NAI
2003 Annual Science Report
University of Washington
Reporting | JUL 2002 – JUN 2003
Executive Summary
Our research at the University of Washington has centered on three important astrobiological questions: What are the characteristics of planets that can evolve complex organisms? Where might such planets occur? How does biological complexity evolve on a planet, and how might it end?
We are beginning the third year of research into these questions. Below, our results and progress is summarized based on specific research problems defined in our original proposal.
How often, where, and under which conditions do habitable planets form and persist? We define a habitable planet as a solid body capable of supporting life as we know it. The study of extra-solar habitable planets involves a broad interdisciplinary approach that extends from understanding how planets are formed to understanding the conditions that allow such life to originate, survive, and evolve. During the past year (2002-2003), Lucio Mayer and Tom Quinn Mayer and ...
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Peter Ward
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
7/2001 - 6/2006 CAN 2 -
Members:
49 (See All) - Visit Team Page
Project Reports
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Causes of Mass Extinction: Isotopic and Paleontological Constraints
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2 4.3 6.1 -
First-Stage Biofilm Formation Under Extreme Conditions in Ice
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2 -
Delivery of Organics to Earth and Earthlike Planets – Brownlee and Kress
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 -
Delivery of Organic Materials to Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 3.1 7.2 -
Dynamics of Comets, Asteroids, and Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.2 4.3 -
Building a Habitable Planet: The Geological Record
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 7.1 -
Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell: Implications From Bacterial Tubulin in the Division Verrucomicrobia
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4 4.2 -
Evolution of Biocomplexity From an Ancient Autotrophic Lineage
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.3 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1 -
Galactic Chemical Evolution and Extrasolar Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 -
Causes of Mass Extinctions: Testing Impact Models
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2 4.3 -
Microbial Mat Communities
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2003 annual report.
2003 Teams
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Arizona State University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory
Michigan State University
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center
Pennsylvania State University
Scripps Research Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Rhode Island
University of Washington
Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)