Publications by authors named "Cansu Demirel-Floyd"
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- * An interdisciplinary group of experts developed a strategic framework for exploring these planetary caves, focusing on areas like astrobiology, geology, and robotics, aiming to guide research for the next decade.
- * They identified 53 priority research questions from an initial list of 198, emphasizing that with sufficient funding and support, advancements in technology could lead to robotic missions investigating lunar and Martian caves for evidence of extraterrestrial life and future human habitation.
Modern carbonate tufa towers in the alkaline (~pH 9.5) Big Soda Lake (BSL), Nevada, exhibit rapid precipitation rates (exceeding 3 cm/year) and host diverse microbial communities. Geochemical indicators reveal that carbonate precipitation is, in part, promoted by the mixing of calcium-rich groundwater and carbonate-rich lake water, such that a microbial role for carbonate precipitation is unknown.
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