Abstracts

  • Free Oxygen in the Atmospheres of Mars and Venus
    Mark Allen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Yuk L. Yung, California Institute of Technology

  • Earth's Air Chemistry Seen from Space: Reactions, Timescales, and Notes on Perceived Spectra
    Robert Chatfield, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Atmospheres and Surfaces of Outer Planet Satellites and other Solar System Curiosities
    Dale P. Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center

  • History of Atmospheric Oxygen Levels
    David J. Des Marais, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Water on Mars and Venus
    T.M. Donahue, University of Michigan

  • Signatures of Intelligent Life
    Frank Drake & Jill Tarter, SETI Institute

  • Remote Sensing of Earth's Atmosphere
    C. B. Farmer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Radiative Transfer and the Search for Extrasolar Life
    B. D. Ganapol, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Habitable Zones Around Stars and Their Relationship to CO2, O2, and O3 Abundances in Planetary Atmospheres
    James F. Kasting, Penn State University

  • The Project DARWIN
    A. Leger, Institite d'Astronomie Spatiale

  • Organic Reactivity Controls on Biogenic Gas Production, Oxidation, and Transport Processes
    Christopher S. Martens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Exobiology: Laying the Groundwork in a Search for Extrasolar Life
    Michael Meyer, Exobiology Program, NASA Headquarters

  • Reduced Biogenic Carbon Gases: Who Cut the Cheese?
    Ronald S. Oremland, US Geological Survey

  • Multiple Blue Dots
    Tobias Owen, University of Hawaii

  • Remote Sensing of the Earth's Biosphere
    David L. Peterson, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Biogenic Trace Gases on Earth: Understanding the Controls on Global Sources and Sinks
    Christopher S. Potter, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Contrasts in the Earth's Present and Early Methane Budget
    William S. Reeburgh, University of California, Irvine

  • How Definitive Would Detection of H2O, CO2, O2/O3 and CH4/O2 be for the Identification of Life on Planets of Other Stars?
    Carl Sagan, Cornell University

  • Life Detection by Atmospheric Analysis: Avoiding the Geocentric Bias
    Andrew Watson, University of East Anglia

  • A Space-Based, Imaging, Nulling Interferometer: What Can It See?
    Nick Woolf & Roger Angel, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

  • Disequilibrium Chemistry by Impacts
    Kevin Zahnle, NASA Ames Research Center

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