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    3. 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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  • 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
  • 5.2 Co-evolution of microbial communities
  • 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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  • Carnegie Institution of Washington
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Montana State University
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • SETI Institute
  • University of Arizona
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Hawaii [x]
  • University of Wisconsin
  • VPL at University of Washington

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