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Now showing: Year 2008 projects from the UH team
Roadmap Goal 1: Understand the nature and distribution of habitable environments in the Universe
Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets
A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1
Assessing the likelihood of supernova impact of protoplanetary disks
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Dynamical Evolution of Astroid Belt and the Parent Bodies of Iron Meteorites
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
Formation and the Prospects of the Detection of Habitable Planets in Extreme Planetary Systems
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Formation of Planetesimals in a Dynamically Evolving Nebula
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Origin and Activation Mechanism of Main Belt Comets
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
Origin of Irregular Satellites
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1
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
The delivery of short-lived radionucleides to the solar system
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3
Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets
Formation and Detection of Hot-Earth Objects in Systems with Close-in Jupiters
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
FU ORIONIS ERUPTIONS
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
NEWBORN BINARIES
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
Spectropolarimetric studies of stars with hot jupiters
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
The effect of lunar-like satellites on the orbital infrared lightcurves of Earth-analog planets
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
THE VYSOS PROJECT
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
Variable Young Stellar Objects Survey (VYSOS)
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 1.2
X-ray- and UV-bright low-mass stars in the solar neighborhood
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.2
Roadmap Goal 2: Explore for past or present habitable environments, prebiotic chemistry and signs of life elsewhere in our Solar System
Objective 2.1: Mars exploration
Carbonate Lithologies on Devon Island, Canada
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3
FMARS Long Duration Mission: a simulation of manned Mars exploration in an analogue environment, Devon Island, Canada
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3
Ice Ages on Mars
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
Ice at the Mars Phoenix Landing Site
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
Icelandic subglacial lakes
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2
Sleeping through the Arctic Martian Sol
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
TES study of intracrater low albedo deposits, Amazonis Planitia, Mars
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
Water on Mars
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1
Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration
A search for Main Belt Comets in Pan-STARRS 1
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
A spectroscopically unique Main Belt asteroid: 10537 (1991 RY16)
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Amorphization of Crystalline Water Ice in the Solar System
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Chemistry of the NH3/H2O system
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Ice on Main Belt Comets
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Mechanistical Studies on the Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Unusual Carbon Oxide in Solar System Ices
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1
Observations and Models of comet 17P/Holmes
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Recovery of comet 85P/Boethin for the Deep Impact Extended Mission
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
The Main Belt distribution of basaltic asteroids
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
The Size Distribution of Small KBOs
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2
Roadmap Goal 3: Understand how life originates from cosmic and planetary precursors
Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts
Formation of Molecular Hydrogen via Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Hydrocarbon Ices in the Interstellar Medium
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Mechanistical Studies on the Non-Equilibrium Chemistry of Unusual Carbon Oxide in Solar System Ices
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.2, 3.1
Modeling grain surface reaction pathways for large organic molecules
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Molecular Deuteration on grain surfaces
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Ultra-violet processing of ices in the Rosette Nebula
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Unveiling the evolution and interplay of ice and gas in quiescent clouds
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1
Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction
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
Roadmap Goal 4: Understand how past life on Earth interacted with its changing planetary and Solar System environment
Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere
A search for primordial water from deep in the Earth's mantle
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.1
Icelandic subglacial lakes
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2
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
Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life
A Supertree Analysis of the Metazoan Phylogeny
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2
DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE UNIQUE TROPICAL PHYLUM PLACOZOA
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1
Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere
Carbonate Lithologies on Devon Island, Canada
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3
FMARS Long Duration Mission: a simulation of manned Mars exploration in an analogue environment, Devon Island, Canada
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.3
The delivery of short-lived radionucleides to the solar system
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 4.3
Roadmap Goal 5: Understand the evolutionary mechanisms and environmental limits of life
Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms
DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE UNIQUE TROPICAL PHYLUM PLACOZOA
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 4.2, 5.1
Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
Mechanisms of Marine Microbial Community Structuring
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 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
Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities
Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
Mechanisms of Marine Microbial Community Structuring
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 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
Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments
Chemistry and biology of ultramafic-hosted alkaline springs
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 7.2
Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
Icelandic subglacial lakes
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2
Mechanisms of Marine Microbial Community Structuring
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 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
Roadmap Goal 6: Understand the principles that will shape the future of life, both on Earth and beyond
Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems
Ecology of a Hawaiian lava cave microbial mat
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
Mechanisms of Marine Microbial Community Structuring
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 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
Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth
Icelandic subglacial lakes
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 2.1, 4.1, 5.3, 6.2
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
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
Chemistry and biology of ultramafic-hosted alkaline springs
TEAM: UH / ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 5.3, 7.2
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