NAI
2004 Annual Science Report
Indiana University, Bloomington
Reporting | JUL 2003 – JUN 2004
Executive Summary
Introduction. During the first six months of funding
from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), three major research projects were
initiated by the Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Initiative (IPTAI) Team: 1. Geomicrobiology and hydrogeochemistry
of intra- and sub-permafrost water intersections in a deep gold mine, Kinross
Luipn Mine, Nunavat Territories, Canada; 2. Partitioning of sulfur isotopes
during pyrite oxidation coupled to radiolytic water cleavage; and 3.
Whole-genome sequencing of an uncultured Desulfotomaculum-like organism
from hydrothermal waters in deep gold mines, Witwatersrand basin, South
Africa. Each of these projects requires a high degree of collaboration among
IPTAI laboratories and involves two to four principal investigators, one to
three post-doctoral associates, and two to five graduate and undergraduate
students.
The central focus of the IPTAI team is investigation of
psychrophilic microbial communities in a deep gold mine located near the Arctic
Circle in northern Canada.
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Lisa Pratt
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TEAM Active Dates:
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Members:
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Project Reports
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Biosustainable Energy and Nutrient Cycles in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4.3 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 7.2
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2004 annual report.
2004 Teams
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Arizona State University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Harvard University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Marine Biological Laboratory
Michigan State University
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center
Pennsylvania State University
SETI Institute
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Hawaii, Manoa
University of Rhode Island
University of Washington
Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)