Virtual Planetary Laboratory Abstracts

2009

• Robinson, T.; Meadows, V.S.; Deming, D.; A'Hearn, M.F.; Charbonneau, D.; Hewagama, T.; Lisse, C.; Livengood, T.; McFadden, L.; Seager, S.; Wellnitz, D. D.; Team, EPOXI Earthling "Simulating the Earth as an Extrasolar Planet" Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society [Abstract] Volume 40 (p. 386)

• Robinson, T.; Anderson, R.; Meadows, V.S. "A Suite of Activities Developed for an Introductory Astrobiology Course for Non-Science Majors" Astrobiology [Abstract] Volume 9 Issue 5 (p. 524)

• Livengood, Timothy A.; A'Hearn, M. F.; Deming, D.; Charbonneau, D.; Hewagama, T.; Lisse, C. M.; McFadden, L. A.; Meadows, V. S.; Seager, S.; Wellnitz, D. D.; Team, EPOXI-EPOCh Science "EPOXI Empirical Test of Optical Characterization of an Earth-like Planet" Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society [Abstract] Volume 40 (p. 385)

• Claire, Mark "Volcanic SO2, atmospheric photochemistry, and climate on early Mars" Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta [Abstract] Volume 73 Issue 13 (p. A227)

• Domagal-Goldman, Shawn; Kasting, James; Meadows, Victoria "Examining the Ability of Sulfur-Bearing Gases to act as Biosignatures on Anoxic Planets" AGU Fall Meeting 2008 [Abstract] (p. P33D-07)

• Walkowicz, L. M.; Segura, A.; Meadows, V.; Kasting, J.; Hawley, S. "The Time-Dependent Effect of a Stellar Flare on Terrestrial Planet Habitability and Biosignatures." Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society [Abstract]. Volume 41 (p. 259)

• Conrad, P.G.; M.L. Fogel; Glamoclija, M.; Mogensen, C.; Eigenbrode, J.; Mahaffy, P.R.; Steele, A. "Metrics for Habitability Assessment" [Abstract]. 40th Lunar Plan. Sci., Page 1384

• Parkinson, C.D.; Liang, M.C.; Yung, Y.L. "Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life" [Abstract]. EGU General Assembly, Abstract Vol. 10 (EGU2008-A-04792)

2008

• Deming, Jody "Frozen Environments: Extending the Habitable Zone and Hedging Against Extinction" [Abstract]. Astrobiolgy, Abstract Vol. 8 (2) (p. 461)

• Conrad, Pam; Fogel, Marilyn; Eigenbrode, Jennifer; Steele, Andrew; Mahaffy, Paul "Rock Target Selection for Habitability Assessment: "Follow the Fill-in-the-Blank"" [Abstract]. Astrobiolgy, Abstract Vol. 8 (2) (p. 433)

• Parkinson, C.D.; Liang, D.; Yung, Y. "Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life" [Abstract]. EGU General Assembly 2008, Volume 10, EGU2008-A-04792

• Haqq-Misra, J.; Domagal-Goldman, S.; Kasting, J.; Kasting, P. "Hazy Methane Greenhouse for teh Archean Earth" [Abstract]. Astrobiology, Volume 8(2), p.424

• Haqq-Misra, J. "Sustainability and the Fermi Paradox" [Abstract]. Astrobiology, Volume 8(2), p. 385

• Kiang, N.; Segura, A.; Tinetti, G.; Govindjee; Blankenship, R.E.; Cohen, M.; Siefert, J.; Crisp, D.; Meadows, V.S. "Spectral Signatures of Photosynthesis: Coevolution with Other stars and the Atomosphere on Extrasolar Worlds" [Abstract]. Astrobiology, Volume 7(3), p. 486-487

• Deming, Drake; A'Hearn, M. F.; Charbonneau, D.; Hampton, D.; Hewagama, T. Holman, M.; Kuchner, M.; Lisse, C. M.; Livengood, T.; Meadows, V.; Pedelty, J.; Schultz, A.; Seager, S.; Veverka, J.; Wellnitz, D. "The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets" [Abstract]. AAS-DPS Meeting 2007, Volume 39, 22.02

• Bolton, E.; Rye, R. "Reactive transport modeling of weathering, with applications to paleosols" [Abstract with program]. Geological Society of America meeting 2007, Volume 39, Session: 2. Hydrogeology

• Rye, R.; Bolton, E. "Reconstructing Archean climate with hard and modified KINFLOW" [Abstract with program]. Geological Society of America meeting 2007, Volume 39, Session: 121, Precambrian Geology

• Sleep, N. "Tectonics and habitability of silicate super-Earths" [Abstract]. Astrobiology, Volume 8(2), p. 395

2004

• Armstrong, J.C., Beegle, L.W. & Gonzalez, G. ?(2004). ? The Lunar Astrobiology Sample Return Mission: Searching for planetary material on the Moon [Abstract]. ?AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1 (March): 19.

• Armstrong, J.C., Titus, T.N., Kieffer, H.H. ?(2004). ? Evidence for subsurface water ice in Korolev Crater, Mars [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. ?International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1 (March): 83.

• Berner, R.A., Bolton, E.W., Wildman R.A. & Petsch, S.T. (2004). Organic matter weathering and atmospheric oxygen: A field and modeling study of black shale oxidation [Extended Abstract]. 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, June 27-July 2, 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.

• Bolton, E.W., Rye, D.M., Ague, J.J. & L?ttge, A. (2004). Modeling contact metamorphism of siliceous dolomite via kinetic control of overall reactions [Extended Abstract]. 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, June 27-July 2, 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA.

• Crisp, D., Tinetti, G., Armstrong, J. & Parkinson, C. ?(2004). ? A Comprehensive Climate Model for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets. ? AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. ?International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1 (March): 35

• Goldman, S.D. & Kasting, J.F. (2004) H2 consumers and the redox state of the Archean ocean [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1:39-40.

• Johnson, O.J., Rye, R., Namsaraev, Z.B., Han, S-K., Lanoil, B.D. & Nealson, K.H. (2004). Microbial ecology of ultrabasic springs on the actively serpentinizing Cedars Peridotite, Sonoma County, California. Southern California Geobiology Symposium. Caltech.

• Kharecha, P., Kasting, J.F., & Siefert, J.L. (2004) Predicting the biogenic methane flux and productivity of the Archean biosphere [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, International Journal of Astrobiology Supplement 1:40.

• Kiang, Nancy Y., Andrew D. Friend, Igor Aleinov, Randal D. Koster, Paul R. Moorcroft. (2004). "A Dynamic Global Vegetation Model With Biophysics, Biogeochemistry, and Biogeography Suitable for Coupling With Atmospheric GCM's for Decadal to Century Scale Studies" [Abstract]? AGU Spring Meeting, March 2004, Montreal, Canada.

• Meadows, V. S., von Hippel, T., Tinetti, G. (2004). Using Artificial Neural Networks for Analysis and Discrimination of TPF Planetary Spectra [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1: 35.

• Nimmo, F. Lateral and vertical motions in Europa's Ice Shell. Lunar and Planetary Institute. Abs 1195, pp.60-62

• Nimmo, F. Thermal and topographic tests of Europa chaos formation models , abs. no. 1403, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 35, 2004.

• Nimmo, F. What is the Young's modulus of ice?. Lunar and Planetary Institute. Abs 1195, pp.63-64

• Rye, R., Johnson, O.J. & Nealson, K.H. (2004). Biology and water chemistry of several hyperalkaline springs emerging from mantle-like rock [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1 (March):79.

• Scalo, J. and Smith, D. S. (2004). Lethality of Martian exposure of organisms to large solar flares. [Abstract] AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1(March):79

• Segura, A., Krelove, K., Kasting, J.F., Sommerlatt, D., Meadows, V., Crisp, D., Cohen, M. & Mlawer, E. (2003) Surface UV fluxes on Earth-like planets around F, G, and K stars [Abstract]. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1:72-73.

• Smith, D. S., Scalo, J., and Redfield, S. (2004). Implications of cosmic-ray fluctuations for habitable planets in the interstellar environment.? [Abstract] AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field. International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1(March):46

• Tinetti, G., V. S. Meadows, D. Crisp, W. Fong, T. Velusamy, H. Snively, E. Fishbein, ?Detectability of surface and atmospheric properties in Earth-like and Mars-like planets from disk-averaged synthetic spectra?, Int. J. Astrobiology Supp 1., p34, 2004

• Tinetti, G., Crisp, D., Meadows, V.S., Armstrong, J.C. & Parkinson, C. ?(2004). ?Sensitivity of extrasolar terrestrial planets' climate to different orbital geometries [Abstract]. ?Bioastronomy: Habitable Worlds, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2004. ?Astrobiology, 4(2): 300.

• Tinetti, G.; Meadows, V. S.; Crisp, D.; Fong, W.; Velusamy, T.; Fishbein, E. (2004). Sensitivity to environmental properties in globally averaged synthetic spectra of Mars and Earth. European Geophysical Union, General Assembly, Nice, France. Abstract #EGU04-A-04947.

• Tinetti, G., Meadows, V. S., Crisp, D., Fong, W., Velusamy, T., Snively, H., Fishbein, E. (2004). Detectability of surface and atmospheric properties in Earth-like and Mars-like planets from disk-averaged synthetic spectra. AbSciCon 2004, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1:34.

2003

• Bolton, E.W., L?ttge, A., Rye, D.M. & Ague, J.J. (2003). Unexpected Temperature-Fluid Composition Paths in Kinetic Models of Contact Metamorphism of Siliceous Dolomites [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 84(46, Fall Meeting Supplement): Abstract V42G-05.

• Chakraborty, S., Neogi, S. & Bolton, E.W. (2003). Formation and segregation of melts in the continental crust: Time scales from trace element modeling of rocks from the Sikkim Himalaya, India [Abstract]. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 84(46, Fall Meeting Supplement): Abstract V42F-06.

• Crisp, D., Meadows, V.S., Parkinson, C.D., Allen, M.A., Velusami, T., Tinetti, G, Rye, R. & Krelove, K. (2003). The astronomical detection of biosignatures on extrasolar terrestrial planets: the Virtual Planetary Laboratory. 35th Annual Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Abstract #18.02.

• Kasting, J.F. (2003) Methane greenhouses and anti-greenhouses on the early Earth [Abstract], American Geophysical Union, 2003 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract #PP22B-02

• Kasting, J.F. (2003) Predicting the methane flux from the Archean biosphere [Abstract], NASA Exobiology PI Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

• Meadows, V. S., Dumas, C., Unwin, S., Crisp, D. and the Terrestrial Planet Finder Science Working Group Team. (2003). Planetary Science and the Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission [Abstract]. 35th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Monterey, CA. Bulletin of American Astronomical Society, Abstract 8.10.

• Meadows, V.S., Rye, R., Bolton, E. & the VPL team. (2003). Biogeochemical cycles and the search for life beyond the solar system. AGU Fall Meeting Eos Trans. AGU 84(46). Abstract U52C-08.

• Parkinson, C. D., M. I. Richardson, J. C. McConnell, Y. L. Yung, V. S. Meadows, ? Hydrodynamic Escape from HD209458b: Lessons for VPL (Virtual Planetary Laboratory)?, Bull. Am. Astr. Soc., Abs18.11, 2003.

• Souza-Egipsy, V., Corsetti, F., Nealson, K.H. & Rye, R. (2003). Abiogenic layered carbonates associated with serpentinization: Why Martian stromatolites might not be fossils [Abstract]. Third European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology ?Mars.

• Tinetti, G., Meadows, V. S., Crisp, D., Fong, W., Snively, H., Velusamy, T. (2003). Detectability of Planetary Characteristics from Spatially and Spectrally-Resolved Models of Terrestrial Planets: Mars and Earth. 35th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Monterey, CA. Bulletin of American Astronomical Society, Abstract 18.14.

• Tinetti, G.; Meadows, V. S.; Crisp, D.; Fong, W.; Velusamy, T.; Fishbein, E. (2003). Sensitivity to environmental properties in globally averaged synthetic spectra of Earth. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 2003 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract #P41B-0414.