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

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  Michael L Tuite Jr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Pontefract, University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada and Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Potential Influence of Perchlorate on Organic Carbon in Martian Regolith
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?
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
Tomaso R.R. Bontognali, Judith A. McKenzie and Chris Vasconcelos, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Searching for Life in Death Valley (and Other Deserts) – Microchemical Investigations on Desert Varnish
Meinrat O Andreae1,2, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Amri2, Klaus P Jochum1, Michael Kappl3, A David Kilcoyne4, Dorothea Macholdt1, Maren Müller3, Christopher Pöhlker1, Bettina Weber1 and Markus Weigand5, (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (3)Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
 
Adaptive Multi-sensor Data Fusion Model for In-situ Exploration of Mars
Tajana Schneiderman, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute Mountain View, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
International Mars Architecture for the Return of Samples (iMARS) Phase II Science Subteam Report – Science Management of Returned Samples
Tim Haltigin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada and Caroline L Smith, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
 
Detection of Organic Matter in Sediments with Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy: Effects of Mineralogy, Albedo and Hydration
Hannah H Kaplan and Ralph Milliken, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Standoff Time-Resolved Laser-Based Spectroscopy Tools for Sample Characterization and Biosignature Detection
Patrick James Gasda, Tayro Acosta-Maeda, Paul G Lucey, Anupam K Misra, Shiv K Sharma and Jeffrey Taylor, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
Biogeochemical Heterogeneity in Mars Analog Soils from the Atacama Desert
Mark Claire1, Brian Shirey2, Michael Brown3, Dian Anderson4 and Michael Van Mourik4, (1)University of St Andrews, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, (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
Evan Eshelman1, Michael G Daly1, Greg Franklin 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
Kira Lorber, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Andrew D Czaja, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Department of Geology, Cincinnati, OH, United States
 
Stabilization of Desert Surfaces and Accumulation of Dust Under Biological Soil Crusts
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, CA, United States
 
The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) on the yet-to-be-named Mars 2020 Lander
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 and Morten B Madsen10, (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)
John D Rummel1, David W Beaty2 and Melissa A. Jones2, (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
Michael L Wong1, Yuk L Yung1 and Michael J Russell2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Field Comparisons of Three Biomarker Detection Methods in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments
Diana Gentry1, Elena Sophia Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Nosheen Chaudry4, Thomas Cullen4, Malene Jacobsen5, Gayathri Murusekan6, Edward Schwieterman2, Adam Stevens7, Amanda Stockton8, Chang Yin9, David Cullen4 and Wolf Geppert9, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)University of Turku, Turku, Finland, (7)The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (8)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States, (9)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Sample Return Science
Kenneth H Williford, Abigail Allwood, Luther W Beegle, Rohit Bhartia, David Flannery, Adam Hoffmann, Maria F. Mora, Jorge Orbay, Daniel A Petrizzo, Michael L Tuite Jr and Peter A Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Spatially Resolved Chemical Imaging for Biosignature Analysis: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Examples
Rohit Bhartia1, Greg Wanger2, Victoria J Orphan2, Marc Fries3, Annette R Rowe4, Kenneth H Nealson4, William J Abbey5, Lauren P DeFlores1 and Luther W Beegle6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Remotely Detectable Biosignatures of Anoxygenic Phototrophs
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, CA, 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, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, 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
Maria F. Mora, Michael L Tuite Jr, Adam Hoffmann, Peter A Willis and Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Analogue Sites for Mars Missions - A report from two workshops
Victoria Hipkin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, Mary A Voytek, NASA, Washington, DC, United States and Mihaela Glamoclija, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
 
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