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Member Since 1990
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Professor, University of Toronto
Professional Experience
University of Toronto
Professor
1992 - Present
Education
University of Waterloo
Doctorate
1990
Harvard University
Bachelors
Honors & Awards
Carl Sagan Lecture
Received December 2023
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Union Fellow
Received December 2015
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For outstanding contributions to understanding the subsurface carbon systems and energy sources required for sustaining life in extreme environments.
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Publications
Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect
Methane clumped isotope signatures of abiogenesis may be diagnostic of the origin of methane on Earth and other planetary bodies. We performed synt...
July 17, 2024
Crustal Groundwater Volumes Greater Than Previously Thought
August 17, 2021
ABIOTIC METHANE ON EARTH
June 26, 2013
AGU Abstracts
Uncertainty in Habitability and Sustainable Biomass for a Hypothetical Methanogenic Biosphere on Enceladus
ENCELADUS: FROM INNER WORKINGS TO THE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 15 december 2023
Peter M. Higgins, Weibin Chen, Christopher R. Glei...
Beneath Enceladus icy shell lies a water ocean which might host habitable conditions. However, quantitatively assessing its habitability, potential bi...
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The Expanse of Habitability: Earth Analog Discoveries Drive New Conceptual Models of How to Build a Habitable Planet
CARL SAGAN LECTURE
planetary sciences | 11 december 2023
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Humanity continues to dream of life beyond Earth. In popular culture, the encounters with alien planets and lifeforms are what open our eyes to life t...
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Mineral/Carbon Coevolution: A Driver Of Hydrothermal Carbon Fluxes Through Time And Space?
CHAPMAN CONFERENCE ON HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION AND SEAWATER CHEMISTRY
general program | 19 may 2023
Benedicte Menez, Muriel Andreani, Baptiste Debret,...
Hydrothermal carbon fluxes through space and time are strongly dependent on its speciation and are thus intimately linked to the abiotic production of...
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Volunteer Experience
2020 - 2021
Member
Honors and Recognition Committee
2018 - 2019
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Honors and Recognition Committee
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