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NOW 2023 Retreat
What, Where and When?
The NOW 2023 Retreat will be held at the USC Wrigley Center (Catalina Island, CA), Aug 19-24, 2023
Rationale and Anticipated Outcomes:
Build the community through interdisciplinary conversations among Earth and Planetary Scientists.
Get together in person - to learn, discuss, grow the base of knowledge, and common grounds for communication between these two communities of scientists.
Provide time for team building and potential proposal team development.
Create a forum for exchange with lectures delivered by “in house” expertise (e.g. from NOW St.Cttee)
Gain familiarity with mission architectures for Earth Science Missions and Technologies and Ocean World Missions (Dragonfly, Clipper) and Mission Concepts (Uranus Orbiter & Probe, Enceladus OrbiLander, Europa Lander).
Identify commonalities is use of remote sensing approaches (spectroscopy, radar, magnetometry).
Advance our collective understanding on the state of knowledge for in situ and remotely sensed chemistry leading to interpretations of habitability and detecting signs of life on ocean worlds.
Product:
The course modules will be designed to seed a new Field Guide to Ocean Worlds - a product of the short-course, and the Network for Ocean Worlds. Early career participants will be partnered with module leads to adapt lecture materials into a wiki-like entry in the field guide, providing an open access resource for NOW’s cross-disciplinary members and the scientific community alike. All contributions will be attributed on the field guide (both module leads and contributors), and potential for publishing the Field Guide may be explored with NASA.
Meetings, Activities, and Workshops
January 24-26 SBAG
January 27 Professional Advancement Workshop Series (PAWS): Science Policy
February 7 Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator (COBRA) Webinar Series
March 12-18 Red’23 Astrobiology Introductory Course (Register by Jan 31st, 2023)
March 13-17 LPSC
April 23-28 EGU General Assembly
May 2-3 OPAG
May 8-12 Biennial European Astrobiology Conference
May 15-18 Brines Across the Solar System: Ancient and Future Brines (abstract deadline 3/1/2023)
July 10-14 International Summer School in Astrobiology (application deadline 3/1/2023)
July 30-Aug 4 AOGS 2023 including PS09: Geology, Geophysics, and Habitability in Our Solar System (abstract deadline 2/14/2023)
Recent Ocean Worlds Research Publications
Fernando et al., 2022. Inclusion of early-career researchers in space missions. Nat Astron 6, 1339–1341. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01861-2
Ramirez-Llodra et al., 2022. Hot vents beneath an icy ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, revealed. Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.103.
Singh et al. 2023. Surviving in Ocean Worlds: Experimental Characterization of Fiber Optic Tethers across Europa-like Ice Faults and Unraveling the Sliding Behavior of Ice, Sci. J.4 1, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/aca3ab
Carnahan et al., 2022. Surface‐to‐ocean exchange by the sinking of impact generated melt chambers on Europa. Geophysical Research Letters. 10.1029/2022GL100287.
Ramirez-Llodra et al., 2023. Hot vents beneath an icy ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, revealed. Oceanography 36, 8-19. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.103
Ryan‐Davis, J., & Scalice, D., 2022. Co‐Creating Ethical Practices and Approaches for Fieldwork Co‐Creating Ethical Practices and Approaches for Fieldwork. AGU Advances, 3(6). doi:10.1029/2022av000762
Piaulet et al., 2022. Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet. Nat Astron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01835-4
Ashkenazy et al. 2022. Non-synchronous rotation on Europa driven by ocean currents. arXiv:2210.04961https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04961.
Chatain et al. 2022 Air–Sea Interactions on Titan: Effect of Radiative Transfer on the Lake Evaporation and Atmospheric Circulation The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, DOI 10.3847/PSJ/ac8d0b
German et al. 2022. Volcanically hosted venting with indications of ultramafic influence at Aurora hydrothermal field on Gakkel Ridge. Comms., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34014-0.
