Technosignatures are observational manifestations of technology, particularly those that could be detected through astronomical or other means. Possible technosignatures include waste heat, artificial illumination, artificial atmospheric constituents, artificial surface constituents, stellar pollution, non-terrestrial artifacts, and megastructures. This workshop welcomes discussion of this broad set of technosignatures, as well as any others that could conceivably be detected by a current or future NASA mission.

NASA’s recent interest in technosignatures resulted in the convening of a technosignatures workshop in 2018, which produced a report that defined the state of the field and emerging opportunities. The 2018 workshop represented a significant step in NASA’s astrobiology strategy by emphasizing the connection between the search for life on exoplanets and the possibility of detecting signs of extraterrestrial technology.

TechnoClimes seeks to continue the momentum of the previous NASA workshop on technosignatures by holding a focused 5-day discussion with the goal of delivering a research agenda on technosignatures to the broader community. This research agenda for technosignatures will include prioritization of objectives in the context of NASA’s existing and planned missions, as some technosignatures may be observable passively by other missions that are seeking signs of spectroscopic biosignatures. This report will also provide best practices for any future missions that are designed with the intent to search for technosignatures.

10:30  Jacob Haqq-Misra - Welcome, Logistics, and Overview

10:45  Dawn Gelino - NASA's Interest in Technosignatures

Break - view posters & discuss in Slack

12:30  Sara Walker - Statistical Signatures of Biospheres and Technospheres

12:45  Ross Davis - Searching for Technosignatures through Network Analysis

1:00  Amedeo Balbi - What type of technosignatures can we detect?

1:15  Anamaria Berea - Universal Constraints to P(Life) derived from Game Theory

Full Group Discussion

Daily Summary - connect with new colleagues in Slack

11:00  George Djorgovski (keynote) - How to Think Like an Alien: A Data-Driven Approach to Minimizing the Biases in the Searches for Technosignatures

11:30  Hikaru Furukawa - Chemical Complexity: Implications for Bio/Techno signatures

11:45  Gabriel De la Torre - The Problem of Cognitive Bias in the Search for Technosignatures: Humans Versus Artificial Intelligence

Break - view posters & discuss in Slack

12:30  Thomas Beatty - The Dectectability of Nightside City Lights on Exoplanets

12:45  Svetlana Berdyugina - Detecting Technosignatures in Reflected Light

1:00  James Benford - Is ET Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard?

1:15  Kevin Knuth - Searching and Verifying Technosignatures in the Near-Earth Space Environment using Satellite Data Imagery

Full Group Discussion

Daily Summary - connect with new colleagues in Slack

11:00  David Grinspoon (keynote) - Cognitive Planetary Transitions: Is there a "Sapiezoic Eon" in Earth's future or elsewhere in the galaxy?

11:30  Hector Socas Navarro - Geosynchronous Orbits

11:45  Matías Suazo - Searching for Dyson Spheres with Gaia and WISE

Break - view posters & discuss in Slack

12:30  Beatriz Villarroel - The VASCO Project: A Status Update

12:45  Dan Werthimer - PANOSETI: An Optical All-sky Fast Time-domain Observatory

1:00  Dan Werthimer - New SETI Strategies, and When Will Earthings Find ET ?

Full Group Discussion

Daily Summary - connect with new colleagues in Slack

11:00  Poster Lightning Talks

11:30  Full Group Discussion

Break - view posters & discuss in Slack

Breakout Groups

Breakout Group Reports and Discussion

Daily Summary - connect with new colleagues in Slack

Full Group Discussion

Break - view posters & discuss in Slack

Breakout Groups

Breakout Group Reports and Discussion

Closing Remarks and Next Steps for Deliverable