The academic year has started, yet there are conferences. This coming Monday (a holiday in the US/Canada) will be the first of many, highly applicable to this site:
IMPACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE CONFERENCE
The meeting will take place from 1 to 4 September 2025 in the picturesque medieval city of Nordlingen, which is situated inside the world-famous Ries crater in southern Germany. It aims to cover the role of meteorite and comets impacts in the formation of Earth, its atmosphere and the evolution of life. The conference will consist of lectures, discussions, excursions, and poster sessions. The European Astrobiology Institute and the Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre, and the University of Neu-Ulm will function as co-organisers of the conference.
-Impacts and the early history of the Solar System
-Impact structures as indicators of target properties
-Role of impacts in delivery and formation of the building blocks for life
-Impact-generated habitats for life
-Environment effects of impacts
-Impacts as threats for life and humankind
-Geoconservation, education and outreach of impacts
We also will have two one-day excursions, one around the Ries crater on 4 September and one half-day excursion on 2 September to the Steinheim crater with its famous central uplift feature.
Programme
europeanastrobiology.eu/nordlingen-conference/noerdlingenprogrammefirstdraft/
…highlights include JWST and planetary defense, etc.
Invited speakers
The following scientists have been invited as speakers:
Elmar Buchner, University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany
Heike Burkhardt, Landratsamt Donau-Ries, Germany
Katarina Miljkovic, Curtin University, Australia
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Politecnico Milano 1863, Italy
Alexandra Pontefract, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Haley Sapers, York University, Canada
Martin Schmieder, University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany