Team 0

Team Headshots

Skillset

Experience

NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-Present
Arizona State University and Santa Fe Institute
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-Present
Toner Laboratory for Low Temperature Geochemistry
University of Minnesota
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Team Leader 2018-2021
Cronin Group for Complex Chemical Systems
Department of Chemistry
University of Glasgow
Postdoctoral Research Scholar 2016-2021
Walker Lab, ELIFE
BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Arizona State University
Graduate Researcher 2013-2020
Group Exploring Organic Processes in Geochemistry
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
Graduate Researcher 2014-2018
Walker Lab, ELIFE
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
Graduate Researcher 2016-2016
Group Exploring Organic Processes in Geochemistry
Complex Systems Summer School
Santa Fe Institute
Instructor 2016-2016
Sawant Lab
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Postdoctoral Researcher 2015-2016
Sawant Lab
Department of Radiation Oncology
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Graduate Researcher 2014-2014
Complex Systems Summer School
Santa Fe Institute
Adjunct Faculty 2012-2014
Department of Mathematics and Physics
McLennan Community College
Undergraudate Researcher 2012-2012
Johnson Lab
Planetary Ices Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Undergraudate Researcher 2011-2012
Saltikov Lab
Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications

  1. Ely, T., Leong, J., Canovas, P., et al. 2023. Huge variation in h2 generation during seawater alteration of ultramafic rocks. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24,
  2. Rucker, H.R., Ely, T.D., LaRowe, D.E., et al. 2023. Quantifying the bioavailable energy in an ancient hydrothermal vent on mars and a modern earth-based analog. Astrobiology, doi:10.1089/ast.2022.0064.
  3. Buessecker, S., Imanaka, H., Ely, T., et al. 2022. Mineral-catalysed formation of marine no and n2o on the anoxic early earth. Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-022-01089-9.
  4. Lockey, D., Mathis, C., Miras, H.N., et al. 2021. Investigating the autocatalytically driven formation of keggin-based polyoxometalate clusters. Matter, doi:10.1016/j.matt.2021.11.030.
  5. Milesi, V., Shock, E., Ely, T., et al. 2021. Forward geochemical modeling as a guiding tool during exploration of sea cliff hydrothermal field, gorda ridge. Planetary and Space Science, 197, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2020.105151.
  6. Leong, J.A.M., Ely, T., Shock, E.L. 2021. Decreasing extents of archean serpentinization contributed to the rise of an oxidized atmosphere. Nature communications, 12, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27589-7.
  7. Doran, D., Clarke, E., Keenan, G., et al. 2021. Exploring the sequence space of unknown oligomers and polymers. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2, doi:10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100685.
  8. Asche, S., Cooper, G.J., Keenan, G., et al. 2021. A robotic prebiotic chemist probes long term reactions of complexifying mixtures. Nature communications, 12, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23828-z.
  9. Liu, Y., Mathis, C., Bajczyk, M.D., et al. 2021. Exploring and mapping chemical space with molecular assembly trees. Science advances, 7, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.13476597.
  10. Marshall, S.M., Mathis, C., Carrick, E., et al. 2021. Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry. Nature communications, 12, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23258-x.
  11. Miras, H.N., Mathis, C., Xuan, W., et al. 2020. Spontaneous formation of autocatalytic sets with self-replicating inorganic metal oxide clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.9598442.
  12. Mathis, C. 2020. Meaning of the living state. Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190915650.003.0006.
  13. Ely, T.D. 2020. Thermodynamic cartography in basalt-hosted hydrothermal systems.
  14. Antonioni, A., Martinez-Vaquero, L.A., Mathis, C., et al. 2019. Individual perception dynamics in drunk games. Physical Review E, 99, doi:10.1103/physreve.99.052311.
  15. Surman, A.J., Rodriguez-Garcia, M., Abul-Haija, Y.M., et al. 2019. Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, doi:10.1073/pnas.1813987116.
  16. Kim, H., Smith, H.B., Mathis, C., et al. 2019. Universal scaling across biochemical networks on earth. Science Advances, 5, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau0149.
  17. Caillet, V., O’Brien, R., Moore, D., et al. 2019. Technical note: In silico and experimental evaluation of two leaf-fitting algorithms for mlc tracking based on exposure error and plan complexity. Medical physics, 46,
  18. Moore, D.G., Walker, S.I. 2019. Inferring a graph’s topology from games played on it. The 2019 conference on artificial life, 31, doi:10.1162/isal_a_00173.
  19. Walker, S.I., Mathis, C. 2018. Network theory in prebiotic evolution. Prebiotic chemistry and chemical evolution of nucleic acids, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93584-3_10.
  20. Moore, D.G., Walker, S.I., Levin, M. 2018. Pattern regeneration in coupled networks. ALIFE 2018: The 2018 conference on artificial life, 30, doi:10.1162/isal_a_00043.
  21. Daniels, B.C., Kim, H., Moore, D., et al. 2018. Criticality distinguishes the ensemble of biological regulatory networks. Physical review letters, 121, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.121.138102.
  22. Valentini, G., Moore, D.G., Hanson, J.R., et al. 2018. Transfer of information in collective decisions by artificial agents. The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: A Hybrid of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) and the International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE), doi:10.1162/isal_a_00117.
  23. Moore, D.G., Valentini, G., Walker, S.I., et al. 2018. Inform: Efficient information-theoretic analysis of collective behaviors. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5, doi:10.3389/frobt.2018.00060.
  24. Mathis, C., Ramprasad, S.N., Walker, S.I., et al. 2017. Prebiotic rna network formation: A taxonomy of molecular cooperation. Life, 7, doi:10.3390/life7040038.
  25. Mathis, C., Bhattacharya, T., Walker, S.I. 2017. The emergence of life as a first-order phase transition. Astrobiology, 17, doi:10.1089/ast.2016.1481.
  26. Moore, D., Walker, S.I., Levin, M. 2017. Cancer as a disorder of patterning information: Computational and biophysical perspectives on the cancer problem. Convergent Science Physical Oncology, 3, doi:10.1088/2057-1739/aa8548.
  27. Moore, D.G., Valentini, G., Walker, S.I., et al. 2017. Inform: A toolkit for information-theoretic analysis of complex systems. 2017 ieee symposium series on computational intelligence (ssci), doi:10.1109/ssci.2017.8285197.
  28. Moore, D.G. 2016. The landscape of free fermionic gauge models. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24618-5.
  29. Moore, D., Ruan, D., Sawant, A. 2016. Fast leaf-fitting with generalized underdose/overdose constraints for real-time mlc tracking. Medical physics, 43, doi:10.1118/1.4938586.
  30. Noell, A.C., Ely, T., Bolser, D.K., et al. 2015. Spectroscopy and viability of bacillus subtilis spores after ultraviolet irradiation: Implications for the detection of potential bacterial life on europa. Astrobiology, 15,
  31. Moore, D. 2014. The systematic construction of free fermionic heterotic string gauge models. Journal of physics. Conference series, 485, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/485/1/012066.
  32. Moore, D.G., Satheeshkumar, V.H. 2014. Spectral dimension of bosonic string theory. Physical Review D, 90, doi:10.1103/physrevd.90.024075.
  33. Renner, T., Greenwald, J., Moore, D., et al. 2013. Initial systematic investigations of the landscape of low-layer nahe variation extensions. International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013, doi:10.1155/2013/595070.
  34. Moore, D., Greenwald, J., Cleaver, G. 2013. GAUGE models in d dimensions. Modern Physics Letters A, 28, doi:10.1142/s0217732313500557.
  35. Moore, D.G., Satheeshkumar, V.H. 2013. THE fate of lorentz frame in the vicinity of black hole singularity. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 22, doi:10.1142/s0218271813420261.
  36. Renner, T., Greenwald, J., Moore, D., et al. 2012. Initial systematic investigations of the landscape of low layer nahe extensions. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 72, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2167-y.
  37. Greenwald, J., Moore, D., Pechan, K., et al. 2011. On a nahe variation. Nuclear Physics B, 850, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.05.001.
  38. Cleaver, G., Faraggi, A., Greenwald, J., et al. 2011. Investigation of quasi-realistic heterotic string models with reduced higgs spectrum. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 71, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1842-8.
  39. Renner, T., Greenwald, J., Moore, D., et al. 2011. REDUNDANCIES in explicitly constructed ten-dimensional heterotic string models. International journal of modern physics. A, Particles and fields, gravitation, cosmology, 26, doi:10.1142/s0217751x1105453x.
  40. Hicks, W., Vestal, L., Greenwald, J., et al. 2011. Algorithm for determining u(1) charges in free fermionic heterotic string models.
  41. Moore, D., Greenwald, J., Renner, T., et al. 2011. SYSTEMATIC investigations of the free fermionic heterotic string gauge group statistics: LAYER 1 results. Modern Physics Letters A, 26, doi:10.1142/s0217732311036851.

Professional Associations

Team 0 is 39 Alpha’s inaugural research team, born in the ridiculous heat of the Sonoran desert in 2020 where we met while working between Everett Shock’s [Group Exploring Organic Process In Geochemistry] and Sara Walker’s lab exploring novel astrobiology and information related physics research at Arizona State University.

We each had similar addictions to pure science, developing code for novel research ideas, and arguing with each other. We discovered a mutual craving for difficult environmental projects that ignore traditional disciplinary silos. We believe that humanity is at a unique point in its collective life history. We simultaneously have the power to destroy the environments that sustain us (and we are) while also harboring the intellect and compassion to investigate and comprehend our impact on the Earth and her biosphere.

We knew that the diversity of our collective skillset, and our interest in highly interdisciplinary research meant that our chances of getting hired together somewhere were minimal. So we decided to strike it out on our own, under guiding principles that should be common in science but are not.

Each of us at Team 0 maintains our public science careers in geochemistry, and the various abstract subfields of physics (check out of google scholar pages at the top of this page). However, as Team 0, we conduct research on original projects that are necessary for the environment around us, whether or not they are easy to fund, whether or not they would be easy to defend to a traditional program manager, and without regard for discipline-specific orthodoxy. We research as a team, publish as a team, and make our software and research public, as a team. This is how science should be conducted, and we are living the change we want to see in science.

Team 0 is actively working on their Carbonate State-Space project, to quantify the effect of CO2-induced acidification on calcifying organisms in the Northern Pacific Ocean, where we are employing Eleanor, a novel code package originally developed by Team0 in collaboration with NASA’s Exploring Ocean Worlds initiative. Eleanor will be publicly available soon, once she makes it out of the beta testing stage, so check back or pop into our Github repo.

We are also exploring new project ideas related to clean hydrogen generation from geologic sources. Check out Tucker Ely’s recent paper on H2-generation in Ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal systems. Hydrogen has the potential to replace hydrocarbons as societies dominant energy source. We are interested in discovering new geologic settings and conditions that might yield large quantities of hydrogen naturally, and exploring which settings might be easily harnessed by engineered solutions.

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