Abstracts - VPL Task 5: Inhabited Planet Model

• 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.

• 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.

2003

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.