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Now showing: Year 2003 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 7.2

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

Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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

A timescale for the evolution of life on Earth - Hedges

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2

A timescale for the evolution of life on Earth - Nei

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 7.2

Benner - Self-Reproducing Molecular Systems and Darwinian Chemistry

TEAM: SRI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 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

Biogeochemistry of the Early Earth

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2

Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Planetary Models

TEAM: VPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 7.2

Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Spectroscopic Studies to Understand Detectability and Habitability.

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

Chemical Building Blocks

TEAM: ARC / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 3.1, 3.4, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2

Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets

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

Delivery of organic materials to planets

TEAM: UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 7.2

Early Microbial Ecosystems

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

Ecosystem to Biosphere Modeling

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

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

Extra Solar Planetary Systems

TEAM: UCLA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2

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

GEOPULSE

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

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

Laboratory/Observational Studies of Biogenic Greenhouse Gases on the Early Earth

TEAM: JPL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 7.2

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 and sulfur hazes in the Archean atmosphere: Climatic and photochemical consequences.

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 4.1, 7.2

Spectroscopic Databases to Support Extrasolar Planet Modeling

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

Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry

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

Studies in Planetary Formation and Evolution

TEAM: CIW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 7.2

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

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

The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Sub project: Geobiology of Neogene hematitic sedimentary rocks<BR>

TEAM: HAR / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 7.2

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - Synthesis and Architecture

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

The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - The Life Modules

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

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Carnegie Institution of Washington

Harvard University

NASA Ames Research Center

Pennsylvania State University

Scripps Research Institute

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Washington

Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)