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  2. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objectives 5.3, 7.1

    3. Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life

    Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments

    5. Life in Extreme Environments

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    7. Astrobiotechnology

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    Amino Acid Preservation in Saline-Lake Sediments and Mars-Simulant Regolith

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3, 7.1

    Application of U-tube and fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor to characterize the chemical and physical properties of a deep permafrost and sub-permafrost environment at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada.

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Chemistry and biology of ultramafic-hosted alkaline springs

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 7.2

    DDF: Geomicrobiology of a Unique Ice-Sulfur Spring Ecosystem in the High Arctic

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Earthbound microbial and geological robotic based observations for Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3

    Environmental genomics reveals a single species ecosystem deep within the Earth.

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2

    Examination of the Microbial Diversity Found in Ice Cores (Brenchley)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3

    Genomics of sulfidic cave extremophiles (Supplement to NNA04CC06A)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    High Lake Gossan deposit: An Arctic analogue for ancient Martian surficial processes?

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

    Icelandic subglacial lakes

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Interplanetary Pioneers

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 6.2

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Mars Forward Contamination Studies Utilizing a Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Mechanisms of Marine Microbial Community Structuring

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Microbial Communities and Activities in the Deep Marine Subsurface

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Microbial Communities in Subpermafrost saline fracture water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.2

    Modeling Early Earth Environments

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Molecular and Isotopic Microbial Community Analysis of Deep Subsurface Sediments

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Planetary Habitability

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Planetary-Scale Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Nitrogen Cycle

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2

    Saline Lakes and Gypsum Dunes in the Rio Grande Rift System as Analogues for Sulfate Deposits on Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.3, 7.1

    Sediment-buried basement deep biosphere

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds

    TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The High Lakes Project (HLP)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials

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    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Roadmap Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth

    3. Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

    4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 7.1

    5. Life in Extreme Environments

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    7. Astrobiotechnology

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1

    Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

    Amino Acid Preservation in Saline-Lake Sediments and Mars-Simulant Regolith

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3, 7.1

    Application of U-tube and fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor to characterize the chemical and physical properties of a deep permafrost and sub-permafrost environment at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada.

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Biogenic formation of high-magnesium calcite in sulfide-rich systems

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Biomimetic Cluster Synthesis: Bridging the Structure and Reactivity of Biotic and Abiotic Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Challenges for Coring Deep Permafrost on Earth and Mars: Drilling Project at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 7.1

    Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Computational Chemical Modeling the Link Between Structure and Reactivity of Iron-Sulfur Motifs

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    DDF: Geomicrobiology of a Unique Ice-Sulfur Spring Ecosystem in the High Arctic

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Examination of the Microbial Diversity Found in Ice Cores (Brenchley)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    High Lake Gossan deposit: An Arctic analogue for ancient Martian surficial processes?

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

    Iron and sulfur-based biospheres and their biosignatures

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Iron isotope biosignatures: Laboratory studies and modern environments

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

    Isotopic fingerprints of past life and surface conditions on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 7.1

    Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Mars Forward Contamination Studies Utilizing a Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Microbial Communities in Subpermafrost saline fracture water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Microbial pyrite oxidation in nature and the lab: sulfate mineral biosignature investigation

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 7.1

    Module 1: The Building Blocks of Life

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 7.1

    Molecular Beam Studies of Nitrogen Reactions on Iron-Sulfur Surfaces

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

    Nano-structured minerals as tracers of microbial activities

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 7.1

    New frontiers in micro-analysis of isotopic compositions of natural materials: Development of O, Si, and Li isotopes

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.1

    Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Pearson Project

    TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1

    Prebiotic Organics from Space

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Probing the Structure and Nitrogen Reduction Activity of Iron-Sulfur Minerals

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 7.2

    Production of mixed cation carbonates in abiologic and biologic systems

    TEAM: UWIS / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 7.1

    Recognition of Theoretical Environments on Mars

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 7.1

    Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1

    Saline Lakes and Gypsum Dunes in the Rio Grande Rift System as Analogues for Sulfate Deposits on Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.3, 7.1

    Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2

    Structure, Function, and Biosynthesis of the Complex Iron-Sulfur Clusters at the Active Sites of Nitrogenases and Hydrogenases

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

    Sulfur and Phosphorus Cosmochemistry: Implications

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 7.1

    Sulfur biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    The High Lakes Project (HLP)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

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  • 1.1 Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
  • 1.2 Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
  • 2.1 Mars exploration
  • 2.2 Outer Solar System exploration
  • 3.1 Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
  • 3.2 Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
  • 3.3 Origins of energy transduction
  • 3.4 Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems
  • 4.1 Earth's early biosphere
  • 4.2 Foundations of complex life
  • 5.1 Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
  • 5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities
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  • 6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
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  • Carnegie Institution of Washington
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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of Arizona
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  • University of Hawaii
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