Joint 56th Annual North-Central/ 71st Annual Southeastern Section Meeting - 2022

Session No. 41
Friday, 8 April 2022: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
North Meeting Room 206 (Duke Energy Convention Center)

T4. Astrobiology: What’s the Latest on the Search for Life, Past or Present, Outside of Earth?

 

Andrew Czaja and Sally Potter-McIntyre, Advocates
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Start Time
1:30 PM
SURVEY AND FIELD ANALYSIS OF FAN-SHAPED FEATURES IN NORTHERN NORWAY: ARCTIC ANALOGS FOR EXPLORATION ON MARS
LUNA, Jeannette and BELTRAN, Sydney J., Department of Earth Sciences, Tennessee Tech University, Box 5062, Cookeville, TN 38505
1:45 PM
NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ICHNOLOGY
RINDSBERG, Andrew, Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Station 7, The University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL 35470 and VALLON, Lothar H., Geomuseum Faxe, Østjællands Museum, Rådhusvej 2, Faxe, DK-4640, Denmark
2:00 PM
ASTROBIOLOGY AND THE IMPOSITION OF STRONG HOPE: LESSONS FROM PALEONTOLOGY
BRANDT, Danita, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 207 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115
2:15 PM
ASTROBIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN CONCRETION FORMATION
POTTER-MCINTYRE, Sally, Earth Systems and Sustainability, Southern Illinois University, Parkinson Lab Mailcode 4324, Carbondale, IL 62901
2:30 PM
USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF ANCIENT KEROGEN TO UNDERSTAND THERMAL ALTERNATION AND BIOSIGNATURE PRESERVATION
GOLAND, Camden and CZAJA, Andrew D., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
 
2:45 PM
Break
3:00 PM
DEEP ULTRAVIOLET RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF NEOARCHEAN MICROBIALITES AS ANALOGS TO POSSIBLE MARS 2020 SAMPLES
CORPOLONGO, Andrea, University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology, 500 Geology-Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013 and CZAJA, Andrew D., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
3:15 PM
THE SEARCH FOR ANCIENT LIFE ON MARS FROM PAST AND FUTURE STUDIES OF SAMPLES: A FRAMEWORK FROM PALEONTOLOGY
VELBEL, Michael, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 207 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115; Division of Meteorites, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012 and BRANDT, Danita, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 207 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115
3:30 PM
SAMPLING POTENTIAL BIOSIGNATURES WITH THE MARS 2020 PERSEVERANCE ROVER
CZAJA, Andrew1, SHARMA, Sunanda2, ALLWOOD, Abigail2, BENISON, Kathleen3, CORPOLONGO, Andrea1, GÓMEZ, Felipe4, MAYHEW, Lisa E.5, SEPHTON, Mark6, SILJESTRÖM, Sandra7 and WILLIAMS, Amy8, (1)University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology, 500 Geology-Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, (3)Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26501, (4)Centro de Astrobiologia, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, 28850, Spain, (5)University of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, (6)Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom, (7)RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, (8)Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
3:45 PM
MARS SAMPLE RETURN (MSR) SCIENCE PLANNING GROUP 2 (MSPG2): CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES IN PLANNING FOR THE FIRST SAMPLES FROM ANOTHER PLANET
VELBEL, Michael and MSPG2, (MSR Science Planning Group 2), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, 288 Farm Lane, 207 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115
 
4:00 PM
Discussion
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