NAI
Sanjoy Som
Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
General Information
In 2016 – Sanjoy’s paper Earth’s air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels published in Nature Geoscience received very high media attention: 94 news articles, including PBS, Scientifican American, and radio interviews of co-authors Roger Buick and David Catling on BBC World Service radio.
Current Projects
- Hydrogeochemistry of Serpentinizing Systems — 2016 NAI
- Task A: Solar System Analogs for Extrasolar Planetary Processes and Observations — 2016 NAI
- Understanding Past Environments on Earth and Mars — 2015 NAI
- Modeling Habitable Environments Generated by Water/rock Reactions — 2015 NAI
- Coupled Energy Balance Ecosystem-Atmosphere Modeling of Thermodynamically-Constrained Biogenic Gas Fluxes Project — 2014 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2014 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2013 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2012 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2011 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2010 NAI
- AbGradCon 2010 — 2010 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2009 NAI
- AbGradCon 2009 — 2009 NAI
- 5. Life in Extreme Environments — 2008 NAI
- Project 5. Life in Extreme Environments — 2007 NAI
- Building a Habitable Planet: The Geological Record — 2006 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Som, S. M., Catling, D. C., Harnmeijer, J. P., Polivka, P. M., & Buick, R. (2012). Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints. Nature, 484(7394), 359–362. doi:10.1038/nature10890
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
- Rugheimer, S. & Som, S. (2012). Exoplanet and organics in Space. Presentation at the 2012 Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon), August 27 – 30 2012, Los Angeles, CA. See Project
- Som, S. (2012). A cell as a toaster. Presentation and poster and the 2012 Nordic-Hawaii Summer School, July 1 – 15, 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland. See Project
- Som, S., Alperin, M. & Hoehler, T. (2012). Numerical quantification of habitability in serpentinizing systems. Abstract and poster presented at the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon), April 16-20 2012, Atlanta, GA. See Project
- Som, S., Alperin, M. & Hoehler, T. (2012). Numerical quantification of habitability in serpentinizing systems. Poster presented at the 2012 Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon), August 27-30 2012, Los Angeles, CA. See Project
- Som, S., Anderson, R., Antonio, M., Cash, M., Claire, M., Cowan, N., Ewert, M., Goldman, A., Snowden, D. & Stueeken, E. (2009). The 2009 Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon). Abstract #511. Astrobiology Science Conference. League City, TX,. See Project
- Som, S., Domagal-Goldman, S., Wright, K., Boldt, M. & Antonio, M. (2009). THE ASTROBIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE (ABGRADCON). 60th International Astronautical Congress. Daejeon, South Korea. See Project
- Stueeken, E.E., Anderson, R.E., Bowman, J.S., Brazelton, W.J., Colangelo-Lillis, J., Goldman, A.D., Som, S.M. & Baross, J.A. (In Preparation). The Hadean Earth as a global chemical reactor for the origin of life. See Project
- Stüeken, E.E., Anderson, R., Bowman, J.S., Brazelton, W., Colangelo-Lillis, J., Goldman, A.D., Som, S.M. & Baross, J.A. The Hadean Earth as a global chemical reactor for the origin of life. Geobiology. See Project
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