[meteorite-list] SPIE's 46th Annual Meeting: Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IV

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:11 2004
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The International Society For Optical Engineering (SPIE)
SPIE's 46th Annual Meeting
The International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology

July 3 - August 3, 2001
San Diego, California, USA



Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology IV

Sunday-Monday 29-30 July 2001

Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #4495

       Conference Chairs: Richard B. Hoover, NASA Marshall Space Flight
       Ctr.; Gilbert V. Levin, Spherix Inc.; Roland Paepe, Geobound
       International Ltd. (Belgium); Alexei Y. Rozanov, Paleontological
       Institute (Russia)

Sunday 29 July

Welcome and Opening Remarks Sun. 9:00 am

SESSION 1 Sun. 9:10 to 11:30 am

Biomarkers and Microfossils in Ancient Rocks and Astromaterials

Chairs: Elfi S. Van Overloop, Geobound International Ltd. (Belgium); Michael
H. Hecht, Jet Propulsion Lab.

Search for life on Mars meteorites: an update (Invited Paper), D. S. McKay,
NASA Johnson Space Ctr.; K. L. Thomas-Keprta, Lockheed Martin; E. J. Gibson,
Jr., NASA Johnson Space Ctr.; S. J. Clemett, Stanford Univ. [4495-01]

Detection of microfossils in carbonaceous meteorites, R. B. Hoover, NASA
Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; A. Y. Rozanov, Paleontological Institute
(Russia) [4495-02]

Mineralogical, microstructural, and morphological criteria for biogencity in
microfossilifeous cherts, T. Sharp, J. Moreau, Arizona State Univ. [4495-03]

Microfossils in earlier Archean graphite of Aldan Shield and some aspects of
panspermia, S. I. Zhmur, Institute of Lithosphere of Marginal Seas (Russia);
V. I. Duda, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms
(Russia); F. M. Roizenman, MGRI-MGGA (Russia) [4495-04]

Amino acid signatures in carbonaceous meteorites (Invited Paper), O. Botta,
D. P. Glavin, J. L. Bada, Univ. of California/San Diego [4495-05]

Lunch Break

SESSION 2 Sun. 1:00 to 2:20 pm

Water, Ice, and Permafrost on Mars and Europa

Chairs: Joseph D. Ng, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; Elena V. Pikuta, Univ.
of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.

Comparison of snowball Earth and Mars conditions (Invited Paper), R. Paepe,
E. S. Van Overloop, Geobound International Ltd. (Belgium) [4495-06]

Computing periodicities in Mars sediment time series (Invited Paper), E. S.
Van Overloop, R. Paepe, Geobound International Ltd. (Belgium) [4495-07]

Aqueous environments on contemporary Mars (Invited Paper), M. H. Hecht, Jet
Propulsion Lab. [4495-08]

SESSION 3 Sun. 2:20 to 5:20 pm

Search for Organics and Life on Mars

Chairs: David S. McKay, NASA Johnson Space Ctr.; Mark R. Sims, Univ. of
Leicester (UK)

Scientific logic for life on Mars (Invited Paper), G. V. Levin, Spherix Inc.
[4495-09]

Progress in the search for organic matter on Mars: implications for the
interpretation of the Viking Labeled Release data (Invited Paper), D. M.
Warmflash, NASA Johnson Space Ctr.; S. J. Clemett, Stanford Univ.; D. S.
McKay, NASA Johnson Space Ctr. [4495-10]

Periodic analysis of the Viking Lander Labeled Release experiment, J. D.
Miller, Univ. of Southern California; P. A. Straat, Retired; G. V. Levin,
Spherix Inc. [4495-11]

Strategic reevaluation of the search for Martian organics, A. P. Zent, NASA
Ames Research Ctr. [4495-12]

Rock varnish as a habitat for extant life on Mars, B. E. DiGregorio, Cardiff
Univ. of Wales (UK) [4495-13]

Reflectance water index as an indicator of water content anomalies on the
surface of Mars, S. M. Pershin, V. Pungin, Space Research Institute (Russia)
[4495-14]

Oxides of Mars, G. V. Levin, Spherix Inc. [4495-15]

Poster Pops Sun. 5:20 to 6:00 pm

Chairs: Roland Paepe, Geobound International Ltd. (Belgium); Alexei Y.
Rozanov, Paleontological Institute (Russia)

The following poster papers will be presented as 5-minute oral presentations
between 5:20 and 6:00 pm.

   * Bacterial paleontology for astrobiology, A. Y. Rozanov, E. A. Zhegallo,
     G. T. Ushatinskaya, Y. V. Shuvalova, Paleontological Institute (Russia)
     R. B. Hoover, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-36]
   * Journey to the origins: the astrobiology paradigm in education (Invited
     Paper), F. Carrapico, A. Lourenco, L. Fernandes, T. Rodrigues, Univ. de
     Lisboa (Portugal) [4495-37]
   * Mineralological, petrological, and SEM analyses of two possible
     achondrites recovered from the Thiel Mountains, Antarctica (Invited
     Paper), P. P. Sipiera, William Rainey Harper College; R. B. Hoover, G.
     A. Jerman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-38]
   * Anaerobic psychrophiles from Alaska and Patagonia: implications to
     possible life on Mars and Europa, E. V. Pikuta, Univ. of Alabama in
     Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; R. B. Hoover, NASA
     Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-39]
   * Probable role of comets in formation prebiotic conditions on Earth in
     connection with position of Earth in a solar system, Y. G. Serezhkin,
     Central Design Bureau Arsenal (Ukraine) [4495-40]
   * Acritarchs: proterozoic and paleozoic enigmatic microfossils, R.
     Wicander, Central Michigan Univ. [4495-41]
   * Molecular phylogenetic comparison of active and fossilized hot spring
     microbial mat communities: implications for astrobiology, M. R. Taylor,
     Henderson State Univ.; H. Barton, Univ. of Colorado [4495-42]
   * Possible evolution of solar system's genome, G. V. Levin, Spherix Inc.;
     R. L. Levin, MIT Lincoln Lab. [4395-43]
   * AstroBiology Explorer (ABE) MIDEX mission concept (Invited Paper), K.
     A. Ennico, S. Sandford, S. Cox, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; D. J.
     Gallagher, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.; T. P. Greene, C. R.
     McCreight, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; G. Mills, Ball Aerospace &
     Techonologies Corp.; W. R. Purcell, D. W. Strecker, Ball Aerospace &
     Technologies Corp. [4495-19]

Monday 30 July

SESSION 4 Mon. 8:20 to 10:15 am

Astrobiology Instruments, Methods, and Missions

Chairs: Jacob I. Trombka, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.; Benjamin P. Weiss,
California Institute of Technology

Performance characteristics of the instrumentation on Beagle 2 (the
astrobiology lander of ESA's Mars express mission)(Invited Paper), M. R.
Sims, Univ. of Leicester (UK) [4495-16]

Mars Immuno-assay Life Detection Instrument (MILDI)(Invited Paper), D. M.
Warmflash, A. Steele, D. S. McKay, NASA Johnson Space Ctr. [4495-17]

Infrared remote sensing of Mars and the Mars astrobiology exploration
strategy, L. E. Kirkland, Lunar and Planetary Institute; K. C. Herr, E.
Keim, The Aerospace Corp.; J. W. Salisbury, (retired) Johns Hopkins Univ.;
P. M. Adams, J. A. Hackwell, The Aerospace Corp. [4495-18]

Identifying organic molecules in space-the AstroBiology Explorer (ABE) MIDEX
misson concept, S. Sandford, L. Allamandola, J. D. Bregman, K. A. Ennico, T.
P. Greene, D. Hudgins, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; D. W. Strecker, Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp. [4495-20]

Magneto-chiral anisotropy: chirality selection without polarization, G. L.
Rikken, Grenoble High Magnetic Field Lab. (France) [4495-21]

SESSION 5 Mon.11:00 to 11:50 am

Origin and Transfer of Microbial Life I

Chairs: Alexei Y. Rozanov, Paleontological Institute (Russia); Maria T.
Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interstellar transfer of planetary microbiota (Invited Paper), M. K. Wallis,
N. C. Wickramasinghe, Cardiff Univ. of Wales (UK) [4495-22]

Low-temperture transfer of ALH84001 from Mars to Earth (Invited Paper), B.
P. Weiss, J. L. Kirschvink, California Institute of Technology; F. J.
Baudenbacher, Vanderbilt Univ.; H. Vali, McGill Univ. (Canada); N. T.
Peters, Vanderbilt Univ.; F. A. Macdonald, California Institute of
Technology; J. P. Wikswo, Jr., Vanderbilt Univ. [4495-23]

Lunch Break

SESSION 6 Mon. 1:00 to 2:00 pm

Origin and Transfer of Microbial Life II

Chairs: Francisco J. Carrapico, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal); N. Chandra
Wickramasinghe, Cardiff Univ. of Wales (UK)

Jigsaw model of the origin of life, J. F. McGowan III, GFT Group [4495-24]

Bacterial growth in supercooled cloud droplets, B. Sattler, Univ. Innsbruck
(Austria); H. Puxbaum, Technische Univ. Wien (Austria); R. Psenner, Univ.
Innsbruck (Austria) [4495-25]

Gas-dusty atmosphere near Mars surface: comets and high layers of an earth's
atmosphere as a medium of formation-ordered structures from charged
microprarticles, Y. G. Serezhkin, Central Design Bureau Arsenal (Ukraine)
[4495-26]

SESSION 7 Mon. 2:00 to 3:30 pm

NEAR Spacecraft at Eros

Chairs: Gilbert V. Levin, Spherix Inc.; Abel Méndez, Univ. of Puerto
Rico/Arecibo

NEAR gamma-ray spectrometer on the surface of Eros: implications for future
planetary rovers (Invited Paper), J. I. Trombka, S. R. Floyd, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Ctr.; J. Schweitzer, Univ. of Connecticut; R. P. Reedy, Los
Alamos National Lab.; W. V. Boynton, Univ. of Arizona; J. L. Groves,
Schlumberger Ltd.; R. D. Starr, Catholic Univ. of America; L. G. Evans,
Computer Sciences Corp. [4495-27]

Surface and infrared structure of Eros: the NEAR laser altimeter (Invited
Paper), M. T. Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; D. E. Smith,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr. [4495-28]

NEAR discovers Eros: results from high-resolution imaging, P. C. Thomas,
Cornell Univ. [4495-29]

What Eros is made of: color imaging and spectral mapping, S. L. Murchie,
Johns Hopkins Univ. [4495-30]

SESSION 8 Mon. 3:50 to 5:45 pm

Microbial Extremophiles

Chairs: David M. Warmflash, NASA Johnson Space Ctr.; Michael Ray Taylor,
Henderson State Univ.

Planetary habitable zones: the spatial distribution of life on planetary
bodies (Invited Paper), A. Méndez, Univ. of Puerto Rico/Arecibo [4495-31]

Sulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacteria as terrestrial analogs for microbiota
of the Jovian moon Io (Invited Paper), E. V. Pikuta, Univ. of Alabama in
Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; R. B. Hoover, NASA Marshall
Space Flight Ctr. [4495-32]

Evidence for bioluminescence in astronomy, N. C. Wickramasinghe, S.
Al-Mufti, Cardiff Univ. of Wales (UK) [4495-33]

Azolla-anabaena-bacteria system as an ecological microcosm (Invited Paper),
F. Carrapico, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal) [4495-34]

Gene cloning of the 16S rDNA of a psychrophilic bacteria from the Alaskan
fox tunnel, D. Marsic, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; E. V. Pikuta, Univ.
of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; R. B. Hoover,
NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; J. D. Ng, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
[4495-35]

Posters-Monday

The following papers will be displayed all day Monday, location to be
announced in the Final Program. Authors will be present for discussion from
5:30 to 7:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served. (Further information for
poster authors is found in General Information section.)

Chairs: Francisco Carrapico, Univ. de Lisboa (Portugal); Abel Méndez, Univ.
of Puerto Rico/Arecibo

   * Bacterial paleontology for astrobiology, A. Y. Rozanov, E. A. Zhegallo,
     G. T. Ushatinskaya, Y. V. Shuvalova, Paleontological Institute
     (Russia); R. B. Hoover, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-36]
   * Journey to the origins: the astrobiology paradigm in education (Invited
     Paper), F. Carrapico, A. Lourenco, L. Fernandes, T. Rodrigues, Univ. of
     Lisbon (Portugal) [4495-37]
   * Mineralological, petrological, and SEM analyses of two possible
     achondrites recovered from the Thiel Mountains, Antarctica (Invited
     Paper), P. P. Sipiera, William Rainey Harper College; R. B. Hoover, G.
     A. Jerman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-38]
   * Anaerobic psychrophiles from Alaska and Patagonia: implications to
     possible life on Mars and Europa, E. V. Pikuta, Univ. of Alabama in
     Huntsville and NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr.; R. B. Hoover, NASA
     Marshall Space Flight Ctr. [4495-39]
   * Probable role of comets in formation prebiotic conditions on Earth in
     connection with position of Earth in a solar system, Y. G. Serezhkin,
     Central Design Bureau Arsenal (Ukraine) [4495-40]
   * Acritarchs: proterozoic and paleozoic enigmatic microfossils, R.
     Wicander, Central Michigan Univ. [4495-41]
   * Molecular phylogenetic comparison of active and fossilized hot spring
     microbial mat communities: implications for astrobiology, M. R. Taylor,
     Henderson State Univ.; H. Barton, Univ. of Colorado [4495-42]
   * Possible evolution of solar system's genome, G. V. Levin, Spherix Inc.;
     R. L. Levin, MIT Lincoln Lab. [4395-43]
   * AstroBiology Explorer (ABE) MIDEX mission concept (Invited Paper), K.
     A. Ennico, S. Sandford, S. Cox, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; D. J.
     Gallagher, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.; T. P. Greene, C. R.
     McCreight, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; G. Mills, Ball Aerospace &
     Techonologies Corp.; W. R. Purcell, D. W. Strecker, Ball Aerospace &
     Technologies Corp. [4495-19]

Eros the Movies: a New Approach to Remote Sensing

Mark Robinson, Northwestern Univ.

Monday 30 July 7:30 to 8:30 pm

(includes question and answer session after viewing)

Marriott Hotel

Wednesday 1 August 10:30 am to 1:00 pm

(continuous showing)

Exhibition Hall, San Diego Convention Center

Join us for a movie presentation of the extraordinary footage of the
approximately 100,000 images obtained by NEAR during its yearlong orbital
mission to asteroid 433 Eros. This footage, available for the first time for
public audiences, will provide viewers with the unique thrill of skimming
over the asteroid's surface. Several representative segments will be shown,
including a movie of the final landing sequence that occurred on February
12, 2001.
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