Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI)


  1. 2010 Selections

    NAI/APS 2010 Selections for the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology

    Knicole Colon
    University of Florida
    Travel to Spain for her project, “From Hot-Jupiters to Super Earths: Characterizing Transiting Extrasolar Planets with GTC/OSIRIS”.

    Andrew Czaja
    University of Wisconsin
    Travel to Australia for a “Field Trip to Explore Archean and Proterozoic Geology of Western Australia”.

    Jason Huberty
    University of Wisconsin
    Travel to Australia, for the “Fifth International Archean Synposium (51AS) Field Trip to the Pilbara Craton, including the Fortescue and Hamersley Basins”.

    Michele Knowlton
    Arizona State University
    Travel to Yellowstone National Park to examine nitrogen fixation occurring within microbial mats.

    Nancy McKeown
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Travel to Arizona, for a “Spectral Study Of the Painted Desert, AZ, to “Characterize Clay Alterations Environments and Provide Implications for Astrobiology at Mawrth Valis, Mars, a Likely Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site”.

    Elizabeth Percak-Dennet
    University of Wisconsin
    Travel to Australia, “Linking Laboratory and Field Studies of the Mineralogical and Iron Isotope Composition of Banded Iron Formations in Western Australia”.

    Matthew Urschel
    Montana State University
    Travel to Alberta, Canada to examine “Iron Reduction in the Subglacial Sediments of Robertson Glacier, Canada”.