ESCI 557 – Planetary Habitability

Room 327, 4-5 PM

Masiello, Yeung, Dasgupta, Dickens, Lenardic, Lee

Student Representatives: Lacey Pyle and Adeene Denton

Schedule


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

Holland GCA 2002

Supplementary Reading – Catling Astrobiology 2005

Presenter: Echo Ding


7 Oct, 2015 – Physical Evolution of the Earth

Arndt and Nesbit, 2012

Presenters: Paige Bailey and Adeene Denton


14 Oct, 2015 – Weathering

Menou 2015 Climate Stability

Supplementary Reading: WalkerGRL1981

Presenters: James and Hehe


21 Oct, 2015 – Miller-Urey Experiment Revisited

BadaCSR 2013

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

Nature Chemistry 2015 Patel

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

Nature 2015 Spang

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 2009 Pace-1

NYTimesWoese1977


18 Nov, 2015 – The Rise of Oxygen

Nature 2015 Lyons


2 Dec, 2015 – Catastrophes

Knoll_P-T-extinction_07

Alvarez_K-Timpact_Science80