NAI
Thomas McCollom
University of Colorado, Boulder
Current Projects
- Hydrogeochemistry of Serpentinizing Systems — 2016 NAI
- Variable Generation of H2, Formate, and Critical Electron-Donors During Water/rock Reaction — 2015 NAI
- Modeling Habitable Environments Generated by Water/rock Reactions — 2015 NAI
- Mineralogical Traces of Early Habitable Environments — 2013 NAI
- Mineralogical Traces of Early Habitable Environments — 2012 NAI
- Identifying Microbial Life at Crustal Rock-Water Interfaces — 2008 NAI
- Chemistry and Biology of Ultramafic-Hosted Alkaline Springs — 2008 NAI
- Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-Based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities — 2008 NAI
- Abiotic Experiments & Hydrocarbon Yielding Water/Mineral Reactions — 2007 NAI
- Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-Based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities — 2007 NAI
- Biological Potential of Mars — 2007 NAI
- Chemistry and Biology of Ultramafic-Hosted Alkaline Springs — 2007 NAI
- Evaluation of Habitable Environments on Mars — 2006 NAI
- Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems — 2006 NAI
- Metamorphism, Organic Synthesis and the Emergence of Life on Earth — 2006 NAI
- Evaluation of Habitable Environments on Mars — 2005 NAI
- Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems — 2005 NAI
- Geochemical-Microbe Interactions in Chemolithoautotrophic Communities on Earth — 2004 NAI
- Potential Habitability of Mars — 2003 NAI
- Resources to Support Life on Other Planets — 2002 NAI
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Publications
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Hynek, B. M., McCollom, T. M., & Rogers, K. L. (2011). Cerro Negro volcano, Nicaragua: An assessment of geological and potential biological systems on early Mars. Analogs for Planetary Exploration, None, 279–285. doi:10.1130/2011.2483(18)
See Project - Cardace, D., Carnevale, D., Hoehler, T., McCollom, T. & Schrenk, M. (2011). Active Serpentinization in the Coast Range Ophiolite: Intersections of Petrography, Geochemistry, and Bioenergetics [poster]. Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. See Project
- Cardace, D., Carnevale, D., Hoehler, T., McCollom, T. & Schrenk, M. (2012). Active Serpentinization in the Coast Range Ophiolite: Intersections of Petrography, Geochemistry, and Bioenergetics. Abstract #4491. Presented at the Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, 16-20 April. See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., Alperin, M.J. & McCollom, T.M. (2012). Energy and habitability: A case study of methanogenesis in serpentinizing systems. [Invited] Abstracts of the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference. See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., Alperin, M.J., McCollom, T.M. & Rogers, K.L. (2008). Habitability of serpentinizing systems for methanogenic microorganisms: an energy balance model. [ABSTRACT]. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(12), Supplement 1: 383. See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., Alperin, M.J., McCollom, T.M. & Rogers, K.L. (2010). An energy balance model for the habitability of serpentinizing systems [ABSTRACT]. Abstracts of the 2010 Astrobiology Science Conference. See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., Alperin, M.J., McCollom, T.M. & Rogers, K.L. (2010). Modeling energy flow at the cellular level [ABSTRACT]. Abstracts of the 13th International Society for Microbial Ecology Meeting. See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., McCollom, T., Schrenk, M.O., Kubo, M. & Cardace, D. (2011). One-carbon (bio?) geochemistry in subsurface waters of the serpentinizing Coast Range Ophiolite (Invited), Abstract B22A-04 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec., EOS Trans. AGU, 92(53). See Project
- Hoehler, T.M., McCollom, T., Schrenk, M.O., Kubo, M. & Cardace, D. (2011). One-carbon (bio?)geochemistry in subsurface waters of the serpentinizing Coast Range Ophiolite. [invited talk]. Abstract B22A-04 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA. See Project
- McCollom, T.M., Bach, W. & Hoehler, T.M. (2010). Constraints on the generation of hydrogen for microbial metabolism during serpentinization [ABSTRACT]. Abstracts of the 2010 Astrobiology Science Conference. See Project
- McCollom, T.M., Hynek, B.M. & Rogers, K.L. (2011). Mineral alteration in acid-sulfate fumaroles on Earth and Mars. AGU General Meeting, San Francisco, 2011. See Project
- Mottl, M.J., McCollom, T.M., Wheat, C.G. & Fryer, P. (2008). Decarbonation of the Subducting Pacific Plate Triggered by the Lawsonite-to-Epidote Transition Beneath the Mariana Forearc Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. See Project
- Mumma, M., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Rogers, K.L., Hynek, B.M. & McCollom, T.M. (2011). Photosynthesis within Mars volcanic craters?: Insights from Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua. AGU General Meeting, San Francisco. See Project
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