The habitability of Titan’s subsurface water ocean
Meeting #1 – Bern – August 21-26, 2022
Sunday 21 August
7:30 pm : Dinner at Luce Italian Restaurant, Zeughausgasse 28, 031 310 99 99, ristoranteluce.ch
Monday 22 August
9:30 am – 10:00 am Introduction (Christophe, Rosaly, Conor) – goals of the team meeting
10:30 am -12:30pm 5 to 10 minutes for everyone to say what he/she can contribute to the study (14 people)
12:30 to 2:00 pm Lunch
Theme 1 ‘from top to the ocean’
2:00-2:30 pm C. Neish Introduction/Organic Transport
2:30-3:15 pm M. Dobrijevic Photochemical Models
3:15-3:30 pm Break
3:30-4:15 pm C. Nixon Composition of the gaseous atmosphere
4:15-5:00 pm N. Carrasco Atmospheric Aerosols
5:30 pm welcome drink
Tuesday 23 August
Theme 1 ‘from top to the ocean’
9:00-9:45 am K. Kalousova Insulating Effects of Clathrates
9:45-10:30 am K. Farnsworth Aqueous Chemistry
10:30-11:00 am Break / Group picture
11:00-11:45 am M. Malaska Surface/Subsurface Transport
11:45-12:30pm R. Lopes Habitability of Hydrocarbon Worlds (NAI)
12:30-1:00 pm Discussion on theme 1
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch
Theme 2 ‘from the core to the ocean’
2:00-2:45 pm C. Sotin Thermo-chemical evolution of Titan’s silicate core
2:45-3:30 pm M. Daswani Flux of redox sensitive species from the interior to the ocean.
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-4:45 pm Kelly Miller Geochemical Constraints on an Internal Source of Organics for Titan’s Ocean
4:45-5:30 pm Discussion on theme 2
Wednesday 24 August
9:00-9:45 am K. Kalousova: HPice layer dynamics: characteristics of the boundary layers
9:45-10:30am Discussion on theme 2
10:30-11:00 Break
Theme 3 ‘ocean habitability’
11:00-11:45 am K. Soderlund: Global ocean circulation. Interaction with the seafloor and upper ice-ocean interface
11:45-12:30 pm M. Malaska: The habitability of Titan’s Deep Ice
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-2:45 C. Cockell: Habitability of the Titan ocean: what a biologist wants to know
2:45-3:30 Antonin Affholder: What ecological theory can bring to habitability: from modeling hypothetical methanogens in Enceladus’s ocean to evaluating TItan’s habitability
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 pm Mike Malaska: Trace gas life
4:45-5:30 pm Discussion on theme 3
Thursday 25 August
questions to be addressed and homework list to achieve the expected output
- Formation and evolution of Titan’s organics: new insights from the organic flux from the core.
- Habitat suitability of Titan’s ocean and biological potential
9:00 – 10:30 am C. Neish: synthesis on theme 1
10h30-11:00 am Break
11:00 – 12:30 am K. Miller: synthesis on theme 2
12:30-3:30 pm free time / Io seminar at Bern university
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm M. Daswani: synthesis on theme 3
Friday 26 August
9:00-10:00 C. Neish: wrap-up theme 1 & list of studies before next meeting
10:00-11:00 K. Miller: wrap-up theme 2 & list of studies before next meeting
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 M. Daswani: wrap-up theme 2 & list of studies before next meeting
12:30-1:00 pm C. Sotin – conclusions of the meeting and preparation of the next one
12:30 pm – end of meeting #1