Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


Activities
  1. Ecogenomics Focus Group Activities

    EcoGenomics Focus Group meetings were held in November 2000 and April 2001 to plan for a major field excursion to take place during the first two weeks of June 2001. Five primary goals were defined for this field trip:1)establishing the microbial mat carbon and oxygen budgets, 2)characterizing populations of sulfate reducing bacteria, 3)measuring the lateral distributions of cyanobacterial populations within subtidal microbial mats, 4)conducting total microbial diversity surveys throughout the mat, and 5)characterizing the biogeochemistry of sulfur in photosynthetic microbial mats.