3-7 August 2020
technoclimes
AN Online Workshop to Develop a Research Agenda for Non-Radio Technosignatures

About The Event
TechnoClimes 2020 was a NASA-sponsored interdisciplinary workshop to develop a research agenda to prioritize and guide future theoretical and observational studies of non-radio technosignatures. TechnoClimes was convened as an online-only event on 3-7 August 2020, in order to accommodate worldwide attendance with current restrictions on travel. Participation included scientists and other academic scholars with research interests that relate to the search for extraterrestrial technology.
Talks from TechnoClimes 2020 are available on Youtube
Posters can be viewed at the ESSOAr repository
(Note: The views and opinions expressed in these talks and posters are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the workshop organizing committee, NASA, or any other sponsoring organization.)
Why Study Technosignatures?
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.
TechnoClimes Schedule
Day 1: Monday, August 3
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
11:00 PM - 12:00 PM EDT
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Day 2: Tuesday, August 4
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
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
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Day 3: Wednesday, August 5
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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 ?
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Day 4: Thursday, August 6
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
11:30 Full Group Discussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Day 5: Friday, August 7
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Organizing Committee
Jacob Haqq-Misra
Jason Wright
Adam Frank
Dawn Gelino
Ravi Kopparapu
Ryan Felton
Funding for TechnoClimes is provided by the NASA Exobiology program under award 80NSSC20K1109.
Please contact admin@technoclimes.org with any questions.