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May 15-16, 2018 NAI EC In-Person Meeting

The NAI Executive Council meeting on May 15-16, 2018 will be held in Boulder, CO and hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder Team.

POC:
Desi Bridges
(510) 468-2413
desireemoi.r.bridges@nasa.gov

Please fill out the NAI EC Meeting RSVP page. We use this information for transportation planning and communication.

Meeting Locations

Tuesday, May 15th
Benson Earth Sciences Building, Rm. 380
2200 Colorado Ave
Boulder CO 80309

For walking directions from Millennium Harvest House to the Benson Earth Sciences Building, click here.

Wednesday, May 16th
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building
3415 Colorado Ave
Boulder, CO 80303

For walking directions from Millennium Harvest House to the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, click here.

Lodging Reservations

Millennium Harvest House Boulder
1345 Twenty-Eighth Street
Boulder, CO 80302-6899
Ph: (303) 443-3850

Room Block Name: NASA Astrobiology Institute
Room Block Dates: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 to Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Room Rate: $125/night
Room Block Reservation Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2018

To book a room, visit the Millennium Hotel website.

*To book additional nights outside of the room block, you will need to call the hotel directly.

For directions from Denver International Airport (DEN) to Millennium Harvest House Boulder, click here. Route includes tolls.

Meals

Tuesday, May 15th’s dinner will be held at:
The Chautauqua Dining Hall
900 Baseline Road
Boulder, CO 80302

*Please make sure to bring cash to pay for dinner. The estimated cost will be sent out prior to the meeting when the menu has been finalized.

Agenda (draft)

Tuesday, May 15th

07:30–08:30 BREAKFAST

08:30–09:00 Welcome and Introductions/ Objectives for Day 1

09:00–09:10 PI Alexis Templeton: Introduction, Rock-Powered Life: Revealing Mechanisms of Energy Flow from the Lithosphere to the Biosphere

University of Colorado Team Science Presentations (15 min + 5 min Q&A)

09:10–09:30 Why Rock-Powered Life?, Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames)

09:30–09:50 Energy Supply in Serpentinizing Systems: An Experimental Perspective, Tom McCollom (University of Colorado)

09:50–10:10 Overcoming Thermodynamic and Biosynthetic Limitations for Primordial Life, Eric Boyd (Montana State University)

10:10–10:40 BREAK

10:40–11:00 Subsurface Biological Communities and Biogeochemical Processes in an Actively Serpentinizing System in Oman, Alexis Templeton (University of Colorado)

11:00–11:20 Coupled Biology, Geochemistry and Hydrology at the California Coast Range Microbial Observatory, Matthew Schrenk (Michigan State University)

11:20–11:40 Clumped Isotopologue Identification of Multiple Sources of Methane Associated with Serpentinization, Shuhei Ono (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)

11:40–12:00 IODP Expedition 357 Atlantis Massif: Serpentinization and Life. Mineralogy and Fe Chemistry in Serpentinites. Lisa Mayhew (University of Colorado)

12:00–12:20 Metagenomic Investigations of Serpentinite Hosted Systems, William Brazelton (University of Utah)

12:20-12:30 Logistics (directions, map for dinner, group photo, etc.)

12:30-01:15 LUNCH

01:15 Depart for Tour of Edgar Experimental Mine, Idaho Springs. Field trip will be led by John Spear (Colorado School of Mines)

05:00 Return to Boulder

06:30 GROUP DINNER at Dining Hall at Chautauqua Park

Wednesday, May 16th

07:30–08:30 BREAKFAST

08:30–09:00 Welcome & Introductions/ Objectives for Day 2 (Penny/Carol Carroll, Deputy Director NASA Ames Research Center)

Welcome New NAI CAN-8 Teams

09:00–09:20 JPL-Titan (PI Rosaly Lopes) Summary Presentation / Q&A

09:20–09:40 Rutgers University (PI Paul Falkowski) Summary Presentation / Q&A

09:40–10:00 Pennsylvania State University (PI Katherine Freeman) Summary Presentation / Q&A

10:00–10:30 BREAK

10:30–11:00 Presentation: NASA Astrobiology Program (Mary Voytek, Michael New, Lindsay Hays; remotely)

11:00–11:30 General Discussion: Ames Research Center Dep. Director Carol Carroll

11:30–12:30 LUNCH

12:30–01:00 PI in camera Session

01:00–01:30 Report out from in camera session (NAI EC, NAI Central, and HQ only)

01:30–03:00 Presentations from CAN-7 Teams (~10 min/team)

03:00–03:30 Start Planning for the Integration of Team Science

03:30 ADJORN