The meeting has concluded.

The symposium was live-streamed on the GSFC Science Directorate UStream site: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-gsfc-science-and-exploration! If you are a speaker and do not want your presentations live-streamed, please contact the organizers and we will make accommodations.

Recorded talks from the Symposium are available on the Symposium Play List at https://www.ustream.tv/playlist/590419

Symposium Welcome Slides

Goddard Tours information was posted November 4.

If you plan to attend the JWST Proposal Planning Tutorial on Wednesday afternnon, please complete a planning questionnaire prior to the tutorial.

Badging Information for Foreign Nationals was updated on November 1.

Meeting and banquet transportation was updated on November 1.

The time for the informal dinner on Sunday was changed on November 1 from 19:00 to 18:00.

Beginning Sunday evening, November 3, a few informal dinners will he held. Click on the name of the location to view more information.

Sunday, November 3, 18:00, Dinner and Drinks at Willy K's at the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt, MD

Monday, November 4, 20:00, Drinks and Science at Astronomy on Tap at DC9 Nightclub, DC (dinner available downstairs beforehand)

Tuesday, November 5, 19:00, Informal Dinner and Drinks at Denizens Brewing, Riverdale Park, MD

The conference dinner and reception will be held on November 7 at the University of Maryland on the roof of The Hotel at the University of Maryland, in the Top of the 7s restaurant.

Five-minute Flash Talks were added to the Science Program Schedule on October 18.

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Code of Conduct was added under a new tab titled, "Behavior Guidelines and Harassment Policies" on October 18.

Instructions for Talk and Poster Contributors was added to the Logistics and Venue information on October 8.

List of Registrants added on September 24.

Lodging and Transportation information added on July 26.

Logistics and Venue information updated on July 26.

We will have three tours available on Wednesday afternoon. Paper sign-up sheets with the number of spots for tour capacity will be at the registration table on Tuesday. The spots are first come first serve; please only sign up for one tour due to limited availability.

Tour	Location	POC	Time	Maximum number including escorts
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telesccope Operations Control Center (STOCC)	Building 3	Jim Jeletic (Code 441)	14:30 - 15:00	15
JWST - 7/10/15/29 Complex	7/10/15/29 Complex	Mike McClare (Code 130)	15:30 - 16:00	15
SAM Lab C180	Building 34	Charles Malespin (Code 699)	16:30 - 17:00	20

Bus pick-ups

HST	Leave Building 34 for Building 3	14:10	Leave Building 3 for Building 34	15:00
JWST	Leave Building 34 for Building 7	15:10	Leave Building 29 for Building 34	16:00
SAM Lab	No Bus needed

Greenbelt Holiday Inn

The Greenbelt Holiday Inn is located at 7200 Hanover Drive, Greenbelt MD 20770. This hotel is offering a nightly room rate of $109.00 during the meeting. This rate includes a full continental breakfast, complimentary shuttle service and free parking. Hotel check in time is 3pm and check out is 11am. Each guest is responsible for all charges associated with your reservation. Any reservation not canceled by 6pm the date of arrival will be billed for one night's room and tax.

This room block will expire October 18, 2019, and any unused rooms will be released.

For online reservations please visit the following link: Greenbelt Holiday Inn

If you prefer to contact the hotel please dial 1-877-834-3613 and provide them with the group code: SEE

Residence Inn by Marriott, Greenbelt

The Residence Inn by Marriott, Greenbelt is located at 6320 Golden Triangle Drive, Greenbelt, MD 20770. This hotel is offering a nightly rate of $159- $169 during the meeting. This rate includes full daily hot breakfast, in-room internet connectivity, free onsite parking and free evening mix with lite fare from 6pm-7:30pm Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Each guest is responsible for all charges associated with your reservation. Any reservation not canceled by 6pm the date of arrival will be billed for one night's room.

This room block will expire October 3, 2019, and any unused rooms will be released.

For online reservations please visit the following link: Residence Inn by Marriott, Greenbelt

If you prefer to contact the hotel please dial 301.982.1600 and provide them with the group code: NGFNGFA

The hotels will provide shuttle service to and from the hotel. The information is in an Excel workbook with each hotel's information in a different sheet.

Download schedule

Carpooling from the Greenbelt hotels to GSFC and the banquet at the University of Maryland will be self-organized through Google Groups. Please join based on you hotel reigstation.

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/seec-symposium-holiday-inn/join

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/seec-symposium-marriott/join

If you choose to drive or carpool, discounted parking of $7 will be available for those that park in the Hotel parking garage. This discount does not apply to the small parking lot behind the venue.

Alternatively, attendees can use taxis or ride-sharing services such as Uber or Lyft, as needed.

The Symposium will be held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Building 34, Room W150. Conveniently accessible by air (local airports include BWI, DCA and IAD), it is also easily reached by car or bus from New York City (3 hours), Philadelphia (2 hours), and Washington/Baltimore metropolitan areas (1 hour).

The conference dinner and reception will be held at the University of Maryland on the roof of The Hotel at the University of Maryland, in the Top of the 7s restaurant.

If you choose to drive or carpool, discounted parking of $7 will be available for those that park in the Hotel parking garage. This discount does not apply to the small parking lot behind the venue.

All accepted abstracts will will have the opportunity for a contributed talk as well as a poster on the same day. The length of contributed talks will be 5 min; you will be notified of your contributed talk time slot after the abstract period closes. Posters will be available all day, and poster viewing will be prioritized during coffee breaks. Poster dimensions are 4 feet (48 inches) tall by 4 feet (48 inches) wide.

All meeting attendees will be required to display on their person a NASA Goddard Visitor's badge. This badge is in addition to your meeting attendee badge. The visitor badge can only be issued to those who have received a confirmation of registration. Once your registration has been received, you will be contacted within 48 hours confirming your badge request is in process and will detail any additional information that will be needed from you to continue the process. If you do not receive your badge initiation request, please contact Lynette Queen to follow up.

Please note that visitor access to NASA Goddard is not guaranteed by your registration. NASA security has the final authority for all badge approvals and refusals.

To avoid a delay with check-in, please ensure that you have all of your documentation prior to arriving at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Park in the visitor lot just outside the main gate (8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland) and proceed inside the reception building to collect your badge. Photo ID is required for all visitors; all permanent residents must bring their green cards.

Please keep track of the visitor's badge issued to you. If it is lost or misplaced, you will have to complete the badge check in procedure again, before being allowed back onto the GSFC Campus. Once your badge has been issued, you will be allowed to access campus through any gate.

US Citizens/ Naturalized Citizens/ Legal Permanent residents (Green card holders)

You will have to produce two forms of ID listed on the attached I-9 Security poster. Permanent residents MUST bring their green card. If you have specific questions pertaining to your proof of identification please do not hesitate to contact Lynette Queen.

Foreign Nationals

All non-US Citizens are classified as a Foreign National. All foreign national badge processing will occur at the Security office (building 9) located at the Main gate: 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland. For identification proofing, your original passport and visa documents must be presented. If you are not traveling on a visa you MUST bring a copy of the confirmation page of your ESTA Visa waiver.

Please visit the following site to obtain an ESTA Visa Waiver.
ESTA Visa Link

To avoid badging delays, foreign national participants will be able to enroll as soon as their badge is approved. This means you will be able to provide your original passport and visa to the security office, take your badging photo and provide copies of your fingerprints prior to the start of the symposium. You will not be issued your badge the same day, if you choose to enroll early. However, the morning of the symposium you will be able to bypass the line and pick up your visitor badge. Please bring your original passport when picking up any pre-enrolled badge.

If you choose to enroll the morning of the symposium, please plan for a minimum 45 minute enrollment process. All Foreign Nationals will require an assigned escort for the length of the visit. You will be escorted in groups of 4-6. Each morning you will be required to return to the badging office to meet with your escort prior to entering the campus.

After collecting your badge you can return to your car and drive to Building 34, showing your badge and photo ID to the guard at the gate. Park in any nearby parking lot except for marked reserved or disabled spaces unless applicable. If you do not have a vehicle, your escort can take you to the meeting location.

Coffee will be available prior to the start of the Symposium at 8:00am outside of the meeting room.

Project	Description
TRAPPIST-1 Initiative	During the last decade, dozens of transiting giant exoplanets have had their atmospheric properties characterized in some detail by various space-based and ground-based telescopes. The upcoming launch of JWST combined with the recent discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system represents a unique opportunity to extend such atmospheric studies into the realm of temperate Earth-sized worlds. Indeed, the proximity of the system (12pc) combined with the Jupiter-like size and small luminosity (0.05% of the Sun's) of the star make the comparative study of the planets’ atmospheres within reach of an ambitious (100hr to 1000hr) JWST program. Given the limited lifetime of JWST and the numerous challenges that this study will face both from an observational and a theoretical point of view, the TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative aims to ensure its coordination and optimization. It will be managed by a board of scientists with complementary expertise who will help provide coordination mechanisms for all members of the community ready to join and support the initiative. While keeping the freedom to publish scientific results independently, the involved scientists will act as a community to develop a well-defined sequential structure for the study of the system with JWST and to coordinate on every aspect of its preparation and implementation, both on the observational (e.g. study of the instrumental limitations, data analysis techniques, complementary space-based and ground-based observations) and theoretical levels (e.g. model developments and comparison, retrieval techniques, inferences). All JWST data taken within this community-driven approach will have a minimal proprietary period, so to maximize their scientific return. Depending on the outcome of the first phase of observations, this initiative could become the seed of a major JWST legacy program partially or totally devoted to the study of TRAPPIST-1. Please enter your name, email, and area of expertise in the Google sheet if you would like to support and/or join the TRAPPIST-1 JWST Community Initiative.
The MIRECLE Mission	MIRECLE (MIR Exoplanet CLimate Explorer) is a concept for a moderately sized (2-meter) cryogenic telescope with broad wavelength coverage (4 - 25 μm) and ultra-stable detectors capable of conducting in-depth characterization of a statistically significant sample of planets around ultra-cool dwarfs, several of which will be terrestrial planets in their host stars’s habitable zones. MIRECLE would provide unprecedented sensitivity in the MIR over long observing baselines, providing the opportunity for phase-resolved and secondary eclipse spectroscopy of cool (300K) planets. Spectroscopic characterization of terrestrial atmospheres will provide constraints for the distribution of planets with tenuous vs. substantial atmospheres, map tidally-dominated volcanically active planets, and explore the transition across the inner edge of the surface-water regime. For the few brightest targets, the detection of specific combinations of molecules would provide evidence of biological activity. For gas-rich planets, MIRECLE would produce phase-resolved maps of planets across a wide range of mass and temperature. This comprehensive survey would also determine which subset of potentially habitable worlds would be best for future in-depth atmospheric characterization using larger aperture telescopes. We will present the science case and sensitivity calculations for the mission, as well as the key technical aspects of the instrumentation that will provide the stability floor of 5 ppm or better over multi-day timescales needed to measure thermal phase curves of HZ planets. If you’d like to join the email list to help plan the science case for the mission, please visit the following site and add your name to the list: https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/mirecle-science