NAI
James William Schopf
University of California, Los Angeles
Current Projects
- Developing Methods for Life Detection on Mars and in Mars Analog Environments — 2016 NAI
- Project 1E: Studies of Early-Evolved Enzymes in Modern Organisms May Reveal the History of Earth's Ambient Temperature Over Geological Time — 2015 NAI
- Project 4A: New in Situ Techniques (CLSM and Raman) Solve the Problem Presented by the Disaggregation of Acid-Macerated Organic-Walled Microfossils — 2015 NAI
- Project 3G: A 3,400 Ma-Old Shallow Water Anaerobic Sulfuretum Evidences the Anoxic Archean Atmosphere — 2015 NAI
- Project 3D: SIMS Analyses of Filamentous Fossil Microbes From the ~3,465 Ma-Old Apex Chert May Reveal Their Physiology — 2015 NAI
- Project 3A: Apatitic Latest Precambrian and Early Cambrian Fossils Provide Direct Evidence of Concentrations of Environmental Oxygen — 2015 NAI
- Project 3F -- Apatitic Latest Precambrian and Early Cambrian Fossils Provide Direct Evidence of Concentrations of Environmental Oxygen — 2014 NAI
- Project 1C: Studies of Early-Evolved Enzymes in Modern Organisms May Reveal the History of Earth's Ambient Temperature Over Geological Time — 2014 NAI
- Project 3E: Sulfur-Cycling Fossil Bacteria From the 1.8 Ga Duck Creek Formation Provide Promising Evidence of Evolution's Null Hypothesis — 2014 NAI
- Project 4A: New in Situ Techniques (CLSM and Raman) Solve the Problem Presented by the Disaggregation of Acid-Macerated Organic-Walled Microfossils — 2014 NAI
- Project 3C: Carbon Isotope Analysis of Proterozoic Microfossils — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks - Kasting Group — 2013 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2013 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2013 NAI
- Project 3B: Carbon Isotope Analysis of Archean Microfossils — 2013 NAI
- Project 3D: Microfossil Insights Into Proterozoic Microbial Ecology — 2013 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2012 NAI
- Project 3B: In Situ S Isotope Studies in Archean-Proterozoic Sulfides — 2012 NAI
- Project 1D: Establishing Biogenicity and Environmental Setting of Precambrian Kerogen and Microfossils — 2012 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2011 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2011 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2010 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2010 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2010 NAI
- Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks — 2009 NAI
- Developing New Biosignatures — 2009 NAI
- Biosignatures in Relevant Microbial Ecosystems — 2009 NAI
- Characterization of Earth's Early Life — 2005 NAI
- Early Earth's Atmosphere, Oceans and Life — 2004 NAI
- Characterizing Earth's Early Life — 2003 NAI
- Evolution of Earth's Early Life — 2002 NAI
- GEOPULSE (Gene Expression of Observations for Planetary Life Study) — 2002 NAI
- GEOPULSE (Gene Expression of Observations for Planetary Life Study) — 2001 NAI
- Astrobiology at UCLA: An Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Research and Education — 2000 NAI
- Paleomicrobiology and the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways in the Archaean Environment. — 2000 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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MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., Schopf, J. W., & Willman, S. (2009). Micro- and nano-scale ultrastructure of cell walls in Cryogenian microfossils: revealing their biological affinity. Lethaia, 43(2), 129–136. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00175.x
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Cohen, P. A., Schopf, J. W., Butterfield, N. J., Kudryavtsev, A. B., & MacDonald, F. A. (2011). Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists. Geology, 39(6), 539–542. doi:10.1130/g31833.1
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Czaja, A. D., Kudryavtsev, A. B., Cody, G. D., & William Schopf, J. (2009). Characterization of permineralized kerogen from an Eocene fossil fern. Organic Geochemistry, 40(3), 353–364. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.12.002
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Grymes, S. E. R. A. (2011). J. William Schopf. Astrobiology, 11(1), 9–14. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.1129
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Lal, D., Schopf, J. W., Abbott, P. L., Vacher, L., Jull, A. J. T., & McHargue, L. (2010). Nuclear, chemical and biological characterization of formation histories of ironstones from several sites in Southern California: Dominant role of bacterial activity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296(3-4), 227–234. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.002
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Schopf, J. W. (2009). The hunt for Precambrian fossils: An abbreviated genealogy of the science. Precambrian Research, 173(1-4), 4–9. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2009.01.003
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Schopf, J. W., & Bottjer, D. J. (2009). World summit on ancient microscopic fossils. Precambrian Research, 173(1-4), 1–3. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2009.06.001
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Schopf, J. W., & Kudryavtsev, A. B. (2009). Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman imagery of ancient microscopic fossils. Precambrian Research, 173(1-4), 39–49. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2009.02.007
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Schopf, J. W., & Kudryavtsev, A. B. (2010). A renaissance in studies of ancient life. Geology Today, 26(4), 140–145. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.2010.00760.x
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Schopf, J. W., & Kudryavtsev, A. B. (2011). Biogenicity of Apex Chert microstructures. Nature Geosci, 4(6), 346–347. doi:10.1038/ngeo1172
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Schopf, J. W., Farmer, J. D., Foster, I. S., Kudryavtsev, A. B., Gallardo, V. A., & Espinoza, C. (2012). Gypsum-Permineralized Microfossils and Their Relevance to the Search for Life on Mars. Astrobiology, 12(7), 619–633. doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0827
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Schopf, J. W., Kudryavtsev, A. B., & Sergeev, V. N. (2010). Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Raman Imagery of the Late Neoproterozoic Chichkan Microbiota of South Kazakhstan. Journal of Paleontology, 84(3), 402–416. doi:10.1666/09-134.1
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Schopf, J. W., Kudryavtsev, A. B., Sugitani, K., & Walter, M. R. (2010). Precambrian microbe-like pseudofossils: A promising solution to the problem. Precambrian Research, 179(1-4), 191–205. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.03.003
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Sergeev, V. N., & William Schopf, J. (2010). Taxonomy, Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of the Late Neoproterozoic Chichkan Microbiota of South Kazakhstan: The Marine Biosphere on the Eve of Metazoan Radiation. Journal of Paleontology, 84(3), 363–401. doi:10.1666/09-133.1
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Shi, C. S., Schopf, J. W., & Kudryavtsev, A. B. (2013). Characterization of the stem anatomy of the Eocene fern Dennstaedtiopsis aerenchymata (Dennstaedtiaceae) by use of confocal laser scanning microscopy. American Journal of Botany, 100(8), 1626–1640. doi:10.3732/ajb.1300027
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Taylor, P. D., Vinn, O., Kudryavtsev, A., & William Schopf, J. (2010). Raman spectroscopic study of the mineral composition of cirratulid tubes (Annelida, Polychaeta). Journal of Structural Biology, 171(3), 402–405. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2010.05.010
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William Schopf, J. (2010). The paleobiological record of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research, 107(1), 87–101. doi:10.1007/s11120-010-9577-1
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Williford, K. H., Ushikubo, T., Schopf, J. W., Lepot, K., Kitajima, K., & Valley, J. W. (2013). Preservation and detection of microstructural and taxonomic correlations in the carbon isotopic compositions of individual Precambrian microfossils. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 104, 165–182. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.11.005
See Project See Project See Project See Project - Narbonne, G.M., Schopf, J.W. & Walter, M.R. (2010). Hans J. Hofmann (1936-2010). Geolog, 39(2): 13-14. See Project
- Nasdala, L., Beyssac, O., Schopf, J.W. & Bleisteiner, B. (2012). Application of Raman-based images in the Earth sciences. In: Zoubir, A. (Eds.). Optical Sciences. Vol. 168. Raman Imaging. See Project
- Nasdala, L., Beyssac, O., Schopf, J.W. & Bleisteiner, B. (2012). Application of Raman-based images in the Earth sciences. In: Zoubir, A. (Eds.). Raman Imaging, Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Vol. 168. Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
- Nasdala, L., Beyssac, O., Schopf, J.W. & Bleisteiner, B. (Application of Raman-based images in the Earth Sciences). In Press. In: Zoubir, A. (Eds.). Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. & Bottjer, D.J. (2009). World Summit on Ancient Microscopic Fossils, Special Issue. Vol. 173. Precambrian Research. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. & Kudryavtsev, A.B. (2010, In Press). Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils. In: M. Laflamme, S.D.a.J.S. (Eds.). Quantifying the Early Evolution of Life: Numerical and Technological Approaches to the Study of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. & Kudryavtsev, A.B. (2011). Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils. In: M. Laflamme, S.D.a.J.S. (Eds.). Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. & Kudryavtsev, A.B. (2012, Submitted). Biogenicity of Earth’s earliest fossils. In: Dilek, L. & Furnes, H. (Eds.). Archean Earth and Early Life. Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2009). Emergence of Precambrian paleobiology: a new field of science. In: Sepkoski, D. & Ruse, M. (Eds.). The Paleobiological Revolution, Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2009). Organismal evolution and radiation before the Cambrian. In: Ruse, M., Travis, J. & Zinser, J. (Eds.). Evolution: The First 4 Billion Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2009). Paleontology, Microbial. In: Lederberg, J. & Schaechter, M. (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2010, In Press). The fossil record of cyanobacteria. In: Whitton, B.A. (Eds.). Ecology of Cyanobacteria II. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2012). The fossil record of cyanobacteria. In: Whitton, B.A. (Eds.). Ecology of Cyanobacteria II. Their Diversity in Space and Time. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (2012, In Prss). Forward [Book Chapter]. The Flyer: Boris Sokolov: Natural History and 21st Century Russia Sokolov. Indiana University Press. See Project
- Schopf, J.W. (In Press). The fossil record of cyanobacteria. In: Whitton, B.A. (Eds.). Ecology of Cyanobacteria II. Their Diversity in Space and Time. Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W., Kudryavtsev, A.B., Tripathi, B. & Czaja, A.D. (2010, In Press). Three-dimensional Morphological (CLSM) and Chemical (Raman) Imagery of Cellularly Mineralized Fossils. In: Bottjer, P.A.A.a.D.J. (Eds.). Taphonomy: Process and Bias Through Time. Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
- Schopf, J.W., Kudryavtssev, A.B., Tripathi, B. & Czaja, A.D. (2010). Three-dimensional Morphological (CLSM) and Chemical (Raman) Imagery of CellularlyMineralized Fossils. In: Bottjer, P.A.A.a.D.J. (Eds.). Taphonomy: Process and Bias Through Time. Amsterdam: Springer. See Project
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Discipline
Geology, Biology, Paleontology
