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7:00 pm Registration/reception - hotel
August 31
Tuesday morning
8:00 am Coffee/Registration/Poster and exhibit setup
8:30 am Introductory remarks - Andrea Donnellan
8:45 am Keynote talk - Scientific Rationale for Autonomous Systems - Jack Doolittle
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Keynote talk - A Systems Approach from Spacecraft Integration -Paul Stolorz
11:00 am Keynote talk - Remote Ocean Floor Observatories - John Orcutt
12:00 pm Lunch (on own)
Tuesday afternoon
GENERAL SESSION
Convener: Bruce Luyendyk
1:30 pm Raymond: Past experiences and lessons learned
2:00 pm Ashley: Lessons learned from astronomy at the South Pole
2:15 pm Storey: Astronomy at the South Pole: instruments
2:30 pm Hamilton: Remote autonomous systems for control of altimetry
2:45 pm Cobbett: UK Antarctic AGO program
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Rall: Ground-based atmospheric lidar instrument (in AGO)
3:45 pm Sanders: Radiation monitoring in Alaska
4:00 pm Box: Meteorology in Greenland
4:15 pm Chadwell: Seafloor Geodesy
4:30 pm Voigt: ANUBIS
4:45 pm Discussion
5:00 pm Adjourn
Dinner- Athenaeum
September 1
Wednesday morning
POWER, THERMAL, AND DATA
Convener: Andrea Donnellan
8:00 am Coffee
8:30 am Nesbit: Power systems
9:00 am Dibble: Power systems
9:30 am Awaya: Thermal systems
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Chen: Fuel cells
10:45 am Discussion
11:00 am Dace: Data systems
11:30 am Anandakrishnan: ANUBIS data
11:45 am Flynn: Astrobiology Life in Extreme Environments
12:00 pm Lunch (on own)
Wednesday afternoon
COMMUNICATIONS
Convener: Sridahr Anandakrishnan
1:30 pm Hoang: Communications
2:00 pm Reeder: Low power GPS communications
PACKAGING AND ENVIRONMENT
Convener: Bruce Luyendyk
2:15 pm Brennan: Packaging and Environment (see also the abstract on the workshop description page)
2:45 pm Rajan: Intelligent sensor system
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Anderson: Electrostatic Discharge
3:45 Discussion
GENERAL SESSION
Convener: Bruce Luyendyk
4:00 pm Rebold: GPS in western Marie Byrd Land
4:15 pm Conquest: UNAVCO GPS
4:30 pm Discussion
5:00 Adjourn
September 2
Thursday morning
Convener: Andrea Donnellan
8:00 am Coffee
8:30 am Discussion and prepare report
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Discussion, continued
12:00 pm Lunch (on own)
1:00 pm Tour of JPL: microdevices lab, spacecraft assembly facility, environmental test chamber
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