Future Leaders of Ocean Worlds

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Huge congrats to Ishan Mishra on his new publication, “Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy” in The Planetary Science Journal! Read it here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Ilankuzhali Elavarasan spoke as an invited panelist at UTRGV C-STEM’s “Get the Most Out of Your Internship” workshop, sharing her experience from the Blue Marble Space Young Scientist Program and offering guidance to aspiring researchers!

🚀 Join the NASA-DARES RFI Findings Workshop: May 29–30, 2025 in D.C. (hybrid). Help shape the future of NASA’s Astrobiology Strategy through community review of RFI findings & proposed focus areas. Register free: (web.cvent.com/event/bd09ed19…)

More info: oceanworlds.space/wp-content/upl… Read Elizabeth’s paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2504.09015

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Elizabeth Spiers and several contributors, including NOW FLOW members, published their white paper for the 2025 NASA DARES - “Cultivating Long-Term Planning, Collaboration, and Mission Continuity in Astrobiology Through Support of Early Career Researchers.”

More info: oceanworlds.space/wp-content/upl… Read Lily’s paper here! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Lily Clough, a graduate student at the University of Tulsa, published a paper on "interpretable machine learning biosignature detection from Ocean Worlds analogue CO2 isotopologue data".

NASA Astrobiology seeks experts for NASA DARES TF1! Help shape the future of astrobiology research. Early-career scientists encouraged to apply! Attend virtual panel reviews (April-May 2025) & a hybrid workshop (May 2025, Washington, D.C.) More info: shorturl.at/9JwiS

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Nuri Park invites you to the WORM Portal Introductory Workshop! Hosted by GEOPIG, ASU. (PI: Dr. Everett Shock) 📅 March 25-26, 2025 🕔 Multiple time zones available. RSVP ASAP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Learn more: oceanworlds.space/wp-content/upl…

More info: oceanworlds.space/wp-content/upl… Read Jordyn's paper here! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🌊 FLOW Highlight: Jordyn Robare published "Distinguishing Potential Organic Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds from Abiotic Geochemical Products Using Thermodynamic Calculations" in ICARUS & accepted an NPP appointment at U of Washington in Brook Nunn’s lab.

Attending #AGU24? Join us for lunch on December 11th (Wednesday) at 12:15-1:30 PM ET at 54 Restauraunt (16 min walk from conference). Learn more and sign up at bit.ly/4hHHvfS! Presenting? Add your info to bit.ly/40RbT1c and FLOW will advertise your talk!

Mohit Melwani Daswani (JPL): Thermodynamic predictions for the stability and energetics of the citric acid cycle and a precursor prebiotic network in ocean worlds [2:15pm, Rotunda]

Kristin Johnson-Finn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Systematic exploration of the fates of small carboxylic acids and the implications of such work on organic chemical evolution [1:30pm, Rotunda]

Samuel Courville (Arizona State University): Dynamic Habitability of Ceres: Accreting Cometary Material Produces a Less-habitable, Shorter-lived Ocean [10:05am, Ballroom A]

Tomorrow is the last day of #AbSciCon24!! 🚀 The following FLOW affiliates will be presenting tomorrow (Friday): (🧵)

Gabriella Rizzo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Methanogenesis from Calcium Carbonate in Martian Regolith Simulant in the Presence of Soil Isolate Methanobacterium sp. ACI-7 [4:30-6pm, Poster Hall C-D, Poster #164]

Mariam Naseem (UMD College Park): Changes in Salt Composition of Ocean Materials during Exposure to Vacuum on Icy Ocean Worlds [4:30-6pm, Poster Hall C-D, Poster #118]

Be sure to check out the following FLOW affiliates presenting tomorrow (Thursday) at #AbSciCon24!! (🧵)