Selected Research Topics

• Astrophysics Branch (SSA)
  • IDENTIFYING POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN SPACE
    (Jesse Bregman and Pasquale Temi)
    
    
  • THE AIRES FAR INFRARED DETECTOR ARRAY
    (Edwin Erickson, Jessie Dotson, Jam Farhoomand, and Christopher Mason)
    
    
  • THE WORLD'S LARGEST GRATING
    (Michael R. Haas, James A. Baltz, Edwin F. Erickson, Emmett I. Quigley, and David C. Scimeca)
    
    
  • THE SOFIA WATER VAPOR MONITOR
    (Thomas L. Roellig, Robert Cooper, Brian Shiroyama, Regina Flores, Lunming Yuen, and Allan Meyer)
    
    
  • AMES NEW INTERSTELLAR SIMULATION CHAMBER CAVITY RING DOWN SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERSTELLAR ORGANIC MATERIALS
    (Farid Salama, Ludovic Biennier, Robert Walker, Lou Allamandola, Jim Scherer, and Anthony O'Keefe)
    
    
• Astrobiology Technology Branch (SSR)
  • ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT POWER REDUCTION
    (Cory K. Finn)
    
    
  • SOLID-STATE COMPRESSOR FOR SPACE STATION OXYGEN RECOVERY
    (John Finn)
    
    
  • DEVELOPMENT OF A WASTE PROCESSING INCINERATOR FOR LIFE SUPPORT
    (John W. Fisher)
    
    
  • DEVELOPMENT OF THE VAPOR PHASE CATALYTIC AMMONIA REMOVAL PROCESS
    (Michael Flynn and Bruce Borchers)
    
    
  • PROTEIN NANOTECHNOLOGY
    (Jonathan Trent)
    
    
• Planetary Systems Branch (SST)
  • PARTICLE-GAS DYNAMICS IN THE PROTOPLANETARY NEBULA
    (J.N. Cuzzi, R.C. Hogan, and A.R. Dobrovolskis)
    
    
  • PLANETARY RINGS
    (J.N. Cuzzi, I. Mosqueira, M. Showalter, and F. Poulet)
    
    
  • VORTEX EVOLUTION IN A PROTOPLANETARY DISK
    (Sanford Davis)
    
    
  • LIQUID WATER ON PRESENT DAY MARS?
    (Robert M. Haberle)
    
    
  • THE CENTER FOR STAR FORMATION STUDIES
    (D. Hollenbach, K.R. Bell, and G. Laughlin)
    
    
  • THE FORMATION AND DYNAMICS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS
    (Gregory Laughlin)
    
    
  • STABILITY OF UPSILON ANDROMEDAE'S PLANETARY SYSTEM
    (Jack J. Lissauer and Eugenio Rivera)
    
    
  • THE ORGANIC REFRACTORY MATERIAL IN THE DIFFUSE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM: MID-IR SPECTROSCOPIC CONSTRAINTS
    (Yvonne J. Pendleton and Louis J. Allamandola)
    
    
  • CRATERING RATES ON SYNCHRONOUSLY ROTATING SATELLITES
    (Kevin Zahnle and Paul Schenk)
    
    
• Exobiology Branch (SSX)
  • A GREENHOUSE COLLABORATORY
    (Brad Bebout and Richard Keller)
    
    
  • CHEMIN: A MINERALOGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR MARS EXPLORATION
    (David F. Blake)
    
    
  • SUGAR-RELATED COMPOUNDS IN METEORITES
    (George Cooper, Novelle Kimmich, Josh Sarinana, Katrina Brabham, Laurence Garrel, and Warren Belisle)
    
    
  • EFFECTS OF DISTRUBANCE ON MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES
    (Ken Cullings)
    
    
  • CARBON NANOTUBE DEPOSITION AND GROWTH TECHNIQUE
    (Lance Delzeit)
    
    
  • STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF PROTOCELLS
    (Andrew Pohorille and Michael A. Wilson)
    
    
  • MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE
    (Lee Prufert-Bebout)
    
    
  • RINGDOWN CAVITY FOR ISOTOPIC RATIO MEASUREMENTS OF CARBON AND OXYGEN
    (Todd Sauke and Joe Becker)
    
    
  • PREBIOTIC PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS
    (Arthur L. Weber)