"Is it a little restrictive searching for evidence of other life in only the RF spectrum? How else might we look for evidence?"
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May 16-17th NAI Executive Council Agenda
Valhalla Inn, Thunder Bay, Ontario – P7E 6J1 – Canada Phone: (807) 577-1121 (Tel)
Sunday, May 15
Optional pre-meeting field trip to Steep Rock
08:30am Depart Thunder Bay
10:30am Arrive at Steep Rock
04:30pm Depart Steep Rock
06:30pm Arrive back at Thunder Bay
Monday, May 16
08:00–08:30 Breakfast
08:30–08:45 Opening Remarks (Carl Pilcher)08:45–09:45 Canadian Space Agency astrobiology activities (speaker TBD)
09:45–10:00 BREAK
10:00–11:00 Canadian Astrobiology Training Program (Lyle Whyte)
11:00–12:00 Future of virtual field trips
- Current and planned field trips (Ariel Anbar, others)
- All access field trip technologies: Current and on the horizon (Estelle Dodson)
- Guidance from the EC on how to proceed in the next few years: Where is the value for science? For E/PO? (All)
12:00–01:30 LUNCH / PI in camera working lunch
01:30–02:00 Report out from in camera session02:00–03:00 International astrobiology topics
- Possible international conference in 2013
- Development of astrobiology in Ecuador
- International Astrobiology Newsletter (IAN)
- Report on the March Nordic/NASA partnership meeting (K. Meech)
- Follow up to Colombia field trip/partnership (C. House and J. Peters)
03:00–03:15 BREAK
03:15–05:00 U. Wisconsin team presentations- Elizabeth Percak-Dennett. Isotopic fractionation during microbial dissimilatory iron oxide reduction in simulated Archaean seawater.
- Jason Huberty. Silician magnetite as a biosignature from the Brockman Iron Formation.
- Ken Williford. Sulfur three-isotope micro-distribution in pyrite deposited during Paleoproterozoic atmospheric oxygenation in glaciogenic sediments of the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia.
- Andy Czaja. Evidence for free oxygen in the Neoarchean ocean based on coupled iron–molybdenum isotope fractionation.
- Ken Williford. EPO Report – Imagine Mars in an after-school astrobiology science club.
Tuesday, May 17
08:00–08:30 Breakfast
08:30–09:30 NAI website update (Shige Abe)
09:30–10:30 Planetary Science Decadal survey + budget (Mary Voytek via videocon)
10:30–10:45 BREAK
10:45–11:00 Earth Science-Astrobiology Request for Information
11:00–11:30 Other business and/or continuation of previous topics as needed
11:30–12:00 Field trip overview (Phil Fralick)
12:00–05:00 Depart for field trip, box lunch at Hillcrest Park. Continue trip around Thunder Bay (Gunflint, Sudbury impact, Rove formation)
May 9, 2011
- November 18, 2011
- October 21, 2011
- September 14-16 In-person (Fayetteville, NY)
- July 15, 2011
- May 16-17, 2011 (Thunder Bay, Canada) [Website] [Agenda]
- April 15, 2011 [Agenda]
- March 18, 2011 [Agenda]
- February 18, 2011 [Agenda]
- January 20-21, 2011 [Website] [Agenda and Presentations]
- November 19, 2010 [Agenda]
- October 15, 2010 [Agenda]
- August 25-26, 2010 (In-Person) [website] [agenda]
- June 18, 2010 [Agenda]
- May 21, 2010 [Agenda]
- April 30, 2010 (in-person) [Agenda]
- March 26, 2010 [Agenda]
- February 9-10, 2010 (in-person) [Website] [Agenda]
- January 15, 2010 [Agenda]
- November 20, 2009 [Agenda]
- October 16, 2009 [Agenda]
- September 10-11, 2009 (In-Person)
- August 14, 2009 [Agenda]
- June 19, 2009 [Agenda]
- May 13-15, 2009 (Workshop) [Website]
- April 17, 2009 [Agenda]
- March 20, 2009 [Agenda]
- February 20, 2009 [Agenda]
- January 26-27, 2009 (In-person) [Agenda]
- November 21, 2008 [Agenda]
- October 16-17, 2008 (In-person) [Agenda and Presentations]
- 9/11/2008 [Agenda]
- 6/20/2008 [Agenda]
- 5/16/2008 [Agenda]
- 4/12/2008 [Agenda and Presentations]
- 3/21/2008 [Agenda]
- 2/15/2008 [Agenda]
- 1/8/2008 [Agenda]
- 11/16/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 10/2/2007 [Agenda]
- 8/17/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 6/15/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 5/8/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 4/20/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 3/15/2007 [Agenda] [Minutes]
- 2/16/2007 [Agenda]
