Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2005 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 4.1

  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: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

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

    Causes of mass extinctions: testing impact models_Kring

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.3

    Darwinian Chemistry

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

    Earth's Early Environment and Life

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.3

    Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Arthur)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3, 6.1

    Evolution of a habitable planet (Capo)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 6.1

    Evolution of a Habitable Planet (Stewart)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 6.1

    Evolution of atmospheric O2, climate, and biosphere - Ohmoto

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

    Evolutionary Genomics Focus Group

    TEAM: / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.3, 7.2

    Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Mass-independent sulfur isotope effects-part of the Geobiology and Geochemistry of Early Earth project

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1

    Genome Evolution and Innovation

    TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2

    Geochemical Processes and Biosignatures (House)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Habitable Planets

    TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3

    Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of early branching eukaryotes

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2

    Iron Oxidation - Shaping the Past and Present Environments

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1

    Isotope effects in atmospheric sulfur chemistry (Castleman)

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1

    Lee Kump

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1

    Mass Extinction Events, The longest Snowball Earth Event, the evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis, and TPW Induced Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle.

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.3, 6.1

    Microbial communities and activities in the deep marine subsurface

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

    Microbial Mat Communities

    TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

    Modeling early atmospheric composition and climate

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1

    Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

    Origins and signatures of biogenic and abiogenic hydrocarbons.

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

    Planetary Biology, Evolution and Intelligence (project)

    TEAM: SETI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Project 3. Prebiotic Chemical and Isotopic Evolution on Earth

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

    Project 4. Prebiotic Molecular Selection and Organization

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

    Project 6. Molecular and Isotopic Biosignatures

    TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    Radiolysis as a source of chemical energy for microbial metabolism in the deep subsurface

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

    Re-tracing Steps Towards a Habitable World: The Biogeochemical Evolution of Sulfur on the Early Earth.

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

    Subsurface Biospheres (project)

    TEAM: URI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

    The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

    The Distribution of Early Life into Geographically Distinct Subseafloor Microbial Habitats: A Metagenomic Strategy

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

    The evolution and diversity of ancient CO2-fixation pathways in anaerobic and extremophilic microorganisms: Clues to the early evolution of life on Earth

    TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.3

    The History of Evolution of the Martian Surface and Water on Mars

    TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1

    The impact of atmospheric particles on life

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 7.1

    The Organic Volatile Composition of Comets: A Window on the Early Solar System

    TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3

    The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules

    TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

    UH NAI Executive Summary

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 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 [x]
  • 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
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of Washington
  • Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)