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New
Habitability of Exoplanets Research Group (HERG)
This group has been formed to study the potential habitability of newly
discovered planets outside of our Solar System.
Team Members
Dirk
Schulze-Makuch (Astrobiology, Planetary
Habitability)
Washington State University
dirksm@wsu.edu
Edward Guinan (Astronomy)
Villanova
University
edward.guinan@villanova.edu
Alfonso Davila (Planetary Habitability)
SETI
adavila@seti.org
Alberto Fairen (Planetary Sciences)
NASA Ames
alberto.g.fairen@nasa.gov
Marina Resendes de Sousa Antonio (Astrobiology)
Washington
State University
quimarina@wsu.edu
Carol Turse (Microbiology)
Washington
State University
carol@turse.org
Brooks Harrop (Physics, Modeling)
Washington State University
harrop_b@hotmail.com
Abel Mendez (Habitability Modeling)
University of Puerto Rico
abel.mendez@upr.edu
Mariana Martinez (Astronomy)
Universidad
de la Republica, Montevideo,Uruguay mariana@fisica.edu.uy
Grayson Boyer (Biochemistry)
Washington
State University
lunanegra@wsu.edu
Philip von Paris (Exoplanet Modeling)
German Aerospace Center
philip.vonparis@dlr.de
Recent Presentations :
Schulze-Makuch, D., Haque, S., Resendes de Sousa Antonio, M., Ali, D., Hosein, R., Song, Y.C., Yang, J., Zaikova, E., Beckles, D.M., Guinan, E., Lehto, H.J., and Hallam, S.J. (2011) Microbial Life at Low Water Activity: A Natural Liquid Asphalt Lake and Titan EANA Meeting, Cologne, Germany, 11-14 July 2011.
AbSciCon 2010: Schulze-Makuch, D. and Guinan, E.F. (2010) Life around a red dwarf (dM) star with special emphasis on Gliese 581.
AbSciCon 2010: Harrop, B.L. and Schulze-Makuch, D. (2010) The detection of a Dyson-Harrop Satellite: a technologically feasible astro-engineering project and alternative to the traditional Dyson Sphere.
Schulze-Makuch, D. and Guinan, E.F. (2010) Gliese 581d: A Possibly Habitable
Planet around a Red Dwarf Star. European Planetary Science Conference (EPSC)
2010. Rome, Italy, Sept. 19-25, 2010.
Leitner, J.J., Schulze-Makuch, D., Firneis, M.G., Hitzenberger,
R., and Neubauer, D. (2010) Solvents of interest for exotic life on planetary
bodies in life supporting zones around main sequence stars. 10th
European Workshop on Astrobiology (EANA'10) Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia,
Sept. 6-8, 2010.
Papers
Schulze-Makuch, D., Méndez, A., Fairén, A.G., von Paris, P., Turse, C., Boyer, G., Davila, A.F., António, M.R.S., Catling, D., and Irwin, L.N. A two-tiered approach to assessing the habitability of exoplanets. In press at Astrobiology.
Brooks, H. and Schulze-Makuch, D. (2010) The Solar Wind Power Satellite as an alternative to a traditional Dyson Sphere and its implications for remote detection. Int. J. Astrobiology, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 89-99.
Guinan, E.F., Schulze-Makuch, D., and Martinez, M. (2010) Life around a Red Dwarf (dM) Star with special emphasis on Gliese 581. Manuscript in preparation.
Schulze-Makuch, D., Mendez, A., Fairén, A.G., von Paris, P., Turse,
C., Boyer, G, Davila, A.F., and António, M.R.S. (2010) A dynamic
scheme to assess habitability of exoplanets. IN: Cellular Origin, Life
in Extreme Habitats, and Astrobiology: Life on Earth and Other Planets
(eds.: J. Seckback, S. Kempe, and A. Hanslmeier), pp xxx-xxx, in press.
