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March 10-11, 2015, NAI EC In-person Meeting

The NAI Executive Council meeting on March 10-11, 2015 was held in Greenbelt, Maryland and hosted by the Goddard Space Flight Center team.

NAI Central POC: Jeni Ornelas 650-279-0939 (cell)

Where

Goddard Space Flight Center: Building 34, Room W130, 1st Floor
When you come in the main doors to Bldg 34, you would turn right and it’s down the hall on the right.

Link to a campus map HERE

Lodging Reservations

Holiday Inn Greenbelt
7200 Hanover Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770

Room Block Name NAI EC Meeting
Reservation Link: NAIECbooking
Room rate: $129
Room block set for Monday, March 9th – Thursday, March 12th
Rate includes full breakfast.
Room Cut-off date: February 23, 2015

Directions from the hotel to Goddard can be found HERE

BADGING

Badging is required to enter Goddard property. Residents of the following states will require a second form of ID: Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, and Washington.

Schedule

AGENDA

Tuesday, March 10th

08:00–08:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

08:30–09:00 Welcome and Introductions

09:00–12:00 Integrating Research Themes (Synergy Documents):
09:00–10:30 Plenary discussion of objectives and approach
10:30–12:00 Breakout sessions for individual topics
– Serpentinizing Systems
– Catalog of Habitable Planetary States
– [Environmental Change and] Biosignatures
– Evolution of Complex Life
– Planetary Inventory of Organics and Water
– The History of Oxygen on Early Earth
– GeoBioCell Applications
– Others

12:00–12:45 LUNCH for PIs

12:45–01:30 PI in camera Session (Team PIs only)

01:30–02:00 Report-out from in camera Session (EC, NAI Central, NASA HQ only)

02:00–03:00 Integrating Research Themes (Continued)

03:00–03:15 BREAK

03:15–04:00 Restructuring the NAI Focus Groups

04:00–05:30 Update from NASA HQ
– Jim Green (Director, Planetary Science Division)
– Curt Niebur
– Mitch Schulte
– Mary Voytek

05:30 Adjourn

07:00 DINNER

Dinner Location: Severn Inn
1993 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard
Annapolis, Maryland 21409

Wednesday, March 11th

08:00–08:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

08:30–10:30 Goddard Team Science Presentations:

08:30–08:50 Objectives of the GCA – Mike Mumma

08:50–09:10 Steve Charnley: From the Interstellar Medium to Primitive Bodies

09:10–09:30 Michael DiSanti: Towards a Compositional Taxonomy for Comets – Implications for Astrobiology

09:30–09:50 Stefanie Milam: Comets at mm Wavelengths – Emerging Lessons for Astrobiology

09:50–10:10 Reggie Hudson: Icy Solids and Chemical Evolution

10:10–10:30 Geronimo Villanueva: First Maps of Isotopic Water On Mars – Probing Current and Ancient Reservoirs

10:30–11:00 BREAK

11:00–12:00 Other Institute Business
– E/PO within the NAI
– International Partners at June In-person EC Meeting
– Japan Partnership Proposal
– Other

12:00–12:50 LUNCH

01:00–04:00 Tour of Goddard Labs and Facilities (Bldg 34):

Option 1) Tour of JWST Assembly & Test Area – Milam/Mather (in Bldg 29)
01:00–01:20 Tour of JWST Assembly & Test Area – Milam/Mather
01:20–01:30 JWST Tour Walk to B34

Option 2) Science Talk by Avi Mandell (in Bldg 34)
01:00–01:25 Avi Mandell – “Exoplanet Science in the GCA: from Jupiters to Earths”
01:25–01:45 Danny Glavin – “Organic Compounds Identified by Curiosity in a Martian Mudstone”

01:50–02:15 Lab Tour #1 SAM and MOMA Testbed Labs – Caroline Freissinet & Danny Glavin

02:15–02:40 Lab Tour #2 – Astrobiology Analytical Lab – Nucleobases & Amino Acids in Meteorites; OSIRIS-REx Samples – Jamie Elsila Cook, Michael Callahan, & Jose Aponte

02:40–03:05 Lab Tour #3 – Cosmic Dust Lab: Synthesis of Organic Compounds on Interplanetary Dust Analogues – Joseph Nuth & Natasha Johnson

03:05–03:20 Drive Personal Cars to Visitor Center

03:20–03:50 Tour of the “Astrobiology Walk” – Guided by Mike Mumma & Team Scientists

04:00 Depart Goddard