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Now showing: Year 2008 projects that addressed Astrobiology Roadmap Objective 5.2

Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life

Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities

Application of U-tube and fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor to characterize the chemical and physical properties of a deep permafrost and sub-permafrost environment at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada.

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.2, 5.3, 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

Carbon Flow Between Organisms in Complex Communities

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

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

Describing the anaerobic thermophilic microbial community: A metagenomic strategy

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

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

Environmental genomics reveals a single species ecosystem deep within the Earth.

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2

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

Genome-Genome Integration: Symbiosis, genetic assimilation, and evolutionary innovation

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 6.2

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

Identifying microbial life at crustal rock-water interfaces

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

Laboratory Microbial Simulations: Astrobiological Signatures

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

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 in Subpermafrost saline fracture water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada

TEAM: IPTAI / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

Microbial diversity and population structure studies in the Rio Tinto

TEAM: MBL / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.3, 5.1, 5.2

Microbial diversity of a hypersaline microbial mat

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 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

Molecular and Isotopic Microbial Community Analysis of Deep Subsurface Sediments

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

Molecular Signatures of Life on the Edge (DDF project)

TEAM: PSU / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1

Origin of multicellularity and complex land-based ecosystem

TEAM: CUB / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.2

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

Stromatolites in the Desert: Analogs to Other Worlds

TEAM: VPL-UW / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

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

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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

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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

7.2 Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems

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Indiana University, Bloomington

Marine Biological Laboratory

NASA Ames Research Center

Pennsylvania State University

SETI Institute

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Hawaii

VPL at University of Washington

NAI

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)