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Letter from the Director
It is my pleasure to submit the NAI Annual Report covering the period July 2005-June 2006. This was a challenging year, during which the Institute began responding to a 50% Astrobiology Program budget cut while continuing to produce ground-breaking research results.
The NAI released its fourth Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN-4), soliciting proposals to replace four NAI teams whose 5-year Cooperative Agreements were concluding. Although proposals were received and reviewed, and the reviews distributed to the proposers, the Astrobiology Program budget cut led to a deferral of any selections. The result was a contraction...
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Project Reports
Organized by Astrobiology Roadmap Objective (2003 Version)
- Objective 1.1: Models of formation and evolution of habitable planets (56 reports)
- Objective 1.2: Indirect and direct astronomical observations of extrasolar habitable planets (21 reports)
- Objective 2.1: Mars exploration (33 reports)
- Objective 2.2: Outer Solar System exploration (17 reports)
- Objective 3.1: Sources of prebiotic materials and catalysts (38 reports)
- Objective 3.2: Origins and evolution of functional biomolecules (18 reports)
- Objective 3.3: Origins of energy transduction (6 reports)
- Objective 3.4: Origins of cellularity and protobiological systems (10 reports)
- Objective 4.1: Earth's early biosphere (50 reports)
- Objective 4.2: Foundations of complex life (28 reports)
- Objective 4.3: Effects of extraterrestrial events upon the biosphere (19 reports)
- Objective 5.1: Environment-dependent, molecular evolution in microorganisms (38 reports)
- Objective 5.2: Co-evolution of microbial communities (31 reports)
- Objective 5.3: Biochemical adaptation to extreme environments (45 reports)
- Objective 6.1: Environmental changes and the cycling of elements by the biota, communities, and ecosystems (34 reports)
- Objective 6.2: Adaptation and evolution of life beyond Earth (23 reports)
- Objective 7.1: Biosignatures to be sought in Solar System materials (27 reports)
- Objective 7.2: Biosignatures to be sought in nearby planetary systems (27 reports)
- Objective NAI1: carrying out, supporting and catalyzing collaborative interdisciplinary research (12 reports)
- Objective NAI2: training the next generation of astrobiology researchers (11 reports)
- Objective NAI3: providing scientific and technical leadership on astrobiology investigations for current and future space missions (5 reports)
- Objective NAI4: exploring new approaches using modern information technology to conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research amongst widely-distributed investigators (9 reports)
- Objective NAI5: supporting outreach by providing scientific content for K-12 education programs, teaching undergraduate classes, and communicating directly with the public (13 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
Goal 0:
Project Reports
Organized by Team
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- Michigan 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 California, Los Angeles
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Hawaii
- University of Washington
- Virtual Planetary Laboratory (JPL/CalTech)
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