Public Engagement Event

Virtual Panel

September 11, 7:30 p.m. EDT / 6:30 p.m. CDT / 5:30 p.m. MDT / 4:30 p.m. PDT

To wrap-up The First Billion Years: Habitability conference, we hosted an hour-long virtual panel on September 11, 2019, 5:30 p.m., Mountain Daylight Time. Panelists reviewed the research presented during the conference and answered online questions covering the conference’s three themes: Habitability, Origins of Life, and the Search for Life Beyond Earth.

Panelists included:

Justin Filiberto, Planetary Petrologist and Geochemist: USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute
Kennda Lynch, Planetary Geomicrobiologist: USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute
Timothy Lyons, Biogeochemist: University of California, Riverside
Irena Mamajanov, Prebiotic Chemist: Earth–Life Science Institute
Abel Méndez, Exoplanet Astronomer: University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo

The panel was moderated by conference convener Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute.

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