Jennifer Eigenbrode
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Projects
- Advancing Methods for the Analyses of Organic Molecules in Sediments — 2013 NAI
- Project 5: Geological-Biological Interactions — 2013 NAI
- The Astrobiology Walk — 2013 NAI
- Project 5: Geological-Biological Interactions — 2012 NAI
- Project 1D: Establishing Biogenicity and Environmental Setting of Precambrian Kerogen and Microfossils — 2012 NAI
- Project 3B: In Situ S Isotope Studies in Archean-Proterozoic Sulfides — 2012 NAI
- Advancing Methods for the Analyses of Organics Molecules in Sediments — 2012 NAI
- Project 5: Geological-Biological Interactions — 2011 NAI
- Project 6: Application of Laboratory Experimentation to Flight Instrument Testing — 2011 NAI
- Advancing Methods for the Analyses of Organics Molecules in Sediments — 2011 NAI
- Project 6: Application of Laboratory Experimentation to Flight Instrument Testing — 2010 NAI
- Project 5: Geological-Biological Interactions — 2010 NAI
- Advancing Methods for the Analyses of Organics Molecules in Microbial Ecosystems — 2010 NAI
- Project 5: Geological-Biological Interactions — 2009 NAI
- Advancing Methods for the Analyses of Organics Molecules in Microbial Ecosystems — 2009 NAI
- Project 6: Application of Laboratory Experimentation to Flight Instrument Testing — 2009 NAI
- Co-Evolution of Microbial Metabolisms in the Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic — 2009 NAI
- 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures — 2008 NAI
- Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology — 2008 NAI
- Iron and Sulfur-Based Biospheres and Their Biosignatures — 2008 NAI
- Project 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures — 2007 NAI
- Project 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures — 2006 NAI
- Project 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures — 2005 NAI
- Molecular and Isotopic Biogeochemistry — 2004 NAI
- Biosignatures and Abiosignatures — 2004 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere - K. Freeman — 2003 NAI
- Isotopic and Molecular Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry (The Evolution of Organic Matter) — 2003 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere - Katherine H. Freeman — 2002 NAI
- Biogeochemical and Environmental Influences on the Composition of Late Archaean Kerogens and Extracts — 2001 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate and the Terrestrial Biosphere: Approaches From Field-Oriented Geochemical Investigations. Causes and Consequences of the Diversification and Extinction of Metazoans: Field, Geochemical and Paleontological Investigations. - Katherine Freeman 1 — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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(no authors found) (2008). Science Priorities for Mars Sample Return. Astrobiology, 8(3), 489–535. doi:10.1089/ast.2008.0759
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Conrad, P. G., Eigenbrode, J. L., von Der Heydt, M. O., Mogensen, C. T., Canham, J., Harpold, D. N., … Mahaffy, P. R. (2012). The Mars Science Laboratory Organic Check Material. Space Sci Rev, 170(1-4), 479–501. doi:10.1007/s11214-012-9893-1
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Czaja, A. D., Johnson, C. M., Beard, B. L., Eigenbrode, J. L., Freeman, K. H., & Yamaguchi, K. E. (2010). Iron and carbon isotope evidence for ecosystem and environmental diversity in the ∼2.7 to 2.5Ga Hamersley Province, Western Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 292(1-2), 170–180. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.032
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Eigenbrode, J., Benning, L. G., Maule, J., Wainwright, N., Steele, A., & Amundsen, H. E. F. (2009). A Field-Based Cleaning Protocol for Sampling Devices Used in Life-Detection Studies. Astrobiology, 9(5), 455–465. doi:10.1089/ast.2008.0275
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Mahaffy, P. R., Webster, C. R., Cabane, M., Conrad, P. G., Coll, P., Atreya, S. K., … Mumm, E. (2012). The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite. Space Sci Rev, 170(1-4), 401–478. doi:10.1007/s11214-012-9879-z
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Stalport, F., Glavin, D. P., Eigenbrode, J. L., Bish, D., Blake, D., Coll, P., … Mahaffy, P. R. (2012). The influence of mineralogy on recovering organic acids from Mars analogue materials using the “one-pot” derivatization experiment on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Planetary and Space Science, 67(1), 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.02.010
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Summons, R. E., Amend, J. P., Bish, D., Buick, R., Cody, G. D., Des Marais, D. J., … Sumner, D. Y. (2011). Preservation of Martian Organic and Environmental Records: Final Report of the Mars Biosignature Working Group. Astrobiology, 11(2), 157–181. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0506
See Project See Project See Project See Project See Project - Anbar, A.D., Boyd, E.S., Buick, R., Claire, M., Des Marais, D., Domagal-Goldman, S., Eigenbrode, J., Erwin, D., Freeman, K., Hazen, R., Johnson, C., Lyons, T., Meadows, V., Ohmoto, H., Ono, S., Peters, J.W., Shapiro, B., Summons, R. & Walter, M. (2010). An Archean biosphere initiative [abstract 5593]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Benning, L.G., Eigenbrode, J.L., Maule, J., Wainwright, N., Steele, A., Amundsen, H.E.F., Amase & Teams. (2008). Organic decontamination of sampling devices for life-detection studies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 72: 73. See Project
- Conrad, P.G. & Eigenbrode, J.L. (2011). Upheaval Dome: An Analogue Site for Gale Crater. Analogues Workshop, 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. See Project
- Conrad, P.G., Eigenbrode, J.L., Mahaffy, P.M. & Steele, A. (2011). Environmental Signatures for Habitability: What to Measure and How to Rank the Habitability Potential of Mars. ESA/NASA Exploring Mars Habitability. Lisbon, Portugal. See Project
- Conrad, P.G., Fogel, M.L., Glamoclija, M., Kerr, L., Mogensen, C., Eigenbrode, J., Mahaffy, P.R. & Steele, A. (2009). Metrics for Habitability Assessment. Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts. See Project See Project
- Conrad, P.G., M.L.Fogel, Glamoclija, M., Kerr, L., Mogensen, C., Eigenbrode, J., Mahaffy, P.R. & Steele, A. (2009). Metrics for Habitability Assessment. 40th Lunar Plan. Sci. See Project
- Conrad, P.G., Steele, A., Younse, P., Di Cicco, M., Morgan, A.R., Backes, P., Eigenbrode, J.E., Marquardt, D. & Amundsen, H.E.F. (2011). Mono Lake Analog Mars Sample Return Expedition for AMASE. Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts. See Project
- Eigenbrode, J.L., Benning, L.G., Tobler, D.J., Rodriguez Blanco, J-D., Fogel, M.L., Amundsen, H., Callahan, M., Dworkin, J., Glamoclija, M., Glavin, D., Kerr, L., Kish, A., Mahaffy, P., McAdam, A., Steele, A. & Voytek, M. (2010). Organic Biosignatures and Habitat Features of Near-Surface Glacial Ice in Svalbard. LPI Contributions, 1538: 5546. See Project
- Getty, S.A., Brinckerhoff, W.B., Cornish, T.J., Merrill Floyd, M.A., Ecelberger, S.A., Callahan, M.P., McAdam, C., Elsila, J.E., Eigenbrode, J.L. & Arevalo, R.D. (2011). Miniature two-step laser TOF mass spectromter with reversible ion polarity. Lunar Planet. Sci (59): 387-393 See Project
- Mahaffy, P.R., McAdam, A., Eigenbrode, J. & Steele, A. (2009). 2009 Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) Evolved Gas Studies. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 41: 08. See Project
- Mahaffy, P.R., Stern, J.C., Franz, H.B., Stalport, F., Eigenbrode, J., Blake, D.F., Conrad, P., Steele, A. & McAdam, A.C. (2010). Field and Laboratory Studies of Samples from the Bockfjord Volcanic Complex in the 2009 Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition. LPI Contributions, 1538: 5306. See Project
- McAdam, A.C., Mahaffy, P.R., Blake, D.F., Ming, D.W., Franz, H.B., Eigenbrode, J.L., Steele, A. & Team, A. (2010). Evolved Gas Analysis and X-Ray Diffraction of Carbonate Samples from the 2009 Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition: Implications for Mineralogical Inferences from the Mars Science Laboratory. Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Conference Abstracts. See Project
- Tobler, D.J., Benning, L.G., Fogel, M.L., Glamoclija, M., Kerr, L., Steele, A., Amundsen, H.E.F., Team, T.A. & Eigenbrode, J.L. (2009). Signatures of Life in Ice (SLIce): An analog study for in situ detection of biosignatures elsewhere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 73: 1333. See Project
- Vidonish, J., Bowden, R., Benning, L., Eigenbrode, J. & Fogel, M.L. (2011). Tracing the Origins of Organic Matter in the Ice of Svalbard, Norway. AGU Fall Meeting. See Project
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Email:
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Current NAI Teams
Past NAI Teams
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Harvard University
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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University of Wisconsin
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Pennsylvania State University
CAN 1 -
University of California, Berkeley
CAN 3