Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. International Collaboration

    The NAI maintains a small fund to help support travel and accommodation costs associated with collaborations between NAI members and international colleagues in the field of astrobiology. This funding supports travel by NAI members affiliated with US. institutions to non-U.S. laboratories or field sites.

    The NAI has awarded travel support for:

    Dr, Alexandre Andronikov (U of Arizona) to travel to Belgium, the Netherlands and Russia to study Possible Extraterrestrial Causes of Pleistocene Megafauna Extinction [ Report ]

    Dr. Nora Noffke (Old Dominion U) to travel to Western Australia to conduct a detailed geological survey of the Tumbiana Formation

    Dr. Dawn Cardace (NASA Ames Research Center) [ report ] to Poison Bay, New Zealand to study the Anita Ultramafites

    Drs. Dawn Cardace (NASA Ames Research Center) [ report ] and D’Arcy Meyer-Dombard (U of Illinois at Chicago) [ report ] to travel to the North Anatolian Fault Zone in Turkey

    Drs. Pieter Visscher and Christophe Dupraz (U of Connecticut) to travel to Shark Bay, Australia