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Alexander, C.M.O'D., Boss, A.P. & Carlson, R.W. (2001). The early evolution of the inner Solar System: A meteoritic perspective. Science, 293: 64-68.

Alexander, C.M.O'D. (2001). Timescales for chondrule formation [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(Supplement): A9.

Baross, J.A. & Lenovich, L.M. (2001). Halophilic and osmophilic microorganisms. In: F.P. Downes & K. Ito (Eds.). Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods, 4th edition (pp. 187-193). Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

Baross, J.A. (Submitted, 2002). Habitable zones and the limits of life. In: W. Sullivan & J. Baross (Eds.). Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. Cambridge University Press.

Baross, J.A. (2001). Novel microorganisms from novel hydrothermal vent habitats [Abstract]. New Directions in Marine Biotechnology, 14-16 November 2001, Bodega Bay, CA.

Baross, J.A. (2001). Possible sources and sinks for biologically important volatiles on Mars: Implications for a subsurface biosphere [Abstract]. Mars Atmospheric Chemistry and Astrobiology Workshop, 17-18 December, 2001, Pasadena, CA.

Beech, I.B., Smith, J.R., Steele, A., Penegar, I. & Campbell, S.A. (2002). The use of AFM for studying interactions of bacterial biofilms with metallic surfaces. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 23: 231-247.

Bekker, A., Holland, H.D., Rumble, D., Wang, P.-L. & Coetzee, L.L. (2002). Sulfur isotope constraints on the rise of the atmospheric oxygen level in the Paleoproterozoic [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 140), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Boctor, N.Z., Alexander, C.M.O?D., Wang, J. & Hauri, E. (Submitted, 2002). The sources of water in Martian meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Boctor, N.Z., Alexander, C.M.O’D., Wang, J. & Hauri, E. (2001). Shock metamorphic effects and hydrogen isotope study of the Martian meteorite Sayh Al Uhaymir 005 [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(Supplement): A23.

Boctor, N.Z., Alexander, C.M.O"D., Wang, J. & Hauri, E. (2002). The sources of water in Martian meteorites [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 83(19, Spring Meeting Supplement): S221.

Boctor, N.Z., Alexander, C.M.O?D., Wang, J. & Hauri, E.H. (Submitted, 2002). Isotope signatures of minerals, melt inclusions, and glasses in SNC meteorites [Abstract]. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 18-23, 2002, Davos, Switzerland.

Boctor, N.Z., Kurat, G., Alexander, C.M.O?D. & Prewitt, C.T. (2002). Sulfide mineral assemblages in Boriskino CM chondrite [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1534.

Boctor, N.Z., Wang, J., Alexander, C.M.O?D. & Hauri, E. (In Press, 2002). D/H of minerals and melt inclusions in the SNCs Nakhla and Governador Valadares [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Bolton, S. & Baross, J.A. (2001). Phylogenetic diversity of microbial eukaryotes from diffuse fluids at Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge [Abstract]. Second International Symposium on Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Biology, 8-12 October, 2001, Brest, France.

Boss, A., Wetherill, G. & Haghighipour, N. (2002). Rapid ice giant planet formation and the implications for prebiotic chemistry [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 94), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Boss, A.P. & Gatewood, G.D. (In Press, 2002). On the astrometric detection of extrasolar planetary systems. In: Cullers, K. (Ed.). SETI 2020. Palo Alto: SETI Institute.

Boss, A.P. & Vanhala, H.A.T. (2001). Injection of newly-synthesized elements into the protosolar cloud. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 359: 2005-2017.

Boss, A.P. (2001). The formation of planets. In: A. Wooten (Ed.). Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) (pp. 195-204). San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Boss, A.P. (2001). Formation of extrasolar planets. In: R.V. Zagretdinov (Ed.). Astrokazan 2001: Astronomy and Geodesy in New Millennium (pp. 87-93). Kazan, Russia: Kazan State University.

Boss, A.P. (2002). Stellar metallicity and the formation of extrasolar gas giant planets. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 567: L149-L153.

Boss, A.P. (2002). Gas giant protoplanet formation: Disk instability models with thermodynamics and radiative transfer. Astrophysical Journal, 563: 367-373.

Boss, A.P. (2002). They might be giants. Mercury, 31(3): 8.

Boss, A.P. (2001). Preservation of isotopic heterogeneity in the solar nebula [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(Supplement): A26.

Boss, A.P. (2001). The discovery of new planetary systems [Abstract]. Jornadas de Astrobiologia, CosmoCaixa, Madrid, Spain.

Boss, A.P. (2001). Gas giant protoplanet formation: Rapid or slow? [Abstract]. Astrobiology, 1: 420-421.

Boss, A.P. (2002). Formation of planetary-mass brown dwarfs in magnetic molecular clouds [Abstract]. International Astronomical Union Symposium 211 on Brown Dwarfs, Kohala, Hawaii.

Boss, A.P. (2002). Gas and ice giant planet formation [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets Conference (p. 9), NASA/TM-2002-211607, Washington, DC: NASA.

Boss, A.P. (In Press, 2002). Evolution of the solar nebula. V. Disk instabilities with varied thermodynamics. Astrophysical Journal.

Boss, A.P. (In Press, 2002). Modes of gaseous planet formation. In: A.J. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange & S.S. Russell (Eds.). Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation and Evolution. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Boss, A.P. (In Press, 2002). Preservation of isotopic heterogeneity in the solar nebula: Vertical mixing and turbulent diffusion [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Boss, A.P. (Submitted, 2002). The formation of gas and ice giant planets. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Boss, A.P., Wetherill, G.W. & Haghighipour, N. (2002). Rapid formation of ice giant planets. Icarus, 156: 291-295.

Boyce, C.K., Cody, G.D., Feser, M., Jacobsen, C., Knoll, A.H. & Wirick, S. (Submitted, 2002). Organic differentiation within fossil plant cell walls detected with X-ray spectromicroscopy. Journal of Geology.

Boyce, C.K., Hazen, R.M. & Knoll, A.H. (2001). Nondestructive, in situ, cellular-scale mapping of elemental abundances including organic carbon in permineralized fossils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98: 5970-5974.

Boyd, R., Avci, R., Schweitzer, M., McLandress, L., Steele, A., Toporski, J. & Pincus, S. (2002). Detection and localization of terrestrial and extraterrestrial biomarkers using chemical force microscopy [Abstract]. Scanning Probe Microscopy, Sensors and Nanostructures, 26-29 May 2002, Las Vegas, NV.

Brandes, J., Hazen, R. & Yoder, Jr., H. (2002). Mineral-mediated abiotic nitrogen reduction under hydrothermal conditions [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 257), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Brandes, J.A., Cody, G.D., Hazen, R.M. & Yoder, Jr., H.S. (2001). Stability and transformations of nitrogenous compounds under hydrothermal conditions [Abstract]. Astrobiology, 1(3): 298.

Brasier, M.D., Green, O.R., Jephcoat, A.P., Kleppe, A.K., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Lindsay, J.F., Steele, A. & Grassineau, N.V. (2002). Questioning the evidence for Earth’s oldest fossils. Nature, 416: 76-81.

Brasier, M.D., Green, O.R., Steele, A., Van Kranendonk, M., Jephcoat, A.P., Kleppe, A.K., Lindsay, J.F. & Grassineau, N.V. (2002). Questioning the evidence for Earth’s oldest fossils [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002(p. 59), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Fischer, D.A., Vogt, S.S., Lissauer, J.J. & Rivera, E.J. (2001). A pair of resonant planets orbiting GJ 876. Astrophysical Journal, 556: 296-301.

Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Fischer, D.A., Vogt, S.S., Tinney, C.G., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J. & Apps, K. (In Press, 2002). Statistical properties of extrasolar planets. In: A. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange & S. Russell (Eds.). Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation and Evolution. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Vogt, S.S., Fischer, D.A., Henry, G.W., Laughlin, G. & Wright, J.T. (Submitted, 2002). Seven new Keck planets orbiting G & K dwarfs. Astrophysical Journal.

Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Vogt, S.S., Tinney, C.G., Jones, H.R.A., McCarthy, C., Penny, A.J., Apps, K. & Carter, B.D. (Submitted, 2002). On the double planet system orbiting HD 83443. Astrophysical Journal.

Butler, R.P., Tinney, C.G., Marcy, G.W., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J. & Apps, K. (2001). Two new planets from the Anglo-Australian planet search. Astrophysical Journal, 555: 410-417.

Carrier, F., Bouchy, F., Kienzle, F., Bedding, T.R., Kjeldsen, H., Baldry, I.K., O’Toole, S.J., Tinney, C.G., Butler, R.P. & Marcy, G.W. (2001). Solar-like oscillations in Beta Hydri: Confirmation of a stellar origin for the excess power. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 378: 142.

Chan, G.W. & Shock, E.L. (2002, May). What can fluid/rock compositions say about a microbial habitat? [Abstract]. 102nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Salt Lake City, UT.

Cho, J.Y.-K., Menou, K., Hansen, B.M.S. & Seager, S. (2002). Variable appearance of the CEGP, HD 209458b [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 16), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

Cody, G.D., Boctor, N.Z., Brandes, J.A., Filley, T.R., Hazen, R.M. & Yoder, H.S. (Submitted, 2002). Assaying the catalytic potential of transition metal sulfides for prebiotic carbon fixation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Cody, G.D., Alexander C.M.O'D & Tera, F. (2002). Solid-state (1H and 13C) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of insoluble organic residue in the Murchison meteorite: A self-consistent quantitative analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,66: 1851-1865.

Cody, G.D., Alexander C.M.O'D & Tera F. (2001). Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the Murchison organic macromolecule [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #2016.

Cody, G.D., Alexander C.M.O'D & Tera F. (2002). Comparison of the complex organic functionality of the Tagish Lake and Murchison meteorites [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1806.

Cody, G.D., Alexander C.M.O'D & Tera F. (In Press, 2002). A chemical comparison of the organic solids from Orgueil, Murchison, and Tagish Lake [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Cody, G.D., Boctor, N.Z., Hazen, R.M., Brandes, J.A., Morowitz, H.J. & Yoder, H.S. (2002). Geochemical roots of autotrophic carbon fixation: Hydrothermal experiments in the system citric acid, H2O-(±FeS)-(±NiS). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65: 3557-3576.

Cumming, A., Marcy, G., Butler, P. & Vogt, S. (2002). Statistics of extrasolar planets: Results from the Keck Survey [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 18), NASA/TM-2002-211607, Washington, DC: NASA.

Delaney, J.R., Kelley, D.S., Mathez, E., Yoerger, D., Baross, J., Schrenk, M. & Kaye, J. (2001). Edifice Rex sulfide recovery project: Interdisciplinary analysis of a sulfide microbial habitat from a submarine hydrothermal system. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 82: 67-71.

Deming, J.W. & Baross, J.A. (2001). Search and discovery of microbial enzymes from thermally extreme environments in the ocean. In: R.G. Burns & R.P. Dick (Eds.). Enzymes in the Environment (pp. 327-362). New York: Marcel Dekker Publishing.

Dera, P., Prewitt, C.T., Boctor, N.Z. & Hemley, R.J. (In Press, 2002). Characterization of a high pressure phase of silica from the Martian meteorite Shergotty. American Mineralogist.

Desch, S.J. & Connolly, Jr., H.C. (2002). A model of the thermal processing of particles in solar nebula shocks: Application to the cooling rates of chondrules. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37: 183-207.

Desch, S.J., Borucki, W.J., Russell, C.T. & Bar-Nun, A. (2002). Progress in planetary lightning. Reports on Progress in Physics, 65: 955-997.

Desch, S.J., Connolly, Jr., H.C. & Moser, D.E. (2002). Constraining the environment in which chondrules were melted by nebula shocks [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1768.

Dombard, A.J. & Freed, A.M. (In Press, 2002). Thermally induced lineations on the asteroid Eros: Evidence of orbit transfer. Geophysical Research Letters.

Dombard, A.J. (2001). Topographic relaxation on the large icy satellite of Jupiter [Abstract]. Jupiter: Planet, Satellites, and Magnetosphere, June 25-30, 2001, Boulder, CO.

Emerson, D. & Moye, C.L. (In Press, 2002). Neutrophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria are abundant and play a major role in Fe-oxide deposition at the Loihi Seamount hydrothermal vent system. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Emerson, D. (In Press, 2002). Bacterial iron oxidation at circumneutral pH. In: J.D. Coates & C. Zhang (Eds.). Iron in the Natural Environment: Biogeochemistry, Microbial Diversity, and Bioremediation. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Fischer, D.A., Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Laughlin, G. & Vogt, S.S. (2002). A second planet orbiting 47 Ursae Majoris. Astrophysical Journal, 564: 1028-1034.

Fischer, D.A., Marcy, G.W., Oppenheimer, B.R., Quirrenbach, A., Frink, S., Monet, D.G., Scargle, J. & Butler, R.P. (2001). SIM search for terrestrial planets [Abstract]. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 33: 878.

Frink, S., Mitchel, D.S., Quirrenbach, A., Fischer, D.A., Marcy, G.W. & Butler, R.P. (In Press, 2002). Discovery of a substellar companion to the K2 III giant Iota Draconis. Astrophysical Journal.

Grossman, J.N., Alexander, C.M.O’D., Wang, J. & Brearley, A.J. (2002). Zoned chondrules in Semarkona: Evidence for high- and low-temperature processing. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37: 49-73.

Haghighipour, N. & Boss, A.P. (Submitted, 2002). Migration of solids in a non-uniform gravitationally unstable disk. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society.

Haghighipour, N. & Boss, A.P. (Submitted, 2002). On pressure gradient and rapid migration of solids in an inhomogeneous solar nebula. Astrophysical Journal.

Haghighipour, N. & Boss, A.P. (2002). Dynamical evolution of solids in a marginally gravitationally unstable disk [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1376.

Haghighipour, N. & Boss, A. (2002). Migration of solids in a gravitationally unstable disk: A possible scenario for terrestrial planets formation [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 132), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Haghighipour, N. (Submitted, 2002). Dynamical evolution of solids subject to drag forces and the self-gravity of an inhomogeneous and marginally-gravitationally unstable disk. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Haghighipour, N. (2002). Dynamical evolution of solids subject to drag forces and self-gravity of an inhomogeneous and marginally gravitationally unstable disk [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 37), NASA/TM-2002-211607, Washington, DC: NASA.

Harker, D.E. & Desch, S.J. (2002). Annealing of silicate dust by nebular shocks at 10 AU. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 565: L109-L112.

Harker, D.E. & Desch, S.J. (2002). Annealing of pre-cometary silicate grains in solar nebula shocks [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #2002.

Hauck, S.A.II, Dombard, A.J., Solomon, S.C. & Aurnou, J.M. (2002). Internal structure and mechanisms of core convection on Ganymede [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1380.

Hazen, R. (2002). Pragmatic emergence: Complexity theory as a guide to origin-of-life experiments [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 263), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Hazen, R.M. & Roedder, E. (2001). How old are bacteria from the Permian age? Nature, 411: 155.

Hazen, R.M. (2001). Emergence and the origin of life. In: G. Palyi, C. Zucchi & L. Caglioti (Eds.). Fundamentals of Life (pp. 277-286). Paris: Editions Scientifiques et Medicales Elsevier.

Hazen, R.M., Boctor, N., Brandes, J.A., Cody, G.D., Hemley, R.J., Sharma, A. & Yoder, Jr., H.S. (2001). High pressure and the origin of life [Abstract]. 18th International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology (p.343), Beijing, China.

Hazen, R.M., Brandes, J.A., & Yoder, Jr., H.S. (2002). Possible roles of minerals in the prebiotic synthesis and selection of amino acids [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 83(9, Spring Meeting Supplement): S373.

Hazen, R.M., Filley, T.R. & Goodfriend, G.A. (2001). Selective adsorption of L- and D-amino acids on calcite: Implications for biochemical homochirality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98: 5487-5490.

Holden, J.F., Takai, K., Summit, M., Bolton, S., Zyskowski, J. & Baross, J.A. (2001). Diversity among three novel groups of hyperthermophilic deep-sea Thermococcus species from three sites in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 36: 51-60.

Hu, G., Rumble, D. & Wang, P.-L. (In Press, 2002). An ultraviolet laser microprobe for the in situ analysis of multi-sulfur isotopes and its use in measuring Archean sulfur isotope mass-independent anomalies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Huber, J., Baross, J. & Butterfield, D. (2002). Temporal changes in microbial diversity and geochemistry at an active deep-sea volcano: Implications for modeling the subsurface biosphere on Earth and other solar bodies [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 201), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Huber, J., Butterfield, D. & Baross, J. (In Preparation, 2002). Bacterial diversity in a sub-seafloor habitat following a deep-sea volcanic eruption.

Huber, J.A., Butterfield, D.A. & Baross, J.A. (2002). Temporal changes in archaeal diversity and chemistry in a mid-ocean ridge subseafloor habitat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 68: 1585-1594.

Inaba, S. & Wetherill, G.W. (2002). Formation of gas giant planets: Core accretion models with fragmentation [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 43), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

Jones, H.R.A., Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Tinney, C.G., Penny, A.J., McCarthy, C. & Carter, B. (Submitted, 2002). Extrasolar planets around HD 196050, HD 216437, and HD 160691. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Jones, H.R.A., Butler, R.P., Tinney, C.G., Marcy, G.W., Penny, A.J., McCarthy, C., Carter, B.D. & Pourbaix, D. (In Press, 2002). Probable planetary companion to HD 39091 from the Anglo-Australian planet search. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Kehm, K., Alexander, C.M.O’D. & Hauri, E.H. (2001). Iron isotope measurements of terrestrial rocks and meteorites [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 36(Supplement): A94.

Kehm, K., Alexander, C.M.O’D. & Hauri, E.H. (2001). Iron isotopes in meteorites [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 82(47, Fall Meeting Supplement): F1296.

Kehm, K., Hauri, E. & Alexander, C. (Submitted, 2002). High precision iron isotope measurements of meteoritical material by cold plasma ICP-MS. Geochimica et Cosmichimica Acta.

Kelley, D.S., Baross, J.A. & Delaney, J.R. (2002). Volcanoes, fluids, and life at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 30: 385-491.

Kelley, D.S., Karson, J.A., Blackman, D.K., Frueh-Green, G.L., Butterfield, D.A., Roe, K.K., Lilley, M.D., Olson, E.O., Schrenk, M.O., Camino, P.J., Baross, J.A. & MARVEL Cruise Participants. (2001). An overview of the Lost City vent field: An extensive off-axis, serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal field, 30? N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 82(47, Fall Meeting Supplement): F1100.

Kortenkamp, S.J., Dermott, S.F., Fogle, D. & Grogan, K. (2001). Sources and orbital evolution of interplanetary dust accreted by Earth. In: B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink & B. Schmitz (Eds.). Accretion of Extraterrestrial Matter Throughout Earth’s History (pp. 13-30). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Kress, M.E., Desch, S.J., Dateo, C.E. & Benedix, G. (In Press, 2002). Shock processing of interstellar nitrogen compounds in the solar nebula. Advances in Space Research.

Lemke, K.H., Ross, D.S., Bischoff, J.L., Rosenbauer, R.J. & Bird, D.K. (Submitted, 2002). Hydrothermal stability of glycine and the formation of oligoglycine: Kinetics of peptide formation at 260? C and 200 bars [Abstract]. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 18-23, 2002, Davos, Switzerland.

Lissauer, J. & Rivera, E. (2002). Dynamics of the GJ 876 planetary system [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 134), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Liu, M.C., Fischer, D.A., Graham, J.R., Lloyd, J.P., Marcy, G.W. & Butler, R.P. (In Press, 2002). Crossing the brown dwarf desert using adaptive optics: A very close L-dwarf companion to a nearby solar analog. Astrophysical Journal.

Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Fischer, D.A., Vogt, S.S., Lissauer, J.J. & Rivera, E.J. (2001). A pair of resonant planets orbiting GJ 876. Astrophysical Journal, 556: 296-301.

Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Vogt, S.S., Liu, M.C., Laughlin, G., Apps, K., Graham, J.R., Lloyd, J., Luhman, K.L. & Jayawardhana, R. (2001). Two substellar companions orbiting HD 168443. Astrophysical Journal, 555: 418-425.

Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Fischer, D.A., Laughlin, G., Vogt, S.S., Henry, G.W. & Pourbaix, D. (Submitted, 2002). A planet at 5 AU around 55 Cancri. Astrophysical Journal.

Marcy, G.W., Fischer, D.A., Butler, R.P. & Vogt, S.S. (In Press, 2002). Planetary messages in the doppler residuals. In: A. Penny, P. Artymowicz, A.-M. Lagrange & S. Russell (Eds.). Planetary Systems in the Universe: Observation, Formation and Evolution. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Maule, J., Fogel, M., Steele, A. & McKay, D. (Submitted, 2002). Antigen-antibody interactions in reduced gravity: Implications for detection of biological molecules during spaceflight using protein microarrays. Journal of Immunological Measurements.

McCarthy, C. (2002). The Anglo Australian planet search [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 62), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

McGovern, P.J., Solomon, S.C., Head III, J.W., Smith, D.E., Zuber, M.T. & Neumann, G.A. (2001). Extension and uplift at Alba Patera, Mars: Insights from MOLA observations and loading models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106: 23,769-23,809.

McGovern, P.J., Solomon, S.C., Smith, D.E., Zuber, M.T., Simons, M., Wieczorek, M.A., Phillips, R.J., Neumann, G.A., Aharonson, O. & Head, J.W. (Submitted, 2002). Localized gravity/topography admittance and correlation spectra on Mars: Implications for regional and global evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research.

McKinnon, W.B., Schenk, P.M. & Dombard, A.J. (2002). Estimates of Europa’s heat flow and ice shell thickness: Convergence at last? [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 50), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Mehta, M. & Baross, J.A. (2001). Evidence for potential nitrogen-fixing microbial communities at diffuse hydrothermal vents on the Juan de Fuca Ridge [Abstract]. University of Washington Astrobiology Conference, 5-8 August 2001, Crystal Mountain, WA.

Mehta, M., Butterfield, D. & Baross, J.A. (Submitted, 2002). Phylogenetic diversity of nitrogenase (nifH) genes in deep-sea and hydrothermal vent environments of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Mehta, M.P. & Baross, J.A. (2001). The role of biological nitrogen fixation in hydrothermal vent ecosystems [Abstract]. Second International Symposium on Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Biology, 8-12 October, 2001, Brest, France.

Messenger, S., Stadermann, F.J., Floss, C., Nittler, L.R. & Mukhopadhyay, S. (In Press, 2002). Isotopic signatures of presolar materials in interplanetary dust. Space Science Reviews.

Meyer-Dombard, D'A.R., Shock, E.L. & Amend, J.P. (2002). Geochemical culturing methods link hydrothermal environments with thermophilic communities [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 109), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Website: http://www.astrobiology.com/asc2002/abstract.html?ascid=106

Mukhopadhyay, S., Nittler, L.R. & Messenger, S. (In Press, 2002). Hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen isotopic imaging of cluster IDPs [Abstract]. Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Supplement).

Mukhopadhyay, S., Nittler, L.R. & Brownlee, D.E. (Submitted, 2002). Sulfur isotope imaging of interplanetary dust particles [Abstract]. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 18-23, 2002, Davos, Switzerland.

Neubauer, S.C., Emerson, D. & Megonigal, J.P. (In Press, 2002). Life at the energetic edge: Kinetics of circumneutral iron oxidation by lithotrophic iron oxidizing bacteria isolated from the wetland plant rhizosphere. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Neubauer, S.C., Emerson, D., Megonigal, J.P. & Weiss, J.V. (2002). Life at the energetic edge: Iron oxidation by circumneutral lithotrophic bacteria in the wetland plant rhizosphere [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 83(19, Spring Meeting Supplement): S374.

Neubauer, S.C., Megonigal, J.P., Emerson, D. & Weiss, J.V. (2001). Functional activity of iron-oxidizing bacteria: Implications for rhizosphere iron cycling [Abstract]. Seventh International Symposium on the Biogeochemistry of Wetlands (p. 126), Duke University, Durham, NC.

Nidever, D.L., Marcy, G.W., Butler, R.P., Fischer, D.A. & Vogt, S.S. (In Press, 2002). Absolute radial velocities for 889 late-type stars. Astrophysical Journal.

Pourbaix, D., Nidever, D., McCarthy, C., Butler, R.P., Tinney, C.G., Marcy, G.W., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J., Carter, B.D., Bouchy, F., Pepe, F., Hearnshaw, J.B., Skuljan, J., Ramm, D. & Kent, D. (In Press, 2002). Constraining the difference in the convective blueshift between the components of Alpha Cen with precise radial velocities. Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Reysenbach, A.-L. & Shock, E. (2002). Merging genomes with geochemistry in hydrothermal ecosystems. Science, 296: 1077-1082.

Rivera, E. & Haghighipour, N. (Submitted, 2002). On stability of particles in extrasolar planetary systems. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Rivera, E.J. & Haghighipour, N. (2002). On the stability of particles in extrasolar planetary systems [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (pp. 78-79), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

Ross, D.S., Lemke, K.H. & Bischoff, J.L. (2002). The rapid exoergic oligomerization of amino acids [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 274), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Ross, D.S., Lemke, K.H. & Bischoff, J.L. (2002). The strictly endogenous origins of amino acids: A chemical kinetics test [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 275), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Scott, H., Hemley, R., Ryerson, R. & Williams, Q. (2002). Oxidation of organic carbon by high pressure hydrothermal processing [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 225), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Seager, S. (2002). The atmosphere of HD 209458b [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 85), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

Sharma, A., Scott, J.H., Cody, G.D., Fogel, M.L., Hazen, R.M., Hemley, R.J. & Huntress, W.T. (2002). Microbial activity at gigapascal pressures. Science, 295: 1514-1516.

Sharma, A., Scott, J.H., Cody, G.D., Fogel, M.L., Hazen, R.M., Hemley, R.J. & Huntress, W.T. (2002). Microbial activity at gigapascal pressures. Science, 295: 1514-1516.

Shock, E.L. (2001). Geochemical habitats in hydrothermal systems. In: J. Chela-Forles (Ed.). First Steps in the Origin of Life in The Universe. Proceedings of the Sixth Trieste Conference on Chemical Evolution (pp. 179-185). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Shock, E.L. (2002). Seeds of life? Nature, 416: 380-381.

Shock, E.L. (2002). Biogeochemical tracers of the subsurface biosphere [Abstract]. Synchrotron Environmental Science II, May 6-8, 2002, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL.

Shock, E.L. 2001). Hydrothermal water/rock/organic/microbe interactions. In: R. Cidu (Ed.). Water-Rock Interaction (pp. 61-70). Lisse, Netherlands: A.A. Balkema Publishers.

Solomon, S.C. (In Press, 2002). Planetary science: An older face for Mars. Nature.

Solomon, S.C. (2001). The role of water in the internal evolution of the terrestrial planets [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 33(6): A-260.

Solomon, S.C. (Submitted, 2002). Crust and mantle evolution on the terrestrial planets: A geophysical perspective on early differentiation [Abstract]. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 18-23, 2002, Davos, Switzerland.

Solomon, S.C., Aharonson, O., Aurnou, J.M., Banerdt, W.B., Carr, M.H., Dombard, A.J., Frey, H.V., Golombek, M.P., Hauck II, S.A., Head III, J.W., Hutchison, W.E., Jakosky, B.M., Johnson, C.L., McGovern, P.J., Neumann, G.A., Phillips, R.J., Richards, M.A., Smith, D.E. & Zuber, M.T. (2002). Insights into the earliest history of Mars: A new synthesis [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1687.

Song, I., Weinberger, A., Becklin, E., Zuckerman, B. & Chen, C. (In Press, 2002). M-type Vega-like stars. Astronomical Journal.

Steele, A., Baross, J., Rummel, J. & Schopf, W. (Submitted, 2002). The biological considerations of Mars sample return. In: NASA Special Publication.

Steele, A., Maule, J., Toporski, J., Parro Garcia, V., Briones, C., Schweitzer, M. & McKay, D. (2002). Biotechnology for solar system exploration [Abstract]. Abstracts with Program, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 (p. 14), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Steele, A., Maule, J., Toporski, J., Parro-Garcia, V., Briones, C., Schweitzer, M. & McKay, D.S. (In Press, 2002). Biotechnology for Solar System exploration [Abstract]. COSPAR Meeting 2002,17-19 October, 2002, Houston, TX.

Steele, A., Toporski, J.K.W., Avci, R., Guidry, S.A. & McKay, D.S. (2001). Time of Fight -- Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) of a number of bacterial hopanoids. Organic Geochemistry, 32: 905-911.

Steele, A., Toporski, J., Goddard, D., Stapleton, D. & McKay, D.S. (2001). The imaging of terrestrial microbial contamination of meteorites. Microscopy and Analysis, 83: 5-7.

Summit, M. & Baross, J.A. (2001). A novel microbial habitat in the mid-ocean ridge subseafloor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98: 2158-2163.

Summit, M. & Baross, J.A. (In Press, 2002). Limits of life in hydrothermal systems. In: P.E. Halbach & V. Tunnicliffe (Eds.). Energy and Mass Transfer in Marine Hydrothermal Systems. Proceedings of the 89th Dahlem Conference. Springer-Verlag.

Tinney, C.G., Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J. & Apps, K. (2001). Two new planets from the Anglo-Australian planet search. Astrophysical Journal, 555: 410-417.

Tinney, C.G., Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Jones, H.R.A., Penny, A.J., McCarthy, C. & Carter, B.D. (In Press, 2002). Two extrasolar planets from the Anglo-Australian planet search. Astrophysical Journal.

Tinney, C.G., McCarthy, C., Jones, H.R.A., Butler, R.P., Carter, B.D., Marcy, G.W. & Penny, A.J. (In Press, 2002). Echelle spectroscopy of Ca II HK activity in southern hemisphere planet search targets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Avci, R., Martill, M. & McKay, D.S. (2002). Morphological and spectral investigation of exceptionally well preserved bacterial biofilms from the Oligocene Enspel formation, Germany. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66: 1773-1791.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Thomas-Keprta, K. & McKay, D.S. (2002). The simulated silicification of bacteria -- New clues to the modes and timing of bacterial preservation and implications for the search for extraterrestrial microfossils. Astrobiology, 2: 1-26.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., McKay, D.S. & Westall, F. (In Press, 2002). Bacterial biofilms in astrobiology: The importance of life detection. In: W.E. Krumbein, T. Dornieden & M. Volkmann (Eds.). Fossil and Recent Biofilms. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., McKay, D.S., Westall, F., Avci, R., Schweitzer, M., Pincus, S. & Parro Garcia, V. (In Press, 2002). New strategies for life detection and their implication for astrobiological research and Solar System exploration. In: L.M. Celnikier & J.T. Thanh Van (Eds.). XII Rencontres de Blois, 2000: Frontiers of Life.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Avci, R. & McKay, D.S. (In Press, 2002). On the detection of bacterial biomarkers and the implications for astrobiology [Abstract]. COSPAR Meeting 2002,17-19 October, 2002, Houston, TX.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Thomas-Keprta, K.L. & McKay, D.S. (2002). Bacterial silicification and its relevance in astrobiological research [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Thomas-Keprta, K. & McKay, D. (2002). Bacterial silicification and its relevance in astrobiological research [Abstract]. Second Astrobiology Science Conference (p. 151), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Thomas-Keprta, K.L. & McKay, D.S. (2002). Bacterial silicification -- An experimental approach [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 83(19, Spring Meeting Supplement): S374-S375.

Toporski, J., Steele, A., Westall, F., Thomas-Keprta, K.L. & McKay, D.S. (Submitted, 2002). Bacterial silicification ? An experimental approach [Abstract]. 12th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, August 18-23, 2002, Davos, Switzerland.

Tunnicliffe, V., Baross, J., Gebruk, A.V., Giere, O., Koschinsky, A., Reysenbach, A.-L., Shank, T.M. & Summit, M. (In Press, 2002). What are the interactions between biotic processes at vents and physical, chemical and geological conditions? In: P.E. Halback & V. Tunnicliffe (Eds.). Energy and Mass Transfer in Marine Hydrothermal Systems. Proceedings of the 89th Dahlem Conference. Springer-Verlag.

Vanhala, H.A.T. & Boss, A.P. (In Press, 2002). Injection of radioactivities into the forming solar system. Astrophysical Journal.

Vogt, S.S., Butler, R.P., Marcy, G.W., Fischer, D.A., Pourbaix, D., Apps, K. & Laughlin, G. (In Press, 2002). Ten low mass companions from the Keck precision velocity survey. Astrophysical Journal.

Weinberger, A.J., Becklin, E.E. & Zuckerman, B. (2001). Spatially resolved mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy of Beta Pictoris [Abstract]. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 133: 1440.

Weinberger, A. (2002). The planet - circumstellar debris disk connection [Abstract]. Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (p. 96), NASA/TM-2002-211607. Washington, DC: NASA.

Weinberger, A.J., Becklin, E.E., Zuckerman, B., Schneider, G. & Silverstone, M.D. (2001). A stellar association near HD 141569? In: R. Jayawardhana & T. Greene (Eds.). Young Stars Near Earth: Progress and Prospects (pp. 75-79). San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Weinberger, A.J., Becklin, E.E., Schneider, G., Chiang, E.I., Lowrance, P.J., Silverstone, M., Zuckerman, B., Hines, D.C. & Smith, B.A. (2002). Infrared views of the TW Hydra disk. Astrophysical Journal, 566: 409-418.

Westall, F., Brack, A. & Toporski J. (In Press, 2002). An evaluation of morphological biosignatures of past bacterial life [Abstract]. COSPAR Meeting 2002, 17-19 October, 2002, Houston, TX.

Zolotov, M.Y. & Shock, E.L. (2001). The composition and stability of salts on the surface of Europa and their oceanic origin. Journal of Geophysical Research,106: 32,815-32,827.

Zolotov, M.Y. & Shock, E.L. (Submitted, 2002). Geochemical constraints on the speciation, oxidation state and origin of Europa’s ocean. Icarus.

Zolotov, M.Y. & Shock, E.L. (2002). The speciation of sulfur in an ocean on Europa [Abstract]. 33rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1531.