Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP)

1/8/2008 Executive Council Meeting Agenda

08:00-08:30am Breakfast

08:30-08:40 Welcome Carl Pilcher

08:40-09:30 NRC report: overview & discussion Carl Pilcher, all

9:30 - 10:15 Updates on CAN-5 schedule, Focus Groups, AbSciCon, DDF '08 Carl Pilcher, Ed Goolish

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 NAI Education and Outreach: current activities and plans for future Daniella Scalice

11:30-01:00pm Lunch + PI in camera session

01:00-01:30 Report from in camera session/ open discussion

01:30-03:15 DDF 2007 project updates

01:30 Karen Meech
AbGradCon at Bioastronomy 2007

01:45 Hiroshi Ohmoto
Field Workshop on Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks

02:00 Steinn Sigurddson
Extreme Habitability Workshop

02:15 Michael Meyer
Chemical Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds: A Combined Astronomical, Laboratory, and Theoretical Approach

02:30 Danny Glavin
Astrobiology Sample Analysis Program (ASAP) for Advanced Life Detection
Instrumentation Development and Calibration

02:45 Cynthia Phillips
Astrobiology Research Experience for Undergraduates at the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center

03:00 Andrey Bekker (Carl will summarize a written report from Andrey)
Funding for fieldtrip and special session during the International Geological Congress (IGC) in 2008 in Norway in association with the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Deep Drilling Project (FAR-DDP)

03:15-03:30 Break

03:30-05:00 U. Colorado science presentations

• CU Center for Astrobiology, 10 minutes Bruce Jakosky
• Planetary Formation and Habitability, 20 min. Sean Raymond
• Planetary Biogeochemistry and Metabolism, 20 min. Tom McCollom
• RNA Chemistry and the RNA World, 20 min. Mike Yarus
• Mars Methane Chemistry, 20 min. Melissa Trainer

05:00-05:30 New business All

6:00 Dinner at local restaurant (location TBD)