STScI Spring Symposium 2009:
The Search For Life In The Universe

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Presenter: Matt Mountain, (Director, Space Telescope Science Institute)
Welcome & Introduction
Duration: 10 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Chris McKay (NASA Ames)
Scientific Perspective: The Search for Life in the Universe
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Pascale Ehrenfreund (Space Policy Institute)
The Seeds of Life - Exogenous Delivery of Organics to Earth
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Jeffrey Bada (UCSD)
The Origin of Life As We Know It
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Jim Kasting (Penn State)
The Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere & Surface
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Drake Deming
Remote Detection of Life on Earth ... interferences from EXPOXI
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Robert Shapiro (NYU)
Metabolism in the Origin of Life
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Dawn Sumner (UC Davis)
Detecting Traces of Primitive Life on Earth (in context of solar system exploration)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Janet Siefert (Rice U.)
LUCA (Last Universal Cellular Ancestor) and the 3 Domains of Life
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: John Baross (U. Washington)
Extremophiles
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Greg Laughlin (UCSC)
The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems Capable of Supporting Life
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Jane Greaves (St. Andrews, UK)
Terrestrial Planet Bombardment and Habitability
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Steve Squyres (Cornell)
Potentially Habitable Worlds I: MARS, What we know now (and how)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Luann Becker (JHU)
Potentially Habitable Worlds II: MARS - What we could know in 20 years
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Chris Chyba (Princeton U.)
Potentially Habitable Worlds III: Europa
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Ralph Lorenz (JHU-APL)
Titan
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/04
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Presenter: Michael Kelley (NASA)
Future Life Search Missions: MARS
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Bob Pappalardo (JPL)
(Future Life Search Missions: Icy Satellites)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Don Brownlee (U. Washington)
(Future Life Search Missions: Primitive Bodies)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
(What are the Atmospheric Biomarkers for Earth-like Life?)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: William Sparks (STScI)
(Remote Detection of Biological Activity via Circular Polarization of Light)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/05
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Presenter: Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State)
(Stellar Evolution and The Habitable Zone: Overall Properties and the Impact of Activity and Rotation)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Sara Seager (MIT)
(Theoretical Models of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Interiors: implications for life detection)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Nancy Kiang (Goddard Institute, NY)
(Extrapolating the Rules for Life: Determining Alternative Biosignatures Evolved With Other Stars and Atmospheres)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Mike Mumma (NASA/GSFC)
(Interpretation of Molecular Spectroscopic Biomarkers)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Bob Brown (STScI)
Mass and Orbit Estimation Near the Detection Limit
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Wes Traub (JPL)
(Advantages and Strategies for Direct Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: David Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA),Carl Pilcher (NASA),Jennifer Wiseman (NASA),Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Panel Discussion -- Practical Roadmap on the Search for Life in the Universe: Our Next Steps
Duration: 1 hour 23 min
Event date: 2009/05/06
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Presenter: Jill Tarter (SETI)
(SETI Turns 50 - Five Decades of Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/07
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Presenter: Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden)
(How Future Radio Arrays Will Aid the Search For Life: including discussion of detecting biosignatures, organic material)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/07
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Presenter: Steve Benner (FfAME) (Life As We Don't Know It)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/07
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Presenter: Paul Davies (ASU) (Cultural Perspective: How Detection of Extraterrestrial Life Will Change Our World Views)
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/07
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Presenter: Ray Villard (STScI), Pascale Ehrenfreund (Leiden University), Janes Greaves (University of St. Andrews), Sara Seager (MIT), Wes Traub (JPL), Steve Benner (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution/FfAME), Mario Livio (STScI)
"Welcome and Introductions", "The Seeds of Life -Exogenous Delivery of Organics to Earth", "Terrestrial Planet Bombardment and Habitability", "Theoretical Models of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Interiors:Implications for Life Detection", "Advantages and Strategies for Direct Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets", "Life As We Don't Know It", "The Search for Life: The Long and the Short of It"
Duration: 30 min
Event date: 2009/05/07
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