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ISSI Workshop on "Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets"
5 - 9 September 2005
ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

FINAL PROGRAM
This is the final program as occurred during the workshop.

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Session 1: Definition of Habitability: Fundamental Requirements for Life
Session 2: Link Between Crustal Processes and Habitability
Session 3: Habitability During Heavy Bombardment
Session 4: Link Between Volatiles/Atmosphere and Habitability
Session 5: Internal Planetary Evolution and Habitability
Session 6: Planetary/Sun Interactions
Session 7: Habitability in our Solar System beyond Mars
Session 8: Summary
Other Invited Participants

Monday, 5 Sept.
08:30 – 09:00    Registration
09:00 – 09:20    Welcome remarks: R-M. Bonnet and K. Fishbaugh
09:20 – 09:50    Introductory Overview Talk: Frances Westall

Session 1: Definition of Habitability: Fundamental Requirements for Life
Chairs: Gordon Southam (U. Western Ontario) and Lynn Rothschild (NASA Ames)
09:50 – 10:50    What is Life? and Basic Requirements for Life (Lynn Rothschild)
                            Limits of Life (Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames)

10:50 – 11:00    Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                        (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)

12:30 – 14:00    Lunch Break

Session 2: Link Between Crustal Processes and Habitability
Chairs: Iain Gilmor (Open University) and Beda Hofmann (Bern Natural History Museum)
14:00 – 14:40    Formation of Habitable Environments (Euan Nisbet, Royal Holloway, University of London)
14:40 – 15:20    Habitability and Surface Geology (Ralf Jaumann, DLR)
15:20 – 16:00    Search for Life in Rocks and Influence of Rocks on Life (Karim Benzerara, Stanford)
    
16:00 – 16:10    Coffee break

16:10 – 16:50    Crustal Geothermal Processes on Mars (Jörn Helbert, DLR)
                
16:50 – 18:20    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                        (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)

18:20 – 19:00    Welcome  reception at ISSI


Tuesday, 6 Sept. 
Session 3: Habitability During Heavy Bombardment
Chairs: Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway, U. London) and Kevin Zahnle (NASA Ames)
09:00 – 09:40    Formation and early evolution of planetary crusts (Alex Halliday, Oxford)
09:40 – 10:20    Habitability During the Heavy Bombardment (Nick Arndt, LGCA, University Joseph Fourier)
        
10:20 – 10:30    Coffee break
        
10:30 – 11:10    Asteroid and Comet Impacts and Habitability (Charles Cockell, Open University)
11:10 – 11:50    The Search for Early Earth Analogs* (Franck Selsis, Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC)
                             * Talk to be given by H. Lammer
11:50 – 13:20    Working Lunch catered at ISSI:  We will use this time to break into groups to discuss book chapters.
        
13:20 – 14:50    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                            (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)

Session 4: Link Between Volatiles/Atmosphere and Habitability
Chairs: Jean-Loup Bertaux (Service d'Aéronomie, CNRS) and Eric Gaidos (University of Hawaii)
14:50 – 15:30    Biogechemical C Cycles and the Exchange of Volatiles Between the Atmosphere, Crust, and Interior
                            (Dave DesMarais, NASA Ames)
15:30 – 16:10    Hydrologic History of Mars (Mike Carr, USGS-Menlo Park)
        
16:10 – 16:20    Coffee break
        
16:20 – 17:00    Co-evolution of Planetary Atmospheres and Life (Eric Gaidos, Univ. of Hawaii)
 

Wednesday, 7 Sept.
Session 4, Cont.
09:00 – 09:40    Evolution of the Atmospheres and Climates of Venus and Mars (François Forget, Université Paris VI)
09:40 – 10:20    General Discussion Time
    
10:20 – 10:30    Coffee break

Session 5: Internal Planetary Evolution and Habitability
Chairs: Sasha Basilevsky (Vernadsky Institute) and Todd Stevens (Portland State U.)
10:30 – 11:10    Regimes of Mantle Convection and Thermal Evolution of Terrestrial Planets
                            (Stephane Labrosse, IPGP, University de Paris VII)
11:10 – 11:50    Evolution of Dynamos & Feedback Between Internal Planetary Evolution & Life (Tilman Spohn, DLR)

12:00 - ?             Excursion to Grindelwald, Workshop dinner at Hotel Wetterhorn outside of Grindelwald

Thursday, 8 Sept.
Session 4, Cont.
09:00 – 10:30   Moderated Discussion amongst participants for SESSION 4
                            (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)
 
10:30 – 10:40    Coffee break

Session 5, Cont.
10:40 – 11:20    Volcanism, Degassing & Chemical Evolution of Terrestrial Planets (Doris Breuer, DLR)

11:20 – 12:00    Life in the Subsurface (Todd Stevens, Portland State University)
    
12:00 – 13:30    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                            (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)

13:30 – 14:30    Lunch Break

Session 6: Planetary/Sun Interactions
Chairs: Veronique Dehant (Royal Observatory of Belgium) and Oleg Korablev (IKI)
14:30 – 15:10    Planetary Magnetic Fields and Solar Forcing: Critical Spects for the Evolution of Earth-Like Planets 
                            (Rickard Lundin, Swedish Institute for Space Physics)
15:10 – 15:50    Protection of the Atmosphere and Protection from Radiation
                            (Helmut Lammer, Austrian Space Research Institute)

15:50 – 16:00    Coffee break

16:00 – 16:40    Effect of orbital dynamics on habitability (Jacques Laskar, Observatoire de Paris)
        
16:40 – 18:10    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                        (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)


Friday, 9 Sept.
Session 7: Habitability in our Solar System beyond Mars
Chairs: Geoffrey Collins (Wheaton College, Massachusetts) and Gerda Horneck (DLR)
09:00 – 09:40    Habitability of Subsurface Oceans on Icy Planets (Christophe Sotin, Université Nantes)
09:40 – 10:20    Habitability of Venus Through its Geologic History (Sasha Basilevsky, Vernadsky Institute)
    
10:20 – 10:30    Coffee break

10:30 – 11:10    Titan: Habitability and General Astrobiological Aspects (Francois Raulin, LISA/CNRS, Université Paris)

11:10 – 12:40    Moderated Discussion amongst participants
                        (Also create list of key questions and needed observations)

12:40 – 14:00     Working Lunch catered at ISSI:  We will use this time to break into groups to discuss book chapters.

Session 8: Summary
14:00 – 15:10    Session chairs give summaries of main results and unresolved questions
    from their sessions

15:10 – 15:25    Summary and Needed Observations (Planetary Science): Philippe Lognonne (IPGP, University de Paris VII)
15:25 – 15:40    Summary and Needed Observations (Astrobiology): Francois Raulin (University of Paris)
    
15:50 – 16:00    Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45    Workshop wrap-up discussion (Moderated by: Kathryn Fishbaugh)
    
16:45 – 17:15    Discussion of book chapters (authorship, organization, etc.)

17:15 – 17:30    Wrap-up summary talk (Frances Westall)
    
17:30 – 17:45    Closing remarks (Roger-Maurice Bonnet)


Other Invited Participants
(This list includes only those who attended the workshop.)
Willy Benz, Univ. of Bern
Augustine Chicarro, ESA/ESTEC
Sylvaine Farrachat, DLR (invited by MAGE)
Mikhail Gerasimov, Space Research Institute, Moscow (IKI)
Cédric Gillmann, IPGP (invited by MAGE)
Lucia Marinangeli, IRSPS, Universitá d' Annunzio
Peter van Thienen, IPGP (invited by MAGE)



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