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Cloud Download Welcome to the Fifth Annual Ames Space Sciences and Astrobiology Jamboree! The Space Science and Astrobiology Division at NASA Ames Research Center consists of over 60 civil servants and more than 120 contractors, co-ops, post-docs, visiting scientists, 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, K2, SOFIA, 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 are also continuing the 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. Robert Haberle 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. Thomas Bristow 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 Steve Howell Mark Fonda Jeff Hollingsworth Chris Dateo Space Science & Astrobiology Jamboree 2017 1 FIFTH ANNUAL SPACE SCIENCES JAMBOREE MARCH 7, 2017 8:00 am Registration & Poster Setup Session Chair: Tim Lee 8:30 am Welcome & Announcements Outstanding Early Career Space Scientist Lecture: 8:45 am Tom Bristow: Mineralogy and Models of Ancient Mars Christopher Burke: Terrestrial Planet Occurrence Rates From The Final 9:45 am Kepler Pipeline Search Kathryn Bywaters: IN SITU Life Detection and Characterization using 10:05 am Nanopore Sequencing in the Hyper Arid Region of the Atacama Desert, Chile 10:25 am Poster Session (odd number posters) & Coffee Break Session Chair: Steve Howell Anthony Colaprete: Resource Prospector: An Update on the Lunar Volatiles 11:10 am Prospecting and ISRU Demonstration Mission Cristina Dalle Ore: Ices on Charon: Distribution of H2O and NH3 from New 11:30 am Horizons LEISA Observations Craig Everroad: Fine-scale niche partitioning and cooperation in co-existing 11:50 am cyanobacteria may promote systems-level fitness across environmental conditions 12:10 pm Poster Session / Lunch Session Chair: Chris Dateo Mark Marley: Preparing for the Next Decade of Exoplanet Discovery and 1:15 pm Characterization 1:35 pm Milena Popovich: Modularity and Evolution of RNA Function 1:55 pm Richard Quinn: Microfluidic Approaches to Searching for Extant Life Nasseem Rangwala: SOFIA/EXES 13 Micron High Spectral Resolution 2:15 pm Observations of Orion IRc2 2:35 pm Lynn Rothschild: Stanford-Brown iGEM 2016: Bioballoon 2:55 pm Poster Session (even number posters) & Coffee Break Session Chair: Jeff Hollingsworth Andrew Rushby: Long Term Planetary Habitability and the Carbonate- 3:40 pm Silicate Cycle David Wilson: Catching Life from the Icy Ocean World Plumes: Applications 4:00 pm to Europa & Enceladus Pollack Lecture: 4:20 pm Bob Haberle: The Early Mars Climate System 5:20 pm Remove Posters Space Science & Astrobiology Jamboree 2017 2 ID Title Corresponding Author Astrobiology Posters AB.1 Biological Production of a Novel Polymer for Space Industry Nils Averesch AB.2 Methane at the Aqua De Ney Hyperalkaline Spring (N. California Jennifer Blank USA), A Site of Active Serpentinization AB.3 Life Detection in Briny Environments: Mitigating False Negatives Rosalba Bonaccorsi AB.4 A Continuous Production of Fragile Proto-Metabolites in the Early Andro Rios & George Solar System: Evidence from Carbonaceous Chondrites? Cooper AB.5 The Lassen Astrobiology Intern Program Dave Des Marais AB.6 Direct observation of coevolution at the RNA-protein interface Mark Ditzler AB.7 Volumetric Distinction Between Gully Types on Mars; Volatile Natalie Glines Implications AB.8 Determining The Magnitude and Duration of Potentially Habitable Ginny Gulick Aqueous Environments on Mars AB.9 Building a Biosignature Imaging, Spectral and Thin Section Ginny Gulick Library to Support Upcoming Mars Surface Missions AB.10 Navua Valles – Hadriacus Mons – Ausonia Montes: Channels, Henrick Hargitai Paleolakes, Knobby Terrains and Mound Fields AB.11 Biosignatures in the Context of Low Energy Flux Tori Hoehler AB.12 Eukaryotic Sterol Biomarkers: Production and Fate in a Laminated Linda Jahnke Microbial Mat AB.13 Production and Preservation of Lipid Biomarkers by Iron- Taylor Kelly Oxidizing Chemolithotrophs in Circumneutral Iron Deposits AB.14 Data Sharing In Astrobiology: The Astrobiology Habitable Barbara Lafuente Environments Database (AHED) and the Chemin Database AB.15 The Formation Of Nucleobases from the Irradiation of Christopher Materese Astrophysical Ices AB.16 Rock Sample Analysis and Raman Spectroscopy in the Paige Morkner Development of Automatic Classifiers AB.17 Sugars and Sugar Derivatives in Residues Produced from the UV Michel Nuevo Irradiation of Astrophysical Ice Analogs AB.18 Powercell 2° Payload on Eucropis: A Cyanobacterial Fuel Source Ivan Paulino-Lima for In Situ Biological Production AB.19 Influence of Galactic arm scale dynamic on the molecular Maxime Ruaud composition of dense clouds AB.20 Ocean Biomolecule Explorer for Astrobiology Heather Smith AB.21 The University Rover Challenge: An international rover Heather Smith competiton under simulated Mars Operational Conditions AB.22 The Icebreaker Life Mission Plan Carol Stoker AB.23 Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Perchlorates David Summers AB.24 Ionizing Radiation in the Subsurfaces of Enceladus and Europa: Luis Teodoro Implications for the Search for Evidence of Life AB.25 Mars Drill Bio-barrier Study: Design and Surface Coatings Seamus Thomson Space Science & Astrobiology Jamboree 2017 3 AB.26 Critical Assessment of Biosignature Detection with Raman Mary Beth Wilhelm Spectroscopy on Biologically Lean Soils AB.27 Development of a new chiral-sensitive photothermal microscope: Hiroharu Yui Towards a search for biosignatures in extraterrestrial environments AB.28 Gully Distribution and the Analysis of Two Gullies in Hale Crater, Sean Corrigan Mars Using HiRise DTMs AB.29 Geomorphic Analysis of Integrated Gully Systems on Mars Ginny Gulick Astrophysics Posters AP.1 Photochemistry of the PAHs Coronene and Ovalene in Cosmic Ana Lucia Ferreria de Water Ice Barros AP.2 Nucleobase Synthesis via UV-induced Oxidation of their Partha Bera Precursors in Astrophysical Ices: A Quantum Chemical Perspective AP.3 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Charge and Size Across a Christiaan Boresma Reflection Nebula, H II-region and Planetary Nebul AP.4 Laboratory Approach to Astrophysical Catalysis and the Gustavo Cruz Diaz Interaction of Cosmic Ray and UV Photons with IVA AP.5 The Anharmonic Quartic Force Field Infrared Spectra of Five Non Tim Lee Linear Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Benz[a]anthracene, Chrysene, Phenanthrene, Pyrene, and Triphenylene AP.6 Molecular Identification Tool for High-Resolution Astronomical Naseem Rangwala Line Surveys AP.7 Spectroscopy of Cryogenic Thin Films Containing PAHs: PAH Joseph Roser Clusters, Binary PAH Mixtures, and the Effect of Water Ice AP.8 Recent Progress in Laboratory Astrophysics achieved with the Farid Salama COSmIC Facility AP.9 Opacities and Turbulence in Cold Planet Forming Accretion Disks Orkan Umurhan AP.10 UV-Visible Spectroscopy of PAHs and PANHs in Supersonic Jet Salma Bejaoui AP.11 IR Intensity Prediction of CO2 Isotopologues: New Ames Line Lists Xinchuan Huang vs. Existing Databases Exoplanet Posters EP.1 Creating the Final Kepler Catalog for an Accurate Exoplanet 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Materese PA.7 Significance of topography-driven vertical transport on the global Richard Urata water cycle on Mars PA.8 Investigating Titan’s Atmospheric Chemistry with the Titan Haze Ella Sciamma-O’ Brien Simulation Experiment PA.9 Modeling
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