P31A
Earth Analogues as Case Studies for Martian Geological Materials and Processes III Posters

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-13:40
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Chairs:  Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
 
High Habitability Potentials Generated by Subsurface Salt Mixtures at DLT Playa on Tibet Plateau (63612)
Alian Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for Space Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
Mineralogy of evaporite deposits on Mars: Constraints from laboratory, field, and remote measurements of analog terrestrial acid saline lakes (86695)
Jorge I Núñez, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
 Using Terrestrial Sulfate Efflorescences as an Analogue of Hydrated Sulfate Formation in Valles Marineris on Mars (81849)
Patrick Caleb Smith, University of Tennessee, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Preservation Potential of Life in Little Hot Creek, California: Implications for the use of Hot Spring Systems as Astrobiological Targets (76926)
Kaitlin R. Rempfert1, Danielle Priscilla Santiago Ramos2, Gabriela S. Nascimento3, Feifei Zhang4, Sean J Loyd5, Olivia Piazza6, Emma Bertran7, Blake W. Stamps8, Bradley S. Stevenson8, John R Spear9 and Frank A Corsetti10, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)ETH Zurich, ERDW, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (9)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (10)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Variation of Geochemical Signatures and Correlation of Biomarkers in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments (77109)
Diana Gentry1, Elena Sophia Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Thomas Cantrell4, Nosheen Chaudry5, Thomas Cullen5, Zachary A Duca4, Malene B Jacobsen6, Heather Catherine McCaig3, Gayathri Murukesan7, Vincent Rennie8, Edward W Schwieterman2, Adam H Stevens9, George Tan4, Chang Yin10, Amanda Stockton4, David Cullen5 and Wolf Geppert10, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Astrobiology Program, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (6)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (7)University of Turku, Department of Biochemistry, Finland, (8)University of Edinburgh, Department of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (9)University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (10)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
 
Preservation of Lipid Biomarkers Under Prolonged and Extreme Hyperaridity in Atacama Desert Soils (83768)
Mary Beth Wilhelm1,2, Alfonso F Davila2,3, Jennifer L Eigenbrode4, Mary Nichole Parenteau2,3, Linda L Jahnke2, Roger E Summons5, Xiaolei Liu6, James J Wray1, Brian Stamos7, Shane S O'Reilly8 and Amy J Williams4,9, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (8)Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, (9)Towson University, Towson, MD, United States
 
Filed-Analog Study: Efficiency of microbial fossilization in sulfate-rich playas (82208)
Mihaela Glamoclija, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
 
Craters of the Moon National Monument as a Terrestrial Mars Analog: Examination of Mars Analog Phosphate Minerals, Phosphate Mineral Shock-Recovery Experiments, and Phosphate Minerals in Martian Meteorites (82479)
Christopher T Adcock, Elisabeth Hausrath, Oliver D Tschauner and Arya Udry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
 
Interactions Between Snow-Adapted Organisms, Minerals and Snow in a Mars-Analog Environment, and Implications for the Possible Formation of Mineral Biosignatures (69798)
Elisabeth Hausrath1, Courtney L. Bartlett1, Angela H Garcia1, Oliver D Tschauner1, Alison E Murray2 and James A. Raymond1, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Lost Jim Lava Flow, Seward Peninsula, Alaska as an analog for lava–ice interactions on Mars (70659)
Emma Marcucci, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Christopher Ward Hamilton, University of Arizona, Planetary Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Robert Ritchie Herrick, Geophysical Institute, Juneau, AK, United States
 
BASALT: BIOLOGIC ANALOG SCIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH LAVA TERRAINS (67815)
Darlene Sze Shien Lim1, Andrew Abercromby2, Shannon E Kobs-Nawotniak3, Linda Kobayashi1, Scott S Hughes4, Steve Chappell2, Nathan E Bramall5, Matthew C Deans1, Jennifer L Heldmann1, Michael Downs6, Charles S Cockell7, Adam H Stevens8, Barrett Caldwell9, Jeffrey Hoffman10, Nikhil Vadhavk10, Jessica Marquez1, Michael Miller6, Steven W Squyres11, David S Lees1, Terry Fong1, Tamar Cohen1, Trey Smith1, Grace Lee1, Jeremy Frank1 and Anthony Colaprete1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (5)Los Gatos Research, Mountain View, CA, United States, (6)NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL, United States, (7)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (9)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Seeking Signs of Life in Nili Patera with Icelandic Sinter Field Exploration. (70983)
John R Skok, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, Jack D Farmer, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States, Mario Parente, UMASS-Elect & Comp Engrg, Amherst, MA, United States, Jessica Gaskin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Hanna Kaasalainen, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
 
Outcrop-Scale Hyperspectral Studies of a Lacustrine-Volcanic Mars Analog: Examination with a Mars 2020-like Instrument Suite (86694)
Bethany L Ehlmann1, Peter Martin1, Diana L Blaney2, Rohit Bhartia2 and Abigail Allwood2, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
MSL SAM-like Analyses of Hawaiian Altered Basaltic Materials: Implications for Analyses by the Mars Science Laboratory (84479)
Amy McAdam1, Jennifer L. Eigenbrode2, Kelsey E Young2,3, Jacob E Bleacher4, Christine A Knudson2,3, Deanne Rogers5, Timothy D Glotch5, Brad Sutter6, Paul R Mahaffy1 and Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez7, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (6)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (7)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Laboratorio de Química de plasmas y Estudios Planetarios, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Quantifying Carbonate and Serpentine Abundances through VSWIR Microspectroscopy (85017)
Ellen Leask and Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Vent 7504 of the San Francisco Volcanic Field (SFVF), Arizona: Sample Geochemistry and Implications for Cone Formation (73917)
Debra Hurwitz Needham1, Dean B. Eppler2, Jacob E Bleacher3, James A Skinner4, Cynthia A Evans2, Wanda Feng5, John E Gruener2, Peggy A Whitson2, Barbara A Janoiko2 and Stanley A Mertzman6, (1)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Earth and Environment, Lancaster, PA, United States
 
GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS SPURRED BY ANALOG TESTING AT THE 7504 CONE-SP MOUNTAIN AREA OF THE SAN FRANCISCO VOLCANIC FIELD (78936)
Dean B. Eppler, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
Early Earth rock analogues for Martian subsurface processes (79942)
Eugene G Grosch1, Janice L Bishop2,3, Alessandro Maturilli3 and Jorn Helbert3, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
A Hydrothermally Altered, Mn-incrusted Marine Sediment as an Analogue for Martian Deposits? (69053)
Christoph Gross1, Janice L Bishop2, Alessandro Maturilli3, Mario D'Amore3 and Jorn Helbert3, (1)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
Combined VNIR and Raman spectroscopy of the Atacama salt flats as a potential Mars analog (67999)
Jessica Flahaut1, Janice L Bishop2, Melissa Martinot1, Nicola J Potts3 and Gareth Davies1, (1)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)Open University, CEPSAR, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
 
Automatic Whole-Spectrum Matching Techniques for Identification of Pure and Mixed Minerals using Raman Spectroscopy (85170)
Melinda Darby Dyar1, C J Carey2, Laura Breitenfeld1, Thomas Tague3 and Peng Wang3, (1)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Information and Computer Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)Bruker Optics, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States
 
Rapid and direct screening of H:C ratio in Archean kerogen via microRaman Spectroscopy (85295)
Nicola Ferralis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Emily D Matys, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States, Abigail Allwood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrew H Knoll, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridhe, MA, United States and Roger E Summons, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
 
Improving Estimated Optical Constants With MSTM and DDSCAT Modeling (84127)
Karly M Pitman, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
An integrated and accessible sample data library for Mars sample return science (84734)
Michael L Tuite Jr and Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Crustal differentiation on Earth and Mars from Potassium and Thorium multi-scale distributions (72170)
David Baratoux1,2, Mark Walter Jessell3,4, Makhoudia Fall5, Papa Moussa Ndiaye5, Olivier Vanderhaeghe6, Lenka Baratoux3, Helen MacFarlane7, Kouamé Boamah8 and Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer9, (1)University of Toulouse CNRS & IRD, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toujlouse, France, (2)Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Dakar, Senegal, (3)IRD, Toulouse, France, (4)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (5)University Cheikh Anta Diop, Department of Geosciences, Dakar, Senegal, (6)University of Toulouse, Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (7)Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash, Australia, (8)Geological Survey Department of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, (9)Lorraine University, Nancy, France
 
Earth's Colorado Plateau and Loess Plateau (Ordos Basin) Comparing with Mars' Thaumasia Plateau: Evidence of Ancient Martian Lithospheric Mobility (81101)
James matthew Dohm, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Robert C Anderson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Goro Komatsu, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy, Victor R Baker, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Shigenori Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
The fingerprint of Martian channelized flows: A reconstruction of Mars' early climate through new methods from physical geomorphology (73113)
Anna Grau Galofre, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Mark Jellinek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 (D1974) Flow: Establishing the D1974 Flow as an Ideal Mars Analog (74283)
Kelsey E Young1, Jacob E Bleacher2, Deanne Rogers3, Amy McAdam4, William Brent Garry4, Stephen P Scheidt5, Lynn M Carter4 and Timothy D Glotch3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 Flow: Lava Flow Texture LiDAR Signatures (74165)
Patrick Whelley1, William Brent Garry1, Stephen P Scheidt2, Jacob E Bleacher3 and Christophe Hamilton2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 Flow: Chemical, mineralogical and spectral characteristics of Hawaiian basaltic alteration products measured with portable instruments (79427)
Deanne Rogers1, Kelsey E Young2, Melinda Darby Dyar3, Gen Ito1, Marcella Yant1, Amy McAdam2, Jacob E Bleacher4 and Timothy D Glotch1, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 (D1974) Flow: In Situ Geochemical Analysis and Laboratory Spectral Characterization of Fumarolic Alteration. (82266)
Marcella Yant1, Deanne Rogers1, Kelsey E Young2, Gen Ito1, Jacob E Bleacher3, Amy McAdam4, Cynthia A Evans5, Jennifer L. Eigenbrode4, Melinda Darby Dyar6, Timothy D Glotch1 and Stephen P Scheidt7, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (6)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Geologic Features of Yardangs in Qaidam Basin and Analog Study with Mars (82250)
Jiang Wang1, Long Xiao2, Jiannan Zhao1 and Jun Huang2, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
 
MarsSedEx III: linking Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and reduced gravity experiments (77304)
Nikolaus J Kuhn, Brigitte Kuhn and Andres Gartmann, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 
Icebergs on early Mars (79966)
Esther Uceda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Alberto Fairen, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, Christopher Woodworth-Lynas, Petra International Ltd, Cupids, NF, Canada and Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
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