"What kinds of life do scientists hope to find on Mars, and what would they do with the life forms? "
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Indiana University, Bloomington
Executive Summary
Biosustaining Energy and Nutrient Cycles in the Deep Subsurface of Earth and Mars
Project Reports
Amino Acid Preservation in Saline-Lake Sediments and Mars-Simulant Regolith
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.3, 7.1Application 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.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1Challenges for Coring Deep Permafrost on Earth and Mars: Drilling Project at High Lake, Nunavut, Canada
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 7.1Design, construction and testing of a Cavity-Ring Down Spectrometer for determination of the concentration and isotopic composition of methane
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2Environmental genomics reveals a single species ecosystem deep within the Earth.
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2High Lake Gossan deposit: An Arctic analogue for ancient Martian surficial processes?
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1Isotopic Signatures of Methane and Higher Hydrocarbon Gases from Precambrian Shield Sites: A Model for Abiogenic Polymerization of Hydrocarbons
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2Mars Forward Contamination Studies Utilizing a Mars Environmental Simulation Chamber
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1Microbial Communities in Subpermafrost saline fracture water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1Radiolytic oxidation of sulfide minerals as a source of sulfate and hydrogen to sustain microbial metabolism
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.3, 6.2Saline Lakes and Gypsum Dunes in the Rio Grande Rift System as Analogues for Sulfate Deposits on Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 5.3, 7.1Stability of methane hydrates in the presence of high salinity brines on Mars
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2The Diversity of the Original Prebiotic Soup: Re-Analyzing the Original Miller-Urey Spark Discharge Experiments
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2EPO Reports
Materials for Formal Education: Exploring Deep-Subsurface Life
High Lake Video Journal
Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Inc. (HASTI) Conference, Indianapolis, IN. February 6-8, 2008
National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Boston MA.
Interactions between Life and the Environment, Penn State University, University Park PA
Ali'I Teacher Workshop, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
The Astrobiology Mentor Program at Indiana University
Public Lecture
Print Media
Broadcast, Internet Multimedia
SHaring ADventures in Engineering and Science (SHADES).
UT Earth Science Fair
Astrobiology in Secondary Classrooms
Teacher Excellence Workshop Series
Astrobiology Laboratory Institute for Instructors (ALI'I)
Astrobiology Summer Science Experience for Teachers (ASSET)
Miami-Dade County Schools presentation
Master Teachers
Broadcast, Internet Multimedia
Project Reports
Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective
- Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets (2 reports)
- Objective 2.1: Mars exploration (13 reports)
- Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration (2 reports)
- Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts (3 reports)
- Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules (3 reports)
- Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction (3 reports)
- Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems (1 reports)
- Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere (4 reports)
- Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life (2 reports)
- Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms (9 reports)
- Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities (6 reports)
- Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments (9 reports)
- Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems (4 reports)
- Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth (5 reports)
- Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials (11 reports)
- Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems (4 reports)
Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe
Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System
Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment
Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Goal 7: Determine how to recognize signatures of life on other worlds and on early Earth
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