Tanja Bosak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Early Animals: Taphonomic Controls on Fossil Record — 2015 NAI
- Taphonomy of Microbial Ecosystems — 2015 NAI
- Paleontological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Investigations of the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transition — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: Taphonomic Controls on the Early Animal Fossil Record — 2014 NAI
- Neoproterozoic Aerobic Transition — 2013 NAI
- Life and Environments: Proterozoic Geology, Geochemistry and Paleontology — 2013 NAI
- Life and Environments: Fossils of the Late Meso- and Early Neoproterozoic — 2013 NAI
- The Neoproterozoic Carbon Cycle — 2012 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Geochemical Signals for Low Oxygen Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Unicellular Protists of the Neoproterozoic — 2012 NAI
- Atmospheric Oxygen and Complex Life — 2012 NAI
- Protists of the Neoproterozoic — 2011 NAI
- Atmospheric Oxygen and Complex Life — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2010 NAI
- Environmental Oxygen and the Rise (And Fall) of Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Environmental Oxygen and the Rise of Metazoans — 2009 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2009 NAI
- Co-Evolution of Planets and Biospheres: Lessons From Earth and Mars — 2000 NAI
- View all 21 projects
NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
-
Publications
-
Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. (2011). Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308(1-2), 29–40. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.030
See Project -
Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Gooday, A. J., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. D. (2011). Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates. Geology, 40(1), 67–70. doi:10.1130/g32535.1
See Project See Project -
Bosak, T., Lahr, D. J. G., Pruss, S. B., MacDonald, F. A., Gooday, A. J., Dalton, L., & Matys, E. D. (2011). Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates. Geology, 40(1), 67–70. doi:10.1130/g32535.1
See Project -
Bosak, T., MacDonald, F., Lahr, D., & Matys, E. (2011). Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia. Geology, 39(12), 1123–1126. doi:10.1130/g32384.1
See Project -
Petroff, A. P., Wu, T-D., Liang, B., Mui, J., Guerquin-Kern, J-L., Vali, H., … Bosak, T. (2011). Reaction–diffusion model of nutrient uptake in a biofilm: Theory and experiment. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 289, 90–95. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.08.004
See Project -
Pruss, S. B., Bosak, T., MacDonald, F. A., McLane, M., & Hoffman, P. F. (2010). Microbial facies in a Sturtian cap carbonate, the Rasthof Formation, Otavi Group, northern Namibia. Precambrian Research, 181(1-4), 187–198. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.06.006
See Project -
Sim, M. S., Ono, S., & Bosak, T. (2012). Effects of Iron and Nitrogen Limitation on Sulfur Isotope Fractionation during Microbial Sulfate Reduction. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(23), 8368–8376. doi:10.1128/aem.01842-12
See Project - Parenteau, N., Jahnke, L. & Bosak, T. (2012). Linking microbial ecosystem biosignatures to the geologic record of early Earth and Mars. Astrobiology Science Conference, April 2012, Atlanta, GA. See Project
- View all 8 publications
-
Email:
tbosak@mit.edu