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Now showing: All projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 6.1

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

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

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

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

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

Biosignatures in chemosynthetic and photosynthetic systems

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

Climate, Habitability, and the Atmosphere on early Mars

TEAM: CAL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 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

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

Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat

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

Erwin Project

TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 6.1

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

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

Hindcasting Ecosystems

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1

Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

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

Iron Oxidation - Shaping the Past and Present Environments

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1

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

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

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

Pearson Project

TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.2, 6.1, 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 Surface and Interior Models and Super Earths

TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 5.2, 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

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

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

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis

TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 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

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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

NASA Ames Research Center

Pennsylvania State University

SETI Institute

University of California, Berkeley

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Hawaii

University of Wisconsin

VPL at University of Washington

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)