NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the […]
Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology
Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences
Date: 1 – 13 July, 2012Location: Utrecht and Texel, Netherlands Application Deadline: 25 May, 2012 The second Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences will give PhD and advanced MSc students an […]
New Study Sheds Light on Early Earth's Atmosphere
Geological background of the samples analyzed in this study. Panel A shows the geological map at Marble Bar and the location of the ABDP-1 drill core. Panel B shows the […]
Reading the Rocks
For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. […]
Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt
The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth’s marine life–and it killed in stages–according to a newly published report. It shows that […]
7th International Symbiosis Society Congress: The Earth's Vast Symbiosphere
Date: 22 – 28 July, 2012Location: Krakow, Poland http://www.eko.uj.edu.pl/symbiosis/Hosted by one of the oldest and prominent universities in Europe, Jagiellonian University, the meeting will welcome hundreds of researchers, educators, and […]
Follow the Uranium
Researchers from NAI’s Arizona State University Team and NASA’s Exobiology Program have developed a novel geochemical tool that compares the partitioning of uranium isotopes from seawater into carbonates. A decrease […]
Scouting for Astrobiology
When Dr. Eric Boyd of the NAI’s Montana State University Team goes searching for evidence of what extra-terrestrial life might look like, he heads to Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone […]
NAI Director's Seminar: John Peters, "New Insights into the Transition of Iron-sulfur Compounds from Minerals to Enzymes"
Join us for the next NAI Director’s Seminar! Please RSVP if your site will be joining. Date/Time: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:00AM Pacific Presenter: John Peters (Montana State University) Abstract: […]
Taking The Temperature Of Mars’ Past
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have directly determined the surface temperature of early Mars for the first time, providing evidence that’s consistent with a warmer and wetter […]
