Marsbugs:
The Electronic Astrobiology
Newsletter
Dave Thomas and Julian Hiscox founded Marsbugs
in the Spring of 1994. Originally called Marsbugs: The Electronic
Exobiology Newsletter, this newsletter provides a channel of information
for scientists, educators and other persons interested in life sciences
as they relate to planetary science and space exploration. This newsletter
is not intended to replace peer-reviewed journals, but to supplement them.
We, the editors, envision Marsbugs as a medium in which people can informally
present ideas for investigation, questions about space biology, and announcements
of upcoming events.
Astrobiology
is still a relatively young field, and new ideas may come out of the most
unexpected places. Subjects may include, but are not limited to:
exobiology and astrobiology (life on other planets), the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI), ecopoeisis and terraformation, Earth from space, planetary
biology, primordial evolution, space physiology, biological life support
systems, and human habitation of space and other planets. Marsbugs
is published on a weekly to quarterly basis as warranted by the number
of articles and announcements. E-mail subscriptions are free, and
may be obtained by contacting either of the editors (see below).
When ordering subscriptions, please specify whether you would like to receive
Marsbugs
in both text and PDF formats, or in text format only. Article submissions
are welcome, and should be submitted to either of the two editors.
Whenever possible, submissions should include a short biographical statement
about the author(s) along with the author(s)' correspondence address.
Subscribers are advised to make appropriate inquiries before joining societies,
ordering goods etc. Back issues and PDF files suitable for printing
may be obtained from this web page (see below).
The editors may be reached at the following
addresses:
Dr. David Thomas, Biology and Chemistry Division, Lyon College, P.O.
Box 2317, Batesville, AR, 72503-2317, USA. [email protected].
Web page: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/dthomas/index.html.
Dr. Julian A. Hiscox, School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University
of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom. [email protected].
Additional information on astrobiology
and related topics may be found at The
Astrobiology, Extreme Environments and Terraformation Page.
Marsbugs is currently in its seventh
year of publication. Issues of the current volume may be accessed
individually. Previous volumes are archived in their entirety.
In both cases, each issue is available in two formats--plain ASCII text
(*.txt) and Adobe portable document file (*.pdf) format. Programs
that expand ZIP files are available from a wide variety of shareware and
internet provider sites or may be obtained directly from PKWARE,
Inc. Some web browsers may have unzipping capabilities built
in. Acrobat Reader, a free program that allows viewing and printing
of PDF files, is available from Adobe Systems.
This program is built into many web browsers as well. On a request
basis, Dave can provide printed issues or entire volumes for the cost of
printing, packaging and shipping.
Previous volumes of Marsbugs:
Volume
1 (1994)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Volume
2 (1995)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Volume
3 (1996)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Volume
4 (1997)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Volume
5 (1998)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Volume
6 (1999)
Text
archive
PDF
archive
Current volume of Marsbugs
(volume 7)
For more information on space-related biology, see The
Astrobiology, Extreme Environments and Terraformation Index.
Please let me know what you think of this web site. What should
be added? What should be deleted? Send e-mail to
Dave
Thomas at [email protected]
or [email protected].
