Workshop Format
Exoplanets in our Backyard is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-divisional conversations about worlds in our solar system and beyond. The workshop will include invited oral talks, contributed oral talks, and contributed posters. Each oral session will conclude with a 20-minute panel comprised of speakers from the session. Panelists will be asked to consider how their research may be applied across multiple worlds and how they envision the future of solar system/exoplanet collaborations.
Poster presenters will have the opportunity to give lightning talks.
The workshop will include a NASA town hall to facilitate discussion on how to best meet the current and future needs of the planetary community. This town hall will feature NASA HQ leadership (TBA).
A portion of the meeting will follow the “unconference” format to help promote discussion, especially among scientists who do not traditionally work together or attend the same meetings. The unconference format has been used successfully at meetings such as Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III. Participants will suggest discussion topics, vote on which discussions to have, and will run/participate in the discussions.
On the final day of the workshop, we will host a community forum to identify goals and next steps. We anticipate that a product of this workshop will be one or more white paper(s) submitted to the planetary decadal survey. We encourage all attendees to participate in this important final session.
