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"Are the light levels on Mars sufficient to make it practical to build greenhouses for growing food and oxygenating plants?"
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April 12, 2008 Executive Council Meeting Agenda
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Agenda:
8:00-08:30 Coffee/breakfast
8:30-08:45 Welcome and logistics
8:45-09:30 SETI Inst. Team science presentations
- Max Bernstein
- Lynn Rothschild
- Friedemann Freund
9 :30-10:15 DDF project and Focus Group updates (Session 1)
DDF project: Origin of water workshop (Meech)
DDF project: Remote Sensing Workshop (Sogin)
Mars Focus Group (Des Marais)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 High Performance Collaborative Technologies (Larry Smarr, UCSD/Calit2)
11:30-12:00 NAI Emeritus Program (All)
12:00-1:30 Lunch / PI in camera session
1:30-2:00 Report from PI in camera session
2:00-2:45 International associate/affiliate presentations
- Pascale Ehrenfreund (European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association)
- Malcolm Walter (Australian Centre for Astrobiology)
- Jane Greaves (Astrobiology Society of Britain )
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 DDF project and Focus Group updates (Session 2)
- Virus Focus Group (Blumberg, Stedman)
- Origins of Life Focus Group (Pohorille)
- DDF Project: Cyanobacteria in a Lunar environment workshop (Pohorille)
4:00-4:45 Ames Team science presentations
- Andrew Pohorille—Origins of life,
- Andrew Mattioda—Astrochemistry,
- Linda Jahnke—Microbial Biomarkers
4:45-5:15 Other business
5:15 Adjourn
March 21, 2008
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