NfoLD Organizational Structure
NfoLD is overseen by a representative from NASA headquarters, three co-leads, and a steering committee comprised of the PIs of NASA ROSES R&A awards. In the future, ROSES proposers will be able to volunteer to join NfoLD Steering Committee by responding to a query during the proposal submission process. NfoLD also offers affiliate membership to persons, groups, or organizations whose research interests, goals, and vision are aligned with those of NfoLD and would like to actively participate in NfoLD-organized activities.
THE TEAM
NASA HQ | HQ Liason
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | Co-Lead
Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
TEAM MEMBERS: Heather Graham, Eric V Anslyn, Pan Conrad, Lee Cronin, Andrew Ellington, Jamie Elsila Cook, Pete Girguis, Chris House, Chris Kempes, Eric Libby, Paul Mahaffy, Jay Nadeau, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Andrew Steele, Anais Roussel, Andrew Hyde, Tyler Garvin, Geoff Cooper, Lingyu Zeng, Arda Gulay, Béatrice Leydier, Xiang Li, Andrej Grubisic, Jeffrey Marlow, William B Brinckerhoff, Matthew Fricke, Melanie Moses
GEORGIA TECH | Co-Lead
Oceans Across Time and Space (OAST)
TEAM MEMBERS: Jeff Bowman, Doug Bartlett, Cristopher Carr, Anne Dekas, Peter Doran, Jennifer Glass. Ellery Ingall, Alison Olcott Marshall, Alexandra Pontefract, Christopher Reinhard, Krista Soderlund, Sanjoy Som, Frank Stewart, Amanda Stockton, James Wray, Joseph Levy, Greg Rouse, Craig MarshallChris Bennett, John Moores, Ray Jayawardhana, Tim Lyons, Natalie Robinson, Craig Stevens, Mike Williams, Inga Smith, Justin Lawrence, Jacob Buffo
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER | Co-Lead
Center for Life Detection Science (CLDS)
TEAM MEMBERS: Lee Bebout, Will Brinckerhoff, Chris Dateo, Alfonso Davila, David Des Marais, Jen Eigenbrode, Craig Everroad, Stephanie Getty, Danny Glavin, Linda Jahnke, Barbara Lafuente Valverde, Owen Lehmer,Paul Mahaffy, Niki Parenteau, Andrew Porhille, Richard Quinn, Andro Rios, Sanjoy Som, Mary Beth Wilhelm
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCE
Steering Committee
Sorting out active vs. inactive microbes in subsurface oceanic crust Icy World analogs
TEAM MEMBERS: Dr. Jackie Goordial, Dr. Anne Booker, Mr. Tim D’Angelo, Dr. Melody Lindsay
MIT
Steering Committee
PHOTON SYSTEMS, INC.
Steering Committee
Advancing the TRL of a Compact, High Dynamic Range Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
Chlorophyll d as a model for biosignature evolution
TEAM MEMBERS: Nancy Kiang, Niki Parenteau, Min Chen, Robert Blankenship
ALEXANDER PAVLOV
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Steering Committee
Exploring destruction of biomolecules in Martian rocks and regolith by Cosmic Rays
FRANK CORSETTI
USC
Steering Committee
NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Robert Hodyss, Michael Malask, Ken Cooper, Deacon Nemchick, Pr Brooks Pate, Martin Holdren
SRI INTERNATIONAL
Steering Committee
Membrane Extraction for Space Applications
TEAM MEMBERS: Strawn Toler, Jennifer Stern, Charles Malespin
DAVID BLAKE
NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
Steering Committee
Mapping X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (MapX)
TEAM MEMBERS: Thomas Bristow, Robert Downs, Marc Gailhanou, Franck Marchis, Douglas Ming, Richard Morris, Philippe Sarrazin, Vincent Armando Solé, Kathleen Thompson, Philippe Walter, Michael Wilson, Albert Yen, Samuel Webb, Richard Walroth
UC RIVERSIDE
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Andrey Bekker, Carina Lee, Kelden Pehr, Adam Hoffmann, Nathan Marshall, Adriana Rizzo
SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Steering Committee
Toward Geophysical Detection of the Biological Modification of Ice
TEAM MEMBERS: Katie Primm
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
SLICE Spectral Signs of Life in Ice
TEAM MEMBERS: Marco Tedesco and Shujie Wang, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University , Christine Foreman, Markus Dieser, Heidi Smith and Mitch Messmer, Montana State University
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
Biosignature Preservation in Sulfate-Dominated Hypersaline Environments
TEAM MEMBERS: Magdalena Osburn, Christopher Carr, Jack Szostak, Shuhei Ono, Virgnia Walker
MIT
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Tyler Mackey, Julia Wilcots, Marjorie Cantine, Noah Anderson
SETI INSTITUTE
Steering Committee
ebot for Exobiology Research (InVADER)
TEAM MEMBERS: Tayro Acosta-Maeda, Jan Amend, Laurie Barge, Justin Burnett, Renaud Detry, Ivria Doloboff, Ninos Hermis, Deborah Kelley, Dana Manalang, Aaron Margburg, Anupam Misra, Anuscheh Nawaz, Roy Price, Fredrik Rehnmark, Marianne Smith, Pablo Sobron, Blair Thornton, David Yu, Kris Zacny
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Luke Hanley, Joey Pasterski, Raveendra C. Wickramasinghe
RICARDO AREVALO
UMD
Steering Committee
Miniaturized Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS) for Trace Element Analysis
TEAM MEMBERS: Ben Farcy, William McDonough, Mazdak Taghioskoui, Mehdi Benna, William Brinckerhoff ,Grace Ni
NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Steering Committee
SELFI (Submillimeter Enceladus Life Fundamentals Instrument)
TEAM MEMBERS: Carie Anderson, Damon Bradley, Terry Hurford, Tilak Hewagama, Tim Livengood, Paul Racette, ,Karen Junge
BERKELEY
Steering Committee
The Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA)
TEAM MEMBERS: Anna Butterwirth, Amanda Stockton, Jungkyu Kim, James New, Matin Golozar
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
Probing in situ microbial activity and function using stable isotopes and substrate analogs
TEAM MEMBERS: Anthony Kohtz, Mackenzie Lynes, George Schaible
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
Preservation and detection of extremophiles in Mars-analog halite and gypsum
TEAM MEMBERS: Anna Sofia Andeskie
NEW MEXICO TECH
Steering Committee
Gypsum-hosted biosignatures in subterranean chemosynthetic ecosystems
TEAM MEMBERS: Heather Graham, Jennifer Stern, Scott Wankel
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Karen Junge, Bonnie Light, Brook Nunn, Marcella Ewart Sarmiento, Jonathon Toner
UMD/NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Shahid Aslam, Tilak Hewagama, Nicolas Gorius, Anand Sampath, Jonathan Schuster
SETI Institute
Steering Committee
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Steering Committee
GEORGIA TECH
Steering Committee
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
Steering Committee
Targeted Life Detection in Subsurface Serpentinites
TEAM MEMBERS: Eric Boyd, Srishti Kashyap, Tristan Caro, Mason Munro-Ehrlich, Dan Colman, Rachel Spietz, Alexis England
JHU APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
Steering Committee
TEAM MEMBERS: Michael France, Jani Radebaugh, Ralph Lorenz, Jacques Ravel
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
Steering Committee
Europan Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI)
TEAM MEMBERS: Peter Willis, Tony Ricco, Andrej Grubisic, Jennifer Stern, Fernanda Mora, Jessica Creamer, Richard Quinn, Ryan Danell, Kris Zacny, Cyril Szopa
NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
Steering Committee
In-Situ Vent Analysis Divebot for Exobiology Research / Phosphorous Redox Chemistry on Rocky and Icy Planets
Field Sites
BRITNEY SCHMIDT
Oceans Across Time and Space (OAST)
BRITNEY SCHMIDT
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