MG003
Oceanography Beyond Earth: A Frontier in Ocean Sciences

Session ID#: 84737

Session Description:
Since the turn of the millennium, compelling new evidence has been revealed for liquid water oceans in the outer reaches of our own solar system as well as increasing evidence for exoplanets in other star systems that could host liquid water at their surface.  This opens the door for new areas of research in Planetary Oceanography, drawing on expertise in Earth's Oceans and Planetary Science together to help prepare for and plan future Space Missions and, through comparative studies with future mission data, validate how the fundamental processes upon which Earth's oceans function operate.  In this session, therefore, our focus will be two-fold: to introduce what is already known concerning oceans beyond Earth from past missions and what future missions already seek to investigate; and to provide illustrations of the ways in which oceanographic expertise, including polar studies, can be harnessed to develop better-informed approaches to studying oceans beyond Earth.
Index Terms:

3017 Hydrothermal systems [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]

Primary Chair:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Britney E Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Ocean Circulations in the Outer Solar System (639052)
Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Going the Last Kilometer: Overcoming Challenges to Discovering Life-Supporting Gradients on Ocean Worlds (641598)
Eric W Chan, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, United States, John A Breier Jr, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States, Christopher R German, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Julie A Huber, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Shannon E Kobs-Nawotniak, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, Everett Shock, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Nicole Raineault, Ocean Exploration Trust Inc., Narragansett, RI, United States, Michelle Hauer, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Kristopher Krasnosky, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Sean Sylva, Woods Hole Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Sarah K Hu, University of Southern California, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Amy Renee Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Boise, MA, United States, Vincent Pierre Milesi, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Darlene Sze Shien Lim, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Imagining the ocean circulation on icy moons (643182)
John C Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
General Model for the Global Variation of Seismic Energy Released with Oceanic Lithosphere Age. (647222)
Nicolás Pinzón Sr, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia and Carlos A Vargas-Jimenez, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Geophysical investigation of exchange between planetary oceans and rocky interior- knowledge from deep sea scenarios on Earth (647328)
Donna K Blackman, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Andrew T Fisher, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Agnostic approaches to extant life detection on Ocean Worlds (647971)
Heather Graham, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sarah Johnson, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States, Eric Anslyn, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Pamela Conrad, Carnegie Institution for Science, United States, Leroy Cronin, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Andrew Ellington, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Cook, Jamie Elsila, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Peter R Girguis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Christopher H House, Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences and Penn State Astrobiology Research Center, University Park, PA, United States, Chris Kempes, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, CA, United States, Eric Libby, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, Paul R Mahaffy, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Andrew Steele, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Oceanography Beyond Earth: A Frontier in Ocean Sciences (648910)
Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Kevin R Arrigo, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Britney E Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Through the Looking Glass: Understanding Planetary Oceans through their Ice Shells (652474)
Britney E Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Emergence of Life in Ocean World Hydrothermal Systems (653384)
Laura M Barge, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Extremophilic Microbes from Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes (655497)
Kelli Mullane1, Megan Mullis2, Bronte Shelton1, Brandi Kiel Reese2 and Doug Bartlett1, (1)University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
A Terrestrial Perspective on Seawater-Rock Reactions in the Subsurface Oceans of Icy Satellites (656073)
Nicholas J Pester, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Taking a planetary science-inspired look at Earth’s sea ice-ocean interface – a hot spot for interactions of life, chemical and physical exchange. (656226)
Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Kevin R Arrigo, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Extreme colds provoke the synthesis of DNA protection proteins that have unique structures that grant stability (656357)
Miranda Mudge1, Marcela Ewert2, Shelly D Carpenter3, Jonathan D Toner4, Bonnie Light2, Firth Erin5, Karen Junge6 and Brook L Nunn7, (1)University of Washington, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Washington, seattle, WA, United States, (7)University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Tidal pumping and heating of Enceladus’s porous core (656829)
Noah G Randolph-Flagg, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Tushar Mittal, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Douglas Hemingway, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
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