{"id":13318,"date":"2019-01-15T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=13318"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:22:21","slug":"session-on-lessons-from-earth-analogs-to-inform-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/expired\/session-on-lessons-from-earth-analogs-to-inform-the-search-for-life-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Session on &#8220;Lessons from Earth Analogs to Inform the Search for Life in the Universe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the Astrobiology Science Conference taking place from June 24-28, 2018 in Seattle, Washington? Submit your abstract to our session and we\u00a0hope to see you there! <em>Description:<\/em> Recent discoveries on ocean worlds as well as remnants of ancient aqueous environments on Mars set important foundations in the search for extraterrestrial life. To better prioritize targets for investigation, select high-value analysis sites, and develop exploration strategies for potential ancient or extant biosignatures, a diverse set of analog environments on Earth are extremely valuable. Given the rapidly emerging nature of the field, as well as the ocean world missions under development, key details of how such findings translate into habitability are timely. We welcome in particular abstracts addressing geological contexts or spatial scales that could inform the search for habitable environments or biosignatures on our solar system\u2019s Ocean Worlds. Relevant work will contextualize terrestrial studies \u2013 including those pertaining to Pre-Cambrian glacial \u201cSnowball\u201d conditions \u2013 within the framework of aqueous paleoenvironments on Mars and our expanding knowledge of celestial bodies like Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Ceres, and Triton. Subjects could include (but are not limited to) geophysical analyses that constrain habitable environments or geochemical gradients, assessments of energetics for past or extant life, the effect of ice cover on physical and chemical processes, or biological activity that could generate diagnostic biomarkers. We also encourage \u201cprocess-based\u201d abstracts that detail how the exploratory approaches used in terrestrial contexts \u2013 such as mission operations, instrument testing, and field site selection \u2013 may be mobilized in support of the future astrobiology missions. Abstracts are due <strong>March 6, 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending the Astrobiology Science Conference taking place from June 24-28, 2018 in Seattle, Washington? Submit your abstract to our session and we\u00a0hope to see you there! Description: Recent discoveries on ocean worlds as well as remnants of ancient aqueous environments on Mars set important foundations in the search for extraterrestrial life. To better prioritize targets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,34],"tags":[],"organization":[94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13319,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318\/revisions\/13319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13318"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=13318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}