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Session Proposal: Ice and Ocean Worlds: Geology, Oceanography, Chemistry, and Habitability (AGU25)

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Ice and Ocean Worlds: Geology, Oceanography, Chemistry, and Habitability

Session ID#: 246727

Session Description:
This annual session brings together studies of icy and ocean worlds in our solar system (Earth, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Ganymede, Triton, etc.) and possibilities in extra-solar systems to understand processes that may be occurring within such worlds from a multi-/inter-disciplinary perspective. This session highlights several overarching (but not exhaustive) questions: What geological, geochemical and/or oceanographic processes contribute to their evolution? How does interior composition, geophysical structure, and thermal state affect past and present habitability? What do surfaces of ocean worlds tell us about the interior? How might current studies relate to, or be tested by, past/ongoing/upcoming missions?  We seek to bridge Earth and planetary sciences through studies spanning from Mercury to Pluto, and all in between. We encourage cross-disciplinary contributions on topics relating to the icy/ocean world theme, including geophysics, geodynamic and seismic modeling, hydrogeology, geochemistry, microbiology, in-situ/remote sensing observations, planetary astronomy,  theoretical/modeling/laboratory work, analog investigations, and more.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0799 General or miscellaneous [CRYOSPHERE]
4299 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener:  Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Conveners:  Steven D. Vance, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Kevin T Trinh, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
 
Cometary impact-generated fractures as potential pathways for surface-to-ocean exchange of organics on Titan (1857353)
John P Ortiz1, Esteban Rougier2, Aditya Pujari3, Bryan Euser4, Jeffrey Hyman2 and Phil H Stauffer2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Earth Science Group, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Yale University, New Haven, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Assessing Terrestrial Analogue Field Sites for Ocean Worlds (Invited) (1862100)
Jennifer C Stern1, Heather Graham2, Bradley Burcar3, Emily S Martin4, Aaron C Noell5, Kevin P Hand6, Jeff Shovlowsky Bowman7, Peter T Doran8, Virginia P Edgcomb9, James F Holden10, Alta Emily Howells11, Michael Malaska12, Jill Mikucki13, Brook L Nunn14, Jani Radebaugh15, Laura E Rodriguez12, Schuyler Borges16, Dina M Bower17, Samuel W Courville18, Melisa Diaz19, Benjamin J Hockman20, Julie A Huber21, Justin Lawrence22, Trista Vick-Majors23, Conor A Nixon24, John R Spear25, Amanda Steckel26, Anezina Solomonidou27, Nicholas C Schmerr28, Britney Schmidt29, Matthew O Schrenk30, Lauren Marie Seyler31, Amy Renee Smith32, Catherine C Walker33, Patrick Whelley34, Natalie Soheila Wolfenbarger35 and Steven D. Vance12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (4)Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (8)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole, United States, (10)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, (11)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (13)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (14)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Genome Sciences, Seattle, United States, (15)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (16)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States, (17)University of Maryland, College Park/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Department of Astronomy, Greenbelt, United States, (18)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (19)The Ohio State Univeristy, Columbus, United States, (20)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (21)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (22)Honeybee Robotics, Altadena, United States, (23)Michigan Technological University, Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States, (24)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (25)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (26)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (27)Hellenic Space Center (HSC), Space Sciences and Space Exploration, Athens, Greece, (28)University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (29)Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (30)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology, East Lansing, MI, United States, (31)Stockton University, Galloway, United States, (32)Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA, United States, (33)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, (34)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (35)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
What is the probability that Eris is an ocean world? (1865086)
Ryu Akiba, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States and Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Churning Europa’s Ice: Assessing Convection-Induced Melt Lens Formation in Europa’s Ice Shell (1882513)
Alyssa Mills, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States and James H Roberts, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Exploration of Ocean World Activity and Habitability with HWO (1885324)
Richard J. Cartwright1, Lynnae C Quick2, Marc Neveu3, Kathleen L Craft1, Julie C Castillo4, Tracy M Becker5, Ujjwal Raut5, Shingo Kameda6, Kevin France7, Giada Nicole Arney8, Aki Roberge8, Michael McElwain8, Geronimo Villanueva8, Bryan Holler9 and Roser Juanola-Parramon8, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, College Park, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (6)Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, United States
 
Tectonic breathing of Europa: Geological processes supporting subsurface ocean habitability (Invited) (1890315)
Martin Kihoulou1, Laëtitia Lebec1, Gael Choblet2, Gabriel Tobie2, Klara Kalousova1 and Ondřej Čadek1, (1)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, (2)Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Le Mans Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, LPG UMR 6112, Nantes, France
 
Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans (1893925)
Yaoxuan Zeng and Malte Jansen, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Lineament Azimuths and Europa’s Tidal Stress Field - A Correlation Study (1896088)
Caroline Haslebacher, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Lutz Duembgen, University of Bern, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, Bern, Switzerland, Alyssa Rhoden, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, Erin Janelle Leonard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Louise M Prockter, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and Nicolas Thomas, University of Bern, Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, Bern, Switzerland
 
O2 Absorption on the Icy Jovian Satellites (1898328)
Carl Schmidt, Boston University, Astronomy; Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, John R Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, Wendy M Calvin, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Richard J. Cartwright, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States, Robert E Johnson, University of Virginia, Materials Science and Engineering, Charlottesville, United States, Apurva Oza, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Emma Lovett, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, United States and Patrick R Lierle, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
 
Compaction of Partially Molten Saline Ice and the Dynamics of Melt Migration on Icy Satellites (1899148)
Maheenuz Zaman1, Christine McCarthy1, Marc A Hesse2 and Christine McCarthy, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
 
Numerical Determination of the Nonlinear Convection Threshold in a Nitrogen-Ice Layer With Application to Sputnik Planitia (1904081)
Chhavi Jain, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Slava Solomatov, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, United States and William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States
 
Transport of Sulfur Species and Isotopes Through the Water Column and Ice of an Ocean Worlds Analog (1922836)
David John Yousavich1,2, John C Priscu3, Alison E Murray3, Melissa G Trainer4, Kendra Farnsworth4,5, David A Fike6, Kevin P Hand7 and Melisa Diaz1,2, (1)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (6)Washington University, St. Louis, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Potential for porous and discrete-fracture hydrothermal circulation below the seafloor of Europa, given low gravity and modest internal heating (1923998)
Kristin Dickerson1, Andrew T Fisher2, Jeffrey Hyman3, John P Ortiz4, Phil H Stauffer3 and Donna K Blackman2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hanover, United States
 
Strong Tidal Dissipation in the Interior of Titan Revealed by Cassini Data Indicates Absence of a Subsurface Ocean (1926703)
Flavio Petricca1, Steve Vance2, Marzia Parisi1, Dustin Buccino1, Gael Cascioli3, Julie C Castillo-Rogez1, Brynna Grace Downey4, Francis Nimmo5, Gabriel Tobie6, Baptiste Journaux7, Andrea Magnanini8, Ula Jones7, Mark P Panning1, Amirhossein Bagheri9, Genova Antonio10 and Jonathan I Lunine11, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (6)Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Le Mans Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, LPG UMR 6112, Nantes, France, (7)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (8)University of Bologna, Department of Industrial Engineering, Bologna, Italy, (9)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Ice shell motion and shape as a window to understand subsurface ocean dynamics (1928094)
Wanying Kang1, Yixiao Zhang2 and John C Marshall2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, United States
 
Combined Effects of Coupled Thermal- and Chemical- Buoyancy Driven Flows on Europa’s Ocean Circulation (1929741)
Sara Miller, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Hamish Hay, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States and Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
 
Habitability Does Not Require Active Water-Rock Interaction: Radiogenic Salt-Driven Radiolysis as a Metabolic Energy Source on Europa (1933809)
Ngoc Tuan Truong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, United States, Christopher Glein, Southwest Research Institute, Space Science Division, San Antonio, United States, Kelly Miller, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States and Kathleen Mandt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
In operando constraints on the nonlinear viscoelasticity of ice-VI: application to tidal heating and ocean formation in icy satellites (1940331)
Andrew J Cross1, Diede Hein2, David L Goldsby3, Lars N Hansen4, Haiyan Chen5, Thomas Breithaupt6, Adaire Nehring2 and Alix Osinchuk7, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, (3)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (6)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Kelowna, BC, Canada
 
Infiltration Instabilities in Partially Molten Ice (1945338)
Caoanla Li1, Chao QI2, Madi Fleming3, Qinyu Wang1, Marshall Palmer4 and David John Prior5, (1)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China, (3)University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand, (4)University of Otago, Geology Department, Dunedin, New Zealand, (5)University of Otago, Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
Investigating the Effect of Latitudinally Varying Tidal Heating on the Surface-Interior Dynamics in Europa’s Icy Shell (1951847)
Hyunseong Kim1, Antoniette Greta Grima2 and Luke Daly2, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
Do Microbial Biofilms Expand the Habitability Limits of High-Pressure Ocean Worlds? (1953055)
Ella Cardoza, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, Aude Picard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Life Sciences, Las Vegas, United States and Matthew O Schrenk, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Dynamic Tidal Heating as a Key to Europa’s Habitability: How Variable Basal Ice Melt Rates Affect Europa’s Ocean Composition, Redox State, and Metabolic Potential (1953622)
Dr. Elizabeth Marie Spiers, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, Kirtland Robinson, Arizona State University, Phoenix, United States and Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
 
Cracking the Ice: Fracture Behavior and Microstructural Analysis of Europa-Relevant Icy Analogs (1953784)
Natasha Morgan-Witts1, Maciej Trzeciak2, Lucas Zoet1, Chloe E Bonamici1, Hiroki Sone2, Bil Schneider1, William O Nachlas1, Peter E Sobol1 and Noah LeBrun1, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geological Engineering, Madison, United States
 
The Role of Orbital Parameters on the Simulated Sea Surface Temperature of the Earth-like Aquaplanet (1955542)
Olga Erokhina, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and Kira Rehfeld, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Geo-and Environmental Research Center, Tübingen, Germany
 
Systematic changes in energy and nutrient fluxes from seafloor hydrothermal discharge on Enceladus and Europa (1957767)
Noah G Randolph-Flagg, University of Kentucky, Earth and Environmental Science, Lexington, United States, Tori M Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Andrew T Fisher, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Christopher R German, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Exploring Ocean Worlds Team
 
Making Subsurface Connections on Europa - Enabling Habitability? (1961455)
Kari Shearl1, Kathleen L Craft2 and Mallory Kinczyk2, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States
 
Long Transit Time from the Seafloor to the Ice Shell on Enceladus (1970751)
Yixiao Zhang1, Suyash Bire1, Shuang Wang2, Ali Ramadhan3, Anika Nath4, Wanying Kang2 and John C Marshall4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, United States, (4)MIT, Cambridge, United States
 
A Characterization of the Seafloor Tectonic States of Icy Satellites (1971801)
Henry Dawson, Washington University in St Louis, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Prof. Paul K Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Christian Klimczak, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, Paul Vyvyan Regensburger, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States, Steven D. Vance, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Douglas Hemingway, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
 
An Alkaline Fluid Chemistry on the Parent Body of Bennu: Evidence from an Early Ocean World? (1972182)
Fabian Klenner1, Yuxuan Cai2, Weiming Xu2, Christopher Glein3, David C. Catling1, Isabelle Daniel4 and Jihua Hao5, (1)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Geochemistry and Planetary Sciences, Hefei, China, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Space Science Division, San Antonio, United States, (4)University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, (5)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
 
Experimental determination of the liquidus in H2O - salt solutions at pressures relevant to the icy worlds (1984643)
Heather C Watson1, George H Shaw2, Evie Fuqua3, Micaela Magno3 and Tori Zaledonis3, (1)Union College, Physics and Astronomy Department, Schenectady, NY, United States, (2)Union College, Schenectady, NY, United States, (3)Union College, Schenectady, United States
 
Limited direct fluid exchange between the deep subsurface ocean and the shallow subsurface environment of Europa (1988226)
Lujendra Ojha, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Jacob Buffo, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States and Ankit Barik, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
 
Low-ambiguity, High-throughput Particle Characterization on Ocean Worlds from in situ Measurements of Polarized Light Scattering and Hyperspectral Absorption (1995299)
Patrick Clifton Gray, Sean O'Neill and Margaret Estapa, University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, United States
 
Using Magnetic Signatures to Investigate the Internal Dynamics of Icy Moons (1998803)
Sedinam Biassey-Bogart, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, Caue Borlina, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Maxwell L Rudolph, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
 
Waves Excited by Topography at the Ice-Ocean Boundary (2001781)
Daniel Abdulah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Wanying Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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