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Project Reports

• Benner – Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2

• Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.2 7.1 7.2

• Nanoscale Minerals as Biomarkers

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

• Isotopic and Molecular Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry (The Evolution of Organic Matter)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Chemical Building Blocks

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2

• Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere – K. Freeman

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 5.2 6.1 7.1

• Mineral Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 7.1

• Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems, Ecogenomics

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Evolution in Microbe-Based Ecosystems: Desert Springs as Analogues for the Early Development and Stabilization of Ecological Systems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Biogeochemistry of Earth’s Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Fe Isotope Biosignatures

  The field of Fe isotope geochemistry, which the UW-Madison group has been largely responsible for developing, has matured greatly in the last year.

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Microbial Fossilization Processes in Extreme Environments

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 7.1

• Fractionation of Transition Metal Isotopes

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 6.1 7.1

• Early Microbial Ecosystems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Terrestrial Analogs and Martian Meteorites

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 6.1 7.1

• Isotopic and Molecular Tracers of Life

  Task 1. Molecular Spectroscopic Investigations into Ancient Biochemistry (Cody, Fogel, Hazen)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Mineralogical Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.2 6.1 7.1

• Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere – Ohmoto

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Extra Solar Planetary Systems

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 7.1 7.2

• Organic Molecules as Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 2.2 5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Philosophical Issues in Astrobiology

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

• Biological Studies of Hydrothermal Systems

  Task 1. Field Studies and Laboratory Characterization of Hydrothermal Vent Microbes (Baross)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1 7.1

• Early Environments

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 7.1

• Astrobiology Funding to US Geological Survey

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 7.1

• A New Molecular Recognition Instrument for Astrobiological Applications

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 3.1 3.2 4.1 5.1 6.2 7.1

• Building a Habitable Planet: The Geological Record

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 7.1

• Magnetic Biosignatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.3 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.1 6.1 7.1

• Cosmochemistry of Carbonaceous Meteorites

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.1 3.2 7.1

• Martian Biogenic Gases

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 7.1

• Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 6.1 7.1 7.2

• Microbe-Mineral Interactions

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.1

• A Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth – Hedges

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2 2.1 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 5.3 7.1 7.2

• A Timescale for the Evolution of Life on Earth – Nei

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2 2.1 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 5.3 7.1 7.2