6th Alliance Week
Tuesday, May 21st09:00-09:10 Welcome (Spohn)What makes a planet habitable? 09:10-09:30 Factors constraining habitability of CO2-dominated atmospheres (von Paris) 09:30-09:50 Outgassing constraints related to the formation of CO2-dominated atmospheres (Noack) 09:50-10:10 3D atmospheric modelling studies of the Early Earth (Kunze)10:10-10:30 3D modelling studies of an Earth-like planet orbiting in the Habitable Zone of main sequence stars (Godolt) 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-11:20 Planetary limits on Geochemical Cycles (Kleidon)Life and planetary evolution11:20-11:40 Explaining general interaction of atmosphere and biosphere (de Vera)11:40-12:00 Evolution of Earth-like Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres (Gebauer)12:00-12:20 Photosynthesis of planets orbiting in the habitable zones of M-stars (von Paris and de Vera) 12:20-12:40 Modelling the impact of the Earth's biosphere on continental growth (Höning)12:40-13:30 LunchBiosignatures 13:30-13:50 Biosignatures of microbial mats (Airo)13:50-14:10 BIOMEX: an overview about Biosignatures determined by Raman Spectroscopy (de Vera)14:10-14:30 The effects of space travel on biosignatures: A study with the carotenoid Deinoxanthin (Leuko)14:30-14:50 Raman spectroscopic investigations on biogenic compounds and lichen thalli - biosignatures for astrobiological research (Meeßen)14:50-15:10 Effect of cosmic rays and incoming UV upon modelled atmospheric biosignatures (Grenfell) 15:10-15:40 Coffee 15:40-16:00 Calculating spectral signatures of atmospheric biosignatures for Earth-like planets based on an E-ELT configuration (von Paris) Water budget on early Mars 16:00-16:20 Origin and loss of protoatmospheres and water inventories on Mars and the Earth (Lammer) 16:20-16:40 Production and escape of suprathermal atoms from Mars and Venus (Lichtenegger)16:40-17:00 Constraining the atmosphere evolution on terrestrial planets from interior outgassing (Plesa)
Wednesday, May 22ndWater budget on early Mars (continued)09:00-09:20 Impact erosion and replenishment of the early Martian atmosphere (de Niem)09:20-09:40 Deriving precipitation rates on early Mars: surface runoff deduced from dendritic valley networks (Petau & von Paris)09:40-10:10 Discussion (Jaumann) 10:10-10:40 CoffeeWater and Life under extreme conditions10:40-11:00 Gale Crater’s story about water on Mars (LeDeit & Tirsch)11:00-11:20 Seasonal activity of gullies in South Polar Pits, Mars (Raack)11:20-11:40 Optical reflectometry measurements on single grain boundaries in ice (Hansen-Goos)11:40-12:00 Mars: Interfacial water, brines and veins with hydration signatures (Möhlmann)12:00-12:20 A closer look at the hydration and outgassing behaviour of Leptothrix and Circinaria gyrosa ( Jänchen)12:20-12:40 Vitality of cyanobacteria under Mars-like niche conditions (de Vera)12:40-13:30 Lunch13:30-13:50 Zero-growth and survival stages of bacteria (Szewzyk)Planetary formation and early evolution13:50-14:10 Introduction (Kührt) 14:10-14:30 Water formation in the solar nebula (Gast)14:30-14:50 Formation of the cores of ice/gas giants by pebble accretion (Morbidelli)14:50-15:10 Implications of planetary migration to the formation probability of habitable worlds (Bitsch)15:10-15:40 Coffee 15:40-16:00 Basin-Forming Impacts on Mars: Consequences on Mantle Dynamics (Bierhaus)16:00-16:20 Order and chaos – the two faces of impacts (Fritz)16:20-16:40 From Earth to super-Earths - Numerical modelling of plate tectonics (Stein)
Thursday, May 23rdNetworkday09:00-09:30 Introduction: Helmholtz Alliance ‚Planetary evolution and life’ (Spohn)09:30-10:30 Center for Space and Habitability (Altwegg/Heng) 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-11:30 Pathways to Habitability (PatH) (Güdel) 11:30-12:00 EANA (Horneck) 12:00-12:30 Nordic Network (Geppert)12:30-13:30 Lunch13:30-14:00 Helmholtz Alliance ‚ROBEX’ (Wilde)14:00-14:30 Self-consistent formation of continents (Noack) 14:30-15:00 Surface conditions evolution on Venus and mantle/atmosphere coupling (Gillmann) 15:00-15:30 Coffee 15:30-16:00 Extinct nuclide Mn-Cr dating of meteorites by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and the evolution of planetesimals (McKibbin) 16:00-17:30 Planet Topers (Dehant)