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	Distinguishi