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Now showing: Year 2003 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

A Study of Marine and Terrestrial Stable Isotopic Geochemistry During the End-Permian and End-Triassic Mass Extinction Events

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3, 6.1, 7.2

Biogeochemistry of Earth's Greenhouse Leading to the Rise of Oxygen

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Biological Studies of Hydrothermal Systems

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Causes and consequences of the diversification and tetinction of metazoans: Neoproterozoic variations - Arthur

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

Causes of Mass Extinction: Isotopic and paleontological constraints

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 4.3, 6.1

Celestial Influences on Planetary Environments

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.3, 6.1

Early Microbial Ecosystems

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Ecological genomics

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

Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

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

Environmental changes in the context of biological evolution during Neoproterozoic on the Yangtze Platform, a snowball Earth?

TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

Enzymes of Ancient Metabolic Pathways

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

Evolution in microbe-based ecosystems: Desert springs as analogues for the early development and stabilization of ecological systems

TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate and the Terrestrial Biosphere - Capo

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

Evolution of atmospheric O2, climate, and biosphere - K. Freeman

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1

Evolution of atmospheric O2, climate, and biosphere - Kump

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1

Evolution of atmospheric O2, climate, and biosphere - Ohmoto

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and the Terrestrial Biosphere - Stewart

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 6.1

Evolution of biocomplexity from an ancient autotrophic lineage

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1

Fe Isotope Biosignatures

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

First-Stage Biofilm Formation Under Extreme Conditions in Ice

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2

Fractionation of Transition Metal Isotopes

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1

Geobiology and Geochemistry of Early Earth

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 6.1

GEOPULSE

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

Impacts and the Origin, Distribution, and Evolution of Life

TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.3, 6.1

Indigenous Bacteria of Arctic and Antarctic Permafrost

TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.3, 6.1

Isolation of psychrophilic microorganisms

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.4, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

Isotopic and molecular approaches to microbial ecology and biogeochemistry (The evolution of organic matter) <BR>

TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Isotopic and Molecular Tracers of Life

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Magnetic Biosignatures

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

micro*scope (http://www.mbl.edu/microscope) - a web-based tool for microbial diversity research<BR>

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

Microbe-mineral interactions

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Microbial Mat Communities

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1

Mineralogical Biosignatures

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1

Molecular Survey of Microbial Diversity in Hypersaline Ecosystems, Ecogenomics

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Organic Molecules as Biosignatures

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1

Organic Synthesis at High Temperature

TEAM: ASU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 6.1

Rapid Rates of Change

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 6.1

Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

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

Surface Hydrology and Microbial Ecology for Global Semi-Arid Ecosystems

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 6.1

Symbiosis and the origin of multicellularity in photosynthetic organisms

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1

Terrestrial Analogs and Martian Meteorites

TEAM: JSC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1

The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: The Proterozoic Oxidiation of the Earth's Surface<BR>

TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.3, 6.1

The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Subproject: Permo-Triassic mass extinction and its consequences<BR>

TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules

TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.1, 7.2

Theoretical Studies of Hydrothermal Synthesis Reactions

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1

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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

5.3 Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments

6.1 [x]

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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Arizona State University

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Harvard University

Johnson Space Center

Marine Biological Laboratory

Michigan State University

NASA Ames Research Center

Pennsylvania State University

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Washington

Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)

"What causes earth to rotate on its axis?"

Now showing: Year 2003 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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