# AGU 2025 session "Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth" (P008)

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I’m happy to let you know about the terraforming research session at the American Geophysical Union conference on 12/15-12/19 in New Orleans. The abstract submission deadline is 7/30. To submit an abstract, please visit:

> **[Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth](https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prelim.cgi/Session/248293)**
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> If we decide in the future to create sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth, then science will have a critical role to play. As the cost of access to space continues to fall, a fresh look at the research agenda for this topic is timely. We...

SESSION P008 - Creating sustainable habitats and ecosystems beyond Earth

Conveners: Edwin Kite (Astera Institute and University of Chicago), Nina Lanza (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Robin Wordsworth (Harvard University), and Chuanfei Dong (Boston University)

If we decide in the future to create sustainable habitats and  
ecosystems beyond Earth, then science will have a critical role to  
play. As the cost of access to space continues to fall, a fresh look  
at the research agenda for this topic is timely. We encourage  
contributions on all aspects of both local and global terraforming,  
including planetary atmospheres, climate modeling and climate  
feedbacks, monitoring of climate change beyond Earth, spacecraft data  
analysis, hydrology, soil/regolith composition and suitability (or  
otherwise) for life, biogeochemistry, in-situ resource utilization,  
oxygen production, ecology, and space physics and space environment  
monitoring, as well as the exploration and distribution of  
terraforming-relevant resources. Submissions on technologies and  
techniques that support terraforming goals are also encouraged.