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Session No. 201
Tuesday, 2 November 2010: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 502 (Colorado Convention Center)

P8. Exploring for Life in the Cosmos: Celebrating Five Decades of Astrobiology

GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division

 

Jack D. Farmer, Convener
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1:30 PM
THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF ASTROBIOLOGY
HUBBARD, G. Scott, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 496 Lomita Mall, Durand Building, Room 363, Stanford, CA 94305, scott.hubbard@stanford.edu, scott.hubbard@stanford.edu
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2:00 PM
CREATING A NEW FIELD: THE NASA ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE
PILCHER, Carl B., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Astrobiology Institute, MS 247-6, Moffett Field, CA 94035, carl.b.pilcher@nasa.gov, carl.b.pilcher@nasa.gov
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2:30 PM
LIMITS OF LIFE, EARLY EVOLUTION AND THE SEARCH FOR HABITABLE PLANETS
BAROSS, John A., School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195, jbaross@u.washington.edu, jbaross@u.washington.edu
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3:00 PM
SIMULATING LIFE'S ORIGINS: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IN NATURO EXPERIMENTS?
DEAMER, David, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, deamer@soe.ucsc.edu, deamer@soe.ucsc.edu
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3:30 PM
THE NEW MARS: ASTROBIOLOGY OF A NEIGHBOR PLANET
DES MARAIS, David J., NASA, Ames Research Center, MS 239-4, Bldg. 239, Rm. 321, Moffett Field, CA 94035-0001, David.J.DesMarais@nasa.gov, David.J.DesMarais@nasa.gov
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4:00 PM
EUROPA
GREENBERG, Richard, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1629 East University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85719, greenberg@lpl.arizona.edu, greenberg@lpl.arizona.edu
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4:30 PM
TITAN AND ENCELADUS : ICY CAULDRONS OF ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
LORENZ, Ralph, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, ralph.lorenz@jhuapl.edu, ralph.lorenz@jhuapl.edu
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5:00 PM
A BRIEF HISTORY OF EXTRASOLAR PLANET RESEARCH
BUTLER, Paul, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015-1305, paul@dtm.ciw.edu, paul@dtm.ciw.edu
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