OCB2021 June 18 :: OCB Summer Workshop

Just released: Ocean Sciences Across the Solar System

12:00-12:15p EDT Welcome to the day – announcements and instructions

12:15-2:15 OCB PLENARY DISCUSSION - Ocean Worlds

Panelists (click names for bio)
Laura Lorenzoni (NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate)
Chris German (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Alison Murray (Univ. Nevada, Reno)
Jeff Seewald (WHOI)
Wanying Kang (Massachusetts Inst. Technology)
Ved Chirayath (NASA Ames Research Center)
Mike Behrenfeld (Oregon State Univ.)
Jacqueline Grebmeier (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)
Don Blankenship (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics)
Anna Michel (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Heidi Dierssen (Univ. Connecticut)
Thorsten Markus (NASA HQ)
Mary Voytek (NASA HQ)
Ashley Kleinman (NASA JPL)
Paula Bontempi (URI)
Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames)
Michael New (NASA HQ)

12:15-12:30 pm Introduction and overview (Laura Lorenzoni, NASA HQ)

12:30-12:35 pm Breakout charge (Laura Lorenzoni, NASA HQ)

12:35-1:20 pm Breakout discussions in 5 different areas: 1) Ocean world workings; 2) Biogeochemistry of ocean worlds; 3) Analogs; 4) Technology; 5) Live detection in ocean worlds - look for labeled tables, topics are replicated on each floor 1-8, see whiteboards for discussion questions

1:20-1:35 pm Plenary: Implementation of an Ocean World mission (Michael New, NASA HQ)

1:35-2:15 pm Q&A and Panel discussion (Moderators: Laura Lorenzoni, NASA HQ and Ashley Kleinman (NASA JPL)

2:15 pm Adjourn session

View the recorded talks below before the live session

Plenary: Ocean Worlds

This session seeks to open cross-divisional conversations between scientists studying our ocean on Earth and oceans on other parts of the Solar System, and to identify areas of collaboration and mutual interest.

The session seeks to explore science and collaboration across five main areas, view the recorded talks below BEFORE the session.

Chairs: Laura Lorenzoni (NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate), Ashley Kleinman (NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate), Chris German (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Alison Murray (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Paula Bontempi (Univ. Rhode Island), Adam Martiny (Univ. California, Irvine)

Ocean Worlds of the Solar System shown to scale. Jupiter’s moons Europa, Callisto and Ganymede have all been confirmed to host large-volume salt-water oceans as have Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan: all beneath thick ice-shells. Further out in the solar system, other candidate ocean worlds await further investigation, including Neptune’s moon Triton. Image credit: K.P. Hand, NASA-JPL.

Biogeochemistry of Ocean Worlds – The physics, the chemistry, the biology (Keynote talk - watch first)

Speakers: Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames Research Center), Mike Behrenfeld (Oregon State Univ.)

Ocean World Workings – what do we know about Earth's ocean, and how that translates to other planetary systems?

Speakers: Wanying Kang (Massachusetts Inst. Technology), Jeff Seewald (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)

Analogs – How are we using our Earth as analog for ocean worlds, based on our understanding of Earth’s ocean system processes? How is this advancing our own understanding of Earth?

Speakers: Jackie Grebmeier (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science), Don Blankenship (University of Texas Institute for Geophysics)

Technology – What are we currently using to look at ocean worlds? What have we done on Earth that could translate to other moons? This topic includes space-based and other types of technology.

Anna Michel
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.

Heidi Dierssen
Univ. Connecticut

Ved Chirayath
NASA Ames Research Center

Life Detection in Ocean Worlds – How can we detect life signatures in other worlds? What have we learned about life in extreme environments on Earth? How does this help us understand the origin of life on Earth?

Sarah Stewart Johnson
Georgetown Univ.

Watch Life Detection in Ocean Worlds Part 1 on Zoom

Life Detection Part 2

Peter Girguis
Harvard Univ.

2:30-3:15	POSTER SESSION - See poster directory
3:15-4:15	OCB ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHT Mixotrophs and Mixotrophy Working Group Panelists: Nicole Millette (Virginia Inst. Marine Science), Jessica Luo (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Rebecca Gast (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.), Karen Stamieszkin (Virginia Inst. Marine Science), Holly Moeller (Univ. California, Santa Barbara) Watch the overview video below before the session

4:15-6:00	Ocean Careers and Funding: A Reception for Students and Postdocs - mingle with agency program managers and other ocean scientists who have followed a range of different career paths! Panelists and bios
4:15-6:00	Happy hour for other participants
6:00 Adjourn for day