Points Raised During the Workshop and Concluding Remarks |
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Jim Kasting, Workshop Planning Committee Chair |
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| 6:00 | Workshop Adjourned |
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