Education/Outreach — With such a large number of talks (120) and posters (300), it is impossible to do justice to the whole meeting, but I will mention a few of the talks and posters which I personally found interesting (Note that the program and abstracts are available online and, with a little effort, are easily perused: see below).

For readers wishing a broader overview of the meeting than the few idiosyncratic selections above, consult the program and on line abstracts at: http://astrobiology.com/asc2002/program.html [editor’s note: this link is no longer active]

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp...