| 9:00 AM | Organizing committee | Welcome, logistics |
| 9:15 | Black, David | The Origins Vision: A context for the search for extrasolar life |
| 9:45 | Meyer, Michael | Exobiology: Laying the groundwork in a search for extrasolar life |
| 10:15 AM | Des Marais, David | History of earth's atmospheric O2 levels |
| 10:45 | Martens, Chris | Organic reactivity controls on biogenic gas production, oxidation, and transport processes |
| 11:15 | Oremland, Ronald | Reduced biogenic carbon gases: who cut the cheese? |
| 11:45 | Reeburgh, Bill | Sources and sinks of biogenic reduced gases |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM | Potter, Chris | Global modelling of biogenic trace gases |
| 2:00 | Chatfield, Bob | Trace gases in earth's atmosphere: reaction networks |
| 2:30 | Watson, Andrew | Possible atmospheric signatures of life: avoiding the geocentric bias |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:30 | Leger, Alain | Life signatures in a planet atmosphere |
| 4:00 | Allen, Mark | O3, O2 and disequilibrium chemistry in planetary atmospheres |
| 4:30 | Kasting, Jim | Habitable zones around stars and their relationship to CO2, O2, and O3 abundances in a planet's atmosphere |
| 5:00 | Donahue, Thomas | Water on the terrestrial planets, young and old |
| 6:00 | Cocktail hour, Michael's Restaurant | |
| 7:00 | Banquet, Michael's Restaurant |
| 8:30 AM | Owen, Tobias | Multiple blue dots: How to tell giants from dwarves |
| 9:00 | Cruikshank, Dale | Atmospheres of the moons of the outer planets |
| 9:30 | Zahnle, Kevin | Disequilibrium chemistry by impacts |
| 10:00 | Sagan, Carl | How definitive would detection of CO2, H2O, CH4 and O2/O3 be for the identification of life on planets around other stars? |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:50 AM | Peterson, David | Remote sensing of Earth's modern biosphere |
| 11:20 | Ganapol, Barry | Modelling atmospheric radiative transfer |
| 11:50 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Farmer, Barney | Remote sensing of Earth's atmosphere |
| 1:30 | Woolf, Neville | A space-based, imaging, nulling interferometer: what can it see? |
| 2:00 | Drake, Frank | Signatures of intelligent life |
| 2:30 PM | Discussion strategy |
| 2:40 | Break |
| 3:00 | Discussion groups Biogeochemistry Atmospheric chemistry and spectroscopy Remote sensing of atmospheres and surfaces |
| 4:00 | Plenary session |
| 5:30 | Adjourn |
| 6:00 | Reception, SETI Institute |
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