Research Projects
Related to the Drake Equation

The Institute is home to more than 25 active research projects, most of them investigating the factors in the Drake Equation.

This page attempts to classify each project by the Drake Equation factor(s) being investigated. Note that some projects deal with science education or medical applications of signal processing.

The Project Number is linked to a short description of the project.

The Drake Equation factor is linked to a page discussing the factor or to the Drake Equation page.

Project Number	Project Title	PI	Drake Factor
NASA NAG 2-984	Formation of the Giant Planets	Olenka Hubickyj	fp
NASA NAG 2-986	Integration of Planetary Protection Activities	Margaret Race	ne fl
NASA NAGW-3291	To Investigate the Use of the FOSTER Project to Disseminate the Scientific Results of Airborne Astronomy	Edna DeVore	Education
NASA NAGW-4346	Radio Occultation Studies of Venus' Atmosphere with Magellan	Jon Jenkins	ne
NASA NAGW-4353	Communication of Aeolin Materials on Mars	John Marshall	ne
NASA NCC 2-479	Definition of Exobiology Experiments for future Mars Missions	Rocco Mancinelli	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-551	Observational Research on Star and Planetary System formation	Jacqueline Davidson	fp
NASA NCC 2-565	Supporting Research and Technology Activities for the Exobiology flight Experiments Program	John Marshall	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-572	Mineralogic Investigation of a Variety of Materials Using Analytical Electron Microscopy (AEM)	Friedemann Freund	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-578	The Evolution of Energy Transducing Systems, Studies with an Extremely Halophilic Archaebacterium	Helga Stan-Lotter	fl
NASA NCC 2-647	Abundances and Physical Conditions in Star Forming Regions and Supernova 1987A	Sean Colgan	fl
NASA NCC 2-650	Synthesis and Development of Porous Polymeric Column Packings for GC Analysis of Extraterrestrial Atmospheres	Thomas Shen	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-695	Research and Technology Activities in Support of the Exobiology Programs in Chemical Evolution, Planetary Science, and Planetary Protection	Harold P. Klein	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-697	Exploration of Mars and Its Climate	Aaron Zent	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-784	Prebiotic Polymer Synthesis and the Origin of Glycolytic Metabolism	Arthur Weber	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-789	Investigations in Martian Sedimentology	Jeff Moore	ne
NASA NCC 2-836	The Role of Semiconducting Materials in Prebiotic fixation of Nitrogen and Carbon	David Summers	ne fl
NASA NCC 2-850	Laboratory and Observational Research on Interstellar and Planetary Analogs	Farid Salama	fl
NASA NCC 2-867	Radio Occultation Studies of Planetary Atmospheres and Correlative Studies	Jon Jenkins	ne
NASA NCC 2-874	Transit of Extrasolar Planets	Laurance Doyle	fp
NASA NCC 2-881	Advanced Signal Processing Methods Applied to Digital Mammography and Other Imaging Modalities	Rick Stauduhar	medical
NASA NCC 2-887	Experimenetal and analytical Studies on the Formation of Meteorites and Planetary Bodies	Julie Paque	ne
NASA NCC 2-900	The Dust and Heavy Element Composition of the Interstellar Medium	J. A. Simpson	R* fp ne
NASA NCC 2-906	Isotopic Measurements of Sulfonates and Phosphonates and Investigations of Possible Formaldehyde Products from the Murchison Meteorite	George Cooper	fl
NASA NCC 2-912	Cosmic Dust Capture Research and Development for the Exobiology Program	Kenji Nishioka	fl
NASA NCC 2-926	Studies of Minerological Textural Properties of Martian Soil: An Exobilogocial Perspective	John Marshall	fl ne
NASA NCC 2-929	Application of Tunable Diode Laser Spectromtry to Isotopic Studies for Exobiology	Todd Sauke	fl ne
Private Donations Phoenix	Project Phoenix	Jill Tarter	fc L fi

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