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Astrobiology Institute announces new teams NASA NEWS RELEASE Posted: June 24, 2003 NASA today announced 12 new teams would join the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), a national and international research consortium that studies the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life on Earth and in the universe. The institutional awards begin in fall 2003, when current agreements with the NAI's 11 founding lead teams conclude. NAI team awards are for five years, with annual reviews, at an average annual funding level of one million dollars. Funding supports interdisciplinary research in conjunction with professional, educational, and public outreach activities, coordinated through NAI's offices at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. "The NAI successfully reached an important milestone today with the competition for the original NAI membership," said Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator of Space Science. "The quality of the proposals and stiff competition demonstrated the scientific community's enthusiasm for the Astrobiology Institute. "This is an ongoing experiment in collaboration across disciplines and distance," said Dr. Michael Meyer, astrobiology senior scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington. The 12 newly selected teams, of which six are founding members, join four NAI lead teams selected in 2001. "With this group of 16 teams, NAI's efforts reach from the Earth's deep subsurface to the stars," said Dr. Rosalind Grymes, acting director of the NAI. "We look to the near-term future of solar system exploration as well as to the distant past of planet Earth," she said. The new team lead institutions, principal investigators and the titles of their proposed research are:
The NAI, founded in 1997, is a partnership between NASA, 16
major U.S. teams and five international consortia. NAI's goal
is to promote, conduct, and lead integrated multidisciplinary
astrobiology research and to train a new generation of
astrobiology researchers.
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