Nitrogen Cycling and Biosignatures in a Hyperarid Mars Analog Environment

Spatial Variability of Microbial Communities and Salt Distributions Across a Latitudinal Aridity Gradient in the Atacama Desert

(2021) Jianxun Shen et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Seasonal variability of sediment controls of nitrogen cycling in an agricultural stream

(2020) Sophie A. Comer-Warner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Metabolomics As an Emerging Tool in the Search for Astrobiologically Relevant Biomarkers

(2020) Lauren Seyler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate

(2020) Jianxun Shen et al.   Geobiology

Indigenous Organic‐Oxidized Fluid Interactions in the Tissint Mars Meteorite

(2019) Elizabeth A. Jaramillo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Local Meteoric Water Line of Northern Chile (18° S–30° S): An Application of Error-in-Variables Regression to the Oxygen and Hydrogen Stable Isotope Ratio of Precipitation

(2019) Boschetti et al.   Water

Characteristics of desert varnish from nanometer to micrometer scale: A photo-oxidation model on its formation

(2019) Xiaoming Xu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Tracing elevational changes in microbial life and organic carbon sources in soils of the Atacama Desert

(2019) Claudia Knief et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

More than ten million years of hyper-aridity recorded in the Atacama Gravels

(2018) Tao Sun et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Isotope stratigraphy: Insights on paleoclimate and formation of nitrate deposits in the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2018) Erik B. Melchiorre et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Atmospheric CO2 effect on stable carbon isotope composition of terrestrial fossil archives

(2018) Vincent J. Hare et al.   Nature Communications

Nitrate Deposits of the Atacama Desert: A Marker of Long-Term Hyperaridity

(2018) Martin Reich et al.   Elements

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

(2018) R. Orosei et al.   SCIENCE

Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

(2018) A. Azua-Bustos et al.   Scientific Reports

Differential metamorphic effects on nitrogen isotopes in kerogen extracts and bulk rocks

(2017) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The nitrogen cycle: A review of isotope effects and isotope modeling approaches

(2017) Tobias R.A. Denk et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

(2016) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Isotopic overprinting of nitrification on denitrification as a ubiquitous and unifying feature of environmental nitrogen cycling

(2016) Julie Granger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen isotopic exchange and fractionation during bacterial ammonia oxidation

(2016) Karen L. Casciotti et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Global patterns and environmental controls of perchlorate and nitrate co-occurrence in arid and semi-arid environments

(2015) W. Andrew Jackson et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars

(2015) F. Javier Martín-Torres et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from theCuriosityrover investigations at Gale crater, Mars

(2015) Jennifer C. Stern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen stable isotope composition and the origins of cupric nitrate mineralization

(2014) Erik B. Melchiorre et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Physiological and isotopic characteristics of nitrogen fixation by hyperthermophilic methanogens: Key insights into nitrogen anabolism of the microbial communities in Archean hydrothermal systems

(2014) Manabu Nishizawa et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Quantitative constraints on the 17O-excess (Δ17O) signature of surface ozone: Ambient measurements from 50°N to 50°S using the nitrite-coated filter technique

(2014) William C. Vicars et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Climate change and tectonic uplift triggered the formation of the Atacama Desert’s giant nitrate deposits

(2014) Alida Pérez-Fodich et al.   GEOLOGY

Integrated Analysis of Transcriptomic and Proteomic Data

(2013) Saad Haider et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

Implications of nitrate and nitrite isotopic measurements for the mechanisms of nitrogen cycling in the Peru oxygen deficient zone

(2013) Karen L. Casciotti et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Evidence of martian perchlorate, chlorate, and nitrate in Mars meteorite EETA79001: Implications for oxidants and organics

(2013) Samuel P. Kounaves et al.   ICARUS

The formation of sulfate, nitrate and perchlorate salts in the martian atmosphere

(2013) Megan L. Smith et al.   ICARUS

Ammonia oxidation pathways and nitrifier denitrification are significant sources of N2O and NO under low oxygen availability

(2013) X. Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular preservation in halite- and perchlorate-rich hypersaline subsurface deposits in the Salar Grande basin (Atacama Desert, Chile): Implications for the search for molecular biomarkers on Mars

(2013) D. C. Fernández-Remolar et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Massive atmospheric nitrate accumulation in a continental interior desert, northwestern China

(2012) Yan Qin et al.   GEOLOGY

Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones

(2010) Phyllis Lam et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Hygroscopic Salts and the Potential for Life on Mars

(2010) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Atmospheric origins of perchlorate on Mars and in the Atacama

(2010) D. C. Catling et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Updated global map of Martian valley networks and implications for climate and hydrologic processes

(2010) Brian M. Hynek et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation during dissimilatory nitrate reduction by denitrifying bacteria

(2010) Julie Granger et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Oxygen isotopic fractionation and exchange during bacterial nitrite oxidation

(2010) Carolyn Buchwald et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Ancient ocean on Mars supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys

(2010) Gaetano Di Achille et al.   Nature Geoscience

The late Quaternary loess record of Tokaj, Hungary: Reconstructing palaeoenvironment, vegetation and climate using stable C and N isotopes and biomarkers

(2010) Ann-Kathrin Schatz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Bacterial diversity and occurrence of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in the Atacama Desert soil during a “desert bloom” event

(2010) Julieta Orlando et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Geologic history of Mars

(2009) Michael H. Carr et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Inverse kinetic isotope fractionation during bacterial nitrite oxidation

(2009) Karen L. Casciotti   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

N and O isotope effects during nitrate assimilation by unicellular prokaryotic and eukaryotic plankton cultures

(2009) J. Granger et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Bacterial Nitric-oxide Synthases Operate without a Dedicated Redox Partner

(2008) Ivan Gusarov et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Production of15N-depleted biomass during cyanobacterial N2-fixation at high Fe concentrations

(2008) Aubrey L. Zerkle et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Non-biological fractionation of stable Ca isotopes in soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2007) Stephanie A. Ewing et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA