Research
In the beginning of March 2011, a meeting of Nordic and NASA
Astrobiology Scientists near Stockholm to discuss future co-operative
projects in detail. These projects will be forming the backbone of
future Nordic and Nordic-NASA scientific co-operation, e.g. in the
frame of the affiliated partnership of the Nordic Network with NAI.
In this meeting several research areas of interdisciplinary character
have been identified:
- Origin of complex interstellar molecules (Onsala, Stockholm, NASA
Goddard Space Flight Centre)
- Research into polyaromatic hydrocarbons in space hydrogen (Aarhus,
Stockholm University, and NASA Ames Research Centre)
- Analysis of meteorites and stardust as well as microbial mats with
time-of flight mass spectrometry (Stockholm, Technical Research
Institute of Sweden, NASA Ames Research Centre)
- Raman microspectroscopy of cometary and meteoritic samples
(Carnegie Institution of Washington, Bergen)
- Impacts and their consequences for the Evolution of Life (Tartu,
Lund)
- Cryospheric studies in cooperation with the Nordic Centre of
Excellence SVALI (Iceland, Hawai'i)
- COSIMA - the Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (Turku,
Hawai'i)
- Exoplanet research (Copenhagen, Lund, Hawai'i,
Stockholm)
- Viruses as models for early life (Jyväskylä,
Turku)
- Subglacial lakes beneath the Vatnajökull ice cap (Iceland,
Hawai'i)
Thus, a multitude of co-operative research projects in different
disciplines will be carried out by the Nordic Institutions participating
in the Network.
Please check the web pages of the involved institutions
(see menubar on the left) for further details
