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AbSciCon: Ocean Worlds related events
- There will be an Ocean Worlds theme running throughout AbSciCon: Ocean Worlds Near and Far
- Social Event of the Month: NOW/ FLOW Meetup
- Town Hall: NASA HQ Monday 6:15-7:15 PM
- RCN Kiosk: NOW co-leads at the NASA RCN exhibit booth: Tues May 7th, 09:30-11:30 & 1:00-2:30
- Town Hall: Across the RCNs: Current Views on Life's Origins, Distribution and Detection
- Town Hall: Curation & Characterization of Planetary Analog Samples & Data, Thurs May 9th 6:15-7:15PM
- Call for Poster Competition Judges
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Meetings, Activities, and Workshops
- April 14-19 EGU General Assembly
- April 16 NASAAstrobiology SciComm Guild Meeting: NASA NIFTY team training: STEM youth role model
- May 1 US InterRidge Webinar Series, Shawn Arellano, Western Washington University
- May 16-18 Planetary ReaCH: Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement, applicaton deadline 5/2/2024
- May 21-23 Uranus Flagship Workshop
- May 21-24 International Astrobiology School
- June 3-6 Terrestrial Analogues for Solar System studies
- June 10-14 AbGradCon
- June 12-13 Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), NOW Posters welcome: deadline = 6/3/24
- July 7-12 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- July 24-27 Communicating Science Flagship Workshop,
- Aug 12-14 Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Exploration Workshop
- Aug 18-23 Goldschmidt Conference, Icy Ocean Worlds Session: Exploration and Habitability,
- Sept 22-26 14th International Congress on Extremophiles
- Nov 13-15 Exoplanets in our Backyard III
- Dec 9-13 AGU, session proposals due 4/24/2024
Recent Ocean Worlds Research Publications
Glein, C. 2024. The Geochemical Potential for Metabolic Processes on the Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b. Astrophysical Journal Letters 964 L19.
Napoleoni, M et al. 2024. Probing the Oxidation State of Ocean Worlds with SUDA: Fe (II) and Fe (III) in Ice Grains. The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 5, Number 4.
Szalay, J.R. et al. 2024. Oxygen production from the dissociation of Europa’s water-ice surface. Nat Astron ISSN2397-3366.
Park, R.S. et al. 2024. The Global Shape, Gravity Field, and Libration of Enceladus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 129, Issue 1. E2023JE008054.
Roerdink, D. et al. 2024. Hydrothermal activity fuels microbial sulfate reduction in deep and distal marine settings along the Arctic Mid Ocean Ridges. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.
Zaman, M. et al. 2024. Frictional Strength, Stability, and Potential Shear Heating on Icy Satellite Faults. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 129, Issue 3. E2023JE008215
Glein, C.R., et al., 2024. Moderate D/H ratios in methane ice on Eris and Makemake as evidence of hydrothermal or metamorphic processes in their interiors: Geochemical analysis, Icarus, 412, 115999.
Grundy, W.M., et al., 2024. Measurement of D/H and 13C/12C ratios in methane ice on dwarf planets Eris and Makemake: Evidence for internal activity, Icarus, 411, 115923.
Lainey, V. et al. A recently formed ocean inside Saturn’s moon Mimas.Nature 626, 280–282.
Reinhardt, M., et al. 2024. Aspects of the biological carbon cycle in a ca. 3.42-billion-year-old marine ecosystem. Precambrian Research 402
