Research Interests

Habitability of Hyperarid Systems

How does life adapt to the extreme challenges of water-limited systems?

Exoplanet Habitability & Biosignatures

How does a planet evolve to support life?

How can we detect a biosphere on a planet outside of our solar system?


Martian Biosignatures

Did Mars host life in its early history?

What are the morphological or chemical signatures of Mars’ life?

Improvised Engineering

How to build low cost, effective systems to measure and record the necessary parameters of a project?


Curriculum Vitae


Publications

  • Glaser, D.M., Hartnett, H.E., Finn, D.R., Perez-Montaño, S., Cadillo-Quiroz, H., Desch, S., 2022. Water Vapor Adsorption Provides Daily, Sustainable Water to Soils of the Hyperarid Atacama Desert. Astrobiology 22, 1222–1238. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2021.0171
  • Glaser, D.M., Hartnett, H.E., Desch, S.J., Unterborn, C.T., Anbar, A., Buessecker, S., Fisher, T., Glaser, S., Kane, S.R., Lisse, C.M., Millsaps, C., Neuer, S., O’Rourke, J.G., Santos, N., Walker, S.I., Zolotov, M., 2020. Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds. ApJ 893, 163. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab822d

Contact

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