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Project Reports

• EVOLUTION OF a HABITABLE PLANET: Planetary Habitability and Life Detection

  In early July, 2003, a Science paper I was lead author on came out providing strong evidence for an old (~ 12 Gyr) jovian planet in a metal-poor, distant stellar system.

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2

• Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.2 3.3 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.3 6.1 6.2

• Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Arthur)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 4.3 5.2 6.1

• Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Kump)

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 6.1

• Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate_Kasting

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 4.1 4.2

• Geopulse

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 7.2

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

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: None Selected

• Genomic Record of the Earth’s Early Biosphere

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 4.2 4.3

• Geochemical Record of the Early Terrestrial Environment

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 6.1

• Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 7.2

• Late Ordovician Mass Extinction and Recovery: Diversity Dynamics and Geographic Variability

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.3

• Molecular and Isotopic Biogeochemistry

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: None Selected

• Examinations of the Microbial Diversity Found in Ice Cores

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.2

• Bioextraction of Nutrients and Micronutrients From Minerals

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: None Selected

• No Title: Alexander Wolszczan

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

• Prebiotic Synthesis: Experimental Studies

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1

• The Evolution of a Habitable Planet

  ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 2.1 3.2 4.1 4.3 5.1 5.2 6.1