2023

Mineral-Mediated Oligoribonucleotide Condensation: Broadening the Scope of Prebiotic Possibilities on the Early Earth
Vincent S. Riggi, E. Bruce Watson, Andrew Steele, Karyn L. Rogers
Life, 13, 2023.

Spectral properties and stability of selected carotenoid and chlorophyll compounds in different solvent systems
Eyosias L. Ashenafi, Marianne C. Nyman, Jacob T. Shelley, Neil S. Mattson
Food Chemistry Advances, 2, 2023.

Characterization of a Low-Temperature Plasma (LTP) Ambient Ionization Source Using Temporally Resolved Monochromatic Imaging Spectrometry
George C.Y. Chan, Carsten Engelhard, Joshua S. Wiley, Ayanna U. Shoulds, R. Graham Cooks, Gary M. Hieftje, Jacob T. Shelley
Applied Spectroscopy, 77, 2023, pp.940-956.

A 600 kyr reconstruction of deep Arctic seawater δ18O from benthic foraminiferal δ18O and ostracode Mg/Ca paleothermometry
Jesse R. Farmer, Katherine J. Keller, Robert K. Poirier, Gary S. Dwyer, Morgan F. Schaller, Helen K. Coxall, Matt O'regan, Thomas M. Cronin
Climate of the Past, 19, 2023, pp.555-578.

In Situ Measurement of Liquid and Gas CO2 with High Purity at Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vents in the Mariana Arc using Raman Spectroscopy
Tomoko Takahashi, Wataru Takahagi, Eiji Tasumi, Akiko Makabe, Koudai Taguchi, Blair Thornton, Ken Takai
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7, 12, 2489-2497, 2023.

Extreme accumulation of ammonia on electroreduced mackinawite: An abiotic ammonia storage mechanism in early ocean hydrothermal systems
Wataru Takahagi, Satoshi Okada, Yohei Matsui, Shigeaki Ono, Ken Takai, Yoshio Takahashi, Norio Kitadai
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, 41, e2303302120, 2023.

2022

Nucleobases in Meteorites to Nucleobases in RNA and DNA?
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Aaron D. Goldman, David A. Liberles, Karyn L. Rogers, Yitzhak Tor
Journal of Molecular Evolution, 90, 2022, pp.328-331.

Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments
Ulrich F. Müller, Jamie Elsila, Dustin Trail, Saurja DasGupta, Claudia Corina Giese, Craig R. Walton, Zachary R. Cohen, Tomislav Stolar, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Timothy W. Lyons, Karyn L. Rogers, Loren Dean Williams
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 52, 2022, pp.165-181.

Characterizing the Piezosphere: The Effects of Decompression on Microbial Growth Dynamics
Anaïs Cario, Gina C. Oliver, Karyn L. Rogers
Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, 2022.

Organic synthesis associated with serpentinization and carbonation on early Mars
A. Steele, L. G. Benning, R. Wirth, A. Schreiber, T. Araki, F. M. McCubbin, M. D. Fries, L. R. Nittler, J. Wang, L. J. Hallis, P. G. Conrad, C. Conley, S. Vitale, A. C. O'Brien, V. Riggi, K. Rogers
Science, 375, 2022, pp.172-177.

Differential mobility spectrometry improves uranium isotope ratio measurements on an ion trap mass spectrometer
Ifeoluwa Ayodeji, Alexandra Keidel, Nelson Perdomo, Jacob Shelley, Theresa Evans-Nguyen
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 472, 2022.

A geochronologically-constrained stable isotope record of the Upper Triassic Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) at Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA): Testing for paleoenvironmental linkages with biotic change and the Manicouagan impact
Cornelia Rasmussen, Randall B. Irmis, Roland Mundil, Morgan F. Schaller, John Geissman, William G. Parker, Christopher J. Lepre, Paul E. Olsen
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601, 2022.

Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs
Paul Olsen, Jingeng Sha, Yanan Fang, Clara Chang, Jessica H. Whiteside, Sean Kinney, Hans Dieter Sues, Dennis Kent, Morgan Schaller, Vivi Vajda
Science Advances, 8, 2022.

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes explain methylmercury concentrations in stream food webs of Lake George, New York (USA)
M. W. Swinton, P. K. Myer, M. F. Schaller, E. A. Pettitt, J. L. Farrell, S. A. Nierzwicki-Bauer
Ecotoxicology, 31, 2022, pp.808-821.

Geoelectrochemistry-driven alteration of amino acids to derivative organics in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies
Yamei Li, Norio Kitadai, Yasuhito Sekine, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yuko Nakano, Kristin Johnson-Finn
Nature Communications, 13, 2022.

AbGradCon 2021: lessons in digital meetings, international collaboration, and interdisciplinarity in astrobiology
Tony Z. Jia, Kristin N. Johnson-Finn, Osama M. Alian, Irene Bonati, Kosuke Fujishima, Natalie Grefenstette, Thilina Heenatigala, Yamei Li, Natsumi Noda, Petar I. Penev, Paula Prondzinsky, Harrison B. Smith
International Journal of Astrobiology, 21, 2022, pp.497-523.

2021

Modern plasma-based desorption/ionization: from atoms and molecules to chemical synthesis
Brian T. Molnar, Jacob T. Shelley
Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 40, 2021, pp.609-627.

Effects of solvent composition on ionization and fragmentation within the solution-cathode glow discharge
Courtney L. Walton, Andrew J. Schwartz, Jacob T. Shelley
Journal of Applied Physics, 130, 2021.

Unsupervised Reconstruction of Analyte-Specific Mass Spectra Based on Time-Domain Morphology with a Modified Cross-Correlation Approach
Yi You, Linxia Song, Montwaun D. Young, Matthew Van Der Wielen, Theresa Evans-Nguyen, Jens Riedel, Jacob T. Shelley
Analytical Chemistry, 93, 2021, pp.5009-5014.

Optical and mass-spectral characterization of mixed-gas flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow sources
Sunil P. Badal, Paul B. Farnsworth, George C.Y. Chan, Brian T. Molnar, Jessica R. Hellinger, Jacob T. Shelley
Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy, 176, 2021.

Progress toward a VUV Raman spectrometer to detect pathogens
Sanja Dmitrovic, Brian Molnar, Young Sik Kim, David Schumann, James Foley, Jacob T. Shelley, Tom D. Milster
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 11655, 2021.

Characterization of Asphaltenes and Petroleum Using Benzenepolycarboxylic Acids (BPCAs) and Compound-Specific Stable Carbon Isotopes
Aleksandar I. Goranov, Morgan F. Schaller, Jonathan A. Long, David C. Podgorski, Sasha Wagner
Energy and Fuels, 35, 2021, pp.18135-18145.

Quantifying Diagenesis, Contributing Factors, and Resulting Isotopic Bias in Benthic Foraminifera Using the Foraminiferal Preservation Index: Implications for Geochemical Proxy Records
Robert K. Poirier, Madison Q. Gaetano, Kimberly Acevedo, Morgan F. Schaller, Maureen E. Raymo, Reinhard Kozdon
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, 2021.

Hydrothermal One-Electron Oxidation of Carboxylic Acids in the Presence of Iron Oxide Minerals
Kristin N. Johnson-Finn, Lynda B. Williams, Ian R. Gould, Hilairy E. Hartnett, Everett L. Shock
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5, 2021, pp.2715-2728.

2020

Rate and Extent of Growth of a Model Extremophile, Archaeoglobus fulgidus, Under High Hydrostatic Pressures
Gina C. Oliver, Anaïs Cario, Karyn L. Rogers
Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 2020.

Quantitative High-Resolution Imaging of Live Microbial Cells at High Hydrostatic Pressure
Anais C. Bourges, Alexander Lazarev, Nathalie Declerck, Karyn L. Rogers, Catherine A. Royer
Biophysical Journal, 118, 2020, pp.2670-2679.

Cooperative Heteroligand Interaction with G-Quadruplexes Shows Evidence of Allosteric Binding
Shankar Pandey, Yuanyuan Li, Montwaun D. Young, Shankar Mandal, Laichun Lu, Jacob T. Shelley, Hanbin Mao
Biochemistry, 59, 2020, pp.3438-3446.

Progress toward a VUV Raman spectrometer to detect pathogens with the samples in air
Sanja Dmitrovic, Brian Molnar, Young Sik Kim, David Schumann, James Foley, Jacob T. Shelley, Tom D. Milster
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2020.

A new calibration technique for quantitative gas analyses of fluid inclusions using a quadrupole mass spectrometer
Elizabeth A. Pettitt, Morgan F. Schaller
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 34, 2020.

Diffusive retention of carbon and nitrogen in a microcrystalline quartz-dominated chert: Implications for reconstructing Earth's ancient atmosphere
E. A. Pettitt, D. J. Cherniak, M. F. Schaller, E. B. Watson
Chemical Geology, 541, 2020.

The Canary in the Coal Mine: Testate Amoebae Record Anthropogenic Impacts in Sediments of Oligotrophy Lake George, NY, USA
Krystyna M. Kornecki, Matthew S. Schuler, Miraim E. Katz, Rick A. Relyea, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Morgan F. Schaller, David P. Gillikin, J. Curt Stager, Chuck W. Boylen, Lawrence W. Eichler, Sandra A. Nierzwicki-Bauer
Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 50, 2020, pp.128-140.

Nitrogen Diffusion in Calcite
Daniele Cherniak, Morgan Schaller, Bruce Watson
Geophysical Monograph Series, 249, 2020, pp.97-104.

Kinetics and Mechanisms of Hydrothermal Ketonic Decarboxylation
Kristin N. Johnson-Finn, Ian R. Gould, Lynda B. Williams, Hilairy E. Hartnett, Everett L. Shock
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 4, 2020, pp.2082-2095.

2019

Exploring the Deep Marine Biosphere: Challenges, Innovations, and Opportunities
Anaïs Cario, Gina C. Oliver, Karyn L. Rogers
Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 2019.

The next frontier for planetary and human exploration
V. Stamenković, L. W. Beegle, K. Zacny, D. D. Arumugam, P. Baglioni, N. Barba, J. Baross, M. S. Bell, R. Bhartia, J. G. Blank, P. J. Boston, D. Breuer, W. Brinckerhoff, M. S. Burgin, I. Cooper, V. Cormarkovic, A. Davila, R. M. Davis, C. Edwards, G. Etiope, W. W. Fischer, D. P. Glavin, R. E. Grimm, F. Inagaki, J. L. Kirschvink, A. Kobayashi, T. Komarek, M. Malaska, J. Michalski, B. Ménez, M. Mischna, D. Moser, J. Mustard, T. C. Onstott, V. J. Orphan, M. R. Osburn, J. Plaut, A. C. Plesa, N. Putzig, K. L. Rogers, L. Rothschild, M. Russell, H. Sapers, B. Sherwood Lollar, T. Spohn, J. D. Tarnas, M. Tuite, D. Viola, L. M. Ward, B. Wilcox, R. Woolley
Nature Astronomy, 3, 2019, pp.116-120.

Organic synthesis on Mars by electrochemical reduction of CO2
A. Steele, L. G. Benning, R. Wirth, S. Siljeström, M. D. Fries, E. Hauri, P. G. Conrad, K. Rogers, J. Eigenbrode, A. Schreiber, A. Needham, J. H. Wang, F. M. McCubbin, D. Kilcoyne, Juan Diego Rodriguez Blanco
Science Advances, 4, 2018.