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Highlights
The ECR’s Guide to Ocean World Missions: Updates, New Science, and Career Paths
- Wednesday September 2, 2026 Virtual Panel
- Registration: https://forms.gle/xASUXr98tLn3oGxw9
Exploring Ocean Worlds Near and Far, JGR Planets Special Issue
- Submission deadline: Tuesday November 2027
- Submission: https://jgr-planets-submit.agu.org/cgi-bin/main.plex
Meetings, Activities, and Workshops
- Sep 6-11 Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC)
- Sep 9-11 Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting
- Sep 14-18 AbGradCon
- Sep 27- Oct 1 Robotic One-Shot Exploration from Deep Ocean to Deep Space Workshop (IROS 2026)
- Jun 15 Call for papers
- Jul 27 Submission Deadline
- Oct 11-14 Geological Society of America (GSA)
- Oct 25-20 Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)
- Nov 30- Dec 4 Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
- Dec 7-11 AGU Annual Meeting (Abstract submission to open in June
Recent Ocean Worlds Research Publications
S. A. Stern et al 2026. Evidence for Possible N2 Basal Flow beneath Plyto’s Northern Sputnik Planitia Planet. Sci. J. 7 185, DOI 10.3847/PSJ/ae7e85
Ewert, M., Nunn, B. L., Firth, E., & Junge, K., Metabolic Responses, Cell Recoverability, and Protein Signatures of Three Extremophiles: Sustained Life During Long-Term Subzero Incubations. Microorganisms (2025), 13(2), 251
Gentilhomme, A. S., Dhakar, K., Timmins-Schiffman, E., Chaw, M., Firth, E., Junge, K., & Nunn, B. L., Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection. Astrobiology (2025)
Vitkova, A., Vu, T. and Lambert, J., Extended Longevity Photoactivated Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Biosignatures on Icy Worlds and Martian Polar Caps, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (2025)
J. Bonigk et al. 2026. Identifying Amino Acid Isomers with Mass Spectrometry on Icy Ocean Moons. Astrobiology, Vol. 26, Iss. 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/15311074261443835
J. Marlow. The Dark Frontier, Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea, Random House, 2026.
L.E.Moore, et al. 2026. Characterizing the unique chemical imprint of on-axis, lower temperature hydrothermal flow to the deep ocean (Southern East Pacific Rise, 16.5-18.0°S). Geophys. Res. Lett. 53, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120412, 2026.
Nixon, C. et al., (2026). Terrestrial Analogs to Titan for Geophysical Research. Reviews of Geophysics, 64, e2025RG000909. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025RG000909.
Schurmeier, L. et al., (2026). Shallow Impact Craters Suggest Titan Stores Methane in an Insulating Clathrate Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 131(5), e2025JE009629.
Schurmeier, L. and Fagents, S., 2025. Titan's Lithospheric Strength Envelope and Brittle-Ductile Transition: The Importance of Crustal Pore Fluids, Organics, and Clathrates. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, 130(9), https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009118.
