September,
2008
CURRICULUM VITAE
James F. Kasting
Office: (814) 865-3207
Home: 231-0292
PERSONAL
DATA
Birth
date:
Marital
Status: Married (
DEGREES
RECEIVED
A.B.
M.S.
M.S.
ACADEMIC
HONORS AND AWARDS
National
Merit Scholarship (1971)
Harvard
National Scholarship (1971-75)
Summa
Cum Laude - Harvard (1975)
Atmospheric,
Oceanic, and Space Sciences Department
(
Appointed
Distinguished Professor, Penn State (2003)
Faculty
Scholar Award,
Oparin
Medal, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (2008)
ACADEMIC
AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, 1995)
International
Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (Fellow, 2002)
American
Geophysical
Geochemical
Society (Fellow, 2008)
The
Planetary Society
SELECTED
INVITED LECTURES
Carl Sagan Lecture, Fall AGU Meeting (2004)
SCUGOG Public Lecture,
Klepser Lecturer, Geology Dept.,
Wright lecturer,
Opening plenary lecture, American Astronomical Society meeting (2008)
COMMITTEES
AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL DUTIES
Strategies
for Planetary Atmospheres Exploration (SPASE) Working Group
(1987-88)
NASA
Exobiology Peer Review Panel (1989-1991)
Editorial
Board for Origins of Life (1990-95)
Chairman,
Gordon Conference on the Origins of Life (1990)
IAMAP
Commission on Planetary Atmospheres and their Evolution
(1991-95)
NASA
Exobiology Discipline Working Group (1991-1998)
Geology
Editorial Board (1994-1996)
Editorial
board for JGR Planets (1995-1998)
AAAS
Electorate Nominating Committee (1997-1999)
NASA
Ames Space Science review panel (1998)
NASA
Astrobiology Research Laboratory Science Definition Group (1999)
SETI
Institute Science Working Group (2000)
Chairman,
NASA Exobiology Peer Review Panel (1995- 2000)
NASA
Astrobiology Task Force (1999-2001)
NASA
Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) Science Working Group (1999-2002)
Ball
Aerospace TPF Preliminary Design Team (2000-2002)
NASA
Solar System Exploration Subcommittee (2001-2002)
NRC
Committee on the Origin and Evolution of Life, COEL (2003- 2004)
NRC
Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: TPF Review Panel (2004)
Co-Chair,
NASA TPF-C Science and Technology Definition Team (2005-06)
Mars
Science and Technology Orbiter (MSTO) Science Advisory Group (2005-07)
Member,
NASA/NSF ExoPlanet Task Force (2007-2008)
Current:
Editorial
board for Astrobiology (2000- )
Editorial
board for Geobiology (2000- )
Member, NASA R&A Management Operations Working Group (2008)
Member, NASA Advisory Council Astrophysics
Subcommittee (2008- )
WORK EXPERIENCE
2006 Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire des
Sciences du Climat et de
l’Environment, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(June-July)
2003-04 Visiting
Professor, California Institute of Technology
Distinguished Visiting
Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2003- Distinguished
Professor,
1994- Professor
of Geosciences and Meteorology,
1988-94 Associate Professor of Geosciences and
Meteorology,
1983-88 Research Scientist, Space Science Division,
1981-83 National Research Council Postdoctoral
Fellowship, NASA
1979-81 NCAR Advanced Study Program,
Research
1976-79 Research Assistant, Dept. of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Science,
The Earth System, L. R. Kump, J. F.
Kasting, and R. G. Crane, Prentice-Hall,
TEACHING OUTSIDE OF
European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA) --
Agouron Geobiology Course--
Extrasolar Planets
Winterschool—
TIARA Winterschool on
Extrasolar Planets—
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
James F. Kasting
1977
Kasting,
J.F. and P.B. Hays. A comparison between N2+ 4278 A
emission and electron energy flux in the auroral zone. J. Geophys. Res. 82:
3319-3323 (1977).
1979
Kasting,
J.F., S.C. Liu, and T.M. Donahue. Oxygen levels in the prebiological
atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res. 84: 3097-3107 (1979).
..........,
Evolution of Oxygen and Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere. Ph.D.
dissertation,
1980
Kasting,
J.F. and T.M. Donahue. The evolution of atmospheric ozone. J. Geophys. Res.
85: 3255-3263 (1980).
..........
and T. Augustsson. Modeling the grasslands data. In: NCAR Summer Colloquium
Notes,
..........,
Determination of deposition velocities for O3, NOx, and
HNO3 by the gradient method. In: NCAR Summer Colloquium Notes,
1981
Kasting,
J.F. and J.C.G. Walker. Limits on oxygen concentration in the prebiological
atmosphere and the rate of abiotic fixation of nitrogen. J. Geophys. Res.
86: 1147-1158 (1981).
..........
and R.G. Roble. A zonally-averaged chemical-dynamical model of the lower
thermosphere. J. Geophys. Res. 86: 9641-9653 (1981).
..........
and T.M. Donahue. Evolution of oxygen and ozone in the earth's atmosphere. In: Life
in the Universe, J. Billingham, ed., MIT Press,
1982
Kasting, J.F. Stability of ammonia in the
primitive terrestrial atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res. 87: 3091‑3098
(1982).
1983
Kasting,
J.F., K.J. Zahnle, and J.C.G. Walker. Photochemistry of methane in the
Earth's early atmosphere. Precambrian Res. 20: 121‑148
(1983).
..........
and J.B. Pollack. Loss of water from Venus. I. Hydrodynamic escape of
hydrogen. Icarus 53: 479-508 (1983).
Kuhn,
W.R. and J.F. Kasting. The effects of increased CO2 concentrations
on surface temperature of the early earth. Nature 301: 53-55
(1983).
Jackson,
R.W., R.M.
1984
Kasting, J.F., J.B. Pollack, and D. Crisp.
Effects of high CO2 levels on surface temperature and atmospheric
oxidation state on the early earth. J. Atmos. Chem. 1: 403‑428
(1984).
..........,
J.B. Pollack, and T.P. Ackerman. Response of Earth's surface temperature to
increases in solar flux and implications for loss of water from Venus. Icarus
57: 335-355 (1984).
..........,
Comments on the BLAG model: The
carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle and its effect on atmospheric carbon
dioxide over the past 100 million years. Amer. J. Sci. 284:
1175-1182 (1984).
..........,
The evolution of the prebiotic atmosphere. Origins of Life 14:
75-82 (1984).
Roble,
R.G. and J.F. Kasting. The zonally averaged circulation, temperature, and
compositional structure of the lower thermosphere and variations with
geomagnetic activity. J. Geophys. Res. 89: 1711-1724 (1984).
1985
Kasting, J.F., H.D. Holland, and J.P. Pinto.
Oxidant abundances in rainwater and the evolution of atmospheric oxygen. J.
Geophys. Res. 90: 10,497‑10,510 (1985).
.........., Photochemical consequences of
enhanced CO2 levels in Earth's early atmosphere. In: The Carbon
Cycle and Atmospheric CO2:
Natural Variations Archean to Present, E.T. Sundquist and W.S.
Broecker, eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., pp. 612-622
(1985).
..........,
Greenhouses and glaciers: Climatic
change and the continuously habitable zone around the sun. The Planetary
Report 5: 12-15 (1985).
..........
and T.P. Ackerman. High atmospheric NOx levels and multiple
photochemical steady states. J. Atmos. Chem. 3: 321-340 (1985).
..........
and S.M. Richardson. Seafloor hydrothermal activity and spreading rates: the Eocene carbon dioxide greenhouse
revisited. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 49: 2541-2544 (1985).
1986
Kasting,
J.F. and T.P. Ackerman. Climatic consequences of very high CO2
levels in Earth's early atmosphere. Science 234: 1383-1385 (1986).
..........,
S.M. Richardson, J.B. Pollack, and O.B. Toon. A hybrid model of the CO2
geochemical cycle and its application to large impact events. Amer. J. Sci.
286: 361-389 (1986).
..........
and H.B. Singh. Nonmethane hydrocarbons in the troposphere: Impact on the odd hydrogen and odd nitrogen
chemistry. J. Geophys. Res. 91: 13,239-13,256 (1986).
Zahnle,
K.J. and J.F. Kasting. Mass fractionation during transonic escape and
implications for loss of water from Venus and Mars. Icarus 68:
462-480 (1986).
1987
Kasting,
J.F. Theoretical constraints on oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in the
Precambrian atmosphere. Precambrian Res. 34: 205-228 (1987).
Toon,
O.B., J.F. Kasting, R.P. Turco, and M.S. Liu. The sulfur cycle in the marine
atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res. 92: 943-963 (1987).
Pollack,
J.B., J.F. Kasting, S.M. Richardson, and K. Poliakoff. The case for a warm, wet
climate on early Mars. Icarus 71: 203-224 (1987).
Reynolds,
R.T., C.P. McKay, and J.F. Kasting. Europa, tidally-heated oceans, and
habitable zones around giant planets. Adv. Space Res. 7: (5)125 -
(5)132 (1987).
1988
Kasting, J.F.
Runaway and moist greenhouse atmospheres and the evolution of Earth and Venus. Icarus
74: 472-494 (1988).
..........,
A wet origin for Venus: The water that got away. The Planetary Report,
Vol. VIII, No. 6, pp. 13-16 (1988). [Adapted
for republication as "How Venus Lost its Oceans," Oceanus 32,
Number 2, 1989.]
..........,
O.B. Toon, and J.B. Pollack. How climate evolved on the terrestrial planets. Scientific
American 256: 90-97 (1988).
Reynolds,
R.T., C.P. McKay, J.F. Kasting, and S.W. Squyres. Europa: The prospects for an
ocean. In Bioastronomy -- The Next Steps, G. Marx, ed., Kluwer Academic
Publishers,
Zahnle,
K.J., J.F. Kasting, and J.B. Pollack. Evolution of a steam atmosphere during
Earth's accretion. Icarus 74: 62-97 (1988).
Singh,
H.B. and J.F. Kasting. Chlorine-hydrocarbon photochemistry in the marine
troposphere and lower stratosphere. J. Atmos. Chem. 7: 261-285
(1988).
1989
Kasting,
J.F. Long term stability of the Earth's climate. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat.
Palaeoecol. (Global Planet. Change
sect.) 75: 83-95 (1989).
..........,
K.J. Zahnle, J.P. Pinto, and A.T. Young. Sulfur, ultraviolet radiation, and the
early evolution of life. Origins of Life 19: 95-108 (1989).
...........
and O.B. Toon. Climate evolution on the terrestrial planets. In: Origin and Evolution of Planetary and
Satellite Atmospheres, S.K. Atreya, J.B. Pollack, and M.S. Matthews, eds.,
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 423-449 (1989).
Hunten,
D.M., J.C.G. Walker, T.M. Donahue, and J.F. Kasting. Escape of atmospheres.
In: Origin and Evolution of Planetary
and Satellite Atmospheres, S.K. Atreya, J.B. Pollack, and M.S. Matthews,
eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 386-422 (1989).
Sleep,
N.H., K.J. Zahnle, J.F. Kasting, and H. Morowitz. Annihilation of ecosystems
by large asteroid impacts on the early Earth. Nature 342: 139-142
(1989).
1990
Kasting,
J.F. Bolide impacts and the oxidation state of carbon in the Earth's early
atmosphere. Origins of Life 20: 199-231 (1990).
...........,
Earth, the living planet. The Planetary Report 10 (Jan/Feb):
8-9, cont. on 24 (1990).
...........,
Impacts and the origin of life. Earth
and Mineral Sciences Bull. (Penn State Univ.) 59: 37-42 (1990).
Zahnle,
K.J., J.F. Kasting, and J.B. Pollack. Mass fractionation of noble gases in
diffusion-limited hydrodynamic hydrogen escape. Icarus 84:
502-527 (1990).
Zahnle,
K.J., J.B. Pollack, and J.F. Kasting. Xenon fractionation in porous planetesimals.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 54: 2577-2586 (1990).
Singh,
H.B., D. Herlth, D. O'Hara, L. Salas, A.L. Torres, G.L. Gregory, G.W. Sachse,
and J.F. Kasting. Atmospheric peroxyacetyl nitrate measurements over the
Brazilian Amazon during the wet season:
Relationship with nitrogen oxides and ozone. J. Geophys. Res. 95:
16,945-16,954 (1990).
1991
Kasting,
J.F. CO2 condensation and the climate of early Mars. Icarus 94: 1-13 (1991).
...........,
Box models for the evolution of atmospheric oxygen: an update. Global Planet. Change 97:
125-131 (1991).
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Runaway greenhouse atmospheres:
applications to Earth and Venus. In:
Planetary Sciences: American
and Soviet Research, ed. by T.M. Donahue, National Academy Press,
Washington, D.C., pp. 234-245 (1991).
..........,
The greenhouse effect: past, present,
and future. In Air Pollution: Environmental Issues and Health Effects,
S.K. Majumdar, E.W. Miller, and J. Cahir, eds., The Pennsylvania Academy of
Science, Easton, Pennsylvania, pp. 106-120 (1991).
..........
and D.H. Grinspoon. The faint young sun problem. In: The Sun in Time, C.P. Sonett, M.S.
Giampapa, and M.S. Matthews, eds., Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 447-462
(1991).
McKay,
C.P., O.B. Toon, and J.F. Kasting. Making Mars habitable. Nature 352:
489-496 (1991).
Whitmire,
D.P., R.T. Reynolds, and J.F. Kasting. Habitable zones for Earth-like planets
around main sequence stars. In: Bioastronomy: the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, J.
Heidmann and M.J. Klein, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 173-178 (1991).
1992
Kasting, J.F.
Paradox lost and paradox found (News and Views article), Nature 355:
676-677 (1992).
Kasting,
J.F. and J.C.G. Walker. The geochemical carbon cycle and the uptake of fossil
fuel CO2. In: AIP Conference Proceedings 247, Global
Warming: Physics and Facts, B.G.
Levi, D. Hafemeister, and R. Scribner, eds., American Institute of Physics, New
York, pp. 175-200 (1992).
Kasting, J.F.
and N.G. Holm. What determines the volume of the oceans? Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett. 109: 507-515 (1992).
Caldeira, K.
and J.F. Kasting. Susceptibility of the early Earth to irreversible glaciation
caused by carbon dioxide clouds. Nature 359: 226-228 (1992).
Kasting, J.F.
and S. Chang. Formation of the planet and the origin of life (Sec. 1.2, pp.
7-12);
Colin,
L. and J.F. Kasting. Venus: A search for
clues to early biological possibilities.
In: Exobiology in Solar System Exploration, NASA SP 512, ed. by
G.C. Carle, D.E. Schwartz, and J.L. Huntington, pp. 45-65 (1992).
Caldeira,
K. and J.F. Kasting. The life span of the biosphere revisited. Nature 360: 721-723 (1992).
1993
Kasting,
J.F., D.P. Whitmire, and R.T. Reynolds. Habitable zones around main sequence
stars. Icarus 101: 108-128 (1993).
Kasting, J.F. Earth's early atmosphere. Science
259: 920-926 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. Algae and oxygen in Earth's ancient atmosphere (Tech. Comment). Science
259: 835 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. Review of Scientists on Gaia. Origins of Life 23:
145-146 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F., D.H. Eggler, and S.P. Raeburn. Mantle redox evolution and the case for a
reduced Archean atmosphere, J. Geol. 101: 245-257 (1993).
Grotzinger,
J.P. and J.F. Kasting. New constraints on Precambrian ocean composition, J.
Geol. 101: 235-243 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. and J.C.G. Walker. Long-term effects of fossil fuel burning and
deforestation on levels of atmospheric CO2. In: Biogeochemistry
of Global Change, R.S. Oremland, ed., Chapman and Hall, Inc.,
Kasting,
J.F. Photochemistry in the primitive solar nebula (reply to Gladstone and
Towe), Science 261, 1058-1060 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. New spin on ancient climate (News and Views article), Nature 364,
759-760 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. Evolution of the earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere: Hadean to Recent.
In: Organic Geochemistry: Principles and Applications, M.H. Engel
and
Caldeira,
K. and J.F. Kasting. Insensitivity of global warming potentials to carbon
dioxide emission scenarios, Nature 366, 251-253 (1993).
Kasting,
J.F. Early evolution of the atmosphere and ocean. In: The Chemistry of Life's Origins, J.M.
Greenberg, C.X. Mendoza-Gomez, and V. Pirronello, eds., Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1993, pp. 149-176 (1993).
1994
Squyres,
S.W. and J.F. Kasting. Early Mars: How
warm and how wet?, Science 265: 744-749 (1994).
Grenci,
L.M. and J.F. Kasting. Oceans: The
origin of life. In: The Oceans:
Physical-Chemical Dynamics and Human Impact, S.K. Majumdar, E.W.
Miller, G.S. Forbes, R.F. Schmalz, and A.A. Panah, eds., Pennsylvania Academy
of Sciences, Easton, PA, pp. 282-288 (1994).
1995
Taubman, S.J. and J.F. Kasting. Carbonyl
sulfide: No remedy for global warming, Geophys.
Res. Lett. 22, 803-805 (1995).
Kasting,
J.F. O2 concentrations in dense primitive atmospheres: commentary, Planet.
Space Sci. 43, 11-13 (1995).
Kasting,
J.F. Fit for life: climate stability on
Earth and the implications for life elsewhere, Science Spectra, issue 2,
pp. 32-36 (1995).
1996
Kasting,
J.F. Atmosphere, origin, in Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Oxford
University Press,
Kasting,
J.F. and P.A. Schultz. Benefit-cost analysis and the environment (letter), Science
272, 1571-1572 (1996).
Kasting,
J.F. Habitable zones around stars: an
update, in Circumstellar Habitable Zones, L.R. Doyle, ed., Travis House
Publications, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 17-28 (1996).
Williams,
D.M., J.F. Kasting, and K. Caldeira. Chaotic obliquity variations and planetary
habitability, in Circumstellar Habitable Zones, L.R. Doyle, ed., Travis
House Publications, Menlo Park, CA, pp. 43-62 (1996).
Kasting,
J.F. and P.A. Schultz. Reservoir time-scales for anthropogenic CO2
in the atmosphere: commentary, Tellus 48B, 703-706 (1996).
Kasting,
J.F. Planetary atmosphere evolution: Do other habitable planets exist and can
we detect them? Astrophys. Space Sci. 241, 3-24. Reprinted in: The
Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology, J.
M Shull, H.A. Thronson, and S.A. Stern, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht (1997), pp. 3-24 (1996).
1997
Williams,
D.M., J.F. Kasting, and R.A. Wade. Habitable moons around extrasolar giant
planets, Nature 385, 234-236 (1997).
Kasting,
J.F. Environmental constraints on the origin of life, Commentarii 4,
N. 3, pp. 133-147, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Rome. Reprinted in: Encyclopedia
Italiana (1997).
Kasting,
J.F. Habitable zones around low mass stars and the search for extraterrestrial
life, Origins of Life 27, 291-307 (1997).
Kasting,
J.F. Warming early Earth and Mars (Perspective), Science 276,
1213-1215 (1997).
Kasting,
J.F., D.C.B. Whittet, and W.R. Sheldon. Ultraviolet radiation from F and K
stars and implications for planetary habitability, Origins of Life 27,
413-420 (1997).
Williams,
D.M. and J. F. Kasting. Habitable planets with high obliquities, Icarus 129,
254-267 (1997).
Schultz,
P.A. and J. F. Kasting. Optimal reductions in CO2 emissions, Energy
Policy 25, 491-500 (1997).
Kasting,
J. F. The early Mars climate question heats up (Perspective), Science 278,
1245 (1997).
1998
Kasting, J. F. Long-term
effects of fossil fuel burning, Consequences 4, 15-27 (1998).
Kasting, J. F. Why a
water world? Scientific American Presents 9, Number 3, 16-22
(1998).
Williams, D. M., J. F. Kasting, and L. A. Frakes, Were low-latitude Precambrian glaciations caused by high obliquity? Nature 396, 453-455 (1998).
Kasting,
J.F. and L.L. Brown. Setting the stage: the early atmosphere as a source of
biogenic compounds. In The Molecular Origins of Life: Assembling the Pieces
of the Puzzle, A. Brack, ed.,
Kasting, J. F. and L. L. Brown, Methanogenesis
and the climates of early Earth and Mars. In Planetary Systems: the Long
View, Editions Frontières,
1999
The Earth System, L. R. Kump, J. F.
Kasting, and R. G. Crane, Prentice-Hall,
Pavlov, A. A., A. K. Pavlov, J. F. Kasting, Irradiated interplanetary dust particles as a possible explanation for the deuterium/hydrogen paradox of Earth’s oceans, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 30,725-30,728 (1999).
Kasting, J. F. and others, Signposts of life:
detection of life via remote sensing, TPF Report, Ch. 4, JPL/Caltech/IPAC MS
100-22, Pasadena, CA (1999).
2000
Pavlov, A. A., J. F. Kasting, L. L. Brown, K. A. Rages, and R. Freedman, Greenhouse warming by CH4 in the atmosphere of early Earth, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 11,981-11,990 (2000).
Mischna, M. and J. F. Kasting, CO2 clouds and the climate of early Mars: effect of cloud height and optical depth, Icarus 145, 546-554 (2000).
Schindler, T. L. and J. F. Kasting, Synthetic spectra of simulated terrestrial atmospheres containing possible biomarker gases, Icarus 145, 262-271 (2000).
Churchill, D. and
J. F. Kasting, Nitrous oxide in the early atmosphere: a marker for life? In Proceedings of the Conference: ‘
2001
Kump, L. R., J. F. Kasting, and M. E. Barley, The rise of atmospheric oxygen and the “upside-down” Archean mantle, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., vol. 2, Paper number 2000GC000114 (2001).
Kasting, J. F. Essay review of Peter Ward and Don Brownlee’s Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44, 117-131 (2001).
Kasting, J. F., A. A. Pavlov, and J. L. Siefert, A coupled ecosystem-climate model for predicting the methane concentration in the Archean atmosphere, Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 31, 271-285 (2001).
Kasting, J. F. and J. L. Siefert, The nitrogen fix (News and Views article), Nature 412, 26-27 (2001).
Kasting, J. F., The rise of atmospheric oxygen (Perspective), Science 293, 819-820 (2001).
Pavlov, A. A., J. F. Kasting, J. L. Eigenbrode, and K. H. Freeman, Hydrocarbon aerosols as a source of low-13C kerogens in Archean sediments, Geology 29, 1003-1006 (2001).
DesMarais, D. J.,
Harwit, M., Jucks, K., Kasting, J. F., Lunine, J. I., Lin, D., Seager, S.,
Schneider, J., Traub, W., and Woolf, N., Biosignatures
and Planetary Properties to be Investigated by the TPF Mission, JPL
Publication 01-008, California Inst. Of Technology,
Pavlov, A. A., L.L. Brown, and J. F. Kasting, Shielding of NH3 and O2 by organic hazes in the Archean atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 23,267-23,287 (2001).
2002
Pavlov, A. A. and J. F. Kasting,
Mass-independent fractionation of sulfur isotopes in Archean sediments: strong
evidence for an anoxic Archean atmosphere, Astrobiology 2, 27-41
(2002).
J. F. Kasting and J. L. Siefert, Life and the evolution of Earth’s atmosphere (Perspective), Science 296, 1066-1068 (2002).
Kasting, J. F.,
Long-term stability of Earth’s climate: the faint young Sun problem revisited,
in Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions and Climate, L. O. Bengtsson and C.
U. Hammer (eds.), Cambridge University Press,
Kasting, J. F., Planets, in Encyclopedia of Global Change:
Environmental Change and Human Society, A. S. Goudie, ed., Oxford
University Press, New York, Vol. 2, pp. 249-251 (2002).
Kasting, J. F. Review of Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology by David Darling, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 45, 292-293 (2002).
Kasting, J. F., Detecting life on extrasolar planets, in Signs of Life: A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop on Life Detection Techniques, Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life, pp. 74-78 (2002).
2003
Pavlov, A. A., M. Hurtgen, J. F. Kasting, M. A. Arthur, Methane-rich Proterozoic atmosphere? Geology 31, 87-90 (2003).
Shuhei Onoa,*, J. L. Eigenbrodeb, A. A. Pavlovc, P. Kharechab, D. Rumble IIIa, J. F. Kastingb, and K. H. Freeman, New insights into Archean sulfur cycle from mass-independent sulfur isotope records, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 213, 15-30 (2003).
Kasting, J. F. and D. Catling, Evolution of a habitable planet, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 41, 429-463 (2003).
Segura, A.; Krelove, K., J. F. Kasting, D. Sommerlatt, V. Meadows, D. Crisp, M. Cohen, and E. Mlawer, Ozone concentrations and ultraviolet fluxes on Earth-like planets around other stars, Astrobiology 3, 689-708 (2003).
Kasting, J. F. Review of "Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know It" by Gabrielle Walker, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 84, 1581-1584 (2003).
Kasting, J. F. The origins of water on Earth, Scientific Amer. Spec. Ed. 13, No. 3, 28-33 (2003).
Kasting, J. F., When methane made climate, Scientific American 291, No. 1 (July), 78-85 (2004).
Pollard, D. and
J. F. Kasting, Climate-ice sheet simulations of Neoproterozoic glaciation
before and after collapse to Snowball Earth, in Geophysical Monograph Series
146, "The Extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate,"
G. S. Jenkins, M. A. S. McMenamin, C. P. McKay, and L. Sohl, eds., Amer.
Geophys. Union,
Kasting, J. F.,
Comment on "Evidence from massive
siderite beds for a CO2-rich atmosphere before ~1.8 billion years
ago" by H. Ohmoto, Y. Watanabe, and K. Kumazawa, published as “Archaean
atmosphere and climate”, Nature 429, doi:10.1038/nature03166 (2004).
2005
Pollard, D. and J. F. Kasting, Snowball Earth: A thin-ice model with flowing sea glaciers, J. Geophys. Res. 110, C07010, doi:10.1029/2004JC002525 (2005).
Kharecha, P., J. F. Kasting, and J. L. Siefert, A coupled atmosphere-ecosystem model of the early Archean Earth, Geobiology 3, 53-76 (2005).
2006
Kasting, J. F. and S. Ono, Paleoclimates: the first two billion years, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond. B. 361, 917-929 (2006).
J. F. Kasting,
Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciation: How stable is Earth’s climate? In Frontiers of Climate Modeling, J. T.
Kiehl and V. Ramanathan, eds.,
Kasting, J. F. and M. T. Howard, Atmospheric composition and climate on the early Earth, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond. B 361, 1733-1742 (2006).
Pollard, D. and J. F. Kasting, Reply to comment by Steven G. Warren and Richard E. Brandt on “Snowball Earth--a Thin-Ice Model with Flowing Sea Glaciers”, J. Geophys. Res. 111, C09017, doi:10.1029/2006JC003488 (2006).
Kasting, J. F., M. T. Howard, K. Wallmann, J. Veizer,
G. Shields, and J. Jeffries, Paleoclimates, ocean depth, and the oxygen
isotopic composition of seawater, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 252,
82-93 (2006).
Kasting, J. F., Earth Sciences - Ups and downs of ancient oxygen, Nature 443, 643 (2006).
Levine, M., S.
Shaklan, and J. F. Kasting, eds., Terrestrial
Planet Finder Coronagraph: Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT) Report,
JPL Document D-34923, 360 pp. (2006). Available on-line at:
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/STDT_Report_Final_Ex2FF86A.pdf
2007
Scalo,
J., L. Kaltenegger, A. Segura, M.
Fridlund, I. Ribas, Y.N. Kulikov, J.L. Grenfell, H. Rauer, P. Odert, M.
Leitzinger, F. Selsis, M.L. Khodachenko, C. Eiora, J. Kasting and H. Lammer, M
stars as targets for terrestrial exoplanet searches and biosignature detection, Astrobiol. 7, 85-166 (2007).
Shields, G. A. and J. F. Kasting, Evidence for hot early oceans? Nature 446, doi:10.1038/nature05830 (2007).
Catling, D. and J. F. Kasting, Planetary atmospheres and life, in Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology, W. T. Sullivan, III, and J. A. Baross, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 91-116 (2007).
A. Segura, Kasting, J. F., V.
S. Meadows, M. Cohen, and J. Scalo, Abiotic formation of O2 and O3
in high-CO2 terrestrial atmospheres, Astron. & Astrophys.
472, 665–679 (2007).
F. Selsis, B. Chazelas, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy,
J-M Griessmeier, H. Lammer, C. Sotin, O.
Grasset, D. Ehrenreich, C. Moutou, P. Barge,
M. Deleuil, D. Mawet, D. Despois , M. Ollivier, F. Brachet, M.
Decaudin, J. Kasting, and A. Léger, Could we identify hot ocean-planets with
CoRoT, Kepler, and Doppler velocimetry?, Icarus 191 , 453–468
(2007)
Selsis, F., J. F. Kasting,
J. Paillet, and X. Delfosse, Habitable planets around the star Gl581? Astron.
& Astrophys. 476, 1373–1387 (2007).
2008
Kasting, J. F., Habitable planets around the Sun and other stars, in Extrasolar Planets: XVI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, H. Deeg, J. A. Belmonte, and A. Aparicio, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge (2008), pp. 217-244.
Domagal-Goldman, S. D., J. F. Kasting, D. T.
Johnston, and J. Farquhar, Organic
haze, glaciations and multiple sulfur isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era, Earth
Planet. Sci. Lett. 269, 29-40 (2008).
Kasting, J. F., Chapter 8:
The primitive Earth, in Prebiotic Evolution and Astrobiology, J. T.-F.
Wong and A. Lazcano, eds., Landes Bioscience,
Tian, F., J. F. Kasting, H. Liu, and R. G. Roble, Hydrodynamic planetary thermosphere model. I:
The response of the Earth’s thermosphere to extreme solar EUV conditions and
the significance of adiabatic cooling, J. Geophys. Res. – Planets,
113, E5 (May), E05008 (2008).
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Lammer, H. J. F.
Kasting, E. Chassefière, R. E.
Johnson, Y. N. Kulikov, and F. Tian, Atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets and satellites, Space
Science Rev., DOI 10.1007/s11214-008-9413-5 (2008).
Haqq-Misra, J. D., S. D. Domagal-Goldman, P. J. Kasting, and J. F. Kasting, A revised, hazy methane greenhouse for the early Earth, Astrobiol., in press.
Zahnle, K. J., Haberle, R. M., Catling, D. C., and Kasting, J. F., Limits to the photochemical stability of the current and ancient martian atmosphere, Icarus, in press.
Kasting, J. F., The global O2 cycle, in Fundamentals of Geobiology, K. Konhauser, A. Knoll, and D. Canfield, eds., Blackwell, submitted.
Tian, F., J. F. Kasting, and S. C. Solomon, Fast thermal escape of carbon and oxygen from a dense, CO2-rich early martian atmosphere, Science, submitted.