Astrobiology Journal Club

Next meeting: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Geo Museum, 24 Oxford St.
Schaler Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Room 413
Moderator: Sarah Rugheimer srugheimer@cfa.harvard.edu

Articles to be discussed at the next meeting:

Mineral evolution, PDF
(American Mineralogist, Vol. 93, pp. 1693-1720, 2008)

A cool early Earth, PDF
(Geology, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 351-354, April 2002) __________________________________________________________________

Previous meetings:

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Articles discussed:
*A New Molecule of Life (Scientific American, December 2008)
*A Simpler Origin for Life (Scientific American, June 2007)

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Articles discussed:
*Life on Earth (Sci Am, September 2009)
*Template-directed synthesis of a genetic polymer in a model protocell (Nature Letters, June 2008)

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Articles discussed:
*The Color of Plants on Other Worlds (Scientific American, April 2008)
*Chapter 14: Search for Habitable Planets (Astrobiology: Emergence, Search and Detection of Life, 2009)
*Supplemental Reading:
Astrobiology Primer (Astrobiology, Vol. 6, No. 5, 2006)

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