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okay good morning so my name is marina

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and this is a special session to really

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honor and pay tribute to someone that is

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very special to the entire astrobiology

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community and is particularly beloved by

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the early career astrobiologists and

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those that still like to think of

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themselves as such and and of course I'm

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talking about Carl Pilcher who is right

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there hang on hang on hang on

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so Carl as you know has retired recently

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from his position as an AI director

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where he was a kind and very caring a

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mentor to an inspiring leader to many

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many young minds for over a decade and

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continues to be such and you know I

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could go on for hours on just why that

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is but I really would just highlight one

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aspect of it and that is that he really

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has pioneered the concept of

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interdisciplinarity and what I mean by

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that is not like the interdisciplinarity

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that many of us think as you know at

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faculty level where you call up your

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colleague from another field that has

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some cool gadget that will look good on

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interdisciplinarity that I'm talking

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he really pioneered the

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interdisciplinary at this thought level

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so he basically picked us as

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undergraduates and graduate students put

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became specialists and it took me about

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10 years to really understand the value

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but now I get it I think and I'd like to

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illustrate that with an analogy which is

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that if you as an adult who grew up in a

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have all the best intentions to really

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understand our world but you'll never

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understand it as well as somebody who

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simply grew up there and so who that is

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it's that diversity and this right here

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in this room is what's normal to us

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because of you we grew up in this

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environment and you know I have

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that there are you know other

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astrobiology leaders in other world that

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one day future generations of humans

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will know life elsewhere as normal the

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way we know interdisciplinary is normal

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with you so and with that I would like

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to welcome a good friend of yours David

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research scientist at NASA Ames and he's

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another Carl because we need that and

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he's a his you're like me show this is

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an amazing person he did go to Purdue as

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for bachelor's in chemistry nobody's

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perfect but but then he did it did fix

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University so please Dave thank you very

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much well when you hear about the

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summary of Karl's career you'll realize

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it's just no chance evolutionary

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accident that he came upon this role in

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interdisciplinary Sciences career reads

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like the history recent major advances

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chemistry from Polytechnic Institute of

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1973 a PhD in chemistry from MIT as a

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grad student and this is mind-boggling

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astronomy whereupon he discovered and

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basically dynamic processes that were

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observable and he participated in the

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science director of the office of

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space science and applications he led

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transition to astrobiology was inspired

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Allen Hills meteorite in the mid 90s he

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course managing the astrobiology program

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director in 2006 managed over a thousand

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members of this steer the nei towards a

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more supportive role of missions from

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transition to a new director which that

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thought he's taught a number of college

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science providing an interesting

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progress here so you know you look at

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discoveries early in his career who then

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everyone to stay on that thinks their

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noticed that he could have easily chosen

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a career as a celebrated concert pianist

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and I say this just to remind us all of

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how lucky we are that he became an

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astrobiologist instead because there are

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a few who have done as much as you've

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heard to support our community Thank You

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Carl Carl didn't realize he had such a

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fierce beard when you're young looks

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incredible particularly for us early

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careers is his trust in placing in us

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the responsibilities of a conference and

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I can speak for many of us early careers

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that ab grad colin has been fundamental

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in how we do science personally my some

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of my best friends and closest

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colleagues emerge from that and for me

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personally it made me realize that when

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you work with your buddies on topics

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that are not necessarily only about

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astrobiology you can accomplish

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fantastic things and that's something

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that would be impossible without the

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trust of here you get have a little bit

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of money organize your conference no pis

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have a great time and I think the the

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tightness of our community like Sarah

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echoed through the density of hugs that

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are at apps icon compared to hu for

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example is a true testament to Carl's

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leadership so thank you for that

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so it was almost exactly 10 years ago

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that and Karl still didn't have a lot of

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hair 10 years ago I want to know when

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the hair disappeared from this photos

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the Karl gave me a call and said Arielle

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I'd like you to share the science

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organizing committee for ABS icon 2008

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which at that point was about a year way

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my first reaction was what it's only

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your way you guys don't even have a

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science organizing care what what but my

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second reaction was to be a bit daunted

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and I'm recall saying to Karl something

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like you know I don't know that I have

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the experience to do this nor do I feel

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that I necessary have the stature to be

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the chair of this committee and Karl

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said something that I'm sure many of you

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have heard something like that said of

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the exact word but something the effect

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of oh I think you'll do very well I

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think I'll be fine and it's that

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combination of creating opportunity and

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providing this sort of quiet calm

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reassurance that I think is the hallmark

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of the way Carl has nurtured many of us

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me neither early career folks here who

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are still still call themselves early

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career and those of us who now have

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enough gray hair that were beyond early

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career but still remember what that was

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like so thank you very very much Carl I

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wouldn't be here without your calm

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patient opportunity creation and support

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thank you

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I'm Lauren and I'm kind of a early

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career astrobiologists because I came

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into it a little bit late in life

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and so I really so distinctly remember

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the first remember the first phone call

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I got from Carl which he said you are

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now director of an NIH center and I told

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my wife and she said that's Nick HUD

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playing a joke on you

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and but then I met Carl and I was so

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struck by this person who has no filter

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I didn't see I never saw Carl look tired

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or bored you know everything in science

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is interesting to him and he has this

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sort of childlike wonder when he when he

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is around science and being presented

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with science and and that has really

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inspired me and I've sort of tried that

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foster that in myself so I used I used

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Carl's a role model and I always well so

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thank you very much Carl hi Carl

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so I've been thinking I've been thinking

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a lot about what to say about you since

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we've been receiving wonderful emails

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from Marina about this and it's it's

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very difficult for me to summarize with

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with my known English vocabulary but

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what you've done to to our community and

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to us and and I think it's the sense of

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belonging that that particularly acting

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you've contributed in into our lives but

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on top of all that you you came into my

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life at a time where I wasn't sure if if

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science is right for me and and the

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reason for that was I was interested in

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so many different fields and so many

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different questions and I wasn't sure if

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one field could feed that and and you

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not only showed me that that there is a

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this is astrobiology and there's a place

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for all these questions but also there

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is a room for heart and gut in science

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and that we should combine that and go

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for it so thank you very much and and

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even talking about Steve Jay Gould in

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the role of chance and necessity

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lucien and steve has this wonderful

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sentence from his wonderful book called

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wonderful life that I know you love and

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he says that we pass through world but

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just once and and what a great passing

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and thank you very much but it's so so

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glad that you pass through our life

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thank very much

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so I just want to kind of you know

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emphasize a little bit more about how

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Carl created a census to Family and

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Community and astrobiology and how much

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it's made a difference especially for me

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and I think our entire community when I

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when I started my PhD I came into the I

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came into the eschatology fold along

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early on in my career but when I

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actually started with my PhD I had come

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from a very tumultuous master's degree

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just want to NASA fellowship and I had

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to do summer rotations at NASA Ames

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so my first summer my first summer

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arriving at NASA Ames I was full of

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anxiety a little bit of imposter

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syndrome especially being a minority PhD

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student in this new field of

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astrobiology where there wasn't a lot of

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means around and I remember going over

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to the NASA Astrobiology Institute the

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main office at Ames and just feeling

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super welcomed by Carl and everybody in

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the office and just seeing the sense of

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home and community and family that was

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just generated just within the office

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itself I mean it was always welcoming

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there's many times if Carl was a busy

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he's had me come and sit down and ask

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how I was doing they would all Ernest

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offered me food it felt like going home

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like hey there's food there was always

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food in the conference room so I was got

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set every time I went there and so it's

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just this feeling of family that that I

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got from a strategy that just helped me

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stay in this community and make me want

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to continue to develop in this community

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contribute to this community and bring

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other young scientists in this community

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and it truly is like coming back home to

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the greatest biggest most wonderful

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family reading and every time I come to

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one of these meetings and I thank you

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Carl for creating that sense of family

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and community and our discipline

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so I first met Kyle when I was a PhD

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student and I was the lead organizer of

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the a Brad corn in 2008 and I would

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absolutely echo what others have said

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about the importance of those

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conferences in building those

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interdisciplinary and actually

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international links at a very early

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stage in the career that we're all still

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using now as we as we've advanced and I

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in it in addition what the other said

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about thanking her for the financial

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support I think what struck me was the

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was really important was the personal

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interest that you show Cole and I

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remember you gave up a good portion of

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your Sunday to come and spend time at

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the conference and talk to us and listen

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to us which was really important and

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really appreciated and Cole's

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support for the early Korea community

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hasn't stopped just I now work at the UK

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Space Agency and I fund scientists and I

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was chatting to Cole just yesterday and

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I asked him about you know what he

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thought have made the nei so successful

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apart from the money which you know

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always helps and the first thing he said

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to me was investing in the early career

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community and I totally agree with that

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and thank you a call for all your

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support over the years a lot of us

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appreciated

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[Applause]

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so just I apologize we're running out of

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time and this speaks to how many people

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wouldn't really talk to you and welcome

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you still to come in but just in the

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interest of time I would just like to

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give Carl a poster that was generously

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made by you know Estelle Dodson and her

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Melissa Kevin Brooks and Neil Cruikshank

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and David Morrison and who helped with

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the slides too and all the images and

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still want to let people know that if if

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you haven't signed it you can sign it

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outside still but Carl just if you want

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to say a few words you're welcome to as

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well just for you remember all of us and

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there forget because we'll never forget

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you oh my god who I learned something

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when I went into government

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administration which I did almost 30

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years ago and that is that there's

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another sense of the word enabler we

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tend to use the word enabler in a

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negative context but there's a really a

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very very positive context of the word

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enabler and I realized that government

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administrators are enablers in that very

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best sense of the word because I

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realized after a year or two in

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government and it did take me a little

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while to realize it that my job wasn't

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to enable the community that I was

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serving to do great things and I started

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off mostly serving the planetary science

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community and then astrobiology came

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along and I thought wow this was

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something that I could not not be a part

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of and and through some of the ways that

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you've already heard about I managed to

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learn enough biology to to become a part

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of this community

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and there is nothing in my career that

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has been it there's nothing in my career

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that has been more rewarding than

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enabling this community to do the things

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that it has done so my success is 100% a

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reflection of your success it is what

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you have done that has made the

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astrobiology programs and astrobiology

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Institute my tenure as director it is

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what you have done that has made that

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all a success so thank you all for

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everything that you have done and I am