ROCCO MANCINELLI - SETI INSTITUTE

2035 Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone:  650-604-6165     Fax:  650-604-1088     Email:  rmancinelli@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - The only U.S. PI on the ROSE experiments.  He will oversee the work on prokaryotes, as well as testing all organisms in the Space Simulation Facility at the DLR.  He, along with Horneck, will coordinate flight experiments.

Related Experience Summary

1999, PI, European Space Agency Sponsored BIOPAN 3 Survival of Osmophiles in Space.
1998-present, PI, European Space Agency Sponsored EXPOSE Experiment for the Space Station.
1994-97, European Space Agency sponsored BIOPAN 1-2 Survival Experiment, Co-I

Employment History

1986-present, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View CA
1984-86, NRC-Research Fellow, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
1983-84, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
1982-90, Res. Assoc., Inst. of Arctic & Alpine Research, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder CO

Education

1982, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO., Microbial Ecology.
1977, M.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO., Microbial Ecology.
1975, B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

Professional Societies

American Society for Microbiology
International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
International Society for Microbial Ecology

Awards and Honors

1981, Elected to membership in Sigma Xi
1996, Jack N. Nielsen Award,  from the NASA-Ames Basic Research Council

Selected Relevant Publications

Bishop J. L., Banin A., Mancinelli R. L., Klovstad M. R. (2001) Detection of soluble and fixed NH4+ in clay minerals by DTA and IR reflectance spectroscopy: A potential tool for planetary surface exploration. Planetary Space Science,50:11-19..

Rothschild, L. J., and R. L. Mancinelli.  2001.  Life in extreme environments. Nature, 409:1092-1101.

Reysenbach, A-L., M. Voytek, and R. L. Mancinelli  (eds).  2001. Thermophiles: Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution.  Pp. 205 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. 

Mancinelli, R. L.  2000.  Accessing the Martian deep sub-surface to search for life. Planet. Space Sci.,48:1035-1042.

Mancinelli, R. L., and M. R. Klovstad. 2000. Martian soil and UV radiation: Microbial viability assessment.  Planet. Space Sci., 48:1093-1097.

Bishop J. L., Fröschl H. and R. L. Mancinelli 1998 Alteration processes in volcanic soils and identification of exobiologically important weathering products on Mars using remote sensing. J. Geophys. Res. 103, 31,457-31,476.

Mancinelli, R. L.  1996.  The nature of nitrogen: An overview.  Life Support Biosph. Sci. 3:17-24.

Mancinelli, R. L.. 1996.  The search for nitrogen compounds on the surface of Mars.  Adv. Space Res., 18(12):241-248.

Wharton, R. A. Jr., M. A. Meyer, C. P. McKay, R. L. Mancinelli, and G. M. Simmons, Jr.  1994.  Sediment oxygen profiles in a super-oxygenated Antarctic lake.  Limnol. Oceanog.   39:839-853.

Rothschild, L. J., L. J. Giver, M. R. White and R. L. Mancinelli. 1994. Metabolic          activity of microorganisms in gypsum-halite crusts. J. Phyc. 30:431-438.

Banin, A., T. Ben-Shlomo, L. Margulies, D. R. Blake, R. L. Mancinelli, and A. U. Gehring.  1993. The nanophase iron mineral(s) in Mars soil.  J. Geophys. Res.(Planets).  98:20831-20853

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