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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    PI Douglas Whittet
    Members 40 (See)
    Active Dates 1/2009 - 1/2014
    Team Website http://www.rpi.edu/research/astrobiology/

    Executive Summary

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Project Reports

    Project 1: Interstellar Origins of Preplanetary Matter

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Project 2: Processing of Precometary Ices in the Early Solar System

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

    Project 3: Pathways for Exogenous Organic Matter to the Early Earth and Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1

    Project 4: Impact History in the Earth-Moon System

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.3

    Project 5: Vistas of Early Mars: In Preparation for Sample Return

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 7.1

    Project 6: The Environment of the Early Earth

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.3

    Project 7: Prebiotic Chemical Catalysis on Early Earth and Mars

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2

    EPO Reports

    Undergraduate Education

    Origins of Life Seminar Series

    Astrobiology Teachers Academy

    WAMC National Public Radio Astrobiology Series

    Undergraduate Research

    ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp

    Project Reports

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  • 1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
  • 1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
  • 2.1 Mars exploration
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  • 3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
  • 3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
  • 3.3 Origins of energy transduction
  • 3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
  • 4.1 Earth's early biosphere
  • 4.2 Foundations of complex life
  • 5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
  • 5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities
  • 5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
  • 6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
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    • Astrobiology: Life in the Universe
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    • Last Updated May 22, 2012
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