P31F
Carbon on Mars I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3014 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Joseph R Michalski, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Paul B Niles, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Paul B Niles, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States and Joseph R Michalski, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paul B Niles, NASA Johnson SFC, Houston, TX, United States
08:00
P31F-01
Exogenous carbonaceous matter in ancient martian sediments (Invited) (66392)
Stephen J Mojzsis, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Oleg Abramov, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Akos Kereszturi, Konkoly Observatory, Astrophysical and Geochemical Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary
08:15
P31F-02
The provenance and formation of reduced carbon phases on Mars from the study of Martian meteorites.  (Invited) (61080)
Andrew Steele, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
08:30
P31F-03
The Volcanic History of Mars and Influences on Carbon Outgassing (Invited) (74546)
Jacob E Bleacher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:45
P31F-04
Biogenic Carbon on Mars: A Subsurface Chauvinistic Viewpoint (Invited) (61363)
Tullis C Onstott1, Chui Yim Maggie Lau1, Cara Magnabosco1, Rachel Harris1, Yuheng Chen2, Greg Slater3, Barbara Sherwood Lollar4, Thomas L Kieft5, Esta van Heerden6, Gaetan Borgonie7, Hailiang Dong8 and Deep Carbon Cycle Team, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, The Biodesign Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States, (3)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)New Mexico Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, (7)Extreme Life Isyensya, Gentbrugge, Belgium, (8)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
09:00
P31F-05
Mechanisms for Olivine Carbonation at the Nili Fossae/Isidis Basin Boundary, Mars: Evidence of Intense Surface Aqueous Activity (80616)
John F Mustard, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
09:15
P31F-06
Carbon Sequestration on Mars: Constraints from the Nili Fossae Carbonate Plains (70959)
Christopher S Edwards, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:30
P31F-07
Iron-rich Carbonates as the Potential Source of Evolved CO2 Detected by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument in Gale Crater. (75494)
Brad Sutter, Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
09:45
P31F-08
Evidence of refractory organic matter preserved in the mudstones of Yellowknife Bay and the Murray Formations (79168)
Jennifer L Eigenbrode, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
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