Fate of Planetary Habitability highlighted at the AGU Fall Meeting
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December 19, 2013Together with Cynthia Phillips, one of my SETI Institute colleagues, I will convene a session at the AGU Fall meeting tomorrow afternoon (oral) and Friday December 13 (poster) entitled “Rapid Environmental Change and the Fate of Planetary Habitability“.
This session will be an opportunity to see recent works on the adaptability of life in abrupt climate crises. Recent discoveries inspire us to re-examine our understanding of how rapidly planetary habitats can be redistributed. Past habitable environments on Mars from the Curiosity rover, possible subsurface lakes on Europa, and potentially habitable exoplanets from the Kepler spacecraft continue to expand our definition of the habitable zone.
The submitted abstracts intertwined aspects of changing habitability, including the complex interactions among astronomical, geological, and climatic forces, on the Earth and beyond.
Below the complete schedule which includes eight talks and four posters.
See you tomorrow at 1:40pm, room 2007 in Moscone West if you want to hear about habitability in our solar system and elsewhere.
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P43E. P43E. Rapid Environmental Change and the Fate of Planetary Habitability I
Conveners: Cynthia Phillips (SETI Institute Mountain View), Franck Marchis (Carl Sagan Center, SETI institute) and Nathalie Cabrol (SETI Institute)
Chairs: Franck Marchis (Carl Sagan Center, SETI institute) & Cynthia Phillips (SETI Institute Mountain View)
1:40 PM – 3:40 PM; 2007 (Moscone West)
| 1:40 PM – 1:55 PM | P43E-01. Europa’s shallow subsurface: lakes, layers and life? (Invited) Britney E. Schmidt; Krista M. Soderlund; Brad T. Gooch; Donald D. Blankenship |
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| 1:55 PM – 2:10 PM | P43E-02. Kingian Co-Evolution of the Water and Mineral/Rock Components for Earth and Mars: Implications for Planetary Habitability (Invited) Victor R. Baker |
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| 2:10 PM – 2:25 PM | P43E-03. A Bewildering and Dynamic Picture of Exoplanetary Systems Identified by the Kepler Mission (Invited) Jon M. Jenkins |
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| 2:25 PM – 2:40 PM | P43E-04. The role of impact cratering in planetary environmental change and implications for the search for life in the solar system (Invited) Gordon R. Osinski |
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| 2:40 PM – 2:55 PM | P43E-05. Rotation of a Moonless Earth Jack J. Lissauer; Jason W. Barnes; John Chambers |
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| 2:55 PM – 3:10 PM | P43E-06. Rapid geochemical changes at Mawrth Vallis as observed through the mineralogical record Janice L. Bishop |
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| 3:10 PM – 3:25 PM | P43E-07. The naked planet Earth : Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life Shigenori Maruyama; Masahiro Ikoma; Hidenori Genda; Kei Hirose; Tetsuya Yokoyama; M. Santosh |
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| 3:25 PM – 3:40 PM | P43E-08. Modelling the Impact of Life on Continental Growth – Mechanisms and Results Dennis Höning; Tilman Spohn |
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P51D. P51D. Rapid Environmental Change and the Fate of Planetary Habitability II Posters
Convener(s): Cynthia Phillips (SETI Institute Mountain View), Franck Marchis (Carl Sagan Center, SETI institute) and Nathalie Cabrol (SETI Institute)
8:00 AM – 12:20 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South)
| 8:00 AM – 8:00 AM | P51D-1758. Quantification of elements essential for habitability: the case of the nakhlite hydrothermal brine Susanne P. Schwenzer; John Bridges |
| 8:00 AM – 8:00 AM | P51D-1756. Simulating Fine grained Alluvial Fan Sedimentation on Mars Alexander M. Morgan; Alan D. Howard; Jeffrey M. Moore; Ross A. Beyer |
| 8:00 AM – 8:00 AM | P51D-1757. Shock-Synthesis of Prebiotic Compounds in Impacting Simple Ices Nir Goldman |
| 8:00 AM – 8:00 AM | P51D-1759. How Much Carbonate in Mars Rocks?: A Co-Analysis of CRISM, TES and THEMIS Data at the Nili Fossae Carbonate Plains Christopher S. Edwards; Bethany L. Ehlmann |
