P21D:
There and Back Again: Biosignature Detection in Terrestrial Analog Environments for Mars Sample Return II Posters

Session ID#: 5095

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Michael L Tuite Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Pontefract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Michael L Tuite Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Pontefract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Potential Influence of Perchlorate on Organic Carbon in Martian Regolith (3887)
Christopher Oze1, Meththika S Vithanage2, Prasanna Rumesh Kumarathilaka2, Srimathie Indraratne3 and Travis W Horton1, (1)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (2)Institute of Fundamental Studies, Chemical and Environmental Systems Modeling Research Group, Kandy, Sri Lanka, (3)University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
 
You wouldn't go into the field with dirty sampling gear, would you? (31690)
Mary A Voytek, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, John D Rummel, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States and Victoria Hipkin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada
 
Protocol for Identifying Fossil Biofilm Microfabrics in Archean and Martian Sedimentary Rocks (8477)
Tomaso R.R. Bontognali1, Judith A. McKenzie2 and Chris Vasconcelos1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Searching for Life in Death Valley (and Other Deserts) – Microchemical Investigations on Desert Varnish (8573)
Meinrat O Andreae1,2, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Amri1, Klaus P Jochum3, Michael Kappl4, A David Kilcoyne5, Dorothea Macholdt2, Maren Müller4, Christopher Pöhlker6, Bettina Weber6 and Markus Weigand7, (1)King Saud University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (2)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (7)Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
 
Adaptive Multi-sensor Data Fusion Model for In-situ Exploration of Mars (10776)
Tajana Schneiderman, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
 
International Mars Architecture for the Return of Samples (iMARS) Phase II Science Subteam Report – Science Management of Returned Samples (13035)
Tim Haltigin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, Caroline L Smith, Natural History Museum, Science Group, London, United Kingdom and iMARS Phase II Science/Earth Operations Subteam
 
Detection of Organic Matter in Sediments with Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy: Effects of Mineralogy, Albedo and Hydration (12913)
Hannah H Kaplan, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Ralph Milliken, Brown University, Providence, United States
 
Standoff Time-Resolved Laser-Based Spectroscopy Tools for Sample Characterization and Biosignature Detection (13469)
Patrick James Gasda1, Tayro Acosta-Maeda2, Paul G Lucey3, Anupam K Misra4, Dr. Shiv K Sharma, Ph. D.5 and Jeffrey Taylor2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (5)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
Biogeochemical Heterogeneity in Mars Analog Soils from the Atacama Desert (16619)
Mark Claire1, Brian Shirey2, Michael Scott Brown3, Dian Anderson4 and Michael Van Mourik4, (1)University of St Andrews, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (2)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
 
Analysis of In-Situ Organic and Mineral Compounds Relevant to Martian Astrobiology Using 266 nm Raman Spectroscopy (16726)
Evan Eshelman1, Michael G Daly1, Greg F Slater2, Peter Dietrich3, Jean-Francois Gravel4 and Edward Cloutis5, (1)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada, (4)Institut national d'optique, Quebec, QC, Canada, (5)University of Winnipeg, Department of Geography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 
Investigation of Archean microfossil preservation for defining science objectives for Mars sample return missions (25876)
Kira Lorber, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Andrew D Czaja, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, Cincinnati, United States
 
Stabilization of Desert Surfaces and Accumulation of Dust Under Biological Soil Crusts (17454)
Kari M Finstad1, Gavin McNicol1,2, Marco Pfeiffer1 and Ronald Amundson1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Livermore, United States
 
The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) on the yet-to-be-named Mars 2020 Lander (29096)
Michael H. Hecht1, Jeffrey Hoffman2, Donald Rapp3, Gerald Voecks4, Klaus S. Lackner5, Joseph Hartvigsen6, Bilge Yildiz2, Peter H Smith7, William T Pike8, Christopher Graves9, Manuel de la Torre Juarez4, Samuel Schreiner2, Morten B Madsen10 and the MOXIE development team, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ret.), Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (6)Ceramatec, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)Space Exploration Instruments, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (9)Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (10)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Updating our understanding of “Special Regions” on Mars: The second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2) (21460)
John D Rummel1, David W Beaty2, Melissa A. Jones2 and the MEPAG Special Regions-Science Analysis Group 2 (SR-SAG2), (1)East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
NOx in the atmospheres of aquaplanets as electron acceptors for life (16641)
Michael L Wong, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Yuk L Yung, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael J Russell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Field Comparisons of Three Biomarker Detection Methods in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments (20822)
Diana Gentry1, Elena Sophia Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Nosheen Chaudry4, Thomas Cullen4, Malene B Jacobsen5, Gayathri Murukesan6, Edward Schwieterman7, Adam Stevens8, Amanda M. Stockton9, Chang Yin10, David Cullen4 and Wolf Geppert10, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)University of Turku, Turku, Finland, (7)University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (8)The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (9)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States, (10)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Sample Return Science (30286)
Kenneth H Williford1, Abigail Allwood2, Luther W Beegle1, Rohit Bhartia3, David Timothy Flannery4, Adam Hoffmann1, Maria F. Mora5, Jorge Orbay1, Daniel A Petrizzo1, Michael L Tuite Jr1 and Peter A Willis6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology., Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Spatially Resolved Chemical Imaging for Biosignature Analysis: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Examples (30713)
Rohit Bhartia1, Greg Wanger1, Victoria J Orphan2, Marc Fries3, Annette R Rowe4, Kenneth H Nealson5, William Abbey1, Lauren P DeFlores6 and Luther W Beegle7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Melanie Sauer & Associates LLC, Sierra Madre, United States
 
Remotely Detectable Biosignatures of Anoxygenic Phototrophs (30939)
Mary Nichole Parenteau1,2, Nancy Y Kiang3, Robert E. Blankenship4, Esther Sanromá5,6, Enric Palle Bago5,6, Tori M Hoehler2 and Beverly K. Pierson7, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Astrofísica, La Laguna, Spain, (6)Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, (7)University of Puget Sound, Biology Department, Tacoma, WA, United States
 
New Method for the Detection of Organosulfur Biosignatures in Mars-Analog Terrestrial Sedimentary Facies (31132)
Maria F. Mora1, Michael L Tuite Jr2, Adam Hoffmann2, Peter A Willis3 and Kenneth H Williford2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology., Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Analogue Sites for Mars Missions - A report from two workshops (31184)
Victoria Hipkin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, Mary A Voytek, NASA, Washington, DC, United States and Mihaela Glamoclija, Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
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