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  1. February 20, 2015 Agenda

    10:00-10:30: Team Synergy Documents: WWW and Science Working Groups
    – Serpentinizing Systems
    – Catalog of Habitable Planetary States
    – Biosignatures (in situ)
    – Evolution of Complex Life
    – Planetary Inventory of Organics and Water
    – The History of Oxygen on Early Earth
    – GeoBioCell Applications
    – Others

    10:30-10:40: March In-person EC Meeting at GSFC, Agenda and Logistics

    10:40-10:50: Announcements
    – “NAI Director’s Search“http://nai.nasa.gov/articles/2015/2/5/nasa-seeks-new-nasa-astrobiology-institute-director/
    – Education CAN Update
    NAI Director’s Seminar, Bill Bottke, SwRI, Feb 23rd
    NPP Deadline Mar 1st
    AbSciCon Abstract Deadline, Mar 4th – and Auxiliary Events, Hotel Reservations Open
    MIRS Applications, Due Mar 16th

    10:50-11:05: Extended Team Science (Wisc.): Bill Schopf (UCLA), Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution’s null hypothesis

    11:05-11:30: Team Summaries and Monthly Updates (11 teams, 2 minutes each)

    11:30: Adjourn