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Antarctica
Arctic
Australia
Idaho
Namibia
North Dakota
Pavilion Lake
United Arab Emirates
Yungay,
Chile:
- Preparation:
- Spaceward
Bound Pilot Program 2006 For Teachers - Liza Coe,
March 20, 2006
- Spaceward Bound via the
Atacama Desert - Chris McKay, March 20, 2006
- Write the Field Guide to Unknown
Organisms - Penny Boston, March 20, 2006
- Human Exploration of the Moon
and Mars - Chris McKay, May 2, 2006
- Yungay Station Travel Primer -
Lauren Fletcher, Chris McKay, May 2, 2006
- Biosignatures: Linking Life and
the Geosphere - Penny Boston, May 16, 2006
- DNA Extraction in Atacama Soils -
Lauren Fletcher, May 16, 2006
- Atacama Life / Vida en Atacama -
Chris McKay and Maite Trujillo, May 16, 2006
- Detecting Life in the Atacama
Desert, Article in The Launch,
Nov. 2006, Page 6
- Interesting Readings:
- Two
Dry For Life: The Atacama Desert and Mars by
Chris McKay, Ad Astr
- Mars
on Earth by David L. Chandler, Wired Magazine
- Researchers
Rain on Mars' Water Gullies Parade by Ker Than, SPACE.com
- Microbial
Life - Educational Resources National Science Digital
Library
- Digging
for Life in the Deadest Desert by Michael Coren, CNN
- Chris McKay's
Three Questions by Joel McKinnon, newmars.com
- In
search of the driest place on Earth; Off to dry Jebel Uweinat by
Chris McKay,
- Caves of Mars from
Penny Boston
- Temperature and
Moisture Conditions for Life in the Extreme Arid Region of the Atacama
Desert McKay et al, Astobiology
- Antiquity of aridity in the Chilean
Atacama Desert by Jonathan D.A. Clarke, Geomorphology
- Images from the Atacama
Desert and Mars - Jacek Wierzchos
- Endolithic Cyanobacteria
in Halite Rocks from the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert -
Jacek Wierzchos
- Searching for life in a handful
of dust from New Scientist Print Edition, David
L. Chandler
- Cavernas
del desierto de Atacama son el nuevo laboratorio de pruebas de la NASA, El
Mercurio, Santiago de Chile
- Discovery Channel Blog: Student
Scientists in the field with David Chandler
- Results and Reports of Atacama Research
Zzyzx, Mojave, CA
- Interesting Readings
- NEW - June 2011
Spaceward
Bound at Ubehebe Crater, by Stephanie Kyriazis,
Education Specialist, Death Valley National Park
- Global
change and biological soil crusts: effects of ultraviolet
augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and
nitrogen additions (Belnap et al)
- Three
distinct clades of cultured heterocystous cyanobacteria constitute
the dominantN2-¢xingmembers of biological soil
crusts of
the ColoradoPlateau,USA
(Yeager, et al)
- Article
on the holographic microscope referred
to by Henry Sun in Mojave 2010 Training
I.
- Desert
Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National
Preserve and Vicinity
- Spaceward
Bound Mojave Briefing Package (11/06) National Park Service, Mojave
National Preserve
- BLM
Field Office at Barstow
- BLM
Field Office at Needles
- Amboy
Crater info at BLM:
(includes
photo
of rover
in crater!)
- CSU Desert Studies Center,
Zzyzx
- Desert
Discovery Center, Barstow The DDC
is a partnership between NPS, BLM, Barstow
schools, Barstow Community College.
- Desert Research Institute,
one of our partners:
- USGS
Geology of Mojave: includes
field trip:
- California
State Parks, Providence Mountains SRA, with Mitchell Caverns
- Great
Mojave info site
- A
clever kids site about "Mojave Max" a
tortoise.
Developed by Clark County schools, NV,
pretty
NV-centric, but a good resource
- From BLM
Environmental Education Resources "A
Place in the Sun" about
the Mojave Desert - has an
excellent teacher resource list
- DesertUSA -
commercial site with very good Mojave
info
- USGS
website El Nino in the desert -
El Nino spawned landslides, debris-flows
and flash floods as geologic processes
that create the desert landscape
- USGS website Our Dynamic
Desert Landscape
- Bacterial Diversity in Three Different Antarctic
Cold Desert Mineral Soils
- Levels of Bacterial Community Diversity
in Four Arid Soils Compared by Cultivation and 16S rRNA Gene Cloning
- Thermal Behavior of Earth Caves:
A Proxy for Gaining Inference int Martian Cave Detection
- Mojave Natonal Preserve
Geologic Resources Management Issues Scoping Summary
- Stop! Don't step on that soil. It's full
of life.
- Caves
on Mars detected with the same technique that Jim and his team will be
using in Mojave from the balloon
- Precipitation history
and ecosystem response to multidecadal precipitation
variability in the Mojave Desert region, 1893–2001
- Abundance and distribution of selected elementsin
soils, stream sediments, and selected forage plants from desert tortoise
habitats in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, USA
- The effect of spatial resolutionon measurement
of vegetation cover in three Mojave Desert shrub communities
- Dominance and environmental correlates of alien
annual plants in the MojaveDesert, USA
- Spatial and temporal patterns
of wildfires in the Mojave Desert, 1980–2004
- Attributes of desert tortoise populations at
the National Training Center, Central Mojave Desert, California, USA
- Seroprevalence of Mycoplasma
agassizii and tortoise herpes virus in captive desert tortoises
(Gopherusagassizii) from the Greater
Barstow Area, MojaveDesert, California
- LizLand: A geomorphic approach to lizard habitat
modeling in the Mojave Desert
- Conservation genetics, evolution and distinct population
segments of the Mojave fringe-toed lizard, Uma scoparia
- Ecologyof a population of subsidizedpredators:
Common ravens in the central Mojave Desert, California
- What's Up Down There? Microbial Diversity
in Caves
- Soil Genesis on
Beach Ridges of Pluvial Lake Mojave: Implications
for Holocene Lacustrine and Eolian Events in the
Mojave Desert, Southern California
- Response of alluvial
fan systems to the late Pleistocene to Holocene climatic
transition: contrasts between the margins of pluvial Lakes
Lahontan and Mojave, Nevada and California, USA
- Cosmogenic 3He surface-exposure
dating of stone pavements: Implications for landscape evolution in deserts
- Extracting Holocene
paleohydrology and paleoclimatology information from modern
extreme flood events: An example from southern California
- Late Cenozoic landscape evolution on lava flow surfaces
of the Cima volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California
- Degradation of Quaternary cinder cones in the Cima
volcanic field, Mojave Desert, California
- Influences of eolian and pedogenic
processes on the origin and evolution of desert pavement
- Late
Pleistocene and Holocene Changes in Hillslope Sediment
Supply to Alluvial Fan Systems: Zzyzx, California
- Late Quaternary variations in alluvia
fan sedimentologic and geomorphic processes, Soda Lake
basin, eastern Mojave Desert, California
- Late Pleistocene lakes along the Mojave River, southeast
California
- Late Quaternary geology and paleohydrology of pluvial
Lake Mojave, southern California
- Surface mosaic map unit development
for a desert pavement surface
- LETTERS TO
NATURE: Atmospheric circulation during Holocene lake stands
in the Mojave Desert: evidence of regional climate change
- Influence of Late
Quaternary Climatic Changes on Geomorphic and Pedogenic
Processes on a Desert Piedmont, Eastern Mojave Desert,
California
- Are the Benches at Mormon Point, Death
Valley, California, USA, Scarps or Strandlines?
- Spring and Lakes in a Desert
Landscape: Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Investigations
in the Silurian Valley and Adjacent Areas of Southeastern,
California
- Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of Death
Valley
- Paleoecology reconstruction from
trapped gases in a fulgurite from the late Pleistocene of the Libyan Desert
- Abstract approved for presentation at the National Speleological Society's
annual convention in August 2008
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