JANUARY 8th, WEDNESDAY
Introduction
9:00 a.m.	Welcome, Overview of the Landing Site Selection Process and Workshop Goals John Grant (Co-Chair, Landing Site Steering Committee)
9:15 a.m.	Mars Exploration Program  [PDF; 160 Kb] Jim Garvin, Mars Program Scientist
9:30 a.m.	Landing Site Selection and the Athena Science Payload Steve Squyres
9:45 a.m.	History of Ellipse Changes since 3rd Workshop  [PDF; 3.4 Mb] Matt Golombek (Co-Chair, Landing Site Steering Committee)
10:30 a.m.	Engineering Constraints, Factors, Process in Selecting the MER Landing Sites Mark Adler, Project Landing Site Engineer
11:30 a.m.	EDL System Updates Rob Manning, JPL
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Analysis of Nightime Temperatures at the Landing Sites  [Powerpoint; 360 Kb] N. Bridges and T. Martin, JPL
1:30 p.m.	Discussion
Science of the Landing Sites
2:00 p.m.	Analysis of THEMIS Data for Meridiani, Isidis, and Elysium Sites Phil Christensen and THEMIS Science Team
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:15 p.m.	Crater Counts at the Landing Sites: Implications for Surface Materials  [PDF; 3.0 Mb] Martha Gilmore and Ken Tanaka
3:45 p.m.	Characterization of Hematite Deposits and Associated Units Frank Seelos, Washington University
4:15 p.m.	Possible Relationships Between Hematite and Large Impact Basin  [PDF; 2.5 Mb] Horton Newsom
4:45 p.m.	Discussion
5:30 p.m.	Adjourn
JANUARY 9th, THURSDAY
Science of the Landing Sites (cont.)
8:30 a.m.	Eolian History at Hematite and Gusev  [PDF; 3.5 Mb] Ron Greeley, ASU
9:00 a.m.	Synthesis of the Testable Hypotheses for Gusev  [PDF; 2.7 Mb] Nathalie Cabrol, NASA Ames
9:30 a.m.	Testing Hypotheses in Gusev Crater using the Athena Payload B. Sutter, J. Moore, N. Cabrol, and A. Zent
9:45 a.m.	THEMIS Thermophysical and Spectrascopic Properties of Gusev J. Moersch, H. McSeeen, University of Tennesee
10:15-10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.	Fluvial/Lacustrine Analysis of the Gusev Site Based on THEMIS, MOC, and MOLA Jim Rice, ASU
10:45 a.m.	Geologic Units in Gusev Crater  [PDF; 2.2 Mb] Ross Irwin, NASM CEPS
11:00 a.m.	MER Science Goals and Testable Hypotheses at the Isidis Site  [PDF; 6.4 Mb] Larry Crumpler, NMMNH
11:15 a.m.	Geomorphic Analysis of the Libya Montes Region: Implications for Geology of Isidis Landing Ellipse  [Powerpoint; 648 Kb] Jeff Moore, NASA Ames, and Alan Howard, Uva
11:30 a.m.	Geologic Setting of the Isidis Site George McGill, UMASS
11:45 a.m.	Scientific Hypotheses Addressable at the Elysium Site  [PDF; 336 Kb] Mike Carr, USGS, and Jim Rice, ASU
12:15 - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Geology of the "Elysium" Site  [PDF; 2.0 Mb] K. Tanaka, J. Skinner, M. Carr, M. Gilmore, and T. Hare
1:45 p.m.	Beyond the Hematite: Additional Motivation to Land in Meridiani  [PDF; 1.1 Mb] Wendy Calvin, University of Nevada
2:15 p.m.	Science Discussion
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Coffee Break
Site Safety Presentations
3:30 p.m.	Plans for EDL Simulations and Sensitivities Wayne Lee, JPL
4:45 p.m.	Meter-Scale Slopes from MOC Photoclinometry  [Webpage] R. Beyer and A. McEwen, University of Arizona
5:15 p.m.	Topographic Mapping and Slope Analyses  [PDF, 9.2 Mb]   (Slope and Stereo Excel Worksheets) R. Kirk, USGS Flagstaff
5:45 p.m.	End of Day Two
JANUARY 10th, FRIDAY
Site Safety (cont.)
8:30 a.m.	Hazard Maps of the Landing Sites Tim Parker, JPL
9:00 a.m.	Terrestrial Interferometric Radar Observations of Terra Meridiani and Isidis  [PDF; 1.0 Mb] K. Larsen, A. Haldemann, R. Jurgens, R. Arvidson, M. Slade
9:30 a.m.	Boulder Counts in the Gusev Ellipse R. Schroeder and M. Golombek
9:45 a.m.	Probability of Impacting and Accessing Rocks at the MER Landing Sites  [PDF; 1.0 Mb] M. Golombek, A. Haldemann, E. DiMaggio, R. Schroeder, and J. Matijevic, JPL
10:15 a.m.	Athena Science Team Perspective on MER Landing Sites Steve Squyres
10:45 a.m.	Discussion
12:30 p.m.	Adjourn