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Project Reports

• Chemical Building Blocks

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 11.0 13.0

• Impact Frustration and Subsequent Generation of Biologically Tenable Climates on Earth and Mars

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 8.0 11.0

• Studies of Organic Matter and Water in Meteorites

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 8.0 9.0 11.0

• The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – the Life Modules

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 11.0 13.0

• Module 1A

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 5.0 8.0 11.0

• Building a Habitable Planet: The Geological Record

  Research was conducted on Archean U-Pb geochronology, basalt trace-element geochemistry, hydrocarbon biomarker geochemistry, sulfur isotopic fractionation, microfossil recognition, and Paleoproterozoic hydrocarbon preservation in fluid inclusions.

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 11.0 12.0

• The Formation of Planets Around Young Stars

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11.0

• The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – Synthesis and Architecture

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.0 5.0 11.0 12.0 13.0

• Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 2.0 3.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 13.0

• Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11.0

• Organic Chemical Evolution From the Solar Nebula to the Earth

  The focus of this work is to understand the organic chemical evolution of extraterrestrial organics, beginning in the solar nebula, through to delivery to the Earth.

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 11.0

• Studies in Planetary Formation and Evolution

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 8.0 9.0 11.0 12.0

• Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate and Biosphere – Rosemary C. Capo

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 11.0 12.0 14.0

• Galactic Chemical Evolution and Extrasolar Planets

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11.0

• Isotopic and Molecular Tracers of Life

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 3.0 5.0 6.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 14.0 16.0

• Habitable Planets

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11.0 12.0

• Exploring the Living Universe; Origin, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Solar System

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.0 9.0 11.0

• Delivery of Organic Materials to Earth and Earth-Like Planets

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 11.0

• Dynamics of Comets, Asteroids, and Planets

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 5.0 9.0 11.0

• (S. Blair Hedges) Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth: Molecular Evolutionary Approach

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.0 4.0 5.0 7.0 8.0 11.0 12.0 14.0

• Delivery of Organic Materials to Planets

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.0 5.0 11.0