NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  1. Conference: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference


    When March 23, 2009 (Mon) ~ March 27, 2009 (Fri)
    Where The Woodlands, TX, USA

  2. FAR Seminar: Analogue Research and Instrumentation Seminar


    When May 11, 2009 (Mon) at 11:00AM PST
    Where Virtual

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  3. Conference: American Society for Microbiology 109th General Meeting


    When May 17, 2009 (Sun) ~ May 21, 2009 (Thu)
    Where Philadelphia, PA, USA

  4. Conference: American Geophysical Union


    When May 24, 2009 (Sun) ~ May 27, 2009 (Wed)
    Where Toranto, Canada

  5. Conference: AAS 214th Meeting


    When June 7, 2009 (Sun) ~ June 11, 2009 (Thu)
    Where Pasadena, CA, USA

  6. FAR Seminar: Search for Life Seminar


    When June 8, 2009 (Mon) at 11:00AM PST
    Where Virtual

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  7. Conference: Goldschmidt 2009 - "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet"


    When June 21, 2009 (Sun) ~ June 26, 2009 (Fri)
    Where Davos, Switzerland

  8. Course: 2009 Santander Summer School: Earth's Extremophiles and Extraterrestrial Habitability


    When June 22, 2009 (Mon) ~ June 26, 2009 (Fri)
    Where Santander, Cantabria, Spain

    Location: Palacio de Magdalena, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
    Dates: June 22-26, 2009
    Deadline: Closing date for NAI scholarship applications – March 31.

    Overview:
    This year the program is devoted to an understanding of the characteristics and diversity of organisms that inhabit Earth’s extreme environments. These organisms exist at the physical and chemical extreme conditions that life’s processes on Earth allow. Extreme environments of interest for astrobiology are, for example, the high-pressure sea floor, the permafrost of the Polar Regions, places with...

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  9. Course: NAI - Nordic Summer school: “Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe”


    When June 29, 2009 (Mon) ~ July 13, 2009 (Mon)
    Where Iceland

    Iceland, 29 June to 13 July 2009

    The NASA Astrobiology Institute and the Nordic Astrobiology Network will conduct a summer school on the role of water in the evolution of life in the cosmos in Iceland on the above dates. The school is intended for students and post-docs in astrobiology-related subjects (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geosciences etc.) The school will be organized in three sections:

    • An introductory lecture course
    • Excursions to several places in Iceland of astrobiological interest (hot...

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  10. Conference: Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon)


    When July 17, 2009 (Fri) ~ July 20, 2009 (Mon)
    Where Seattle, WA, USA

    Goals for the 2009 meeting are:

    • to create an environment of shared learning, by providing time for oral and poster presentations
    • to foster in-situ multidisciplinary awareness by providing 2 outstanding field trips of different focus (astrobiological volcanology and astrobiological oceanography)
    • to create and maintain a network of interdisciplinary scientists
    • to encourage interdisciplinary research projects by providing time during the congress, and rewarding outstanding collaborative ideas, and
    • to broadcast the conference to the internet community via web 2.0 technologies.

  11. Conference: Division for Planetary Sciences


    When October 4, 2009 (Sun) ~ October 9, 2009 (Fri)
    Where San Juan, Puerto Rico

  12. Conference: Geological Society of America


    When October 18, 2009 (Sun) ~ October 21, 2009 (Wed)
    Where Portland, OR, USA

  13. Funding Deadline: The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology


    When February 1, 2010 (Mon)
    Where

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