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NASA Ames Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium March 12, 2013 Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium 2013 1 Welcome to the Ames Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium! The Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA Ames Research Center consists of over 50 Civil Servants and more than 110 contractors, co-ops, post-docs and associates. Researchers in the division are pursuing investigations in a variety of fields including exoplanets, planetary science, astrobiology and astrophysics. In addition, division personnel support a wide variety of NASA missions including (but not limited to) Kepler, SOFIA, LADEE, JWST, and New Horizons. With such a wide variety of interesting research going on, distributed among three branches in at least 5 different buildings, it can be difficult to stay abreast of what one’s fellow researchers are doing. Our goal in organizing this Symposium is to facilitate communication and collaboration among the scientists within the division, and to give center management and other ARC researchers and engineers an opportunity to see what scientific research and science mission work is being done in the division. We also wanted to start a new tradition within the Space Science and Astrobiology Division to honor one senior and one early career scientist with the Pollack Lecture and the Early Career Lecture, respectively. With the Pollack Lecture, our intent is to select a senior researcher who has made significant contributions to any area of research within the space sciences, and we are pleased to honor Dr. Dale Cruikshank this year. With the Early Career Lecture, our intent is to select a young researcher within the division who, by their published scientific papers, shows great promise for the future in any area of space science research, and we are pleased to honor Dr. Rus Belikov this year. We hope you can take advantage of the day to learn something new and meet some new faces! Sincerely, Science Organizing Committee Tim Lee Mark Fonda Jessie Dotson Jeff Hollingsworth Orlando Santos Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium 2013 2 First Annual Space Sciences Symposium March 12, 2013 8:00 registraon & poster setup 8:30 Michael Bicay: Welcome Outstanding Early Career Space Scienst Lecture: 8:45 Rus Belikov: Beyond Kepler: Direct Imaging of Earth-Like Planets 9:45 Jack Lissauer: Accreon of Water by Exo-Earths 10:05 Jason Rowe: Mapping the Surface of a Rocky Extrasolar Planet: Kepler-10b 10:25 Poster Session (odd number posters) & Coffee Break Philippe Sarrazin: The development of CheMin, it's employment on the MSL rover Curiosity and 11:10 first quantave mineralogical results from Mars Thomas Bristow: Ancient Cold-Seep Deposits as Paleoenvironmental Indicators of the Late 11:30 Precambrian to Early Paleozoic Biosphere 11:50 Richard Quinn: Perchlorate Radiolysis on Mars and the Origin of Maran Soil Reacvity 12:10 Poster Session / Lunch 13:15 David Des Marais: Microbial mats offer insights about our early biosphere and its biosignatures 13:35 Lee Bebout: Microbial Systems: Nexus roles for Astrobiology, Energy and Space 13:55 Nathalie Cabrol: Exploring Planetary Lakes 14:15 Pamela Marcum: Extremely Isolated Early-Type Galaxies: Benchmarks of Galaxy Evoluon 14:35 Hans Zinnecker: SOFIA mid-infrared observaons of the Orion Nebula region 14:55 Cesar Contreras: Laboratory Studies of the Formaon of Carbonaceous Dust from PAH Precursors 15:15 Poster Session (even number posters) & Coffee Break Rick Elphic: The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE): T-minus 6 months 16:00 and counng Pollack Lecture: 16:20 Dale Cruikshank: Planetary Chemistry: Ices to Organics 17:20 Remove Posters Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium 2013 3 id Title Corresponding Author Astrobiology Posters AB.1 Anomalous mirror-image ratios of meteoritic sugar derivatives George Cooper The Sutter's Mill CM Chondrite and the Tissint Shergottite: First Data from The AB.2 Derek Sears NASA Ames Thermoluminescence Laboratory AB.3 High-throughput comparative sequence analysis of in vitro RNA evolution Mark Ditzler AB.4 Sugars, the Carbon Group Molecular Battery of Biotic and Abiotic Synthesis Art Weber AB.5 How Proteins Became Functional? Mike Wilson Energy Transduction in Vesicles, Reduction of Important REDOX Carriers Such as AB.6 David Summers Qui- nones and NAD+ Photochemistry of Pyrimidine in Astrophysical Ices: Formation of Nucleobases and AB.7 Michel Nuevo Other Prebiotic Species Anoxygenic growth of cyanobacteria on Fe(II) and their associated biosignatures: AB.8 Mary Nichole (Niki) Parenteau Implications for biotic contributions to Precambrian Iron Formations AB.9 Biosignatures for Chemo- and Photo- Synthetic Systems: Early Earth and Mars? Linda Jahnke AB.10 Towards Understanding the Dry Limit of Life Alfonso Davila Ice Dragon: A Mission to address Science and Human Exploration Objectives on AB.11 Carol Stoker Mars AB.12 Landing site analysis to support a Mars extant life and biomarker detection mission Jennifer Heldmann AB.13 The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A search for biomolecular evidence for life Chris McKay AB.14 The search for organics on Mars Chris McKay Gene Expression Measurement Module (GEMM) - a Fully Automated, Miniaturized AB.15 Andrew Pohorille Instrument for Measuring Gene Expression in Space The ORGANIC Experiment on EXPOSE‐R on the ISS: A Space Exposure AB.16 Kathryn Bryson Experiment SEVO (Space Environment Viability of Organics): Results from NASA’s First AB.17 Andy Mattioda Astrobiology Small Payloads Mission SEVO (Space Environment Viability of Organics) Laboratory Control Experiments: AB.18 Amanda Cook Supporting Data for the O/OREOS Mission AB.19 OREOcube: ORganics Exposure in Orbit Richard Quinn Tackling SMD and HEOMD interests one field deployment at a time AB.20 Darlene Lim The Pavilion Lake Research Project Astrobiology Field Analog Research, Education, and Conservation at the Ubehebe AB.21 Volcanic Field (Death Valley National Park, CA): Discovery and Awareness for a Rosalba Bonaccorsi possible tomorrow Astrobiology field research in a High-Fidelity Desert Analog Site: The Ubehebe AB.22 Rosalba Bonaccorsi Volcanic Field (Death Valley, California) Microbiological Genetic Inventory within the NASA Ames Research Center High AB.23 Fathi Karouia Bay Cleanroom Astrophysics Posters AP.1 In-flight Performance of the Water Vapor Monitor Onboard the SOFIA Observatory Thomas Roellig The Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES) is one of the first generation AP.2 Curtis DeWitt instruments for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Adventures High Energy Astrophysics: From the Sun to the Crab Nebula and AP.3 Jeff Scargle Beyond Space Science and Astrobiology Symposium 2013 4 id Title Corresponding Author AP.4 Sounding the Stars: Asteroseismology with the Kepler Space Telescope Daniel Huber Astrophysics from Kepler: The Radii of Low-Mass Stars in Long-Period Eclipsing AP.5 Jeffrey Coughlin Binaries AP.6 Star formation in nearby early-type galaxies Alexandre Amblard AP.7 Multiwavelength Diagnostics of a Late-stage Galaxy Merger Sequence Michael Fanelli Extragalactic detection of CH 532/536 GHz lines from Herschel: NGC 1068, M82, AP.8 Naseem Rangwala Arp 220 and NGC 253 Variations of Mid and Far-IR Luminosities Among Early-Type Galaxies: Relation to AP.9 Pasquale Temi Stellar Metallicity and Cold Dust AP.10 Differential Heating of Magnetically Aligned Dust Grains John Vaillancourt AP.11 Observational Constraints on Interstellar Grain Alignment Mechanisms B-G Anderson AP.12 How empty are the dust holes in the inner regions of evolved protoplanetary disks? 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