P32A:
Reconstructing Habitable Environments on Ancient Mars I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Conveners:  Briony H. N. Horgan, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Co-conveners:  Melissa S Rice, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Briony H. N. Horgan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
P32A-01
 
Insights and Challenges for Using the Early Earth to Understand Potentially Habitable Environments on Mars
Nathan D Sheldon, Univ of MI-Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
10:35 AM
P32A-02
 
Models of Metabolic Community Structure in Martian Habitable Environments: Constraints from a Terrestrial Analog Acid-Sulfate Fumarole Environment, Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua
Karyn L Rogers1, Thomas M McCollom2 and Brian M Hynek2, (1)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
10:50 AM
P32A-03
 
The Impact Environment of Ancient Mars: Implications for Habitability
Oleg Abramov, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Stephen J Mojzsis, University of Colorado & Universite Lyon 1, Boulder, CO, United States
11:05 AM
P32A-04
 
Reconstructing Habitable Environments on a Late Noachian Icy Mars: Causes, Frequencies and Durations of Melting, Fate of Meltwater, and Biological Insights from the McMurdo Dry Valleys. James W. Head, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA
James W Head III, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
11:20 AM
P32A-05
 
Accessing Surface and Subsurface Habitable Environments of Ancient Mars
John F Mustard, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
11:35 AM
P32A-06
 
Habitability and preservation from source to sink: Evidence for habitable surface environments in soils on early Mars and their possible contribution to fluvial deposits
Briony H. N. Horgan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
11:50 AM
P32A-07
 
Ancient deltas on Mars: outstanding targets for martian habitability?
Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Peter Fawdon, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Peter M Grindrod, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Matthew R Balme, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, Ernst Hauber, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Berlin, Germany, Nicholas H Warner, SUNY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, United States and Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
12:05 PM
P32A-08
 
Investigating the Habitability and Preservation Potential of Two Aqueous Settings in Gusev Crater, Mars
Steven W Ruff1, Jack D Farmer2, Ralph Milliken3, Paul B Niles4, Fabrizio Alfano1, Amanda B Clarke1, Michael D Kraft1 and Craig J Hardgrove1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)NASA Johnson SFC, Houston, TX, United States
 
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