NAI
Nancy Kiang
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Current Projects
- Task A: Solar System Analogs for Extrasolar Planetary Processes and Observations — 2016 NAI
- Biogenic Gases From Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Microbial Mats — 2015 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2015 NAI
- Global Surface Biosignatures: Reflectance Spectra of Anoxygenic Phototrophs and Cyanobacteria — 2015 NAI
- Astronomical Biosignatures, False Positives for Life, and Implications for Future Space Telescopes — 2015 NAI
- Biogenic Gases From Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Microbial Mats — 2014 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2014 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2013 NAI
- Biogenic Gases From Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Microbial Mats — 2013 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2012 NAI
- VPL Databases, Model Interfaces and the Community Tool — 2012 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit for Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2012 NAI
- The VPL Life Modules — 2012 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2011 NAI
- The VPL Life Modules — 2011 NAI
- The Long Wavelength Limit for Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2011 NAI
- VPL Databases, Model Interfaces and the Community Tool — 2011 NAI
- The VPL Life Modules — 2010 NAI
- VPL Databases, Model Interfaces and the Community Tool — 2010 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2010 NAI
- Thermodynamic Efficiency of Electron-Transfer Reactions in the Chlorophyll D-Containing Cyanobacterium, Acharyochloris Marina — 2010 NAI
- VPL Databases, Model Interfaces and the Community Tool — 2009 NAI
- Kavli Symposium (Fall 2008) — 2009 NAI
- Postdoctoral Fellow Report: Steven Mielke — 2009 NAI
- The VPL Life Modules — 2009 NAI
- Thermodynamic Efficiency of Electron-Transfer Reactions in the Chlorophyll D-Containing Cyanobacterium, Acharyochloris Marina — 2009 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules - Photosynthesis — 2008 NAI
- Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Planetary Models — 2006 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules — 2006 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules — 2005 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules — 2004 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Mielke, S. P., Kiang, N. Y., Blankenship, R. E., & Mauzerall, D. (2013). Photosystem trap energies and spectrally-dependent energy-storage efficiencies in the Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1827(3), 255–265. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.11.002
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Mielke, S. P., Kiang, N. Y., Blankenship, R. E., Gunner, M. R., & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of photosynthesis in a Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium is comparable to or higher than that in Chl a-utilizing oxygenic species. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 1807(9), 1231–1236. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.06.007
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Ni-Meister, W., Yang, W., & Kiang, N. Y. (2010). A clumped-foliage canopy radiative transfer model for a global dynamic terrestrial ecosystem model. I: Theory. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150(7-8), 881–894. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.02.009
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- Kiang, N. (2010). The Virtual Planetary Laboratory Spectral Library. International Congress of Photosynthesis. Beijing, China. See Project
- Kiang, N.Y., Aleinov, I., Ni-Meister, W., Moorcroft, P.R. & Koster, R. (2010). Coupled Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) for Climate Simulations and Data to Constrain Them [Public Talk September 16, 2010]. Science Visitor and Colloquium Program – Earth Science Seminar Series. See Project
- Kiang, N.Y., Armstrong, J.C., Brown, L.R. & Meadows, V.S. (2009). The Virtual Planetary Laboratory Spectral Library: a community database of stellar, molecular, mineral, and biological pigment spectral properties for astrobiology research. 2nd HyspIRI ScienceWorkshop. Pasadena, CA. See Project
- Kiang, N.Y., Kharecha, P., DelGrosso, S., Aleinov, I., Puma, M. & Y., K. (Dec. 15-19, 2008). Seasonal and Long-Term Behavior of Soil and Autotrophic Respiration in the Ent Dynamic Global Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA. See Project
- Kiang, N.Y., Mielke, S., Mauzerall, D., Blankenship, R.E. & Gunner, M. (2009). Efficiency of photon energy use for life processes: implications for spectral biosignatures [Public Talk November 10-13, 2009]. Innovative Approaches to Exoplanet Spectra Workshop. See Project
- Kiang, N.Y., Mielke, S., Mauzerall, D., Blankenship, R.E. & Gunner, M. (2009). Efficiency of photon energy use for life processes: implications for spectral biosignatures [Public Talk November 19, 2009]. Center for Exoplanet Science Colloquium. See Project
- Meadows, V.S., Claire, M.W., Domagal-Goldman, S.D., Allen, M., Anbar, A.D., Barnes, R., Boss, A., Kasting, J., Kiang, N., Martin-Torres, J., Robinson, T.D., Sleep, N., Som, S., Sparks, W. & Williams, D.M. (2009). The Search for Habitable Environments and Life in the Universe. Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, Science White Papers, 201. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E. & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of oxygenic photosynthesis in the far red light-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. Origins 2011: ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference. Montpellier, France. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E. & Mauzerall, D. (In Preparation). Wavelength-dependence of the in vivo energy-storage efficiency in the cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R. & Mauzerall, D. (2010). Photosynthetic Electron-Transfer in the Cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris Marina. LPI Contributions, 1538: 5438. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R., Dong, M. & Mauzerall, D. (2011). Efficiency of photosynthesis in the Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. At the Interface of Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. See Project
- Mielke, S.P., Kiang, N.Y., Blankenship, R.E., Gunner, M.R., Dong, M. & Mauzerall, D. (2012). Photosynthetic energy-storage in the cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina: Oxygenic photochemistry at the red edge. AbSciCon 2012 – Exploring Life: Past and Present, Near and Far. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA. See Project
- Yang, W., Kiang, N.Y. & Ni-Meister, W. (2009). Prognostic spectral albedoes in an analytical, clumped-foliage canopy radiative tranfer scheme for a dynamic vegetation model: sensitivity to end member spectra and vegetation structure. 2nd HyspIRI Science Workshop. Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena, CA. See Project
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