"Is it possible to predict the fall of a meteors before it's fall? And how could we protect ourselves from this fall? "
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2011 Selections
NAI/APS 2011 Selections for the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
Adam Zachary
Montana State University
Travel to the Belt Supergroup, Montana for “Characterizing the Mesoproterozoic Microfossil Record of the Belt Supergroup, Montana”.James Caporaso
University of Colorado, Boulder
Travel to the Atacama Desert, Chile for “Microbial Community Characterization of the Atacama Desert Soils”.Mark Claire
University of Washington
Travel to the Atacama Desert, Chile “Searching for the Driest Place on Earth”.Alison Conrad
University of California, Santa Cruz
Travel to California and Nevada lakes and hot springs to study, “The Microbial Ecology of Anoxygenic Arsenite Oxidizing Photoautotrophs in Extreme Environments “.Jessica Corman
Arizona State University
Travel to Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico to examine “Nutrient Limitation as a Factor for Microbialite Formation in Cuatro Ciénegas, México”.Sarah Hendrickson
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Travel to South African mines to examine “Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling in the Deep Crustal Biosphere”.Joseph Levy
Portland State University
Travel to Yellowstone National Park to examine “Chimerya: Cryosphere-Hydrothermal Interactions: Mars-Yellowstone Research for Astrobiology”.Jeffrey Marlow
California Institute of Technology
Travel to the Hydrate Ridge, OR to assess “Carbonate based anaerobic methane oxidation at hydrate ridge methane seeps”.Rebecca McCauley
Pennsylvania State University
Travel to the Bahamas to examine “Energy-Limited Microbial Communities as an Analog for Archean Life”.Alberto Robador Ausejo
University of Hawaii
Travel to the Juan de Fuca Ridge to study the “Biosphere of Subseafloor Basalt Crust”.Timothy Shirey
University of Alabama
Travel to the Atacama Desert, Chile to study the Perchlorate Reduction & Biochemistry in the Atacama Desert: The Searth for Biosignatures of Life in a Martian Analog Environment”.Amelinda Webb
Yale University
Travel to Anticosti Island, Quebec for “Exploring the Ecological Impact of Mass Extinction: Measuring the Effects of Stress on Communities during the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada”.
