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dot Year 8 Executive Summary

2033662.jpgThe NAI team led by the Carnegie Institution of Washington is studying the evolution of organic compounds from prebiotic molecular synthesis and organization to cellular evolution and diversification....
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  Summary of Recent Team Activities

dot Astrobiological Pathways: From the interstellar medium, through planetary systems, to the emergence and detection of life.


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  Recent Team Publications

dot Isotopic evidence for Mesoarchaean anoxia and changing atmospheric sulphur chemistry (2007)
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dot Isotopic evidence for Mesoarchaean anoxia and changing atmospheric sulphur chemistry (2007)
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dot Evolution of photosynthesis and biospheric oxygenation contingent upon nitrogen fixation? (published 2006) (2007)
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dot Nitrogen Fixation at 92°C by a Hydrothermal Vent Archaeon (published 15 Dec. 2006) (2007)
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dot A Reappraisal of the Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars (2007)
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dot Four CIW/NAI Students Selected to Attend the Josep Comas i Solà International Summer School in Astrobiology.
08 May 2008

1208391.jpgPatrick Griffin, Lauren Kerr, Adrienne Kish, and Isamu Matsuyama have been awarded NASA Astrobiology Institute Scholarships to attend the Jos ep Comas...
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dot Latest NAI Newsletter
01 May 2008

For the latest NAI Newsletter (30 April 2008), please click here. This issue includes information on upcoming courses and...
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dot Summer School in Astrobiology
25 April 2008

1329782.jpgThe following is a letter from NAI director Carl Pilcher encouraging students to apply for the Josep Comas i Sola International Summer School in Astrobiology in Santander, Spain. Dear NAI PI, The...
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dot AbSciCon Sessions
21 April 2008

1750034.jpgFor a listing of the different sessions and abstracts presented at the 2008 Astrobiology Science Conference (April 15-17, Santa Clara, California), please click
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dot Positions Open
28 February 2008

Staff Scientist Positions are available at the Geophysical Laboratory (GL) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. GL seeks energetic and creative scientists to develop and carry out world-leading...
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dot CIW NAI Team Members Attend NASA Astrobiology Institute Field Workshop: Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks (BAR)
02 November 2007

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CIW NAI team members Marilyn Fogel, Dominic Papineau, Jim Cleaves, and Verena Starke attended the Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks (BAR) workshop in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, from 21-27 September 2007.

According to an article in Thunder Bay, Ontario's The Chronicle Journal, "researchers from across the globe were in Thunder Bay gathering information that may some day be used on a NASA mission to Mars."

The BARS workshop was sponsored by the Agouron Institute, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Laurentian University, Ontario Geological Survey, and the NAI.

According to The Chronicle, "professors and graduate students from the likes of Harvard and Penn State Universities, and institutions...

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