Primary Convener: Luoth Chou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Natalie Grefenstette, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, Heather Graham, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Sarah Johnson, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison: Luoth Chou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs: Luoth Chou, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, Natalie Grefenstette, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, Heather Graham, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Sciences and Technology/University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States and Sarah Johnson, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Luoth Chou, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Chemical Alteration and Nitrogenous Biogeochemical Signatures in Altered Volcanic Glasses as Astrobiologically Relevant Targets for Mars Sample-Return (683276)
Matthew Peter Nikitczuk1, Gray E Bebout2, Tsutomu Ota3, Tak Kunihiro3, Ryoji Tanaka3, Roberta L Flemming4, John F Mustard5 and Eizo Nakamura3, (1)Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (2)Lehigh University, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (3)Okayama University, Institute for Planetary Materials, Misasa, Japan, (4)University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, (5)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Recognizing the Textures of Life: Implications of Diverse and Ubiquitous Ediacaran Organic Surfaces for the Detection of Microbial Structures on Other Planets (739485)
Mary Droser, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Lidya Tarhan, Yale University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States, Scott Evans, The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Washington, D.C., United States, James Gehling, South Australian Museum, Department of Palaeontology, Adelaide, Australia and Rachel Surprenant, University of California, Riverside, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
Redox Revolutions on Earth and Beyond: Implications for Life Detection on Extrasolar Worlds (775206)
Ariel D Anbar, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, Chadlin M Ostrander, Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Aleisha Johnson, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and David C Catling, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Trends in Trace Elements from Biogenic and Abiogenic Manganese Oxides (743288)
Lauren Judge1, Amy J Williams2, Nina Lanza3, Ann Ollila3, Mike Spilde4 and Virgil Lueth5, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States