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Workshop Introduction and Module 0: Primer on Ocean Worlds, Enceladus, Organic Chemistry, and Decadal Survey

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Speakers:

  • Svetlana Shkolyar, University of MD / NASA GSFC

  • Andrew Steele, Carnegie Science 

  • Tori Hoehler, NASA ARC

  • Morgan Cable, JPL

  • Frank Postberg, Freie Universität Berlin

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Module 1: Mission Primer -            

Life Detection Mission Concepts to Ocean Worlds

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Speakers:

  • Shannon MacKenzie, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Kevin Hand, JPL

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Module 2: Life Detection Technology

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Speakers:

  • Aaron Noell, JPL

  • Stephanie Getty, NASA GSFC

  • Heather Graham, NASA GSFC

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Module 3: Ocean Worlds Processes

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Speakers:

  • Chris German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

  • Wanying Kang, MIT 

  • Jacob Buffo, Dartmouth College

  • Chris Glein, Southwest Research Institute  

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Module 4: Assessing the Abiotic Background

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

Earth Perspective Speakers:

  • Kristin Johnson-Finn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

  • Jeff Seewald, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Astromaterials Perspective Speakers:

  • Alexis Bouquet, Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires

  • Grégoire Danger, Aix-Marseille University

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Origin of Life Perspective Speakers:

  • Jim Cleaves, Howard University

  • Moran Frenkel-Pinter, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Module 5: Leveraging the Abiotic Background Panel

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Moderator:

  • Tori Hoehler, NASA ARC

Panelists:

  • Heather Graham, NASA GSFC

  • Andrew Steele, Carnegie Science

  • Laurie Barge, JPL

  • Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Scripps Research Department of Chemistry

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