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Edward
D. Young (Principal Investigator) is a Professor
in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Young is an isotope geochemist
and cosmochemist whose work is directed towards understanding
the geological and astrochemical processes attending the formation
of rocky bodies in the early Solar nebula and the characterization
of isotope fractionation in both inorganic and organic systems. |
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Jonathan
Aurnou is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences. He is an experimental fluid dynamicist
interested in understanding how conductive fluid flow generates
magnetic fields. He will work with numerical modelers to explore
planetary conditions needed for magnetic fields and plate
tectonics, both possibly important for habitability.
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Stanley
M. Awramik is Professor in the Department of
Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. He studies Precambrian microfossils and stromatolites
and will contribute his many years of field experience to
the Tumbiana project.
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Eric
E. Becklin is Professor in the Department of
Physics and Astronomy, and Director Designate of the NASA
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Becklin's research deals with infrared observations in and
beyond the Solar System. Here, he proposes the modification
of an existing SOFIA instrument to allow for the detection
of organic molecules in these environments.
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Gary
R. Byerly is the Robey H. Clark Professor in
the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State
University. He and Lowe have decades of experience mapping
the early Archean Barberton Greestone Belt in Africa. They
and their collaborators propose to further explore the Archean
history of large impacts and their possible effects on early
life.
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James
Farquhar is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Geology at the University of Maryland. His research applies
stable isotope geochemistry to atmosphere-surface interactions,
atmospheric evolution, sulfur and oxygen biogeochemistry,
meteorite studies, isotopic exchange, and geothermometry.
Proposed collaborative research on mass-independent sulfur
isotope effects is aimed at understanding the unusual chemistry
as well as using these effects to probe the Archean environment.
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Sorel
T. Fitz-Gibbon is an Assistant Research Molecular
Biologist in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Having assembled and annotated the genome the hyperthermophile
Pyrobaculum aerophilum, she became concerned with both whole-genome
comparisons and the evolution of methane and sulfur metabolisms.
She will contribute to the proposed collaborative research on
the early history of sulfur cycling. |
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James
G. Gehling is Research Scientist in Palaeontology
at the South Australian Museum. His work over several decades
on the end-Precambrian Ediacaran biotas will be used to examine
how global ("snowball Earth") glaciations influenced
the evolution of complex multicellular life. |
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Andrea
M. Ghez is Professor in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics. Ghez's work is focused on using and developing high
spatial resolution imaging techniques to study the formation
of stars and planets. She is Associate Director of Astronomical
Science for the National Science Foundation's Technology Center
for Adaptive Optics. Here, she proposes to investigate grain
growth in early evolving planetary systems. |
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Michael
Ghil is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
and also holds a chair at the École normale supérieure,
Paris. His main research interests are in climate dynamics;
here, he will contribute mathematical tools to an understanding
of the evolution of complexity. |
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Kathleen
Grey is in the Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Branch of the Geological Survey of Western Australia and is
a member of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology. She studies
Precambrian fossils and microfossils with a view to understanding
their biology and time significance. She will collaborate on
assembling paleontological evidence for the Proterozoic history
of eukaryotes. |
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Brad
Hansen is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics. Hansen is investigating the evolution of
planetary systems, including the inward migration of giant plants
and the dynamical interactions between asteroids and comets
and planets. He proposes to investigate theoretically the interaction
of planetismals with the giant planets being discovered in extrasolar
planetary systems as well as the accumulation processes of terrestrial
planets in our own and other systems. |
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T.
Mark Harrison is Professor in the Department of
Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, and is currently the Director of the Research
School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University.
Harrison applies his expertise in isotope geochemisty to broad
problems to fields that include Himalayan tectonics, Earth's
oldest materials, and the early evolution of life. He and colleagues
aim to obtain sufficient material from 4.0+ billion-year-old
minerals to allow them to investigate Earth's earliest atmosphere
and hydrosphere. |
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Christopher
H. House is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member
of the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center. He studies geomicrobiology
using living and fossil organisms, genomics, and novel analytical
techniques. He will collaborate on two aspects of the proposed
research - the characterization of Earth's earliest life and
the evolution of microbial metabolisms. |
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David
K. Jacobs is Professor in the Department of Organismic
Biology, Ecology, and Evolution and a Member of the Molecular
Biology Institute. Jacobs studies the role of developmental
genes in the animal evolution. His lab will investigate the
role of genes involved in the production of mineral skeletons
as possible triggers for the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian
animals. |
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Patricia
J. Johnson is Professor in the Department of Microbiology,
Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and a Member of the Molecular
Biology Institute. Johnson's work with human parasites led to
her interest in the origins of energy producing organelles in
the evolution of eukaryotes. Her proposed work on the origin
of energy-producing organelles will contribute significantly
to a collaborative study of the origins of eukaryotes. |
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Michael
A. Jura is Professor in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy. Jura studies the astrophysics of materials
in the interstellar medium as well as debris, comets, and
asteroids around other stars. He proposes to use ground-based
and SIRTF observations to study protoplanetary dust in extrasolar
systems.
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Isaac
R. Kaplan is Professor Emeritus in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics. His enormous experience in stable isotope
biogeochemistry and environmental geochemistry will be available
to members of the team working on isotope fractionations, organic
molecules, and biochemical pathways. |
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Abby
Kavner is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics
and Planetary Physics. She will work on investigations of iron
isotope fractionation using electrochemical techniques. |
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Artem
Kouchinsky is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics working primarily
in the Jacobs lab on the origins of mineral skeletons and their
effects on the evolution of carbon cycling during and after
the Cambrian explosion. |
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Anatoliy
B. Kudryavtsev is a Researcher in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. His work focuses on application of optical spectroscopy mainly
luminescence and Raman methods to acquire structural information
of a wide variety of substances of both organic and inorganic
origin. |
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Frank
T. Kyte is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the
Department of Earth and Space Sciences and an Associate Research
Geochemist in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Kyte documents the geological and geochemical evidence for impacts
on Earth ranging in age from the Archean to the present. |
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James
A. Lake is Professor in the Department of Molecular,
Cell, and Developmental Biology and a Member of the Molecular
Biology Institute. Lake's research is concerned with organismic
and genomic evolution, the history of hyperthermophilic prokaryotes,
and the origin of eukaryotes. |
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Donald
R. Lowe is Professor in the School of Earth Sciences
at Stanford University. Lowe is a sedimentologist who focuses
his research on the history of Earth's early environment, particularly
the role of large early impacts and the context of the early
evolution of life. |
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James
R. Lyons is Assistant Research Geochemist in the
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Lyons works on
the generation and transfer of isotopic signatures in planetary
atmospheres. He Proposes to study the photochemistry of oxygen
and sulfur in the atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and the early
Solar nebula. |
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Kevin
D. McKeegan is Professor in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences and Director of the ion microprobe laboratory
of the W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Isotope Geochemistry.
His research ranges from the origins of isotope anomalies in
the early Solar nebula to the use of stable isotope ratios as
tools for studying sulfur cycling and paleobiology. McKeegan
is a Co-Investigator of NASA's GENESIS Discovery mission and
a member of the science team for STARDUST. |
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Ian
S. McLean is a Professor in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy and Director of the UCLA Infrared Imaging Detector
Laboratory. He is known for early work on astronomical polarimetry,
both visible and infrared, and recent work on infrared studies
of star-forming regions, low-mass stars, the Galactic Center,
and primeval galaxy formation. He will work on instrumentation
for SOFIA. |
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Craig
E. Manning is Professor in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences. Manning is an experimental geochemist and
petrologist working on a wide range of problems that includes
the structure of supercritical fluids, the permeability structure
of Earth's crust, and the role that hydrothermal systems may
have on the origin and early evolution of life. |
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Rudolf
A. Marcus is Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry
at the California Institute of Technology. He received the Nobel
Prize in chemistry in 1996 for his contributions to the theory
of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems. He will
collaborate on understanding the chemistry of mass-independent
isotopic effects in sulfur compounds. |
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Stephen
J. Mojzsis is Assistant Professor in the Department
of Geological Sciences and a member of the Center for Astrobiology
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a geologist who
studies all aspects of the Hadean and Archean Earth from an
astrobiological perspective. |
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William
B. Moore is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences working with on the geophysics of
the Galilean moons of Jupiter, especially Europa. His work will
contribute to the understanding of Europa needed for planning
a future astrobiological mission. |
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Mark
R. Morris is Professor the Department of Physics
and Astronomy. Morris studies galactic nuclei, mass loss from
giant stars, and the photochemistry of protoplanetary disks.
Morris proposes to use infrared observational techniques to
test for self shielding by CO and to characterize the rate of
grain growth in disks surrounded by young, massive stars in
Orion. |
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William
I. Newman is Professor in the departments of Earth
and Space Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy.
Newman's research focus is on the dynamical evolution of the
early Solar System, the response of planetary atmospheres to
catastrophic impacts, and problems in astrophysics. |
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David
A. Paige is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences. His research is aimed at understanding
the role that volatiles have played in the evolution of Mars
and the evolution of planetary atmospheres in general. He proposes
to analyze existing Mars datasets in order to assist in the
planning of future astrobiological missions to Mars. |
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Susannah
M. M. Porter is NAI National Research Council Postdoctoral
Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences
and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. She is
incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological
Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and
proposes collaborative research on the evolution of eukaryotes
and the Cambrian explosion. |
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Maria
C. Rivera is an Assistant Research Molecular Biologist
in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the
Molecular Biology Institute. She will investigate the evolution
of microbial metabolisms and the prokaryotic sources of eukaryote
genes. |
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Alan
E. Rubin is Associate Researcher in the Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics who works mainly on the
originally molten components of meteorites (chondrules). He
will help understand sulfur isotope effects in the Solar nebula
and on early Earth by sulfides in primitive meteorites. |
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Bruce
N. Runnegar is Professor in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics and a Member of the Molecular Biology Institute. He
is currently on extended leave, as Director of the NASA Astrobiology
Institute, at the NASA Ames Research Center. His research is
concerned with the history of early life on Earth using evidence
from geology, paleontology plus molecular biology, and stable
isotope geochemistry. |
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Edwin
Schauble is an incoming Assistant Professor in
the Department of Earth and Space Sciences who teaches and conducts
research in astrobiology. He proposes exploring the ways in
which stable isotopes of metals might be used to track transport
between biological and inorganic reservoirs. |
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J.
William Schopf is Professor in the Department of
Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics and a Member of the Molecular Biology Institute.
He directs the IGPP's Center for the Study of the Origin and
Evolution of Life (CSEOL). Schopf's research deals with evidence
for the antiquity of life on Earth and the evolution the biosphere
during the Precambrian. |
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Gerald
Schubert is Professor in the Department of Earth
and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary
Physics. He is concerned with the formation and evolution
of planetary bodies and understanding their physical states.
A recent focus has been the structure and evolution of the
Galilean moons of Jupiter, work he proposes to continue here.
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John
T. Wasson is Professor in the departments of Chemistry
and Biochemistry and Earth and Space Sciences, and a Member
of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. His principal
research interest is the study of meteorites as a tool for understanding
the early evolution of the Solar System. He will work with others
on the fate of water in protoplanetary systems. |
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Thomas
J. Wdowiak is an Assistant Professor, Department
of Physics, University of Alabama –Birmingham. He work
is focused on understanding organic dust of interstellar space
and its transformation into solar system materials. He is investigating
Mössbauer spectroscopy for understanding conditions during
the early history of Mars and assisting in searching for evidence
of past life on that planet. |
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Mark
Webster is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Earth and Space Sciences. Webster studies the early evolution
of body plans using morphometric techniques applied to fossils,
notably Cambrian trilobites. He is part of a proposed collaboration
aimed at investigating the origins of animal body plans. |
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Benjamin
Zuckerman is a Professor in the Department of Physics
and Astronomy. Zuckerman has a longstanding interest in life
elsewhere and has chosen research topics in astronomy, such
as young nearby stars, that might have a bearing on the question
of extraterrestrial life. He proposes to continue this work
based on the nearby young star database which he and his colleagues
have assembled recently. |
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