NAI Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Raymond leads a team of authors from NAI’s University of Colorado, Boulder, and University of Arizona Teams, and Virtual Planetary Laboratory and University of Washington Alumni […]
Biosignatures & Paleobiology
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology
PAH's Responsible for "Red Glow"
New work from NAI NASA Ames Research Center Team members and their colleagues published recently in PNAS suggests that the cause for much of the extended red emission, or ERE, […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Origin & Evolution of Life, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans
New Issue of Astrobiology Online
Search for Habitable Planets Outside Earth’s Solar System in Astrobiology “Which planets outside of Earth’s Solar System are most likely to be capable of supporting life is a question that […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Conferences and Meetings, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Origin & Evolution of Life
Hot Earths: Formation, Detection and Structure
Special session at the 210th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, HawaiiThursday May 31 (Morning) Convenors: Nader Haghighipour and Eric Gaidos (University of Hawaii NAI Lead Team) The […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
A New Model for the Early Ocean
NAI’s Marine Biological Laboratory and Carnegie Institution of Washington Teams are contributing authors on a new paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters presenting a new model for the evolution […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Origin & Evolution of Life
Microbially mediated processes governing the redox cycling of metals
Special Session “Microbially mediated processes governing the redox cycling of metals” at the 2007 Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne (Germany) Session Organizers: Colleen Hansel, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University […]
Posted inAstrogeology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Icy Worlds
NAI Director's Seminar "New and Emerging Perspectives on Late Precambrian 'Snowball Earth' Glaciation"
Speaker: Tim Raub (Yale University), Date/Time: Monday, February 26, 2007 11AM PST Background: Using atmospheric chemical models of a Snowball Earth, scientists from NAI’s Alumni Virtual Planetary Laboratory Team showed […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology
Snowball Earth and the Origin of Photosynthesis
Using atmospheric chemical models of a Snowball Earth, scientists from NAI’s Alumni Virtual Planetary Laboratory Team show that, during long and severe glacial intervals, a weak hydrological cycle coupled with […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Origin & Evolution of Life
Mineral Surfaces and Life
Robert Hazen, from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington Team, published his 2005 Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America in this month’s American Mineralogist. The address reviews the role […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Origin & Evolution of Life
Oxygen and Life in the Precambrian
The December 2006 issue of Geobiology is a collection of papers focusing on the history of Earth’s biogeochemistry, from the earliest sedimentary rocks in Greenland to the late Proterozoic. The […]