NAI 2005

NAI 2005 Abstracts

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Session 1: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1093	Formation and Evolution of Habitable Worlds	Meyer, Michael
974	Imaging planet-forming disks: space-born coronagraphy and ground-based polarimetric differential imaging	Apai, Daniel
916	Effects of Shadowing and Illumination on Planet Formation	Jang-Condell, Hannah
975	Planetesimal Evolution and Terrestrial Planet Formation	Leinhardt, Zoë
834	Impact-generated Hydrothermal Systems: Potential Sites for Pre-biotic Chemistry and Life on Early Earth and Mars	Kring, David
797	Hydrogen concentration in prebiotic Earth's atmosphere - new simulation results and discussion of multi-component hydrodynamic escape	Tian, Feng
1075	The Chemical Compositions and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe	Lineweaver, Charles
901	Astrobiology's Impact on Science Education	Offerdahl, Erika
803	A kilometer-scale study of the habitat of 3.43 Ga stromatolites: Strelley Pool Chert, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia.	Allwood, Abigail
808	Stromatolite facies of the 3.43 Ga Strelley Pool Chert: Pilbara Craton, Western Australia	Allwood, Abigail
925	Analysis of CO Emission in Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) from Infrared Observations	Anderson, William
657	A New Fourier Transform Microwave Spectrometer Designed to Study Interstellar Molecules of Biological Relevance	Apponi, Aldo
689	Detecting Extrasolar Planets by High-Precision Polarimetry	Bailey, Jeremy
743	Planet Formation in OB Associations	Bally, John
1057	World's Oldest Hematite (3.46Ga) from Marble Bar, Western Australia	bevacqua, david
844	Mineralogy andS isotope signatures of sulfides from Boriskino and Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrites	Boctor, Nabil
933	Towards a Chemical Taxonomy of Comets: A Critical Comparison of Two Infrared Spectroscopic Methods for Quantitative Measurements of Cometary Water.	Bonev, Boncho
921	Geology of diverse early Archean (>3700 Ma) Akilia association supracrustal enclaves on Qilangarssuit and surrounding islands, southern West Greenland	Cates, Nicole
1054	Exploring a connection between carbonaceous chondrites and cometary dust	Chizmadia, Lysa
1111	A New Model For O2 Production in Irradiated Water Ices	Cooper, Paul
532	The Surface Density Distribution in the Solar Nebula	Davis, Sanford
935	Abundances of Carbon Monoxide, Formaldehyde, and Methyl Alcohol in Comets: Measuring Efficiencies for Conversion of CO in Grain Mantles	DiSanti, Michael
586	UV Irradiation of Aromatic Nitrogen Heterocycles in Interstellar Ice Analogs	Elsila, Jamie
886	Interpretations of Uranium Mobility at 3.7 Ga	Goldman, Shawn
662	Astronomical Searches for Organic Molecules	Halfen, DeWayne
953	Metamorphism and Geological Survivability of Carbonaceous Biosignatures	Harnmeijer, Jelte
1070	Results from the Mission to Really Early Earth (MtREE): Continental Crust and Plate Tectonics by 4.50-4.35 Ga?	Harrison, Mark
1038	Formation and the Optical Properties of Organic Haze in the Early Earth Atmosphere	Imanaka, Hiroshi
812	Mid-IR Observations of T Tauri stars: Probing the Star-Disk Connection in the Terrestrial Planet Zone	Kundurthy, Praveen
990	The formation environment of the solar nebula as inferred from oxygen isotopes in meteorites	Lyons, James
1051	Origin of Earth's Oceans	Meech, Karen
688	Gas/Solid Interactions in Gravitationally Unstable Protoplanetary Disks	Mejia, Annie
667	The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context	Meyer, Michael
784	Disk Disruption from Stellar Encounters	Moeckel, Nickolas
1085	Life on Earth before 3.83 Ga? Carbonaceous Inclusions from Akilia (West Greenland)	Mojzsis, Stephen
567	Activity of Distant Comets	Pittichova, Jana
550	High Resolution Simulations of the Formation of Potentially Habitable Planet	Raymond, Sean
995	Theoretical calibration of a new paleothermometer based on 13C-18O clumping in carbonate minerals	Schauble, Edwin
806	Water-Rock Interaction on the Hadean Earth: A Modeling Study	Schoonen, Martin
646	The Variability of Young Solar-Type Stars	Sherry, William
1005	Oxygen isotopes in 4.37-3.8 Ga zircons indicate the presence of a hydrosphere in the Hadean.	trail, dustin
730	The effect of increased hydrogen mixing ratio on organic haze production on the early Earth	Trainer, Melissa
670	Properties of organic haze particles produced in simulated early Earth atmospheres	Trainer, Melissa
926	What is an Earth-like planet?	Woolf, Neville
996	Irradiation Effects on Amorphous and Crystalline Water Ices	Zheng, Weijun

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Session 2: Extra-solar Planets

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1096	How Common are Habitable Planets in the Galaxy? Connecting Biochemistry, Astrophysics, and Geophysics	Kasting, James
1109	First Light from Extrasolar Planets and Implications for Astrobiology	Richardson, L. Jeremy
810	Habitable Planets, and Water-Delivery in Binary Star Systems	Haghighipour, Nader
786	The Spectrum of a Living Terrestrial Planet: Earthshine Observations and Insights for NASA's TPF Mission	Turnbull, Margaret
1023	Detectability of Planetary Surface Biosignatures:	Tinetti, Giovanna
991	Biomarkers on Earth-like planets around M dwarfs	Segura, Antigona
883	Extrasolar Planets: Worlds of Opportunity for Education and Public Outreach	Daou, Doris
940	DARWIN and the search for life	Kaltenegger, Lisa
979	Detecting Volcanic Activity on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets	Apai, Daniel
680	SETI and the M Star Dilemma: Reconsidering the Habitability of Planets Orbiting M Stars	Backus, Peter
536	The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program	Boss, Alan
1009	Characterizing the Environments of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets by Remote Sensing	Crisp, David
905	Astrobiology for Teachers - An On-line NAI Collaboration	Daou, Doris
930	Peeking in the Stellar Graveyard for Planets and Dust	Debes, John
1025	Spitzer/MIPS Photometry of the Extrasolar Planet HD 209458 During Secondary Eclipse	Deming, Drake
622	Alien Worlds: Astrobiology & Public Outreach	Griffiths, Martin
1036	A Search for Transiting Neptune-Mass Extrasolar Planets in High-Precision Photometry of Solar-Type Stars	Henry, Stephen
896	Modeling Extreme Atmospheric Environments and Habitable Climates	Hollingsworth, Jeffery
950	Coevolution of Photosynthesis with the Atmosphere on Extrasolar Worlds: Surface Reflectance Spectra and Atmospheric Exchange	Kiang, Nancy
966	Effects of Jovian Migration on Nascent Planetary Systems	Mandell, Avi
1047	Characterizing Planetary Habitability with the NASA Terestrial Planet Finder Missions	Meadows, Victoria
1059	The Alien Earths Education Program: Lessons Learned in the Communication of Astrobiology	Morrow, Cherilynn
1078	Phase light curves of Earth-like planets	Moskovitz, Nicholas
551	Can Habitable Planets co-exist with 'Hot Jupiters'?	Raymond, Sean
961	Modeling Extrasolar Planetary Surfaces	Rye, Rob
710	Galactic and Stellar Cosmic-Ray Environments of Habitable Planets	Scalo, John
757	Hot Jupiters and Hot Spots: The Detection of Planet-Star Magnetic Interactions	Shkolnik, Evgenya
1039	A Versatile, 1-Dimensional Climate Model for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory	Tinetti, Giovanna
773	The The Search for Life Beyond Earth: A Science Museum Exhibition	Weiss, Martin

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Session 3: Origins of Life

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1101	How Do Biological Systems Originate?	Pace, Norman
922	The nature of extraterrestrial organics delivered to the early Earth	Alexander, Conel
673	Concentration and variability of the AIB amino acid in polar micrometeorites: implications for the exogenous delivery of amino acids to the primitive Earth	Matrajt, Graciela
630	Meteoritic Phosphides as a Source of Prebiotic, Reactive Phosphorus	Pasek, Matthew
913	It's Only a Theory: American Attitudes about Evolution	DeVore, Edna
520	The Formation of Glycerol Monodecanoate by a Dehydration/Condensation Reaction: Increasing the Chemical Complexity of Amphiphiles on the Early Earth	Apel, Charles
568	A Mechanism for the Association of Amino Acids with their Codons and	Copley, Shelley
655	RNA as Self-replicating Genetic Material	Sazani, Peter
1018	An Alternative Genetic System for Complex Alien Life Forms	Sismour, Michael
873	Exploring Closed-ecology Life Support System Capabilities through Origin-of-Life Processes	Adam, Zachary
897	Interactions of inorganic nitrogen species with transition metal minerals	Brandes, Jay
711	Towards a "Pre-RNA World": Structure and hybridization capabilities	Briones, Carlos
871	Towards a better characterization of extraterrestrial organic matter with micro-Raman spectroscopy	Busemann, Henner
843	Geocatalysis to Biocatalysis: How it all Began?	Cody, George
947	Montmorillonite, Oligonucleotides, RNA and Origin of Life	Ertem, Gozen
850	Carbonaceous Inclusions in Meteorite Chondrules as Characterized Using Confocal Raman Imaging	Fries, Marc
708	Amino Acid Adsorption on Chiral Mineral Surfaces	Hazen, Robert
629	An energy criterion for habitability	Hoehler, Tori
912	Synthesis of Organics Using Metal-Silicate Grains: Implications for Protostellar Systems	Johnson, Natasha
759	Framboidal Pyrite: Prebiotic Catalyst & Molecular Scaffold?	Jordan, Heather
618	Universal Predecessor of Life: Bistrate Type of Natural Systems	Kompanichenko, Vladimir
638	Chemical Kinetic of PAHs in the Solar Nebula	Kress, Monika
705	Modular evolution and complexity increase in replicating RNA populations	Manrubia, Susanna
964	Use of microarray techniques to probe interactions between organic molecules and mineral surfaces	Maule, Jake
607	Simple Organics in Comets: Formaldehyde, Methyl Cyanide and Methanol	Milam, Stefanie
666	Astro-Venture: Engaging Students in Grades 5-8 in VPL Research as They Design A Habitable Planet	O'Guinn, Christina
846	VLA Observations of Organic Molecules in the Low-Mass Protostellar System IRAS 16293-2422	Pedelty, Jeffrey
616	The 'PAH World': Discotic polynuclear aromatic compounds as mesophase scaffolding at the origin of life.	Platts, Simon Nicholas
693	The Origin and Early Evolution of Membrane Channels	Pohorille, Andrew
1016	The Prebiotic Chemistry of Sugars	Ricardo, Alonso
659	Abiotic Formation and Fate of Ammonium in the Hadean Ocean	Smirnov, Alexander
989	UV Formation of Organic Molecules in Pre-Planetary Disks	Throop, Henry
716	A Potential Mechanism for the Abiotic Production of Ammonia	Wander, Matthew C. F.

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Session 4: Future Technologies, Exploration and Societal Issues

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1098	SETI, the Fermi Paradox, and the Future of our Civilization	Werthimer, Dan
651	Advanced Concepts for Life Beyond Earth	Jennings, Diana
777	Hindcasting Ecosystems: Exploring Links Between Astrobiology and Earth Science	D'Antoni, Hector
613	The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Algorithm Development for Autonomous Planetary (Sub)surface Exploration	McGuire, Patrick
778	Planetary Protection Challenges in Visionary Exploration	Rummel, John
791	Astrobiology Penetrates the Public Consciousness: Mission Accomplished?	Wilmoth, Krisstina
837	Entropy Production and Life	Lorenz, Ralph
948	Astrobiology and the Sacred	Olien, Tom
542	Using Wind Driven Tumbleweed Rovers to Explore Martian Gully Features	Antol, Jeffrey
1028	Education and Public Outreach at the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center	Brown, Lisa
1033	Changing the Public Perception of the Contributions of Astrobiologists from Minority Institutions.	Butler, Judy
720	Education and Public Outreach at CU's Center for Astrobiology	CoBabe-Ammann, Emily
617	Lunar Life Sciences Lander Mission: Precursor for Mars	Heldmann, Jennifer
612	A Philosophy for the Organic Universe	Kilston, Steven
721	Archean Biosphere Drilling Project (ABDP) Core Data Sharing: Web Interface	Klarke, Alice
543	Proposal for an Evolution of Intelligence Focus Group in the NASA Astrobiology Institute	Marino, Lori
1104	Interdisciplinary Communication and the Astrobiology Primer Project	Mix, Lucas
1067	What the Public Asks About Astrobiology	Morrison, David
694	Evolving a new approach to high school science education using astrobiology	Oliver, Carol
804	NAI Science Communication Group: The first year	Oliver, Carol
939	A Flexible Knowledge Management System for Field Projects	Olsson, Bertil
895	Adaptation of Existing NSF-Funded REU Programs to Include Astrobiology Undergraduate Research	Pockalny, Robert
908	College Astronomy and Astrobiology Teaching Excellence Workshops	Prather, Edward
958	Development of an Astrobiology Communication Roadmap	Race, Margaret
911	The Astrobiology Education Poster	Scalice, Daniella
861	Mars Analog Habitat Surveys and the Search for Microbial Life Remotely Using an Autonomous Rover	Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley
941	Josep Comas i Sola International Summer School in Astrobiology	Wilmoth, Krisstina
943	Collaboration is the Key to NAI Education and Public Outreach	Wilmoth, Krisstina

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Session 5: Evolution of Life

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1099	How does life interact with its environment?	D'Hondt, Steven
859	A timetree of early life on Earth	Hedges, S Blair
781	Emergence of the First Oxygenic Phototroph on Earth: Effect of Carbonate Equilibria on the Microbial Oxidation of Manganese	Dasgupta, Jyotishman
915	Large Accumulations of Sulfide-rich "Organic Oozes" in Archean Seas	Ohmoto, Hiroshi
733	Metal limitation of cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation on the early Earth	Zerkle, Aubrey
833	Iron Isotope Constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic Ocean Redox State	Rouxel, Olivier
1000	Low atmospheric pO2 in the aftermath of the oldest Paleoproterozoic glaciation	Bekker, Andrey
838	Imagining Deep-Subsurface Life: An Interactive DVD Tool for High School Teaching and Museum Demonstration	Droppo, Ruth
1020	Resurrecting Ancient Life Forms. Yeast, Fruits, Mammals, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	Benner, Steven
821	Accumulation and Deposition of Fe by Acidophilic Eukaryotes and their Possible Role in the Formation of Fe-rich Deposits	Aguilera, Angeles
723	Progress in microbial diversity and population structure studies in the RÃo Tinto	Amaral Zettler, Linda
679	Workshops, genomics and micro*scope: education and public outreach at the Marine Biological Laboratory	Bahr, Michele
702	Isolation of Psychrotolerant Microorganisms from Cold, Deep-Subsurface Waters	Bakermans, Corien
707	Development of a Genetic System in Siberian Permafrost Isolate, Psychrobacter sp. 273-4	Bakermans, Corien
597	Microbial communities in lithifying and non-lithifying microbial mats, Eleuthera, Bahamas	Baumgartner, Laura
1012	Transition Redundant Exchange as a Clock to Correlate the Genomic, Paleontological, and Geological Records	Benner, Steven
793	Adaptations for Carbon and Energy Metabolism in Psychrobacter 273-4	Bergholz, Peter
534	White Island: The microbial ecology of a sulfur-rich hydrothermal system.	Bergquist, Peter
535	Thermophilic bacteria from an Australian geothermal aquifer - a culture-independent analysis.	Bergquist, Peter
601	Assessment of Radiolytic Hydrogen as an Energy Source for Life in Subseafloor Sediments	Blair, Carly
851	Iron cycle in an neutrophilic iron seep	Blöthe, Marco
726	Molecular survey of microbial communities at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field reveals an ecosystem dominated by methane metabolism	Brazelton, William
1061	Inferred bioenergetics of an uncultured bactewrium common in fracture fluids of South African deep mines	Brockman, Fred
1030	Modeling the rise of atmospheric oxygen	Claire, Mark
1058	Microbial Communities at Very Low Temperatures in Natural Saline Ice Formations	Collins, Eric
946	A Multicultural Approach to Experiential Outreach in Astrobiology	Davis, Kimberly
909	Methane Emission from a Simulated Hypersaline Microbial Mat	Decker, Kelly
829	Marinobacter aquaeolei gene expression studies for clues to neutrophilic Iron Oxidation	Dhillon, Ashita
654	Microbes from Extreme Environments & an Astrobiology Course	Dismukes, G. (Charles)
681	Effects of Environmental Factors on the Resumption of Photosynthesis in a Desiccated Cyanobacterial Mat	Fleming, Erich
794	Minimum Energy Requirements of Methanogenic Microbes	Fuchs, Megan
878	Bacterial diversity in the rhizosphere of the Tinto River	Gonzalez-Pastor, Jose
1043	Ultraviolet radiation and life at high altitude - Licancabur 2004	Hock, Andrew
750	Ancient Gene Transfer to the Ancestor of Opisthokonts	Huang, Jinling
611	Diversity and distribution of key subseafloor hyperthermophilic archaea at an active deep-sea volcano	Huber, Julie
756	Evolution and distribution of the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle for autotrophic carbon fixation in extremophilic microorganisms	Hugler, Michael
1048	Evidence for intracellular bacterial activity in deeply frozen saline ice formations	Junge, Karen
772	Separation of prokaryotic cells from deep sediments	Kallmeyer, Jens
987	Looking at Black Sea Microbial Communities to Understand Ancient Oceans	Kirkpatrick, John
802	Geographic Variability in Recovery Patterns from the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction	Krug, Andrew
587	Detection and Enumeration of Bacteria and Viruses of Extremophilic Tardigrades	Lane, Rhonda
832	Suppression of viral infectivity through mutagen-induced lethal defection	Lazaro, Ester
558	Deep marine subsurface archaeal communities of the Peru Trench: sulfate-reducers, methanogens, and unknowns	Lever, Mark
986	Oxidants in the Atmosphere of a Snowball Earth	Liang, Mao-Chang
590	An Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Community Dominated by ANME-1 in a Non-Hydrate-Associated Gulf of Mexico Sediment	Lloyd, Karen
927	Microbial Characterization of Saline Fissure Water from an Arctic Au Mine	McGown, Daniel
920	'Microbially induced sedimentary structures' - a new group of biosignatures	Noffke, Nora
962	All four sulfur isotope systematics in mass-dependent processes	Ono, Shuhei
770	"detrital pyrite" in Archean conglomerates is not evidence for an anoxic atmosphere	Otake, Tsubasa
782	Multiple sulfur isotope analyses of sulfides from Paleoproterozoic (2500 to 1800 Ma) sediments by ion microprobe	Papineau, Dominic
674	Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia	Papineau, Dominic
766	How bad are changes in the Galactic environment for the evolution of life on Earth?	Pavlov, Alexander
1022	Transcriptome responses of an ancient Siberian permafrost bacterium, Psychrobacter 273-4 to low temperature and increased osmotica	Ponder, Monica
709	Phylogeny of three Exiguobacterium isolates from Arctic permafrost	Rodrigues, Debora
842	Differential protein expression in Fe amended cultures of Marinobacter aquaeolei: a view into deep-sea metabolism.	Rogers, Daniel
1050	The Search for Interplanetary Pioneers: An unusual hypersaline community from Bolivia	Rothschild, Lynn
695	Physiological and phylogenetic comparison between Psychrobacter strains isolated from Siberian and Puerto Rican samples	Sepulveda-Torres, Lycely
1037	Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Pozas of Cuatro Cienegas	Siefert, Janet
951	Beyond the Ring of Life: Applications of Conditioned Reconstruction	Simonson, Anne
1110	Evolutionary Adaptation to Freeze/Thaw/Growth Cycles in E. coli	Sleight, Sean
957	Hydrogen and Bioenergetics in the Yellowstone Geothermal Ecosystem	Spear, John
982	Ancient Viruses from Extreme Environments?	Stedman, Kenneth
1044	Bringing Astrobiology Research Alive Through Museum Exhibits	Tang, Carol
578	Prokaryotes in deep marine subsurface sediments: Phylogenetic diversity of a global extreme habitat	Teske, Andreas
599	Enhancing Public Understanding of Science Through the BIOMARS Project	Thier, Herbert
855	Comparison of Ancient and Modern Cyanobacteria in Three Dimensions Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy	Tripathi, Abhishek
999	Geochemical and Population Changes in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat Maintained at Lower Salinities	Turk, Kendra
888	A Microchemical Study of Iron Oxidizing Bacterial Mats from Differing Surface Environments	Vicenzi, Edward
636	DNA Fingerprinting of Exiguobacterium Strains with Insertion Sequence Elements: Implication for Astrobiology	Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana
577	A phylogenetic analysis of truncated hemoglobins. Functional diversity in cyanobacteria.	Vuletich, David
919	Composition, Structure and Preservation of Endolithic Microbial Communities in the Yellowstone Geothermal Environment	Walker, Jeffrey
546	Co-occurrence of Methanogenesis, Sulfate Reduction, and Iron Reduction in Deep-Sea Sediments	Wang, Guizhi
751	Absence of Mass Independent Sulfur isotope Fractionation in 2.76 Ga Freshwater and 3.0 Ga Marine Sediments	Watanabe, Yumiko
884	Catastrophic Asteroid Impacts and the Prevalence of Non-Photosynthetic Underground Plants	Winther, Jennifer
800	On the relationship among stable isotope compositions of Fe-S-Corg in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic black shales from South Africa and Australia and Cretaceous black shales from Italy	Yamaguchi, Kosei
560	How Psychrobacter 273-4 survives in the permafrost: a proteomic perspective	Zheng, Suping

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Session 6: Tracing Life

#	TITLE	FIRST AUTHOR
1100	Distinguishing True Biology from Nonbiological Look-Alikes	Fogel, Mariyln
893	Compound specific hydrogen and carbon isotopes as a tool to distinguish abiogenic from biogenic hydrocarbons	Telling, Jonathan
631	Tapping the Late Archean Molecular Fossil Record: New Evidence for Fossil Syngenicity and Ecological Implications	Eigenbrode, Jennifer
528	Three Dimensional Optical and Chemical Imagery of Precambrian Microscopic Fossils	Schopf, J. William
938	Molecular Biosignatures from the NAI Archean Biosphere Drilling Project	Waldbauer, Jacob
762	Fe Isotope Biosignatures in the Terrestrial Archean	Johnson, Clark
839	The isotopic effects of electron transfer: an explanation for Fe isotope fractionation in nature	Kavner, Abby
728	Astrobiology Outreach Education in Yellowstone National Park	Hoehler, Tori
768	Environmental and biological controls on modern lacustrine microbialite morphogenesis at Lago Sarmiento, Chile	Airo, Alessandro
737	Laser Fluorometer for Remote Detection of Photosynthetic Life	Ananyev, Gennady
875	Sulfur Isotopic Study of Water and Sediment from Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley, Antarctica	Anglen, Brandy
602	Sulfur Isotopic Signatures of Basalts and Associated Springs in SE Oregon, USA	Arango, Irene
845	Sedimentary Signals of Enhanced Nutrient Cycling in Anoxic Ocean Basins	Arthur, Michael
789	Biomineralization of Nonsilica Elements by Diatoms	Boal, Andrew
1068	Branched alkanes with quaternary carbon centers in a sulfidic Yellowstone mudpot	Bradley, Alexander
1027	Laser-based analysis of complex hydrocarbons: Approaches for in situ and returned samples	Brinckerhoff, William
795	Molecular Level Interactions between Organisms and Environment	Brown, mark
537	"Chroogloeocystis siderophila" - a potential model for cyanobacteria mediated Precambrian iron transforamtions	Brown, Igor
807	Statistical Analyses of Modern and Fossil Micro-algal Populations: Astrobiological Implications	Cholfin, Evan
856	Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of the Thermal Alteration of Petrified Organic Matter	Czaja, Andrew
1001	Determining partial 18S rDNA sequences of alkenone-producing prymnesiophyte algae from Greenland lake sediments	D'Andrea, William
650	Raman Spectroscopic Detection of Biogeological Markers in Terrestrial Mars Analogs : Instrumentation .	Edwards, Howell
881	Probing subsurface life with intact membrane lipids	Fredricks, Helen
848	Nitrogen Dynamics in the Holocene Euxinic Black Sea	Fulton, James
973	Combining in situ voltammetry and molecular biology to characterize geomicrobial synergy within diverse aquatic redox gradients	Glazer, Brian
827	Pyrite-Bacteria interaction on Acidic Environments: Astrobiological Impolications	Gomez, Felipe
882	Astrobiology as a Context for High School Science Teachersâ¬" Professional Development	Harman, Pamela
942	Trace element mobility in the presence of organic acids: A potential "organomarker"?	Hausrath, Elisabeth
1013	Biological Formation of Ethane and Propane in the Deep Marine Subsurface	Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
992	Linking Archaeal Molecular Diversity and Lipid Biomarker Composition in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat Community	Jahnke, Linda
965	Quantative Methods of Evaluating Biogenicity of Fossil Stromatolites	Jogi, Per
820	Biogeological Detection of Mars Analogs by Raman Spectroscopy	Jorge Villar, Susana
652	Unexpected sulfur isotope fractionation associated with pyrite oxidation by hydrogen peroxide at temperatures from 4 to 150oC	Lefticariu, Liliana
548	Pavilion Lake, B.C., Canada â¬ Investigating Microbialite Morphogenesis	Lim, Darlene
818	NITROGEN CYCLING AT YUNGAY IN THE ATACAMA DESERT	Mancinelli, Rocco
885	Antibody microarray analysis in the field to analyze protein expression at hydrothermal sites in Spitsbergen and Kamchatka	Maule, Jake
963	Detection of human and bovine collagen in early Holocene bone and teeth using an antibody microarray	Maule, Jake
879	Labeling and detection of biological molecules in	Maule, Jake
572	FIONA: A laboratory microcosm for investigating natural populations of circumneutral, microaerobic Fe-oxidizing bacteria	Merrill Floyd, Melissa
1019	Biosignature formation by Cyanobacteria and Chloroflexus in the shallow deposits of a high iron thermal spring	Parenteau, Mary
824	Development of immunological biosensors for the detection of molecular biomarkers	Parro, Victor
840	Measurement of Environmental Biological Iron(II)-Oxidizing Activity	Rentz, Jeremy
914	Perturbations to the Chemocline of the Ocean During the End-Permian Mass Extinction	Riccardi, Anthony
903	The Astrobiology Field Guide	Scalice, Daniella
977	The Degradation of Microorganisms Exposed to Mn(II) and SiO2 Solutions: Implications for the Preservation of Biosignatures in Manganiferous Deposits	Schelble, Rachel
898	Reconstruction of an Oligocene lacustrine ecosystem from Enspel, Germany using C and N stable isotopes	Schweizer, Maia
899	Investigation of organic-rich fossil material from Eocene Lake Messel, Germany using C and N stable isotopes	Schweizer, Maia
904	Morphology of Rhynie Chert Carbonaceous Inclusions as Characterized Using Confocal Raman Imaging	Schweizer, Maia
836	Hydrogenase activity as a proxy for hydrogen metabolism in deeply buried sediments and as a diagnostic test for life	Soffientino, Bruno
1041	Engaging Researchers in Museum Exhibit Development:	Tang, Carol
860	Astrobiological site assessment using in-field instrumentation for the detection and characterization of biomarkers in hot spring environments, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia.	Toporski, Jan
701	Bore Hole Inspection System for the MARTE project	Torres, Josefina
907	Discriminating Organic Chemical Signatures in Interstitial Waters of Deeply Buried Sediments Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy	Twardowski, Michael
1069	The role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in producing biosignatures in hypersaline microbial mats	Visscher, Pieter
735	C/N ratios, d13C, and d15N analyses of biomass from metal-limited nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria	Zerkle, Aubrey

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Session 7: Evolution in the Solar System

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1089	Did (Does) Life Exist Elsewhere in the Solar System?	Sogin, Mitchell
984	Detection and Mapping of Methane and Water on Mars: Evidence for Intense Local Enhancements in Methane	Mumma, Michael
626	Mineral deposits on Mars revealed with the OMEGA visible-infrared imaging spectrometer and their implications for astrobiology	Gendrin, Aline
624	Río Tinto subsurface habitats of chemolithotrophic cryptic communities, a terrestrial analog of underground habitats in Mars	Fernandez-Remolar, David C.
788	Terrestrial analogues for extraterrestrial life	Reid, Iain
584	The Phoenix Mars Mission's EPO Program Focus on Astrobiology Themes	Lombardi, Doug
1056	Hydrothermal Systems in Europa's Seafloor	Vance, Steve
1014	Modular Assays for Solar System Exploration (MASSE). An Overview on behalf of the MASSE team.	Steele, Andrew
835	Liquid Water-Ammonia Habitats on Titan from the Release of Biothermal Energy ?	Grinspoon, David
780	Searching for the Missing Martian Organics with the Mars Phoenix Scout Mission	Archer, Douglas
704	Long-term Stability of Deep Subsurface Environments on Mars	Armstrong, John
891	Convection in the Icy Satellites: Implications for Astrobiology	Barr, Amy
817	How to find Martian Hydrothermal Systems	Brown, Adrian
627	Field and Diving Exploration of the Highest Lakes on Earth: Analogy of Environment and Habitats with Early Mars and Life Adaptation Strategies to UV	Cabrol, Nathalie
1049	Heavily Hydrated Salts on Europa	Dalton, James
998	Water and Organic Material in Icy Minor Bodies of the Outer Solar System	Delsanti, Audrey
866	Calcium isotopes: Possibilities for detecting past life on Mars	DePaolo, Donald
647	Preservation of biosignatures in sulfates and iron oxides at Rio Tinto, Spain: implications for the astrobiological investigation of chemically analogous deposits at Meridiani Planum, Mars	Fernandez-Remolar, David
621	Evaporite mineralogy and microbial diversity from alkaline lakes in Warner Valley, Oregon as analogues for paleolakes on Mars	Finkelstein, David
1003	Microbial ecology and resultant taphonomy as a function of hydro-geological history in a terrestrial analog of possible Martian fault-controlled spring system.	Giska, Jonathan
831	In Situ Analysis of Organic Compounds on Mars using Chemical Derivatization and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry	Glavin, Daniel
671	Lava Tubes as Targets for Astrobiological Exploration	Greeley, Ronald
559	The Freshwater Ocean of Europa	Hand, Kevin
822	Experimental simulations of Europan surface electron irradiation chemistry	Hand, Kevin
805	Effects of mass anomalies on the rotation and state of stress in Europa's icy crust	Hayne, Paul
917	The Astrobiology Summer Program at Penn State	Hedges, S Blair
928	Prebiotic Molecules and the Chemistry of Nitrile Ices	Hudson, Reggie
661	In-Situ Spectroscopic Characterization of Acidic Sulfate Deposits of Rio Tinto, a Mars Analog	Hutchison, Leah
1040	Collaborations Are Synergistic	Kadooka, Mary Ann
902	No Evidence of Excess Ground-Atmosphere Interchange at Martian Snowpack Sites	Krelove, Kara
683	Were Martian Valleys Cut by Springs?	Lamb, Michael
872	Astrobiology in a K-14 Diverse Multi-Cultural Society	Laval, Barbara
811	Evidence for a Second Martian Dynamo from Electron Reflection Magnetometry	Lillis, Robert
769	Low-Temperature Aqueous Alteration on Mars and the Potential for Life	Link, Lindsey
825	Titan's Surface Environment : A Target for Astrobiological Exploration	Lorenz, Ralph
960	Possible Martian Obliquity Histories	Moore, William
1029	Chemistry induced by simulated impact shocks on ices: Application to icy satellites	Nna Mvondo, Delphine
790	Water discharge from chaotic craters and potential fossae	Ogawa, Yoshiko
1024	Europa's Lineament History: Combining Nonsynchronous Rotation and Diurnal Stresses	Pappalardo, Robert
1046	Can Martian biota survive extreme heating during transfer via meteorites from Mars to Earth?	Pavlov, Anatoly
799	How to determine the age of Martian ice?	Pavlov, Anatoly
697	Ancient Oceans and Long-Wavelength Shoreline Deformation on Mars	Perron, J. Taylor
653	Martian Spiders as feasible water-driven erosive structures.	Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga
918	The Ultraviolet (UV) Protecting Pigment in Cyanobacteria, Scytonemin: The Affects of the External Protectant, Iron, and its Implications for Life on Mars	Rogoff, Dana
642	Plausible Scenarios for the Evolution of Life on Mars	Schulze-Makuch, Dirk
880	Changes in Dark Slope Streaks on Mars	Sidhu, Supreet
1006	Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition 05 season - A Summary.	Steele, Andrew
1010	A Morphological and Chemical Study of Carbonate Globules Contained Within Mantle Xenoliths of the Sverrefjell Volcano Spitsbergen	Steele, Andrew
968	Estimating the Duration of Aqueous Events on Mars from Petrology and Geochemistry of Alteration Products	Stopar, Julie
678	Astrobiology in the Classroom:The Scientist-Teacher Partnerships of Project AstroBio	Sullivan, Woodruff
539	Nitrogen Fixation on Early Mars and Other Terrestrial Planets. Experimental Demonstration of Abiotic Fixation Reactions to Nitrite & Nitrate.	Summers, David
553	The "Window Of Opportunity" For Life-Sustaining, Liquid Water On Mars	Van Shaar, Jason
641	In Situ Detection of Extant Microbial Life in Extraterrestrial Settings Using Dielectric Spectroscopy	Warmflash, David
785	Implications of Two Martian Dynamo Episodes for Interior Evolution	Wenzel, Mark

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