NAI
Max Coleman
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current Projects
- Developing Methods for Life Detection on Mars and in Mars Analog Environments — 2016 NAI
- Project 2D: Carbonate-Associated Sulfate (CAS) as a Tracer of Ancient Microbial Ecosystems — 2015 NAI
- Project 3C: The Role of Early Continental Weathering in Providing a Habitable Planet — 2014 NAI
- Project 2E: Carbonate-Associated Sulfate (CAS) as a Tracer of Ancient Microbial Ecosystems — 2014 NAI
- Project 2E: Carbonate-Associated Sulfate (CAS) as a Tracer of Ancient Microbial Ecosystems — 2013 NAI
- Project 1A: Detection of Biosignatures in Extreme Environments and Analogs for Mars — 2013 NAI
- Project 4B: Detection of Biosignatures in Extreme Environments, Analogs for Mars — 2012 NAI
- Project 4C: New Ways for Exploring Mars for Environmental History and Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Project 4D: Understanding Conditions of Formation of Mars Evaporite Materials by Quantitative Interpretation of Isotope Compositions of Salts — 2012 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2012 NAI
- Project 5B: A Rover-Based Miniature Mass-Spectrometer - Breakthroughs in Laser Ablation Analysis and Geochronology — 2012 NAI
- Project 5A: Production of Mixed Cation Carbonates in Abiologic and Biologic Systems — 2011 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2011 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Project 7A: A New Way for Exploring Mars for Environmental History and Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Project 6B: Detection of Biosignatures in Extreme Environments and Analogs for Mars — 2011 NAI
- Project 1D: Evolution of Life Related to the Development of the Earth’s Core — 2011 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2010 NAI
- Project 5B: Detection of Biosignatures in Extreme Environments, Analogs for Mars — 2010 NAI
- Project 2B: Production of Mixed Cation Carbonates in Abiologic and Biologic Systems — 2010 NAI
- Project 5C: Fluid-Mineral Fractionation of Mg Isotopes and Tracing the Origin of Sulfate Minerals — 2010 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2010 NAI
- Qualitative Analysis of Soils Samples Using Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) and Gas Chromatography/mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) — 2009 NAI
- Microbial Pyrite Oxidation in Nature and the Lab: Sulfate Mineral Biosignature Investigation — 2009 NAI
- Production of Mixed Cation Carbonates in Abiologic and Biologic Systems — 2009 NAI
- Microbial Pyrite Oxidation in Nature and the Lab: Sulfate Mineral Biosignature Investigation — 2008 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Catherine Woodward
Institute for Biology Education - Mazomanie Outreach Outpost
Collaborated on 1 Project
Publications
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Aubrey, A. D., Chalmers, J. H., Bada, J. L., Grunthaner, F. J., Amashukeli, X., Willis, P., … Yen, A. (2008). The Urey Instrument: An Advanced In Situ Organic and Oxidant Detector for Mars Exploration. Astrobiology, 8(3), 583–595. doi:10.1089/ast.2007.0169
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Mielke, R. E., Russell, M. J., Wilson, P. R., McGlynn, S. E., Coleman, M., Kidd, R., & Kanik, I. (2010). Design, Fabrication, and Test of a Hydrothermal Reactor for Origin-of-Life Experiments. Astrobiology, 10(8), 799–810. doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0456
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Romanek, C. S., Jiménez-López, C., Navarro, A. R., Sánchez-Román, M., Sahai, N., & Coleman, M. (2009). Inorganic synthesis of Fe–Ca–Mg carbonates at low temperature. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(18), 5361–5376. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.065
See Project - Christensen, J., Kohl, I. & Coleman, M. (2011). Triple oxygen isotope data characterize oxidation processes that produce sulfate on Earth (and Mars?). AGU Fall meeting 2011 Abstracts. See Project
- Doglioni, C., Pignatti, J. & Coleman, M. (2011, In Review). The effect of the inner core on life on the surface of the Earth. Terra Nova. See Project
