Hot Spring Microbial Community Elemental Composition: Hot Spring and Soil Inputs, and the Transition from Biocumulus to Siliceous Sinter

Biomolecules from Fossilized Hot Spring Sinters: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars

(2020) Bronwyn L. Teece et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fatty Acid Preservation in Modern and Relict Hot-Spring Deposits in Iceland, with Implications for Organics Detection on Mars

(2020) Amy J. Williams et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Reconstructed Subaerial Hot Spring Field in the ∼3.5 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2020) Tara Djokic et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations in Natural Waters on Early Earth

(2019) Sukrit Ranjan et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Case for Ancient Hot Springs in Gusev Crater, Mars

(2019) Steven W. Ruff et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hydrothermal Chemistry and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2019) David Deamer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Intersection of Geology, Geochemistry, and Microbiology in Continental Hydrothermal Systems

(2019) Daniel R. Colman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Anoxygenic Phototrophs Span Geochemical Gradients and Diverse Morphologies in Terrestrial Geothermal Springs

(2019) Trinity L. Hamilton et al.   mSystems

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

(2019) Bruce Damer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Trace Element Concentrations in Hydrothermal Silica Deposits as a Potential Biosignature

(2019) Andrew Gangidine et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Miocene Atastra Creek sinter (Bodie Hills volcanic field, California and Nevada): 4D evolution of a geomorphically intact siliceous hot spring deposit

(2018) Kathleen A. Campbell et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Origin of the RNA world: The fate of nucleobases in warm little ponds

(2017) Ben K. D. Pearce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Life Springs

(2017) Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al.   SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits

(2017) Tara Djokic et al.   Nature Communications

Early entombment within silica minimizes the molecular degradation of microorganisms during advanced diagenesis

(2016) Julien Alleon et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile

(2016) Steven W. Ruff et al.   Nature Communications

Ester-Mediated Amide Bond Formation Driven by Wet-Dry Cycles: A Possible Path to Polypeptides on the Prebiotic Earth

(2015) Jay G. Forsythe et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hydrothermal Conditions and the Origin of Cellular Life

(2015) David W. Deamer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Tracing Biosignature Preservation of Geothermally Silicified Microbial Textures into the Geological Record

(2015) Kathleen A. Campbell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Ordinary stoichiometry of extraordinary microorganisms

(2015) M. Neveu et al.   Geobiology

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of the Yellowstone hydrothermal system

(2014) Shaul Hurwitz et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

The YNP metagenome project: environmental parameters responsible for microbial distribution in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystem

(2014) William Inskeep   Frontiers in Microbiology

Competition for Ammonia Influences the Structure of Chemotrophic Communities in Geothermal Springs

(2013) Trinity L. Hamilton et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

(2012) Gordon R. Osinski et al.   ICARUS

Modeling the Habitat Range of Phototrophs in Yellowstone National Park: Toward the Development of a Comprehensive Fitness Landscape

(2012) Eric S. Boyd et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biological nitrogen fixation in acidic high-temperature geothermal springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

(2011) Trinity L. Hamilton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ammonium in thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park: Processes affecting speciation and isotope fractionation

(2011) JoAnn M. Holloway et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Characteristics, distribution, origin, and significance of opaline silica observed by the Spirit rover in Gusev crater, Mars

(2011) Steven W. Ruff et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars

(2010) J. R. Skok et al.   Nature Geoscience

Identification of hydrated silicate minerals on Mars using MRO-CRISM: Geologic context near Nili Fossae and implications for aqueous alteration

(2009) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Darwin’s warm little pond revisited: from molecules to the origin of life

(2009) Hartmut Follmann et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Sulfur geochemistry of hydrothermal waters in Yellowstone National Park: IV Acid–sulfate waters

(2008) D. Kirk Nordstrom et al.   APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY

A Case for Ancient Springs in Arabia Terra, Mars

(2008) Carlton C. Allen et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Methylmercury enters an aquatic food web through acidophilic microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

(2008) Eric S. Boyd et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Opaline silica in young deposits on Mars

(2008) R.E. Milliken et al.   GEOLOGY

Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars

(2008) S. W. Squyres et al.   SCIENCE