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Lead
Institutions
The NASA
Astrobiology Institute (NAI)
was founded in 1997 with ASU as one of the orginal 11 lead institutions.
The NAI represents a partnership between NASA, universities, and
research organizations
to promote, conduct, and lead integrated multidisciplinary research,
to train young scientists, and to provide public access to the adventure
of studying the living universe.
The following
is the current listing of NAI lead institutions:
Ames
Research Center (NASA), Moffett Field,
CA
Carnegie
Institution, Washington, DC
Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,
MA
Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
MD
Pennsylvania
State University, University Park,
PA
SETI
Institute, La
Jolla, CA
University
of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University
of California at Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA
University
of California, Los Angeles, CA
University
of Colorado, Boulder, CO
University
of Hawaii (Manoa), Honolulu, HI
University
of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
University
of Washington, Seattle, WA
Virtual
Planetary Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
International
Partnerships
The NASA
Astrobiology Institute has initiated a program of partnership with other
international astrobiology organizations to provide collaborative opportunities
for its researchers with the global science community. Foreign astrobiology
organizations can propose to become either Associate
or Affiliate Members of the NAI. Associate Membership entails a formal
agreement between NASA and the foreign government. International requests
which do not elect to pursue formal agreements are considered Affiliate
Members.
Spain became
the first associate international institution in 2000, and was followed
by Australia, France and the UK in 2001.
Astrobiology
Society of Britain, UK
Australian
Centre for Astrobiology, Sidney, Australia
Centro
de Astrobiologia, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain
Groupement
des Recherches en Exobiologie, Paris, France
The
European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association, Orleans, France
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