NAI
2005 Annual Science Report
NASA Ames Research Center
Reporting | JUL 2004 – JUN 2005
Executive Summary
The Ames Research Center Team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute conducts complementary lines of research to understand the context for habitable environments and life, the origins of life and its impact on the planetary environment, and the future of life in changing environments. These investigations address all seven goals of NASA’s 2003 Astrobiology Roadmap and they pursue near-term roadmap objectives in ways that help to unify astrobiology and strengthen its linkages to flight missions. The Ames team conveys the content of its research program into its education and public outreach program through partnerships with NASA’s education programs, the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yellowstone National Park (YNP), New York Hall of Science, and several K-14 educational organizations. Strong conceptual and functional links to multiple NASA missions provide context, motivation, and resource-sharing opportunities for both the research and the education and public outreach efforts.
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David Des Marais
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
11/2003 - 10/2008 CAN 3 -
Members:
71 (See All) - Visit Team Page
Project Reports
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Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.3 6.1 7.2 -
Biosignatures in Chemosynthetic and Photosynthetic Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 5.1 5.2 6.1 7.1 7.2 -
Interplanetary Pioneers
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3 6.2 -
Prebiotic Organics From Space
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 3.4 4.3 7.1 7.2 -
Hindcasting Ecosystems
Earth Science’s paleobiology identifies modern analogs that serve as functional scenarios for past environments inferred from proxy records. This serves Astrobiology to increase its depth and scope as the science of life in the universe
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1 -
Habitable Planets
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 2.1 4.1 4.3 -
Early Metabolic Pathways
In order to generate laboratory models of protocellular protein catalysts, we have designed a novel, partially random protein library based on the DNA-binding domain of the human retinoid-X-receptor.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2 3.4
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2005 annual report.
2005 Teams
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
Indiana University, Bloomington
Marine Biological Laboratory
Michigan State University
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight 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)