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Barbara Sherwood Lollar
University of Toronto

Current Projects

In-Situ Life Detection and Characterization — 2016 NAI
Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases From Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons — 2008 NAI
Design, Construction and Testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for Determination of the Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Methane — 2008 NAI
Evolution of Abiotic Environments to Ecosystems — 2007 NAI
Abiotic Experiments & Hydrocarbon Yielding Water/Mineral Reactions — 2007 NAI

Drilling a Borehole for Sampling of Gases, Water, and Microbes in Sub-Permafrost Groundwater at High Lake, Nunavut Territory, Canada — 2007 NAI

Origins and Signatures of Biogenic Hydrocarbons - Controls on the Transition From Abiogenic Geochemistry to Biotic Systems in the Deep Subsurface and Identification of Signature for Life — 2006 NAI

Origins and Signatures of Biogenic and Abiogenic Hydrocarbons. — 2005 NAI

Biosustainable Energy and Nutrient Cycles in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars — 2004 NAI

View all 9 projects

NAI Project Collaborators

Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
William Abbey
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Abigail Allwood
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jan Amend
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rohit Bhartia
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Lina Bird
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Sean Bouchard
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Caitlin Casar
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

David Case
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Gray Chadwick
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Allison Comrie
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Bethany Ehlmann
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Moh El-Naggar
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Evan Eshelman
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jayme Feyhl-Buska
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Tracy Fullerton
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Jacqueline Goordial
McGill University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Yuri Gorby
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Scott Hamilton-Brehm
Desert Research Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

Hiroyuki Imachi
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Fumio Inagaki
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Yamini Jangir
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Rose Jones
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Amruta Karbelkar
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Chris Kempes
Collaborated on 1 Project

Brittany Kruger
Desert Research Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

J. Gijs Kuenen
Technische Universiteit Delft
Collaborated on 1 Project

Doug LaRowe
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Bonita Lam
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Kyle Metcalfe
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Alice Michel
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Lily Momper
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Yuki Morono
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Duane Moser
Desert Research Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

Sean Mullin
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Kenneth Nealson
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Akihira Okamoto
Collaborated on 1 Project

Tullis Onstott
Princeton University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Beth Orcutt
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Victoria Orphan
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Magdalena Osburn
Northwestern University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Sahand Pirbadian
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Brandi Reese
Texas A&M University
Collaborated on 1 Project

Nerissa Rivera-Laux
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Alberto Robador
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Collaborated on 1 Project

Annette Rowe
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Joshua Sackett
Desert Research Institute
Collaborated on 1 Project

Everett Salas
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Collaborated on 1 Project

Cecilia Sanders
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Haley Sapers
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Pratixa Savalia
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Daan Speth
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
California Institute of Technology
Collaborated on 1 Project

Greg Wanger
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Josh West
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Holly Willis
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Hank Yu
University of Southern California
Collaborated on 1 Project

Publications

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

Phone:
416-978-0770
Fax:
416-987-3938
Email:
bslollar@chem.utoronto.ca
Discipline
Geology

Past NAI Teams

University of Southern California
CAN 6
Indiana University, Bloomington
CAN 3