Now showing: Year 2008 projects from the GSFC, VPL-UW teams
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
A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1
Chemical Models of Nebular Processes
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 7.2
Fingerprinting Late Additions to the Earth and Moon via the Study of Highly Siderophile Elements in Lunar Impact Melt Rocks
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
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
Origin and Evolution of Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.3
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
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2
Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
Astronomical Observations of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2
Earth as an Extrasolar Planet
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2
Extrasolar Planets
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
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
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
VPL Climate and Radiative Transfer Models
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
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
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Breakdown of methane due to electric discharge: A Laboratory Investigation with Relevance to Mars
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
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
Origin and Evolution of Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Planetary Habitability
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 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
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
A Self-Perpetuating Catalyst for the Production of Organics in Protostellar Nebulae
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Current Status and Future Bioastronomy with the Large Millimeter Telescope
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Hydrodynamic Escape from Planetary Atmospheres
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Origin and Evolution of Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.3
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
X-ray emission from an intermediate-mass young star, protostar binary system and star-forming regions
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Origin and Evolution of Organics in Planetary Systems
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
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
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
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
VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2
Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life
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
Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere
Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 7.2
Planet Formation and Dynamical Modeling
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.3
Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
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
Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2
Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities
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
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
Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
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
Planetary Habitability
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2
Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
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
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
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
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2
Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2
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
Advancing Techniques for in situ Analysis of Complex Organics
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
Organic and Inorganic Acids from Ion-irradiated Ices
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Research Activities in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory
TEAM: GSFC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems
Astronomical Observations of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2
Earth as an Extrasolar Planet
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2
Effects of stellar flares on atmospheres of habitable planets
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 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
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
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory – The Life Modules - Photosynthesis
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2
VPL Model Interfaces and the Community Tool
TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 7.2
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