ISOTOPOLOGUES

Meteorites and Cosmochemistry : Characterize the isotopic fingerprints of abiotic chemical and physical processes that form organics in space and planetary environments... Organics in Earth Fluids : Understand intramolecular patterns organic molecules created or altered in reducing fluids on Earth (i.e. hydrogen rich fluids at deep sea hydrothermal systems) with implications for organic synthesis on early Earth... Biochemicals : Establish a dataset of biochemical isotope patterns from simple to complex structures to characterize the metabolic characteristics and constraints underlying position-specific isotope patterns in biochemical building blocks