NAI
2016 Annual Science Report
University of Colorado, Boulder
Reporting | JAN 2016 – DEC 2016
Executive Summary
Executive Summary for Year 2: In 2016, the 12 Rock-Powered Life investigators, and the students and postdocs they support as members of the RPL team, have been active addressing scientific questions focused on the establishment of habitable conditions in water/rock hosted ecosystems. This includes intensive mineralogical, geochemical and biological investigations in our field systems (Theme 1), and experiments designed to elucidate geochemical and biochemical pathways operating during low‐temperature water/rock interaction (Theme 2).
Theme 1: Research activities in our core field systems: Atlantis Massif, CROMO, Oman and Yellowstone National Park.
We are conducting analysis of water/rock reactions, aqueous geochemistry and biochemical processes across three active serpentinization systems. In Year 2, several members of the RPL NAI team continued to be extensively involved with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 357 to the Atlantis Massif, a site of active serpentinization along ... Continue reading.
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Alexis Templeton
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
1/2015 - 12/2019 CAN 7 -
Team Website:
http://www.colorado.edu/lab/rockpoweredlife/ -
Members:
57 (See All) - Visit Team Page
Project Reports
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Experimental, Theoretical, and Modeling Constraints on Pathways of Water/Rock Interaction in Presence and Absence of Biological Processes
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 6.1 -
Mineralogical Evolution in Serpentinizing Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 6.1 7.1 -
Microbial Community Composition and Function in Serpentinizing Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 -
Hydrogeochemistry of Serpentinizing Systems
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1 4.1 5.2 6.1 7.2
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2016 annual report.
2016 Teams
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
SETI Institute
University of California, Riverside
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Montana, Missoula
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin
VPL at University of Washington