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Contents:
Teaching/Learning Software
Analog Information
Interesting Readings (Atacama)
Results and Reports of Atacama Research
Interesting Readings (MDRS)
Helpful links (Mojave)
Interesting Readings (Pavilion Lake)
Arctic
Australia
Teaching/Learning Software:
- What does it take for a world to be habitable to humans?
Astro-Venture allows students in grades 5-8 to explore this question
through interactive investigations in astronomy, geology, atmospheric
science, and biology.
- Download and use the online Quest program "What's the
Difference?" to compare and contrast the conditions
on Moon with those of Earth. Solar System Explorer is
a scaled-down version of "What's the Difference?", which can
be used to compare the Moon and Earth. Download and expand into
new folder all of the files received:
PC Version (here)
Mac Version (here)
To download the full authoring tool to fill in your own content, go to: http://quest.nasa.gov/vft/index.html#wtd
Analog Information
What
is a Mars analog?
More
about Mars analogs
Great Geotimes article on Mars analog sites!
Interesting Readings (Atacama):
Two Dry For Life: The
Atacama Desert and Mars by Chris McKay, Ad Astra
Mars
on Earth by David L. Chandler, Wired Magazine
Researchers
Rain on Mars' Water Gullies Parade by Ker Than, SPACE.com
Microbial
Life - Educational Resources National Science Digital Library
Digging
for Life in the Deadest Desert by Michael Coren, CNN
Chris McKay's
Three Questions by Joel McKinnon, newmars.com
In
search of the driest place on Earth; Off to dry Jebel Uweinat by
Chris McKay, Here Today; Gone to Mars
Caves of Mars from Penny
Boston
Temperature and
Moisture Conditions for Life in the Extreme Arid Region of the Atacama
Desert McKay et al, Astobiology
Antiquity of aridity in the Chilean
Atacama Desert by Jonathan D.A. Clarke, Geomorphology
Images from the Atacama
Desert and Mars - Jacek Wierzchos
Endolithic Cyanobacteria
in Halite Rocks from the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert -
Jacek Wierzchos
Multispectral Intrinsic Fluorescence Technology,
National Center for the Design of Molecular Function MicroBioSystems,Utah
The camels of the prokaryotic world, by F.A. Rainey, K.E. Ray, N. Ward-Rainey
Results and Reports of Atacama Research:
NASA Explorer School Teachers' Final Reports:
Matt Allner
Cherlyn Anderson
Catherine Campbell
Geoff Hammond
Phyllis Isbell
Koby VanBeest
Spaceward
Bound Expedition: Chile final report. (.pdf) It's long, but it
has lots of pictures!
Experimental Research
using Thermography to Locate Heat Signatures from Caves (.pdf)
by Jim Thompson
Spaceward Bound Report (.doc) By L. Powers and S. Rich
Interesting Readings MDRS
Video
report
about last year from Bill Clancy
Regolith-Terrain Mapping for MDRS Field Area by Jonathan
Clarke
Helpful links (Mojave):
Mojave National Preserve is in the "eastern" Mojave
(basically Baker on eastward), thus the surrounding BLM lands are administered
out of the Needles Field Office. Barstow BLM Field Office manages lands
in the "western" Mojave (Baker on westward).
Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity
Spaceward
Bound Mojave Briefing Package (11/06) National Park Service, Mojave
National Preserve
BLM
Field Office at Barstow
BLM
Field Office at Needles
Amboy Crater
info at BLM: (includes
photo of rover in crater!)
CSU
Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx
Desert
Discovery Center, Barstow
The DDC is a partnership between NPS, BLM, Barstow schools, Barstow Community
College.
Desert Research Institute, one of our partners:
USGS
Geology of Mojave: includes
field trip:
California State Parks,
Providence Mountains SRA, with Mitchell Caverns
Great Mojave info site
A clever
kids site about "Mojave Max" a tortoise. Developed
by Clark County schools, NV,
pretty NV-centric, but a good resource
From BLM Environmental Education Resources "A
Place in the Sun" about
the Mojave Desert -
has an excellent teacher resource list
DesertUSA -
commercial site with very good Mojave info
USGS
website El Nino in the desert - El Nino spawned
landslides, debris-flows and flash floods as geologic
processes that create the desert landscape
USGS website Our Dynamic Desert Landscape
Bacterial Diversity in Three Different Antarctic
Cold Desert Mineral Soils
Levels of Bacterial Community Diversity in Four Arid Soils Compared by Cultivation
and 16S rRNA Gene Cloning
Thermal
Behavior of Earth Caves: A Proxy for Gaining Inference int Martian Cave Detection
Mojave Natonal Preserve Geologic Resources Management Issues Scoping Summary
Stop! Don't step on that soil. It's full of life.
Caves on Mars detected with the same technique that Jim and his team will be
using in Mojave from the balloon
Precipitation history and ecosystem response to multidecadal
precipitation variability in the Mojave Desert region, 1893–2001
Abundance and distribution of selected elementsin
soils, stream sediments, and selected forage plants from desert tortoise habitats
in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, USA
The effect of spatial resolutionon measurement of vegetation cover in three Mojave
Desert shrub communities
Dominance and environmental correlates of alien annual plants in the MojaveDesert,
USA
Spatial and temporal patterns of wildfires in the
Mojave Desert, 1980–2004
Attributes of desert tortoise populations at the National Training Center, Central
Mojave Desert, California, USA
Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma agassizii and tortoise herpes virus in captive desert
tortoises (Gopherusagassizii) from the
Greater Barstow Area, MojaveDesert, California
LizLand: A geomorphic approach to lizard habitat modeling in the Mojave Desert
Conservation genetics, evolution and distinct population segments of the Mojave
fringe-toed lizard, Uma scoparia
Ecologyof a population of subsidizedpredators: Common ravens in the central Mojave
Desert, California
What's Up Down There? Microbial Diversity in Caves
Soil Genesis on Beach Ridges of Pluvial Lake Mojave: Implications for Holocene
Lacustrine and Eolian Events in the Mojave
Desert, Southern California
Response of alluvial fan systems to the late Pleistocene to Holocene climatic
transition: contrasts between the margins of
pluvial Lakes Lahontan and Mojave,
Nevada and California, USA
Cosmogenic 3He surface-exposure dating
of stone pavements: Implications for landscape evolution in deserts
Extracting Holocene paleohydrology and paleoclimatology information from modern
extreme flood events: An example from
southern California
Late Cenozoic landscape evolution on lava flow surfaces of the Cima volcanic
field, Mojave Desert, California
Degradation of Quaternary cinder cones in the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert,
California
Influences of eolian and pedogenic processes on the origin and evolution of desert
pavements
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Changes in Hillslope Sediment Supply to Alluvial
Fan Systems: Zzyzx, California
Late Quaternary variations in alluvia fan sedimentologic and geomorphic processes,
Soda Lake basin, eastern Mojave Desert,
California
Late Pleistocene lakes along the Mojave River, southeast California
Late Quaternary geology and paleohydrology of pluvial Lake Mojave, southern California
Surface mosaic map unit development for a desert pavement surface
LETTERS TO NATURE: Atmospheric circulation during Holocene lake stands in the
Mojave Desert: evidence of regional
climate change
Influence of Late Quaternary Climatic Changes on Geomorphic and Pedogenic Processes
on a Desert Piedmont, Eastern
Mojave Desert, California
Are the Benches at Mormon Point, Death Valley, California, USA, Scarps or Strandlines?
Spring and Lakes in a Desert Landscape: Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental
Investigations in the Silurian Valley and
Adjacent Areas of Southeastern, California
Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of Death Valley
Paleoecology reconstruction from
trapped gases in a fulgurite from the late Pleistocene of the Libyan Desert
Abstract
approved for presentation at the National Speleological Society's
annual convention in August 2008
Interesting readings: Pavilion Lake, Canada
Pavilion
Lake Research Project
Pavilion
Lake, B.C., Canada – Investigating Microbialite Morphogenesis
Pavilion Lake: Glimpses of an Ancient Sea Floor
Welcome to Pavilion Lake flier
PLRP Deepworker Deployment
2008 -- Science Plan (doc) or (pdf)
Logistical Information Sheet July 08 (doc)
or (pdf)
Spaceward Bound Pavilion Lake 2008 (doc) or (pdf)
A History of the Pavilion Lake Research Project (doc) or (pdf)
Mac prof and
student seek clues to Martian life on bottom of B.C. lake (thespec.com) article
Canadian summary of the press coverage
Interesting readings: Arctic
McGill
Arctic Research Station (M.A.R.S.) Website
Search
for past life on Mars: Physical and chemical characterization of
minerals of biotic and abiotic origin: part 1 - Calcite -
Stalport et al
Interesting readings: Australia
Anitori- active Radon hotsprings-determining bacterial composition
Bons- Potential evidence of fossilized Neoproterozoic deep life-Arkaroola
Brown-remote methods for detection of hydrothernmal activity in Mars
analog regions
Brugger- hot springs
Clarke- Arkaroola as a Mars Analogue region.
AAS
255- Mars Exploration strategy to Arkaroola
AAS 257-
Significance of remnant gravel lags as landscape evolution indicators
in Arkaroola
Space Science and Education: Sparking, Signing and Securing the Space
Generation
Spaceward Bound: Training and Inspiring the Next Generation of Space
Explorers
Thoms & Walter
2002 Arkaroola hyperspectral
Bons & Montenari-
The formation of antitaxial calcite veins
Flinders Ranges National Landscape- a general guide to the Flinders
Ranges
Forbes-southern margin Eromanga basin
Analogue research in Planetary Science Ed
Field trip tasks at the MDRS
Involving students in research
Young & Gostin-Sturtian
Glacials Mt Painter
Waldie, James M.A. - Mechanical Counter Pressure Space Suites
Wofner, J - The lower tertiary Eyre formation of the Southwestern great
Artesian basin
See Images of Interest: Spaceward
Bound Australia
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