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Research Focus Workshop

Organizers
 
Head Organizer: Marina António; quimarina@wsu.edu                                                WINNING PROPOSALS                                        
                           Schulze-Makuch Laboratory
                           School of Earth and Environmental Sciences                                        Pictures
                           Washington State University
 
Co-Organizers:
Rika Anderson                  University of Washington                Oceanography                       rika.anderson@gmail.com
Dimitra Atri                         University of Kansas                       Astrophysics                      dimitra@ku.edu
Armando Azúa-Bustos    Universidad Catolica de Chile       Environmental Microbiology          ajazua@uc.cl
Laurie Barge                     University of Southern California   Sedimentology Geochemistry     laurie.barge@gmail.com
Mark Claire                        University of Washington                 Astronomy                           mclaire@astro.washington.edu
Jacob Haqq-Misra            Pennsylvania State University        Climate Modeling                       jacob@gravityatwork.com
Sanjoy Som                       University of Washington                 Earth and Space Sciences    sanjoy@u.washington.com
Katherine Wright               University of Colorado at Boulder   Molecular Biology                      katherine.wright@colorado.edu
 
 

The conference will be followed by a workshop which will offer a platform to further develop interdisciplinary astrobiological research ideas between students from different departments, universities and countries. The aim is to form brainstorm research groups to develop proposals that can be submitted to funding agencies.

The workshop will take place following ABGradCon on July 20-22, at Pack Forest (near Seattle, transportation and lodging will be provided). Workshop organizers and attendees will post research questions that may be developed, and attendees will choose which questions they wish to explore further. Focus groups will be formed with the aim of addressing these research questions and will be composed of students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. These research groups will develop and present proposals, and the participants of the workshop will vote on the best proposals. The three most highly ranked proposals will be sent to NAI and published in the NAI newsletter, Authorship rights will be kept. The proposal can then be sent to funding agencies for the realization of these research goals.

If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please tick the respective box in the registration form for ABGradCon'09.For further information, contact Marina António at quimarina@wsu.edu.
 
How will it function?
The participants will be divided in groups of 3-4 people. The groups will be formed by the organizers based on field of research, institution and research interests. Participants within the same research field and from the same institution will not be placed in the same Focus Group in order to stimulate interdisciplinarity and institutional collaboration. Through several stages of discussion (details can be provided by request, quimarina@wsu.edu) with both organizers and other Focus Groups, each group will improve its proposal until a final stage where the proposals will be evaluated in the format of a grant panel.

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