P008
Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth
Session ID#: 248293
Session Description:
If we decide in the future to create sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth, then science will have a critical role to play. As the cost of access to space continues to fall, a fresh look at the research agenda for this topic is timely. We encourage contributions on all aspects of both local and global terraforming, including planetary atmospheres, climate modeling and climate feedbacks, monitoring of climate change beyond Earth, spacecraft data analysis, hydrology, soil/regolith composition and suitability (or otherwise) for life, biogeochemistry, in-situ resource utilization, oxygen production, ecology, and space physics and space environment monitoring, as well as the exploration and distribution of terraforming-relevant resources. Submissions on technologies and techniques that support terraforming goals are also encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7934 Impacts on technological systems [SPACE WEATHER]
Primary Convener: Edwin S Kite, Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States
Conveners: Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Robin Wordsworth, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Chuanfei Dong, Boston University, Boston, United States
The First Tree on Mars (1849801)
Agnieszka Wendland1, Robert Olszewski1, Piotr Pałka1, Alison F C Bridger2, Melinda A Kahre3, Christian Körner4 and Christopher McKay5, (1)Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland, (2)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Possible futures for Mars: the science of the engineered aerosol warming option (1877078)
Edwin S Kite1, Alex Kling1, Ashwin Braude1, Samaneh Ansari2, Abdul Bamba2, Adrian Dumitrescu1, Tatsuwaki Nakagawa1,3 and Hooman Mohseni2, (1)Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Downselect of engineered aerosols for warming Mars and deployment roadmapping (Invited) (1881574)
Adrian Dumitrescu1, Edwin S Kite1,2, Alex Kling1, Ashwin Braude1, Michael H. Hecht3 and Aaswath Raman4, (1)Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States, (2)University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
The water cycle on an artificially warmed Mars – Climate feedbacks and resulting near-surface ice redistribution (1882008)
Ashwin Braude1, Edwin S Kite1,2, Alex Kling1 and Mark I Richardson3, (1)Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States, (2)University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States, (3)Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States
Assessing the impact of engineered aerosols for Mars terraforming with a new open-source 1D convective-radiative equilibrium model, TerraScreen (1882298)
Alexandre Kling1, Edwin S Kite1,2, Ashwin Braude1 and Adrian Dumitrescu1, (1)Astera Institute, Emeryville, United States, (2)University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
The Significance of an Artificial Magnetosphere for Mars (Invited) (1896390)
James L Green, Space Science Endeavors, Silver Spring, United States, Scott A Boardsen, NASA GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States and Chuanfei Dong, Boston University, Boston, United States
Building Sustainable Food Systems on the Moon and Mars: The Role of Fungi and Human Waste Fertilizer (1899927)
Laura Lee1, Nancy Collins Johnson2, Alexis Bass3 and Christopher S Edwards1, (1)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States
Mining Heaps and Nickel Mine as Analogs for Martian Colonization Research (1947883)
Natalia Godlewska1, Mikołaj Zawadzki1, Norbert Nieścior1, Piotr Lorek1, Filip Kaczorowski1, Yuliia Biliak1, Łucja Kuszyk1, Justyna Zemło1 and raf, (1)University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Farming Mars from Space: Microgravity Experiments on Regolith Optimization (1948541)
Julie A. Howe, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Harrison R Coker, Texas A&M University, Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, United States, Caleb Shackelford, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, A. Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, United States, Luis Zea, Jaguar Space, LLC, Boulder, United States, Nate Argroves, Starbase Brewing, Austin, United States and Harrison Coker
Habitats that grow: Using biomaterials to bootstrap sustainable extraterrestrial ecosystems (1984674)
Robin Wordsworth1, Rafid Quayum2, Elida Kocharian2, Ann Pearson3, Charles S Cockell4, Xavier Portillo5, Madeleine Yang5, George Church5 and Shannon Nangle6, (1)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States, (6)Circe, Boston, United States
