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Overview

Tori M. Hoehler is a researcher affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Oceanography.

Their research covers multiple main topics including:

  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Their recent publications include:

  • "Science Goals and Mission Architecture of the Europa Lander Mission Concept" (2022) published in The Planetary Science Journal
  • "The Science Case for a Return to Enceladus" (2021) published in The Planetary Science Journal
  • "Accessing the Subsurface Biosphere Within Rocks Undergoing Active Low-Temperature Serpentinization in the Samail Ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project)" (2021) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Oxidation processes diversify the metabolic menu on Enceladus" (2020) published in Icarus
  • "A dynamic microbial sulfur cycle in a serpentinizing continental ophiolite" (2020) published in Environmental Microbiology

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated multiple times include:

  • M. D. Kubo
  • Matthew O. Schrenk
  • Dawn Cardace
  • T. M. McCollom
  • Alexis S. Templeton

Tori M. Hoehler's work appears regularly in several scientific journals, notably:

  • Astrobiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • mSystems

Best Publications

  • Field and laboratory studies of methane oxidation in an anoxic marine sediment: evidence for a methanogen-sulfate reducer consortium

    T. M. Hoehler;M. J. Alperin;D. B. Albert;C. S. Martens

  • Microbial Life Under Extreme Energy Limitation

    Tori M. Hoehler;Bo Barker Jorgensen

  • Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars.

    Douglas W. Ming;P. D. Archer;D. P. Glavin;J. L. Eigenbrode

  • Thermodynamic control on hydrogen concentrations in anoxic sediments

    Tori M. Hoehler;Marc J. Alperin;Daniel B. Albert;Christopher S. Martens

  • Life under extreme energy limitation: a synthesis of laboratory- and field-based investigations.

    Mark A. Lever;Karyn L. Rogers;Karen G. Lloyd;Jörg Overmann

  • The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap.

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  • Serpentinization and its implications for life on the early Earth and Mars.

    Mitch Schulte;David Blake;Tori M Hoehler;Thomas M McCollom

  • The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds

    Amanda R. Hendrix;Terry A. Hurford;Laura M. Barge;Michael T. Bland

  • The role of microbial mats in the production of reduced gases on the early Earth

    Tori M. Hoehler;Brad M. Bebout;David J. Des Marais

  • Nonequilibrium clumped isotope signals in microbial methane

    David T. Wang;David T. Wang;Danielle S. Gruen;Danielle S. Gruen;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Biological energy requirements as quantitative boundary conditions for life in the subsurface

    T. M. Hoehler

  • Apparent Minimum Free Energy Requirements for Methanogenic Archaea and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in an Anoxic Marine Sediment

    Tori M. Hoehler;Marc J. Alperin;Daniel B. Albert;Christopher S. Martens

  • Bacterial Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in Cave Environments: A Function of Calcium Homeostasis

    Eric D. Banks;Nicholas M. Taylor;Jason Gulley;Brad R. Lubbers

  • Drivers of Bacterial Maintenance and Minimal Energy Requirements.

    Christopher P. Kempes;Peter M. van Bodegom;David Wolpert;Eric Libby

  • Science Potential from a Europa Lander

    R. T. Pappalardo;S. Vance;F. Bagenal;B. G. Bills

  • An energy balance concept for habitability.

    Tori M. Hoehler

  • Science Goals and Mission Architecture of the Europa Lander Mission Concept

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  • Factors that control the stable carbon isotopic composition of methane produced in an anoxic marine sediment

    M. J. Alperin;Neal E. Blair;D. B. Albert;T. M. Hoehler

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation by archaea/sulfate-reducing bacteria aggregates: 1. Thermodynamic and physical constraints

    Marc J. Alperin;Tori M. Hoehler

  • Acetogenesis from CO2 in an anoxic marine sediment

    Tori M. Hoehler;Daniel B. Albert;Marc J. Alperin;Christopher S. Martens

  • Evolutionary tradeoffs in cellular composition across diverse bacteria

    Christopher P Kempes;Christopher P Kempes;Christopher P Kempes;Lawrence Wang;Jan P Amend;John Doyle

  • Significance of anaerobic methane oxidation in methane-rich sediments overlying the Blake Ridge gas hydrates

    Walter S Borowski;Tori M. Hoehler;Mark J. Alperin;Namcy M. Rodriguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Brad M. Bebout
Brad M. Bebout Ames Research Center
Alexis S. Templeton
Alexis S. Templeton University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas M. McCollom
Thomas M. McCollom University of Colorado Boulder
Marc J. Alperin
Marc J. Alperin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Everett L. Shock
Everett L. Shock Arizona State University
David J. Des Marais
David J. Des Marais Ames Research Center
Eric S. Boyd
Eric S. Boyd Montana State University
Bethany L. Ehlmann
Bethany L. Ehlmann University of Colorado Boulder
Alexander G. Hayes
Alexander G. Hayes Cornell University
Jonathan I. Lunine
Jonathan I. Lunine Jet Propulsion Lab

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