Our MIT colleagues also involved in Geobiology:
We continuously share ideas and resources with groups worldwide, including:
- Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Foundations of Complex Life, the MIT NASA Astrobiology Team
- Xiaolei Liu at Oklahoma University, USA
- Paula Welander at Stanford University, USA
- Gordon Love at the University of California, Riverside, USA
- Derek Briggs at Yale University, USA
- Jakob Vinther at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
- Eric Alm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Matthew Collins at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Linda Jahnke at NASA Ames, USA
- Andy Knoll’s Group at Harvard, USA
- Australian Center for Astrobiology at the UNSW
- Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleobiology, China
- GeoMark Research, USA
- Geoscience Australia
- Kliti Grice at Curtin University, Australia
- Professor Alex Sessions at Caltech, USA
- Professor Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs at University of Bremen, Germany
- Professor Everett Shock at Arizona State University, USA
- Professor Katherine Freeman at Penn State, USA
- Stefan Sievert at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA
Links that we have found particularly useful
- Cyberlipid Center – a nice, frequently updated resource for lipids, with lots of information about lipids and lipid analysis
- i-mass.com, international mass spectrometry web source: lots of information, structures and links to other mass spectrometry resources
- The Tree of Life Web Project: a rather amazing collection of information about the diversity of organisms on earth. detailed pages, peer-reviewed, for many, many groups of organisms
- GenBank: genome sequence database maintained by NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of NIH)
- NCBI Genome: complete genome database
- Hawaii Ocean Time Series: an astounding collection of biological and oceanographic data collected monthly since 1988 in the Pacific Ocean
- NIST Chemistry Webbook, which has an excellent database of molecules with structures, mass spectra, searchable by formula, molecular weight and more
- Resource page for the American Society of Mass Spectrometry with links to many other good resources
- www.oiltracers.com databases:
- A database of petroleum geochemistry literature
- A database of oil samples that lists tens of thousands of oil, gas and rock samples present in the sample collections of 6 laboratories, and
- An online dictionary of petroleum geochemistry terms. There are also descriptions of the applications of geochemistry to a variety of problems in oil exploration and production
- www.gaschem.com: descriptions of the applications of gas compositions and gas isotopes to many types of petroleum and natural gas exploration and production problems
Publication lists on various subjects
- an exhaustive list of biomarker references
- using the following compounds as biomarkers:
- Isotopics
- Acetogenic lipids
- Acyclic isoprenoids (e.g. phytane, pristane)
- Steroids
- Cyclic terpanoids (e.g. hopanoids)
- Complex lipids
- Kerogen
- Biogenic vs. abiogenic compounds
- The effect of diagenesis and catagenesis
