EVENTS For information on JPL tours and the speakers bureau, visit our PUBLIC SERVICES site. The Solar System Ambassador Program sponsors events in communities around the country. Find out how to become a volunteer Solar System Ambassador.		Topic - Advanced Technology for Life Detection and Biology Looking for Life in all the Strange Places, with all the right Tools Tim Krabach Manager, JPL Life Detection Science and Technology Program RealPlayer (with caption): "Looking for Life" Archived Webcast RealPlayer (w/out caption): "Looking for Life" Archived Webcast If you don't have RealPlayer, you can download the free RealPlayer 8 Basic.   Thursday, October 12 The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA For directions, click here. Friday, October 13 The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College 1570 East Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA For directions, click here. Both lectures begin at 7 p.m. PST and run for approximately an hour. Admission is free. Seating is limited. For more information, call (818) 354-0112. The search for life, along with the precursors and residues of life, is a key theme for science and technology activities at JPL. To prepare for future planetary missions to Mars, Europa and Titan, researchers at JPL are engaged in a broad set of science investigations here on Earth, and numerous advanced technology efforts to develop novel devices to detect life's signatures. This work is leading JPL scientists to such unique locations as the International Space Station, the Atacama desert in Chile, deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL, and the bathrooms of commercial airliners. This talk will give a current snapshot of how the laboratory is combining leading edge micro/nano technology, powerful biological detection methods, and scientific analysis of the underpinning of life to create the capabilities needed to answer the question "is or has there even been life elsewhere in the solar system? To learn more about life detection tools, click here.