An Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy - IOPscience An Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy, Mishra, Ishan, Lewis, Nikole, Lunine, Jonathan, Hand, Kevin P.

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Huge congrats to Ishan Mishra on his new publication, “Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy” in The Planetary Science Journal! Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Ilankuzhali Elavarasan spoke as an invited panelist at UTRGV C-STEM’s “Get the Most Out of Your Internship” workshop, sharing her experience from the Blue Marble Space Young Scientist Program and offering guidance to aspiring researchers!

🚀 Join the NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop: May 29–30, 2025 in D.C. (hybrid). Help shape the future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy through community review of RFI findings & proposed focus areas. Register free: (web.cvent.com/event/bd09ed...)

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Elizabeth Spiers published her white paper for the 2025 NASA DARES - "Cultivating Long-Term Planning, Collaboration, and Mission Continuity in Astrobiology Through Support of Early Career Researchers.” Read here: arxiv.org/abs/2504.09015

More info: shorturl.at/yPIHO

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Lily Clough, a graduate student at the University of Tulsa, published a paper on "interpretable machine learning biosignature detection from Ocean Worlds analogue CO2 isotopologue data". Read here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

More info: shorturl.at/yPIHO

NASA Astrobiology seeks experts for NASA DARES TF1! Help shape the future of astrobiology research. Early-career scientists encouraged to apply! Attend virtual panel reviews (April-May 2025) & a hybrid workshop (May 2025, Washington, D.C.) More info: shorturl.at/9JwiS

Introduction to the Water Organic Rock Microbe (WORM) Portal Workshop (via Zoom). Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 5 pm (MST-Phoenix) which is Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 9 am (KST-Seoul), 11 am (AEDT-S... Please input your name and contact email below and we will send you an email with further information about attending the workshop!

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Nuri Park invites you to the WORM Portal Introductory Workshop! Hosted by GEOPIG, ASU(PI: Dr. Everett Shock)
📅 March 25-26, 2025
🕔 Multiple time zones available.
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🌊 FLOW Highlight: Jordyn Robare published "Distinguishing Potential Organic Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds from Abiotic Geochemical Products Using Thermodynamic Calculations" in ICARUS & accepted an NPP appointment at U of Washington in Brook Nunn’s lab. More info: oceanworlds.space/wp-content/u...

#LPSC2025
Today, at 6:30 pm CT (Town Center Exhibit Hall), Mariam Naseem from the University of Maryland, College Park, will give a poster presentation about "Abundance Fractionation of Salt Species in Erupted Materials During Transition from Liquid to Vacuum on Icy Ocean Worlds"

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Today, at 9:35 am CT (Waterway Ballroom 4), Dr. Lauren Schurmeier from the University of Hawaii at Manoa will give a presentation about "Titan’s Methane Clathrate Crust Constrained by Crater Depths Using Combined Impact and Relaxation Modeling"

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Tomorrow, at 4:40 pm CT (Waterway Ballroom 4), Gwen Brouwer from the University of Hawaii at Manoa will give a presentation about "Topographic Relaxation of Complex Impact Craters in a Clathrate Crust on Titan"

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Tomorrow, at 10:25 am CT (Montgomery Ballroom), Dr. Katherine Dzurilla from NASA JPL will give a talk about "Potential Phosphorus Redox Chemistry on Enceladus"

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Tomorrow, at 10:45 am CT (Montgomery Ballroom), Lily Clough from the University of Tulsa will give a talk about "Explainable Machine Learning and False Prediction Diagnostics for Ocean Worlds Biosignatures: Local Nearest-Neighbor Projected Distance Regression Variable Importance"

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Tomorrow, at 6:30 pm CT (Tower Center Exhibit Hall), Dr. Elodie Lesage from NASA JPL will give a poster presentation on "ORCAA: An Analogue Europa Cryobot Mission to the Juneau Icefield, AK"

#LPSC2025 started today!
Our member, Kevin Trinh at ASU (@icymoonskevin.bsky.social), gave an exciting talk about "A Critical Core Size for Dynamo Action at the Galilean Satellites" this morning.

Are you attending the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) next week? Have lunch and meet with fellow ocean world scientists! Future Leader in Ocean Worlds is organizing an informal lunch around the food trucks outside the Marriott conference center on Tuesday, March 11th, at 11:45 AM CT!

NOW/FLOW Lunch at AGU24 We will be having lunch on December 11th (Wednesday) at 12:15-1:30 PM ET. Please confirm your attendance using this form. We anticipate having at least 20 reservation spots, though there may be an opp...

Attending #AGU24?
Join us for lunch on December 11th (Wednesday) at 12:15-1:30 PM ET at 54 Restauraunt (16 min walk from conference). Learn more and sign up at bit.ly/4hHHvfS!
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