NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

October 16, 2009 Executive Council Agenda

10:00-10:20 L-CROSS report (Jen Heldmann)

10:20-10:50 Discussion of the following

• Science integration

• AbSciCon sessions proposed by NAI Central:
  - Integrating Astrobiology Research
  - Postcards from the Road: Collaborative Tools for Astrobiology (Wendy Dolci, Marco Boldt, Estelle Dodson)
  - Postcards from the Future: What’s on the horizon for Collaborative Tools (Estelle Dodson, Wendy Dolci)
  - Astrobiology Lightning Talks (Shige Abe, Andrew Steele, Mark Friedenbach)
• AbSciCon: brief reports on other session proposals (All)
• What are other ways to capitalize on AbSciCon to continue the process? (All)
• Plans for the workshop on Interstellar/interplanetary sources of prebiotics in the early solar system (Cody, Mumma, Whittet, Meech)

• AbSciCon: brief reports on other session proposals (All)

• NAI Annual Report: update on progress, Q & A (All)

• Reminder: NPP applications deadline is November 1
• New NPP seminar series

• February NAI EC in person meeting

• Dates: Tuesday, Feb 9 (all day) and Wednesday, Feb 10 (8am-noon)
• Location: VPL will host the meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle

10:50-11:30 Round-table announcements from each team, on the following: a) new research publications, b) upcoming field expeditions, c) new members, d) mission related activities (workshops/planning groups), e) E/PO events and f) any other information you wish to impart to the EC.