Azizpour, Yasaman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Investigating High-Pressure Adaptation of Enzymes in Sulfate-Reducing Microorganisms from Yellowstone Hot Springs

Brodsky, Harry, University of Colorado Boulder
Phosphorus Redox Cycling in Serpentinite-Hosted Aquifers of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

Buchheister, Dani, Pennsylvania State University
Searching for a Missing Iron-Sulfur Microbial Metabolism in Pyrite Biofilm Communities From Frasassi Cave System Lakes

Fonseca Coelho, Ligia Patricia, Cornell University
Color Catalog of Extremophile Communities in Ice on the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

Fulford, Avery Haydock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In Hot (and Salty) Water: Correlating Microbial Metabolism with the Energy Landscape of Brine-Dominated Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents on the North Pacific Juan de Fuca Ridge

Govinda Raj, Chinmayee, NASA Ames Research Center
Assessing Anthropogenic Contamination in Extreme Terrestrial Analog Environments, Mauna Kea Lava Field

Oliverio, Angela M., Syracuse University
Uncovering the Metabolic Strategies of Extremophilic Eukaryotes in High-Temperature Geothermal Habitats in Lassen Volcanic National Park in California

Sen, Pia, George Washington University
Investigating Viral Diversity and Roles in Hawaiian Steam Vent Microbial Communities
            
 

Apalara, Itunu, University of Oklahoma   
Understanding Chemical Weathering in a Euxinic Environment Using Bulk Sediment and Clay-Preserved Proxies, Anadarko Basin, Southwest Oklahoma

Aran, Pablo, University of Arizona, Tucson   
Investigating Microbial Habitability of a High-Altitude Volcano in the Atacama Desert as a Mars Analog, Antofagasta, Chile

Bimm, Jordan, University of Chicago   
Astrobiology in Action: Simulating Alien Life in the Desert, Hanksville, Utah

Caterham, Catherine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville   
Herringbone Carbonate Through Time and Its Linkages to Ocean Chemistry, Belgium, Sardinia, and Canada

Harris, Carolynn, Dartmouth College   
Life Detection Via Lipid Stable Isotope Probing in Mars Analog Soils from Atacama Salars, Atacama Desert, Chile

Leapaldt, Hanna, Pennsylvania State University   
Identifying the Fingerprint of Microbial Autotrophy on Magnesium Carbonate and Implications for Mars Sample Return, Atlin and Cariboo Plateau, British Columbia, Canada

Weyland, Walker, University of California, Riverside   
Springtime in the Precambrian: Comparing Community Composition for Evidence of Reproductive Strategies in Early Multicellular Ecosystems, Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia

Winnikoff, Jacob, Harvard University   
Cellular Membrane Responses to High Pressure and Dynamic Temperature at Deep-Sea Vents, Galapagos Rift   

Caro, Tristan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Targeted Life Detection in the Terrestrial Serpentinite Subsurface of Oman

Elkassas, Sabrina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Methanogens at the Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Forearc: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle?

Corpolongo, Andrea, University of Cincinnati
Marginal Lacustrine Carbonate Microbialites and Mudstones From the Eocene Lake Gosiute (Green River, Colorado) as Mars Jezero Crater Sample Analogs

de la Higuera Hernandez, Ignacio, Portland State University
Extreme Ecology of a Virus in Japanese Hot Springs

Ethige, Isuru, University of Akron
Light Energy Limits Necessary for Phototrophy Using Cave Entrance as a Model

Hadland, Nathan, University of Arizona
Investigating the Habitability of Mars Analog Lava Flow Fields in Iceland

McCandless, Heather, University of California, Riverside
Reconstructing Earth's Earliest Multicellular Pelagic Ecosystems: Implications for Ediacaran Ocean and Sediment Biogeochemistry

Lopez, Jessica, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Understanding the Microbial Impact on Source-to-Sink Processes in a Basaltic Fluvio-Lacustrine Martian Analog Environment

Skoog, Emilie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Characterization of Bacteriophage From Early Branching Bacterial Lineages Isolated From Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Hung, Caroline, University of California, Riverside
A Novel Interdisciplinary Study of Microbial Habitats and Community Structure in a Nondessicated, Redox Stratified Evaporite-Forming Mars Analog, Salton Sea, California

Meixnerova, Jana, University of Washington
Preservation Potential and Extended Record of Geochemical Proxies for Microbial Metabolisms in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Mojarro, Angel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigating Exceptional Soft-Tissue Preservation and the Role of Sulfur Diagenesis in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

Plattner, Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Potential Biomarkers in Planetary Analog Brine Environments, Western Australia Transient Lakes

Spietz, Rachel, Montana State University
Mineral Sources of Essential Elements in Wyoming and Montana Through Microbially Mediated Reduction of Metal Sulfides

Stucky de Quay, Gaia, University of Texas at Austin
Constraints on Habitability Timescales During Early Mars From Fluvial Modification in the Cape Verde Archipelago

Trutschel, Leah, University of Cincinnati
Exploring Microbial Habitability and Diversity in a Marine-Like Terrestrial Serpentinizing Spring, Ney's Spring, Mt. Shasta, California

Aronson, Heidi, University of Southern California
Searching for a Thermodynamically Predicted Novel Microbial Metabolism in the Sulfidic Karst Caves at Frasassi, Italy

Buffo, Jacob, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biosignature Dynamics in British Columbia's Frozen Hypersaline Lakes: Implications for the Habitability and Bioburden of Ice-Brine Environments

Garczynski, Bradley, Purdue University
An Orbital and in-Situ Analysis of Lake Salda Microbialites as a Modern Analog for Jezero Crater, Mars

Kipp, Michael, University of Washington
Phosphorites of the Paleoproterozoic Aravalli Supergroup, India: A Window to Earth's Early Phosphorus Cycle

Mayer, Marisa, Stanford University
Environmental Relevance of Lipid Biomarkers in Hot Spring Mars Analogues

Osterhout, Jeffrey, University of California, Los Angeles
Organic Biosignatures in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia: Insights to Earth's Archean Biosphere and the Search for Past Life on Mars

Surprenant, Rachel, University of California, Riverside
Ediacaran Test Tubes: Earth's Earliest Experiments in Multicellularity Recorded in the Ontogeny and Ecology of Three Tubular Taxa

Riedman, Leigh Anne, University of California, Santa Barbara
Eukaryotic Evolution in Heterogeneous Proterozoic Seas

Agic, Heda, University of California, Santa Barbara
Investigating Habitats of Early Eukaryotes, Shanxi Province, Northern China

Candela Garza, Alberto, Carnegie Mellon University
Automated Detection of Biosignatures in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Dhaliwal, Jasmeet, Pennsylvania State Univesity
A Fieldwork and Geochemical Study of Holuhraun Volcano, Iceland, as an Analog for Hydrothermal Vents and Martian Volcanism

Johnson, Benjamin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paleoarchaen Seawater Temperature, Nutrient Levels, and Depth: Reconstruction From Altered Oceanic Crust in the Pilabara Craton, Northwestern Australia

Lee, Bridget, University of California, Riverside
Banded Iron Formations, Minas Garais, Brazil, as Key to the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

Millan, Maeva, Georgetown University
The Preservation of Organic Molecules in New Zealand Hydrothermal Environments as Mars Analogs

Nichols, Claire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Determining the Earliest History of Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field, Greenland and Its Implications for the Origins of Life

Park, Yuem, University of California, Berkeley
Dramatic Global Change During the Era of Animal Evolution: A New Archive of Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth Glaciation From the Tambien Group of Ethiopia

Seyler, Lauren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
From the Frying Pan to the Fire: How Microbes Survive Rapidly Changing Conditions in Flat Cone Spring, Sentinel Meadows, Yellowstone National Park

Zaloumis, Jonathan, Arizona State University
Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars-Analog Sulfate Deposits From the Atacama Desert, Chile

Boag, Thomas, Stanford University
Oxygen, Temperature, and the Deep-Water Evolution of Animals: Investigating Fossil Occurrences Across an Ediacaran Shelf-to-Slope Transect in Northwest Canada

Buessecker, Steffen, Arizona State University
Entangled Abiotic and Biotic N2O Fluxes in Iron-Rich Soils of Peru

Colman, Daniel, Montana State University
Quantifying the Influence of Tectonic Regime on Hot Spring Microbial Diversity

Dunham, Jeremy, University of Tennessee
Variation in Microfabric Within Proterozoic Early Diagenetic Chert and Implications for Genesis

Dzombak, Rebecca, University of Michigan
Iceland as an Analogue for Unvegetated Precambrian Soils During Oxygenation of the Atmosphere

Gangidine, Andrew, University of Cincinnati
Exploration and Collection of Sinter Deposits and Biofilms in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, for the Development of Novel Trace Element Biosignature Analysis

Moore, Kelsey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Evolution of Cyanobacteria

Peoples, Logan, University of California, San Diego
Comparing Pressure-Retained and Decompressed Microbial Communities from the Greatest Ocean Depths

Zaikova, Elena, Georgetown University
Investigating the Role of Microbes in Secondary Mineral Deposits in Lava Caves as Analogs for Subsurface Mars

Babilonia, Joany, University of Florida
Unraveling the Global Microbiome Core of Stromatolites at Ruidera Pool in Spain

Bedell, Megan, University of Chicago
Exploring the Formation of Rocky Worlds With the Solar Twin Planet Search

Chile Black, Sarah, University of Colorado
Boulder Characterization of Secondary Mineralogy in Hydrothermal Systems in Costa Rica and Iceland via Multiple Instrumentation Methods: Implications for Mars

Craft, Kathleen, Johns Hopkins University
Exploring Hydrothermal Sinter Sites in Iceland and Molecular Biosignature Detection Techniques: A Mars Mission Analog to Exploring Nili Patera

Jenson, Aubri, Texas State University
Detecting Evidence of Microbially Mediated Carbonate Dissolution in a Submerged Cave: Cenote San Carlos, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Smith, Emily, Smithsonian Institution
The Lat of the Ediacara Biota at Mt. Dunfee, Nevada

Stanford, Joshua, Georgia Institute of Technology
Assessing the Plausibility of Long-Term Sedimentary Recycling of Sulfur Isotope Anomalies in the Northern Amazon Craton, Brazil, and the Implications for Atmospheric Evolution on Earth

Tang, Qing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Paleobiology of the Tonian Chuar Group in North America and Its Implications for the Evolution of Complex Eukaryotes

Uckert, Kyle, New Mexico State University
Characterizing the Biogenicity of Manganese Oxides in an Extreme Environment: Fort Stanton Cave as a Solar System Analog

Ward, Lewis, California Institute of Technology
Investigating Uncharacterized Iron-Rich Hot Springs in Japan as Early Earth and Exoplanet Analogues

Berg, Ashley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Preservation of Prtoerzoic Microbial Mats

Cole, Devon, Yale University
Oxygenation in the Late Mesoproterozoic

Greenberger, Rebecca, Brown University
Mapping Mineralogies of Serpentine Seeps at the Phiolite in Oman: Insights Into Microbial Activity

Hancock, Leanne, University of California, Riverside
Redox Variation and Nutrient Controls on Monterey Formation Deposition: A Case Study on Methan Cycling in Borderland Basins and Proximity Controls

Kasun, George, Portland State University
Recombination Between RNA and DNA Viruses in an Acidic Hot Spring

Magnabosco, Cara, Princeton University
A Comparison of Subsurface Microbial Communities and Function in Northern Portugal

Phillips-Lander, Charity, University of Oklahoma
Trace Metals as Indicators of Microbially-Induced Weathering in Water-Limited Systems: The Snake River Plain as an Analog for Post-Noachian Weathering on Mars

Farris, Holly N., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Survivability of Halophiles through Deliquescence in the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Liquid Water Stability and Habitability of the Martian Surface

Roy, Arpita, Pennsylvania State University
Exploring the Full Potential of the PARAS Spectrograph in India

Anderson, Ross, Yale University
Preservational Controls on Neoproterozoic-Cambrian (1000 MA–485 MA) Eukaryotic Fossil Diversity in the Zavkhan Terrane of Southwestern Mongolia

Bellefroid, Eric, Yale University
Assessing the effects of Tectonic Change on the Marine Paleoenvironment and Biogeochemical Cycles During the Mesoproterozoic, Borden Basin, Northern Canada

Cammack, Jacob, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Secondary Ion Microprobe Microanalysis of the Strelley Pool Cherts, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Insight Into Fluid Sources, Alteration, and Paleoenvironmental Conditions

Evans, Scott, University of California, Riverside
Paleoecology of the Iconic Ediacaran Genera Dickinsonia, South Australia

Hashman, Breana, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Constraining Redox Conditions and Their Potential Role in Climactic Variations of the Mesoarchean as Recorded in the South African Witwatersrand and Pontola Supergroups of the Kaapvaal Craton

Patterson, Molly, University of Connecticut
Thrombolite Fabric Development in Hardwater (Green Lake, New York), Marine (Highborne Cay, Bahamas), and Hypersaline (Lake Clifton, Australia) Environments

Simpson, Anna, University of Washington
Assessing the Effects of Alpine Nitrogen Deposition, Mount Rainier, Washington

Stueeken, Eva, University of Washington
Characterizing Nutrient Cycles in Late Precambrian Lakes, Late Mesoproterozoic Torridonian Supergroup, Scotland

Tarhan, Lidya, Yale University
The Silicification of Soft-Bodied Biotas: A Model for Exceptional "Ediacara-Style" Preservation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Amador, Elena, University of Washington
Revealing the Habitability and Microbial Diversity of Icelandic Lava Fields: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Cable, Morgan, California Institute of Technology
Biodiversity and Habitability in Icelandic Lava Fields

Ibarra, Yadira, University of Southern California
Paleoenvironmental Significance of Microbialites From the Upper Triassic, Southwest United Kingdom, and Relevance to the End Triassic Mass Extinction

Lynch, Ryan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Understanding the Traits of Chemosynthetic Bacteria From a Martian Analog in the High-Elevation Atacama Region

Mansor, Muammar, Pennsylvania State University
Detecting Biosignatures From Biominerals Formed in Subsurface Frassasi Caves, Italy: Analogue to Mars

Schwieterman, Edward, University of Washington
Assessing the Habitability, Diversity, and Productivity of Mars Analog Environments in Iceland

Solon, Christine, University of California, Riverside
Morphology and Ecology of an Enigmatic Ediacaran Taxon, South Australia

Som, Sanjoy, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Hydrogen Production in Basalt-Hosted Hydrothermal Systems in Iceland

Woycheese, Kristin, University of Illinois at Chicago
Biogeochemistry and Depositional Facies of a Serpentinizing Fluid Seep in the Zambales Range Ophiolites, the Philippines

Gallagher, Timothy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Life on Land During the Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Midcontinent Rift System in Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario

Harwood, Cara, University of California, Davis
Thrombolites as Records of Microbial-Metazoan Ecosystems in Cambrian Carbonates of the Southern Great Basin, Nevada

Johnson, Jena, California Institute of Technology
Manganese and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis in Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Marnocha, Cassandra, University of Arkansas
Geomicrobiology of Rock Coatings from Karkevagge, Swedish Lapland

Price, Roy, University of Southern California
Expanding Frontiers for Origin of Life Research: Serpentine-Hosted Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Vents in New Caledonia

Sibert, Elizabeth, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ichthyoliths Across the KPG Boundary: Response of Pelagic Consumers to a Mass Extinction, Gubbio, Italy

Sperling, Erik, Harvard University
Oxygen, Ecology, and the Cambrian Radiation of Animals: Insights Into the Origins of Complex Life From the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada

Wilbanks, Elizabeth G., University of California, Davis
A Sulfurous Symbiosis: The Dynamic Metatranscriptome of Pink Berries in the Sippewissett Salt Marsh, Falmouth, Massachusetts

Adam, Zachary, Montana State University
Characterizing the Mesoproterozoic Microfossil Record of the Belt Supergroup, Montana

Caporaso, James G., University of Colorado, Boulder
Microbial Community Characterization of the Atacama Desert Soils, Chile

Claire, Mark, University of Washington
Searching for the Driest Place on Earth

Conrad, Alison, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Microbial Ecology of Anoxygenic Arsenite Oxidizing Photoautotrophs in Extreme Environments

Corman, Jessica, Arizona State University
Nutrient Limitation as a Factor for Microbialite Formation in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico

Hendrickson, Sarah, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling in the Deep Crustal Biosphere

Levy, Joseph, Portland State University
Chimerya: Cryosphere-Hydrothermal Interactions: Mars-Yellowstone Research for Astrobiology

Marlow, Jeffrey, California Institute of Technology
Carbonate-Based Anaerobic Methane Oxidation at Hydrate Ridge Methane Seeps

McCauley, Rebecca, Pennsylvania State University
Energy-Limited Microbial Communities as an Analog for Archean Life

Robador Ausejo, Alberto, University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute
Biosphere of Subseafloor Basaltic Crust

Shirey, Timothy B., University of Alabama
Perchlorate Reduction and Biochemistry in the Atacama Desert, Chile: The Search for Biosignatures of Life in a Martian Analog Environment

Webb, Amelinda E., Yale University
Measuring the Effects of Stress on Communities During the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada

Colon, Knicole D., University of Florida
Characterizing Transiting Extrasolar Planets with GTC/OSIRIS

Czaja, Andrew, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Field Trip to Explore Archean and Proterozoic Geology of Western Australia

Huberty, Jason, University of Wisconsin, Madison
5IAS Field Trip to the Pilbara Craton, Including the Fortescue and Hamersley Basins

Knowlton, Michele L., Arizona State University
An Interdisciplinary Look at Nitrogen (n) Fixation Occurring Within the Microbial Mats at Yellowstone National Park

McKeown, Nancy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hyperspectral Study of the Painted Desert, Arizona, to Provide Implications for Mawrth Valis, Mars, a Likely Science Laboratory Landing Site

Percak-Dennett, Elizabeth, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Linking Laboratory and Field Studies of the Mineralogical and Iron Isotope Composition of Banded Iron Formations in Western Australia

Urschel, Matthew, Montana State University
Iron Reduction in the Subglacial Sediments of Robertson Glacier, Canada

Glass, Jennifer, Arizona State University
Evaluation of Molybdenum Diagenesis in Sediments of Castle Lake, California

Papineau, Dominic, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Influences of Phosphorous on the Carbon Cycle in the Paleoproterozoic Aravalli Supergroup

Saw, Jimmy, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Single-Cell Genome Sequencing of a Novel Gloeobacter From an Epilithic Biofilm in a Hawaiian Basaltic Cave

Smith, David J., University of Washington
Measuring Polymorphism in Northern Hemisphere Snow Algae Populations

Trail, Dustin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A Field and Geochemical Investigation of the Oldest Known Rocks on Earth, in Acasta Gneiss Complex, Canada

Wright, Katherine, University of Colorado, Boulder
Biomarkers for Sulfur Metabolism in Icy Non-Terrestrial Environment

Black, Benjamin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Delayed Organic Recovery After End-Permian Mass Extinction and Connections with Siberian Traps, Igneous Province, Russia

Cavalazzi, Barbara, Universita' di Bologna/Portland State University
The Problem of Biogenicity and Its Detection in El Tatio, Chile

Denson, Jackie, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Survey of Microbial Diversity and Microbial Biomarkers, Kenya

Eloe, Emiley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Influence of High Hydrostatic Pressure on Microbials in Puerto Rico Trench

Johnson, Ian, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center
Earth's Oldest Paleosol, Australia

Meyer, Michael, University of South Florida, Tampa
Morphological Change Through Time in the Ediacaran Fossil/Pteridinium in Africa

Myshrall, Kristen, University of Connecticut
Evaluating the Microbial Constituents and Their Metabolisms in Modern Thrombolites at Green Lake, New York

Nunez, Jorge, Arizona State University
Mineralogy of Spring Deposits in New Zealand With Applications to Mars

Planavsky, Noah J. , University of California, Riverside
Sulphur Isotopes in Paleoproterozoic Carabonates Labrador Trough, Canada

Adams, Melissa, Stanford University
Elucidating the in situ Metabolism of Novel Phosphorus Species by Thermophilic Cyanobacteria, Yellowstone National Park

Barge, Laura M. , University of Southern California
Precipitation in Diffusion-Controlled Systems and the Formation of Terrestrial (Utah) and Martian Hematite Concretions

Hage, Melissa, University of Tennessee
Geologic Investigation of Banded Iron Formation from the Isua Greenstone Belt, Southwest Greenland

Harris, Katherine J. , University of Oxford
Geomicrobiology of Mars Analog Lakes in the Andes-High Lakes 2007 Science Expedition

Sobron, Pablo, Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain
Raman Spectroscopy in an Extreme Environment with Astrobiological Implications, Iron Mountain, California

Warner, Nicholas, Arizona State University
Identification and Collection of Subglacially Derived Volcanic Material on the Outwash Plains of Southern Iceland

Fuchsman, Clara , University of Washington
Expedition to the Mid-Proterozoic: Understanding the Nitrogen Cycle in the Black Sea Suboxic Zone

Gleeson, Damhnait , University of Colorado, Boulder,
The Unique, Sulfur-Rich Icy Ecosystem at Borup Fiord Pass, Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian High Arctic

Hynek, Brian , University of Colorado, Boulder
Mars' Astrobiology Potential from Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua

Lopez-Morales Mercedes , Carnegie Institution of Washington
Search for Transits of Extrasolar Planets Using the Swope Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile

Morrill, Penny , Carnegie Institution of Washington
Identification of Gaseous Hydrocarbon Formation from Ultrabasic Springs in Sonoma County, California

Swanson-Hysell, Nicholas , Princeton University
Integrated Magnetic and Chemical Stratigraphy of the Bitter Springs Stage, Australia