About
Program Committee
Program Committee Leadership
Dawn Cardace
University of Rhode Island
cardace@uri.edu
Arthur Spivack
University of Rhode Island
spivack@uri.edu
Program Committee Members
Alternative and Agnostic Biosignatures
Peter Willis
NASA JPL
Peter.a.willis@jpl.nasa.gov
Ravi Kopparapu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
ravikumar.kopparapu@nasa.gov
Characterizing Habitable Zone Exoplanets
Sonny Harman
NASA Ames
sonny.harman@nasa.gov
Ravi Kopparapu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
ravikumar.kopparapu@nasa.gov
Energy Sources and Metabolic Pathways in the Environment
Sarah Maurer
Central Connecticut State University
smaurer@ccsu.edu
D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard
University of Illinois Chicago
drmd@uic.edu
Evolution and Diversification of Life: OoL to LUCA to Eukaryogenesis
Frank Rosenzweig
Georgia Institute of Technology
frank.rosenzweig@biology.gatech.edu
Sarah Maurer
Central Connecticut State University
smaurer@ccsu.edu
Missions to Mars: Life Detection and Habitability
Charles Cockell
University of Edinburgh
ccockell@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Jack Mustard
Brown University
john_mustard@brown.edu
Ocean Worlds Near and Far
Paula Bontempi
University of Rhode Island
paulabontempi@uri.edu
D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard
University of Illinois Chicago
drmd@uic.edu
Philosophy, History, Education and Community Development
Linda Billings
NASA
billingslinda1@gmail.com
Dawn Cardace
University of Rhode Island
cardace@uri.edu
Star-Planetary System Interactions and Habitability
Ravi Kopparapu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
ravikumar.kopparapu@nasa.gov
Sonny Harman
NASA Ames
sonny.harman@nasa.gov
Subsurface Habitability and Life
D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard
University of Illinois Chicago
drmd@uic.edu
Charles Cockell
University of Edinburgh
ccockell@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Transitions from Prebiotic Chemistry to Biology
Rebecca Rapf
Trinity University
rrapf@trinity.edu
Jessica Weber
NASA JPL
jessica.weber@jpl.nasa.gov
Understanding the Early Earth: Environments, Evolution, and Biosphere
Eva Stueeken
University of St. Andrews
ee4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Jessica Weber
NASA JPL
jessica.weber@jpl.nasa.gov