Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 4.2

  2. Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment

    Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life

    A Supertree Analysis of the Metazoan Phylogeny

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2

    Bowring Project

    TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2

    Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE UNIQUE TROPICAL PHYLUM PLACOZOA

    TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1

    Erwin Project

    TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 6.1

    Ferry Report

    TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1

    Genomic Record of the Earth's Early Biosphere (Hedges)

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

    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

    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

    Module 1: The Building Blocks of Life

    TEAM: UA / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 7.1

    Origin of Life and Catalysis - Philosophical Considerations

    TEAM: MSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.2

    Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

    Pearson Project

    TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1

    Philosophical Problems in Astrobiology; issues on the origin of life,

    TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2

    Requirements for the development and maintenance of complex life

    TEAM: MIT / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 4.2

    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 Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments

    TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2