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This two-and-a-half day workshop
will address the detection and study of habitable and inhabited worlds
beyond our own solar system. Workshop attendees will participate in a
series of tutorial lectures and discussions to define the challenges that
this endeavor holds for astronomy and the earth, planetary, atmospheric
and life sciences. Attendees will participate in a series of sessions
to address the following agenda:
1) Opportunities in Astronomy:
New observatories and technologies, measurement capabilities for the
next couple of decades.
2) Habitable worlds: How a world
becomes habitable, maintaining habitable climates, the chemistry and
spectroscopy of atmospheres.
3) Biospheres: Biogeochemical
cycles and planetary atmospheres, chemistry and spectroscopy of atmospheric
biological marker compounds global ecologies.
4) Detecting Pale Blue Dots:
Identify critical gaps in knowledge and technology, and recommend an
interdisciplinary program of discovery.
Speakers and discussion leaders
already include the following:
Louis Allamandola, IR spectroscopy,
Ames
Charles Beichman, IR astronomy, IPAC
Robert Chatfield, atmospheric chemistry, Ames
David Des Marais, biogeochemistry, Ames
Imke de Pater, astronomy, Berkeley
James Kasting, atmospheric chemistry, Penn State
Theodor Kostiuk, spectroscopy, Goddard
Christopher Martens, biogeochemistry, N. Carolina
Kenneth Nealson, microbiology and biogeochemistry, JPL
Norm Sleep, geophysics, Stanford
Wes Traub, astronomy, Harvard
Pieter Visscher, microbiology and biogeochemistry, Connecticut
Nick Woolf, IR astronomy, Arizona
We encourage you to attend and
help create the plan for discovering our celestial neighbors!
Please email your RSVP, including
your email address, full name and title, full address, telephone, and
fax, to Rho Christensen at rchristensen@mail.arc.nasa.gov,
or call Rho at 650-604-2476. If you're interested, but can't commit to
attend at the moment, please also email Rho, so that we can keep you updated.
Logistics information will be emailed or sent via regular mail to those
who respond.
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