"Describe the conditions thought to be present on early earth (before life) and relate these conditions to the origin of organic molecules"
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Seminars
Team Overview Seminars DATEPRESENTERTITLEPODCASTONLINE RECORDING*February 23, 2009George CodyTeam Overview: Carnegie Institution of Washington February 25, 2009David Des MaraisTeam Overview: NASA Ames Research Center March 9, 2009Isik KanikTeam Overview: JPL Icy Worlds March 11, 2009Mark AllenTeam Overview: JPL Titan March 16, 2009Ariel AnbarTeam Overview: Arizona State University March 18, 2009Clark JohnsonTeam Overview: University of Wisconsin March 30, 2009John PetersTeam Overview: Montana State University April 1, 2009Loren WilliamsTeam Overview: Georgia Institute of Technology April 6, 2009Christopher HouseTeam Overview: Penn State University April 13, 2009Victoria MeadowsTeam Overview: VPL @ University of Washington April 15, 2009Michael MummaTeam Overview: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center April 20, 2009Roger SummonsTeam Overview: Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 22, 2009Karen MeechTeam Overview: University of Hawaii April 27, 2009Douglas WhittetTeam Overview: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute April 29, 2009NAI CentralTeam Overview: NAI Central 
*Online Recordings contain functionality and information such as mouse cursor movements, closed captioning and bookmarked slide transitions, but can not be downloaded for offline use.FAR Seminars DATEPRESENTERTITLEPODCASTOctober 6, 2008William J. Brazelton and Catherine NeishPrebiotic Chemistry October 15, 2007Elise FurlanFirst Steps of Planet Formation in Protoplanetary Disks October 15, 2007Evgenya ShkolnikThe On/Off Nature of Star-Planet Interactions: A Probe of Magnetized Exoplanets September 12, 2005Dustin TrailA record of the earliest (4.5-3.8 Ga) surface conditions on Earth? August 8, 2005Liliana LefticariuSimulating groundwater radiolysis with oxidation of pyrite by hydrogen peroxide solution June 20, 2005Daniel Apai and Murray SilverstoneExploring Planet-forming and Debris Disks May 16, 2005Boncho P. BonevQuantifying Water Production in Comets - the "Meter Stick" for their Chemical Taxonomy March 14, 2005Margaret TurnbullRemote Sensing of Life and Habitable Worlds: Habstars, Earthshine, and the Challenge of TPF February 14, 2005Monica PonderLife of a permafrost bacterium: Psychrobacter 273-4 reveals ways to adapt September 13, 2004Dominic PapineauBiogeochemical responses to the changing Paleoproterozoic atmosphere August 9, 2004SUIA StudentsAmanda Cook, Anita Ganesan, Nida Rauf and Marina Yoder July 12, 2004Marc FriesEstablishing a Baseline for Antarctic Meteorite Research through the Antarctic Meteorite Contamination Study (AMCS) July 12, 2004Nick PlattsA new model for the origin of proto-informational oligomeric material on the early Earth, and elsewhere June 14, 2004Andrew CzajaIlluminating The Black Box That Is Fossil Kerogen June 14, 2004David SmithOxygen Triple Isotopes as a New Biogeochemical Tool May 10, 2004Corey CohnPyrite-generated radicals and the destruction of nucleic acids May 10, 2004Dave JohnstonIsotopic fingerprints of sulfur metabolisms: using the minor isotopes to distinguish between process April 12, 2004Mark TyraTERRESTRIAL ALTERATION OF CM CHONDRITIC CARBONATE March 8, 2004Kevin HandThe surface radiation chemistry of Europa and implications for a habitable ocean February 9, 2004Brian HynekMartian Water on the Brain November 10, 2003Julie HuberExpanding the subseafloor biosphere to ridge flanks and beyond October 20, 2003Jennifer HeldmannAn Investigation of Recent Water on Mars September 8, 2003Sara MartinezLooking for Hydrothermal Systems on Mars: An Integrated Study of Spectroscopic, Thermal, and Imaging Data July 14, 2003Kevin BoyceHow to make a leaf? 400 million years of repeated answers to the same evolutionary question June 9, 2003Ruth LeyThe Amazon Basin of the Mud World: Dizzying Microbial Diversity at Guerrero Negro's Salt Mats. May 12, 2003Henry ScottChemical stratification and hydrocarbon stability in large icy satellites April 14, 2003Michelle MinittiAssessing the Effect of Impact Shock on Water in Amphibole: Implications for the Martian Meteorites March 10, 2003Alex PavlovAtmospheric methane and oxygen in Archean and Proterozoic. Constraints from sulfur February 7, 2002Stacy VarnesBiological Potential of Martian Hydrothermal Systems
University of Washington Seminars DATEPRESENTERTITLEPODCASTONLINE RECORDING*December 7, 2010Mark SkidmoreThe (sub)glacial biosphere, microbial activity at zero degrees Celsius and below November 16, 2010Christophe SotinThe Habitability of Icy Moons October 19, 2010Jim KastingAtmospheric Composition and Climate on the Early Earth June 1, 2010Matt PasekHigh Energy Processing of Phosphorus on the Early Earth May 25, 2010Dawn SumnerMicrobial Mat - Environment Interactions in Lake Joyce, Antarctica, and Implications for Archean Microbialites May 11, 2010Antonio LazcanoThe 1953 Miller Experiment and the Origins of Life: The ghosts behind the molecules April 20, 2010David KringLunar Impact Cataclysm: Implications for astrobiological conditions throughout our solar system & in other planetary systems April 6, 2010Webster CashStarshades and Direct Observation of Exoplanets December 8, 2009Loren WilliamsWhere Did Protein Come From? December 1, 2009Nancy KiangEfficiency of Photon Energy Use for Life Processes: Implications for spectral biosignatures November 10, 2009Kevin HandJoule Heating of the South Polar Terrain on Enceladus November 3, 2009Chris McKayResults from the Mars Phoenix Mission for Mars Habitability and comparisons to Mars-like places on Earth October 27, 2009Jade BondThe Diversity of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets October 20, 2009Steven BennerUnderstanding the Origin of Life May 19, 2009Dirk Schulze-MakuchMars, Venus, and What's Life Got To Do With it May 5, 2009Felisa Wolfe-SimonGeobiochemistry and Evolutionary Metallomics: The evolution of life and the biochemical consequences of Earth history April 28, 2009Stephen WoodMars Subsurface Warming at Low Obliquity: Potential for periodic production of liquid water April 21, 2009George CodyGeomimetic Biochemistry: How the Origin of Biochemistry may be Linked to the Earth's Early Abiotic Organic Landscape April 7, 2009Melissa TrainerAbiotic Chemistry, Atmospheric Hazes, Titan, and the Early Earth December 2, 2008Tori HoehlerQuantifying Habitability as Organism/Environment Energy Balance November 4, 2008Joshua BandfieldA complex compositional and aqueous history of Mars October 7, 2008Rory BarnesHabitability of Tidally-Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets May 20, 2008Andrew PohorilleCyanobacteria in a Lunar Environment May 13, 2008James KastingWas the Early Earth Hot? April 29, 2008Jeremy BaileyUsing Polarization to Detect and Characterize Extrasolar Planets April 22, 2008Siegfried FranckEarth System Analysis: Applications to Astrobiology April 8, 2008Janet SiefertStromatolites: What's Sulfur Got to Do With It? November 20, 2007Matthew PasekPhosphorus and the Origin of Life November 6, 2007Ram SamudralaModelling Interactomes October 23, 2007Robert M. WingleePlasma/Upper Amtospheric Interactions Within the Saturn/Titan System October 16, 2007Sean RaymondExotic Earths: Hot Jupiters, Tidal Evolution, and Ocean Planets October 9, 2007David CrispMeasuring CO2 from Space: the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Mission October 2, 2007Erika HarnettMars: where did all the water go? May 29, 2007Joe KirschvinkFour Billion Years of Climate Change (Lessons from the Precambrian): From Oxygen Poisoning to Snowballs & True Polar Wander May 1, 2007Robert M. HazenLEFT & RIGHT: Geochemical origins of life's homochirality February 20, 2007Megan Elwood MaddenGas hydrates as planetary-scale water and greenhouse gas reservoirs: Implications for Astrobiology January 30, 2007Marc KuchnerFrom Carbon Planets to Water Planets: The Composition of Low-mass Extrasolar Planets January 23, 2007Vikki MeadowsPlanets Around Other Stars: Exploring Habitability and Spectral Signatures November 14, 2006David DeamerSelf-assembly Processes in the Prebiotic Environment October 24, 2006George ShawA (not so) Brief History of Carbon on Earth October 17, 2006Mario LivioCosmology and Life December 6, 2005Eric AgolThe Future of Extrasolar Planet Searches November 29, 2005Martin FiskLife in igneous rocks on Earth and Mars November 22, 2005Donald BrownleeA Report on the Stardust Mission December 7, 2004Maria RiveraThe Ring of Life Provides Evidence for a Genome Fusion Origin of Eukaryotes November 16, 2004Penny BostonLife Below and Life "Out There": The Role of Caves in Astrobiology November 9, 2004Dave Des MaraisThe Mars Exploration Rover Mission November 2, 2004James MurrayThe Suboxic Zone in the Black Sea October 26, 2004Walter HarrisIn the rearview mirror: Studying the role of comets in the formation and ongoing evolution of a planetary system December 9, 2003Steven BennerWeird Life November 18, 2003Peter WardWhy there were dinosaurs; Why there are birds October 14, 2003Jim KastingMethane greenhouses and anti-greenhouses on the early Earth May 27, 2003Robert BlankenshipThe transition from anoxygenic to oxygenic photosynthesis and how it changed the Earth May 20, 2003Roger BuickA Subsurface Biota in the Archean? April 29, 2003Tori HoehlerEnergetic habitability: Boundary conditions for life-as-we-know-it April 22, 2003Jack FarmerMicrobial biosedimentology of some extreme terrestrial environments with implications for the exploration for extraterrestrial life April 15, 2003Geoff GarrisonGeochemical Seasonality in a Unique Aquatic Environment: Who needs oxygen, anyway?
*Online Recordings contain functionality and information such as mouse cursor movements, closed captioning and bookmarked slide transitions, but can not be downloaded for offline use.Other Seminars DATEPRESENTERTITLEPODCASTONLINE RECORDING*October 17, 2011Eric BoydIntegrating Geochemistry and (Meta)genomics in the Geothermal Springs in Yellowstone National Park: Mapping the Functional Limits of Life in Early Earth Analog Environments September 20, 2011Carl PilcherExplorer, Nobel Laureate, Astrobiologist: Things you Never Knew About Barry Blumberg August 11, 2011NAI StudentsGSFC Summer Student Presentations August 12, 2010NAI StudentsGSFC Summer Student Presentations July 12, 2010Oleg AbramovImpact Bombardments on Early Earth and Mars: Implications for Habitability April 12, 2010Jennifer BiddleThe Deep Biosphere as seen through Massively Parallel Sequencing August 5, 2009NAI StudentsGSFC Summer Student Presentations August 6, 2008NAI StudentsGSFC Summer Student Presentations August 1, 2007NAI StudentsSummer Student Presentations
January 21, 2008
The Director’s Seminar series features talks from scientists who are invited by the NAI Director to present their research results to the community. A primary goal of the seminars is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration across NAI teams and within the astrobiology community at large.
Team Overview Seminars describe the work of the fourteen NAI teams and NAI Central. They offer an opportunity to find out more about the science, E/PO and other activities being performed by the NAI teams and the NAI Central office.
The Forum for Astrobiology Research (FAR) provides an opportunity for graduate students to present their research results and to meet as a student community for networking and mutual support.
The University of Washington seminar series is hosted by the NAI Virtual Planetary Lab (VPL) team from the UW campus in Seattle.
