Upcoming Astrobiology Conferences
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- SpinSat Request for Information
2024-08-19 to 2024-10-02,
A NASA Ames-led team is developing the SpinSat platform, a multi-payload spinning satellite that will provide centrifugal gravity in beyond-LEO radiation environments.
They recently released a request for information (RFI) via SAM.gov, aimed to solicit interest and responses from those who might propose science payloads for this platform, as well as those who could develop payload hardware to enable such experiments to fly on SpinSat.
Please see the SpinSat RFI for descriptive details and to be added to the e-mailing list for updates, and please contact julie.k.fletcher .at. nasa.gov if you have questions. We would welcome a response from you to this RFI!
RfI deadline: 2024-10-02 - Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2024
2024-09-08 to 2024-09-13, Berlin, Germany
Aims & scope
The intention of the Europlanet Science Congress 2024 is to cover a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions. The programme of the congress will contain oral and poster sessions, as well as workshops and panel discussions and provide with ample opportunities for interaction between the participants.
The Scientific Organizing Committee of the EPSC2024 invites all planetary scientists to participate in the congress, submit contributions to the topical sessions and share their research with their colleagues.
We are looking forward to meeting everyone at EPSC2024 in Berlin. EPSC2024 will be organized as a fully hybrid meeting and will allow virtual access to all oral and poster sessions.
The ethos for EPSC2024 is to create a simple, flexible, and inclusive meeting that provides multiple opportunities for interaction, scientific discussion, and networking.
About the Europlanet Science Congress
The Europlanet Science Congress (formerly the European Planetary Science Congress) is the annual meeting place of the Europlanet Society. First held in Berlin in 2006 and regularly attracting more than 1,000 participants, the Europlanet Science Congress is the largest planetary science meeting in Europe. It covers the entire range of planetary sciences with an extensive mix of talks, workshops and poster sessions while providing a unique space for networking and exchange of experiences. - Social, Legal and Ethical Frontiers in Space Exploration
2024-09-23 to 2024-09-25, Kiruna, Sweden
A joint meeting of the European Astrobiology Institute and the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology
This meeting will bring scholars, students, politicians, journalists and other stakeholders together to discuss the ethical, political legal, societal and environmental aspects of space exploration.
The meeting is co-organised by the European Astrobiology Institute and the Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology.
The conference will take place at Malmfälten Adult Education Centre in Kiruna, Sweden. Kiruna is 300 km north of the arctic circle and home to the Swedish ESRANGE Space Center and Rocket Range. This promises to be a conference to remember, as it takes place during Lapland’s beautiful Indian Summer, which offers good prospectives for viewing the Northern Lights, and features tours of the Space Center and other local attractions along with an interesting and highly interdisciplinary program.
Experts from every discipline interested in exploring the many complex social and ethical questions raised by space exploration and the search for life on other planets are invited to attend the first joint meeting of the two major groups devoted to this end. We welcome submissions addressing any of the many “broader questions” in astrobiology and space exploration such as:
Commercial activity in space
Human colonization of other worlds
The true nature of “life”’
Emerging issues in space law
Ethical questions regarding the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence
Balancing diverse cultural perspectives in space research
Space Mining and ownership of space “resources”
First Contact protocols
“Pollution” in the context of space
Societal and religious implications of a possible discovery of extraterrestrial life
Fictional portrayals of space
- Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting 2024 (IOoL2024)
2024-09-23 to 2024-09-25, Strasbourg, France
OoLEN is pleased to announce that the Interdisciplinary Origin of Life Meeting 2024 (IOoL2024) will take place at the University of Strasbourg in the Palais Universitaire building in Strasbourg, France, on 23rd - 25th September, 2024. This event is a fantastic opportunity for early career researchers to reconnect and join in discussions about the future of the field of origins of life.
All early-career researchers who actively work in Origin of Life research and connected fields (master, PhD, post-doc, PI < 3 years) are encouraged to apply and will have the opportunity to present their research and expand their professional network. An OoLEN membership is encouraged but not required to attend the meeting.
Further information: https://www.oolen.org/news-and-events/in-person-meetings/iool2024/
Direct link to registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qZh-5cMes0XTgCiiqK_BRV3lPLxrnyaqZwhixbsu_MU/
Extended registration deadline: June 21, 2024
Cost: No fee, but participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation!
Contact: Yannick Geiger, y.geiger@unistra.fr
IOoL24 Organizing Committee: Yannick Geiger, Celia Blanco, Omer Markovitch (co-organizers: Golo Storch (CRC 392 Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments), Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn)
OoLEN Executive Board: Silke Asche, Alexandre Champagne, Zhen Peng, Loraine Schwander, Klaus Paschek - 7th NoRCEL Conference: Reactive Oxygen Species
2024-10-30 to 2024-11-01, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
In 2024, NoRCEL’s spotlight will be focussing on reactive oxygen species (ROS) and other relevant, related topics. In recent years, research on ROS across several disciplines has advanced rapidly. The outcome being significant new results on their generation, interactions and decay on rocky and icy planetary (and other astronomical) bodies, as well as with pre-biotic chemistry and the emergence of life – in addition to their relationships with biology including (contentiously) primitive anaerobic life. It is timely to now draw these advances together, for the first time in a big-picture, cross-disciplinary themed ‘summit’, with the aim of synthesizing current knowledge and surveying related open questions. We can also look at the planning of future interdisciplinary researches on the complicated roles played by these energetic – and enigmatic – species in our dynamic Solar System.
Students and junior Post Docs may apply for a travel bursary of up to £400. In addition, they will only have to pay the discounted registration fee of £100 for in person attendance at the event. Once registered, they will receive an application form.