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.