ESCI 557 – Planetary Habitability
Room 327, 4-5 PM
Masiello, Yeung, Dasgupta, Dickens, Lenardic, Lee
Student Representatives: Lacey Pyle and Adeene Denton
2 Sep, 2015 – What is Habitability?
1993Kasting_etal – Kasting et al., 1993, Habitable Zones around Main Sequence Stars, Icarus 101, 108-128.
2015_Seager&Bains – Seager and Bains, 2015, The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science, Science Advances 1(2), 1-11.
Presenters: Johnny Seals and Michael Farner
9 Sep, 2015 – Elements: Origin and Distribution
LineweaverScience-2004-Lineweaver-59-62 – Galactic Habitable Zones
Hoffman1988 – silicate differentiation
supplementary reading – AndersGrevesse – cosmochemical composition
16 Sep, 2015 – Water: Origin and Cycling
Robert_Meteorites and Early Solar System
1989_EPSL_McGovern_and_Schubert
Supplementary Reading – Drake2005
Supplementary Reading – Jewitt_Young_Sci_Am_2015-1
23 Sep, 2015 – Carbon: Origin and Cycling
Tajika and Matsui (1992) EPSL (1)
Presenters: Lacey Pyle and Josh Crozier
30 Sep, 2015 – Atmosphere: Density and Composition
Supplementary Reading – Catling Astrobiology 2005
Presenter: Echo Ding
7 Oct, 2015 – Physical Evolution of the Earth
Presenters: Paige Bailey and Adeene Denton
14 Oct, 2015 – Weathering
Supplementary Reading: WalkerGRL1981
Presenters: James and Hehe
21 Oct, 2015 – Miller-Urey Experiment Revisited
Miller 1953 – Miller Urey experiment
Supplementary Reading: Parker et al., 2011
Presenters: Lexi Malouta, Ruthie Halberstadt, and Sriparna Saha
28 Oct, 2015 – From molecules to Life
Supplementary Reading*: Martin et al. – 2008 – Nature Reviews Microbiology – Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life
Presenters: Ruthie Halberstadt, Michael Farner, Lacey Pyle
*Note: Please read the boxes rather than the whole paper
11 Nov, 2015 – Tree of Life
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 2009 Pace-1
