Habitable Worlds 2017: Presentations and Breakout Sessions
After a successful workshop in Laramie in November, output from the various presentations and breakout sessions is now available.
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Day 1
Definition and Characterization of the Habitable Zone - François Forget
Long Term Planetary Habitability and the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle: The Effect of Planet Size - Andrew Rushby
Are "Habitable" Exoplanets Really Habitable? A perspective from atmospheric loss - Chuanfei Dong
Limitations of Primary Productivity on "Aqua Planets": Implications for Detectability - Theresa Fisher
Town Hall - NASA Headquarters and NExSS Future Directions
Detectability of Life on Water Worlds - Steve Desch
Warming Early Mars with CH4 & SO2 - Michael L. Wong
Flexing our MUSCLES: The HST Mega-MUSCLES Treasury Survey - Cynthia S. Froning
Habitable Worlds 2017 - Exoplanet Community Modeling Breakout: Part 1
Habitable Worlds 2017 - Exoplanet Community Modeling Breakout: Part 2
Day 2
From Dust to Worlds - Daniel Apai
Observing How Habitable Conditions Develop (or Not) in Protoplanetary Disks - Colette Salyk
Earths in Other solar Systems (EOS): Fundamental Disk Properties and their Evolution - J. Serena Kim & Josh Eisner
HAZMAT III: The Evolution of Mid- to Late-type M Stars with GALEX - Adam C. Schneider
Constraining Planet Formation Models from the Kepler Exoplanet Population - Gijs Mulders
Orbital Dynamics of Planetary Systems with Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes - Eric Ford
Would Mars be Habitable if it Orbited an M Dwarf? - David Brain
Fast Litho-Panspermia in Tightly-Packed Systems around M Dwarfs - Sebastiaan Krijt
Panel Session - Planetary Astrobiology
Day 3
Exoplanet Biosignatures: Past, Present, and Future - Shawn Domagal-Goldman
Oxygen False Positives in Terrestrial Planetary Atmospheres: An Update from the Front Lines - Sonny Harman
The Surface UV Environment on Planets Orbiting M-dwarfs: Implications for Origins-of-Life Scenarios - Sukrit Ranjan
EarthN, A New Model of the Earth System Nitrogen Cycle: How Plates and Life Affect the Atmosphere - Ben Johnson
The Role of Topography in Modulating Climates of Habitable Worlds - Linda E. Sohl
Characterizing Terrestrial Exoplanets - Victoria Meadows
Fire & Ice: Evolved Climates & Observational Discriminants of the Trappist-1 Planetary System - Andrew Lincowski
Characterizing Earth Analogs in Reflected Light: Atmospheric Retrieval Studies for Future Space Telescopes - Y. Katherina Feng
Day 4
Probing TRAPPIST-1 with Planet-Planet Occultations - Jacob Lustig-Yaeger
Determining the Bulk Water Abundance of Low-Mass Exoplanets - Eliza Kempton
Mission Closeout: Kepler Prime Reaches the Finish Line - Natalie Batalha
Opportunity M - David Charbonneau
Direct Imaging of Exoplanets and Disks with the WFIRST Coronagraph - Margaret Turnbull
The Transit Light Source Problem: The Effect of Heterogeneous Stellar Photospheres on Searches for Transiting Exoplanet Biosignatures - Benjamin Rackham
ELF: Enceladus Life Finder - Morgan L. Cable
Using Stellar Abundances to Predict Exoplanet Host Stars - Natalie Hinkel
Designing the Future of Exoplanet Exploration - NASA Mission Studies Forum
Debate: Will evidence of an extant life on an exoplanet be detected by 2040?