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  2. Now showing: Year 2008 projects from the CUB, PSU teams

    3. Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe

    Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Bally project

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Brantley)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2

    PSARC (Sigurdsson report)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    Star and Planet Formation

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1

    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

    Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets

    FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2

    PSARC (Sigurdsson report)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2

    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

    Roadmap Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System

    Objective 2.1: Mars exploration

    Untitled

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Biological potential of Mars

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1

    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

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

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

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

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

    Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1

    Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors

    Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Biological potential of Mars

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1

    Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

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

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2

    Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules

    Functional Genomics of Thioredoxins in Halobacterium sp. NRC-1

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

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

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

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

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

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment

    Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere

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    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

    Untitled

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

    Castleman Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Stewart)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

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

    Modeling Early Atmospheric Composition and Climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    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

    Understanding the Microbial Ecology of Geologically-based Chemolithoautotrophic Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1

    Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life

    Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

    Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    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

    Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

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

    Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms

    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

    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

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    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

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 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

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

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

    Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities

    Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    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

    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

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 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

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

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

    Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    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

    Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments

    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

    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

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 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

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

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

    Roadmap Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond

    Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems

    Untitled

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 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

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Stewart)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

    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

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

    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

    Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth

    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

    Genomics of sulfidic cave extremophiles (Supplement to NNA04CC06A)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 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

    Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 6.2

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

    Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials

    Untitled

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 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

    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

    Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

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

    Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

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

    Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

    Untitled

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1, 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

    Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

    Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

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

    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

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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
  • 5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
  • 6.1 Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
  • 6.2 Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
  • 7.1 Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials
  • 7.2 Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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  • Carnegie Institution of Washington
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Montana State University
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University [x]
  • SETI Institute
  • University of Arizona
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Colorado, Boulder [x]
  • University of Hawaii
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