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Payler, Samuel; Biddle, Jennifer; Sherwood Lollar, Barbara; Fox-Powell, Mark; Edwards, Thomas; Ngwenya, Bryne; Paling, Sean and Cockell, Charles (2019). An Ionic Limit to Life in the Deep Subsurface. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, article no. 426.

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Fox-Powell, Mark and Cockell, Charles (2018). Building a Geochemical View of Microbial Salt Tolerance: Halophilic Adaptation of Marinococcus in a Natural Magnesium Sulfate Brine. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, article no. 739.

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Fox-Powell, Mark; Hallsworth, John; Cousins, Claire and Cockell, Charles (2016). Ionic strength is a barrier to the habitability of Mars. Astrobiology, 16(6) pp. 427–442.

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Kapitulčinová, Dana; Cockell, Charles S.; Patel, Manish R. and Ragnarsdóttir, Kristín Vala (2015). The Interlayer Regions of Sheet Silicates as a Favorable Habitat for Endolithic Microorganisms. Geomicrobiology Journal, 32(6) pp. 530–537.

Stevenson, Andrew; Burkhardt, Jürgen; Cockell, Charles S.; Cray, Jonathan A.; Dijksterhuis, Jan; Fox-Powell, Mark; Kee, Terence P.; Kminek, Gerhard; McGenity, Terry J.; Timmis, Kenneth N.; Timson, David J.; Voytek, Mary A.; Westall, Frances; Yakimov, Michail M. and Hallsworth, John E. (2015). Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life. Environmental Microbiology, 17(2) pp. 257–277.

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Woolman, P. F.; Pearson, V. K.; Cockell, C. and Olsson-Francis, K. (2015). Subsurface Halophiles: An Analogue for Potential Life on Mars. In: UK Planetary Forum 12th Early Career Planetary Scientists’ Meeting, 19-20 Feb 2015, University of Kent.

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Woolman, P. F.; Pearson, V. K.; Cockell, C. S. and Olsson-Francis, K. (2015). Subsurface Halophiles: An Analogue for Potential Life on Mars. In: Life on Earth and Beyond: The History and Philosophy of the Origin of Life, 4-6 May 2015, Ven Island, Sweden.

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Crawford, I. A.; Anand, M.; Cockell, C. S.; Falcke, H.; Green, D. A.; Jaumann, R. and Wieczorek, M. A. (2012). Back to the Moon: the scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration. Planetary and Space Science, 74(1) pp. 3–14.

Olsson-Francis, K.; Simpson, A. E.; Wolff-Boenisch, D. and Cockell, C. S. (2012). The effect of rock composition on cyanobacterial weathering of crystalline basalt and rhyolite. Geobiology, 10(5) pp. 434–444.

Schwenzer, S. P.; Abramov, O.; Allan, C. C.; Clifford, S. M.; Cockell, C. S.; Filiberto, J.; Kring, D. A.; Lasue, J.; McGovern, P. J.; Newsom, H. E.; Treiman, A. H.; Vaniman, D. T. and Wiens, R. C. (2012). Puncturing Mars: How impact craters interact with the Martian cryosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 335 pp. 9–17.

Rolfe, S. M.; Patel, M.; Gilmour, I.; Olsson-Francis, K.; Ringrose, T. J. and Cockell, C. (2012). Raman spectroscopy of biologically relevant amino acids under martian condtions. In: Astrobiology Science Conference 2012 Exploring Life: Past, Present, Near and Far, 16-20 Apr 2012, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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Paulino-Lima, Ivan Gláucio; Janot-Pacheco, Eduardo; Galante, Douglas; Cockell, Charles; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Brucato, John Robert; Baratta, Giuseppe Antonio; Strazzulla, Giovanni; Merrigan, Tony; McCullough, Robert; Mason, Nigel and Lage, Claudia (2011). Survival of Deinococcus radiodurans against laboratory-simulated solar wind charged particle. Astrobiology, 11(9) pp. 875–882.

Rolfe, S. M.; Patel, M. R.; Olsson-Francis, K.; Cockell, C. S. and Ringrose, T. J. (2011). Raman spectroscopy of amino acids and other biomarkers on Mars. In: 11th European Workshop on Astrobiology (Annual workshop of EANA), 11-14 Jul 2011, Cologne, Germany.

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Cockell, Charles S.; Rettberg, Petra; Rabbow, Elke and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2011). Exposure of phototrophs to 548 days in low earth orbit: microbial selection pressures in outer space and on early earth. ISME Journal, 5 pp. 1671–1682.

Cockell, Charles S.; Pybus, David; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Kelly, Laura; Petley, David; Rosser, Nick; Howard, Karen and Mosselmans, Fred (2011). Molecular characterization and geological microenvironment of a microbial community inhabiting weathered receding shale cliffs. Molecular Ecology, 61(1) pp. 166–181.

Cockell, C. S.; Bagshaw, E.; Balme, M.; Doran, P.; McKay, C. P.; Milijkovic, K.; Pearce, D.; Siegert, M. J.; Tranter, M.; Voytek, M. and Wadham, J. (2011). Subglacial environments and the search for life beyond the Earth. In: Siegert, M. J.; Kennicutt, M. C. and Bindschadler, R. A. eds. Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. AGU Geophysical Monograph (192). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, pp. 129–148.

Cockell, C. S.; van Calsteren, Peter; Mosselmans, J. Fred W.; Franchi, Ian A.; Gilmour, Iain; Kelly, Laura; Olsson-Francis, Karen and Johnson, Diane (2010). Microbial endolithic colonization and the geochemical environment in young seafloor basalts. Chemical geology, 279(1-2) pp. 17–30.

Olsson-Francis, K.; Van Houdt, R.; Mergeay, M.; Leys, N. and Cockell, C. S. (2010). Microarray analysis of a microbe–mineral interaction. Geobiology, 8(5) pp. 446–456.

Kelly, Laura C.; Cockell, Charles S.; Piceno, Yvette M.; Andersen, Gary L.; Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn and Marteinsson, Viggo (2010). Bacterial diversity of weathered terrestrial Icelandic volcanic glasses. Microbial Ecology, 60(4) pp. 740–752.

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Monaghan, Euan P.; Patel, Manish R.; Cockell, Charles S. and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2010). Simulating microbe-mineral interactions in the subsurface of Mars. In: 10th European Workshop on Astrobiology EANA 2010, 6-8 Sep 2010, Pushchino, Russia.

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Olsson-Francis, Karen and Cockell, Charles (2010). Use of cyanobacteria for in-situ resource use in space applications. Planetary And Space Science, 58(10) pp. 1279–1285.

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Cockell, Charles S. (2010). Geomicrobiology beyond Earth: microbe–mineral interactions in space exploration and settlement. Trends in Microbiology, 18(7) pp. 308–314.

Meunier, Alain; Petit, Sabine; Cockell, Charles S.; El Albani, Abderrazzak and Beaufort, Daniel (2010). The Fe-rich clay microsystems in basalt-komatiite lavas: importance of Fe-smectites for pre-biotic molecule catalysis during the Hadean Eon. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40(3) pp. 253–272.

Olsson-Francis, Karen; de la Torre, Rosa and Cockell, Charles S. (2010). Isolation of novel extreme-tolerant cyanobacteria from a rock-dwelling microbial community by using exposure to low Earth orbit. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76(7) pp. 2115–2121.

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Schulte, Peter; Alegret, Laia; Arenillas, Ignacio; Arz, José A.; Barton, Penny J.; Bown, Paul R.; Bralower, Timothy J.; Christeson, Gail L.; Claeys, Philippe; Cockell, Charles S.; Collins, Gareth S.; Deutsch, Alexander; Goldin, Tamara J.; Goto, Kazuhisa; Grajales-Nishimura, José M.; Grieve, Richard A. F.; Gulick, Sean P. S.; Johnson, Kirk R.; Kiessling, Wolfgang; Koeberl, Christian; Kring, David A.; MacLeod, Kenneth G.; Matsui, Takafumi; Melosh, Jay; Montanari, Alessandro; Morgan, Joanna V.; Neal, Clive R.; Nichols, Douglas J.; Norris, Richard D.; Pierazzo, Elisabetta; Ravizza, Greg; Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario; Reimold, Wolf Uwe; Robin, Eric; Salge, Tobias; Speijer, Robert P.; Sweet, Arthur R.; Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime; Vajda, Vivi; Whalen, Michael T. and Willumsen, Pi S. (2010). The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science, 327(5970) pp. 1214–1218.

Osinski, Gordon R.; Lee, Pascal; Cockell, Charles S.; Snook, Kelly; Lim, Darlene S. S. and Braham, Stephen (2010). Field geology on the Moon: Some lessons learned from the exploration of the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic. Planetary and Space Science, 58(4) pp. 646–657.

Foucher, Frédéric; Westall, Frances; Brandstätter, Franz; Demets, René; Parnell, John; Cockell, Charles S.; M. Edwards, Howell G.; Bény, Jean-Michel and Brack, André (2010). Testing the survival of microfossils in artificial martian sedimentary meteorites during entry into Earth's atmosphere: the STONE 6 experiment. Icarus, 207(2) pp. 616–630.

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Olsson-Francis, Karen and Cockell, Charles (2010). Experimental methods for studying microbial survival in extraterrestrial environments. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 80(1) pp. 1–13.

Cockell, C. S.; Osinski, G. R.; Banerjee, N. R.; Howard, K. T.; Gilmour, I. and Watson, J. S. (2010). The microbe–mineral environment and gypsum neogenesis in a weathered polar evaporite. Geobiology, 8(4) pp. 293–308.

de La Torre, Rosa; Sancho, Leopoldo G.; Horneck, Gerda; de los Ríos, Asunción; Wierzchos, Jacek; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Cockell, Charles; Rettberg, Petra; Berger, Thomas; de Vera, Jean-Pierre P.; Ott, Sieglinde; Frías, Jesus Martinez; Melendi, Pablo Gonzalez; Lucas, Maria Mercedes; Reina, Manuel; Pintado, Ana and Demets, René (2010). Survival of lichens and bacteria exposed to outer space conditions: results of the space Lithopanspermia experiment. Icarus, 208(2) pp. 735–748.

Olsson-Francis, Karen; Towner, Martin C.; de La Torre, Rosa and Cockell, Charles S. (2009). Survival of akinetes (resting-state cells of cyanobacteria) in low earth orbit and simulated extraterrestrial conditions. Origins Of Life And Evolution Of The Biosphere, 39(6) pp. 565–579.

Cockell, Charles; Bridges, John; Dannatt, Lindsay; Burchell, Mark; Patel, Manish and Danson, Michael (2009). Where to land on Mars. Astronomy & Geophysics, 50(6) 6.18-6.26.

Finster, K. W.; Cockell, C. S.; Voytek, M. A.; Gronstal, A. L. and Kjeldsen, K. U. (2009). Description of Tessaracoccus profundi sp.nov., a deep-subsurface actinobacterium isolated from a Chesapeake impact crater drill core (940 m depth). Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 96(4) pp. 515–526.

Cockell, Charles; Olsson, Karen; Knowles, Felicity; Kelly, Laura; Herrera, Aude; Thorsteinsson, Thorstein and Marteinsson, Viggo (2009). Bacteria in weathered basaltic glass, Iceland. Geomicrobiology Journal, 26(7) pp. 491–507.

de Vera, J. P.; Ott, S.; de la Torre, R.; Sancho, L. G.; Horneck, G.; Rettberg, P.; Ascaso, C.; de los Ríos, A.; Wierzchos, J.; Cockell, C.; Olsson, K.; Frías, J. M. and Demets, R. (2009). ESA experiment BIOPAN-6-Germination and Growth Capacity of Lichen Symbiont Cells and Ascospores After Space Exposure. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 39(3) pp. 359–360.

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Jones, Harriet; Cockell, Charles S.; Goodson, Claire; Price, Nicola; Simpson, Annika and Thomas, Benjamin (2009). Experiments on mixotrophic protists and catastrophic darkness. Astrobiology, 9(6) pp. 563–571.

Lammer, H.; Bredehöft, J. H.; Coustenis, A.; Khodachenko, M. L.; Kaltenegger, L.; Grasset, O.; Prieur, D.; Raulin, F.; Ehrenfreund, P.; Yamauchi, M.; Wahlund, J.-E.; Grießmeier, J.-M.; Stangl, G.; Cockell, C. S.; Kulikov, Yu. N.; Grenfell, J. L. and Rauer, H. (2009). What makes a planet habitable? Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 17(2) pp. 181–249.

Cockell, Charles S.; Raven, John A.; Kaltenegger, Lisa and Logan, Robert C. (2009). Planetary targets in the search for extrasolar oxygenic photosynthesis. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2(2) pp. 207–219.

Cockell, C. S.; Léger, A.; Fridlund, M.; Herbst, T. M.; Kaltenegger, L.; Absil, O.; Beichman, C.; Benz, W.; Blanc, M.; Brack, A.; Chelli, A.; Colangeli, L.; Cottin, H.; Coudé du Foresto, F.; Danchi, W. C.; Defrère, D.; den Herder, J.-W.; Eiroa, C.; Greaves, J.; Henning, T.; Johnston, K. J.; Jones, H.; Labadie, L.; Lammer, H.; Launhardt, R.; Lawson, P.; Lay, O. P.; LeDuigou, J.-M.; Liseau, R.; Malbet, F.; Martin, S. R.; Mawet, D.; Mourard, D.; Moutou, C.; Mugnier, L. M.; Ollivier, M.; Paresce, F.; Quirrenbach, A.; Rabbia, Y. D.; Raven, J. A.; Rottgering, H. J. A.; Rouan, D.; Santos, N. C.; Selsis, F.; Serabyn, E.; Shibai, H.; Tamura, M.; Thiébaut, E.; Westall, F. and White, G. J. (2009). Darwin - a mission to detect and search for life on extrasolar planets. Astrobiology, 9(1) pp. 1–22.

Cockell, Charles S.; Herbst, Tom; Léger, Alain; Absil, O.; Beichman, Charles; Benz, Willy; Brack, Andre; Chazelas, Bruno; Chelli, Alain; Cottin, Hervé; Coudé du Foresto, Vincent; Danchi, William; Defrère, Denis; den Herder, Jan-Willem; Eiroa, Carlos; Fridlund, Malcolm; Henning, Thomas; Johnston, Kenneth; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Labadie, Lucas; Lammer, Helmut; Launhardt, Ralf; Lawson, Peter; Lay, Oliver P.; Liseau, Rene'; Martin, Stefan R.; Mawet, Dimitri; Mourard, Denis; Moutou, Claire; Mugnier, Laurent; Paresce, Francesco; Quirrenbach, Andreas; Rabbia, Yves; Rottgering, Huub J. A.; Rouan, Daniel; Santos, Nuno; Selsis, Franck; Serabyn, Eugene; Westall, Frances; White, Glenn; Ollivier, Marc and Bordé, Pascale (2009). Darwin - an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets. Experimental Astronomy, 23(1) pp. 435–461.

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Cockell, C. S. and Olsson-Francis, K. (2009). Alteration textures in terrestrial volcanic glass and the associated bacterial community. Geobiology, 7(1) pp. 50–65.

Gronstal, A.; Pearson, V.; Kappler, A.; Dooris, C.; Anand, M.; Poitrasson, F.; Kee, T. P. and Cockell, C. S. (2009). Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidizing bacteria. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 44(2) pp. 233–247.

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Cockell, Charles S.; Kaltenegger, Lisa and Raven, John A. (2009). Cryptic photosynthesis - extrasolar planetary oxygen without a surface biological signature. Astrobiology, 9(7) pp. 623–636.

Cockell, Charles S. and Jones, Harriet L. (2009). Advancing the case for microbial conservation. Oryx, 43(4) pp. 520–526.

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Kee, T; Gronstal, A.; Pearson, V.; Kappla, A.; Dooris, C.; Anand, M.; Poitrasson, F. and Cockell, C. (2009). Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidising bacteria. In: Goldschmidt, 21-26 Jun 2009, Davos, Switzerland.

Simpson, A. E.; Grady, M. M.; Mosselmans, J. F. W. and Cockell, C. S. (2009). The effect of water-rock ratios on microbial weathering of basalt. In: Goldschmidt 2009: Challenges to Our Volatile Planet, 21-26 Jun 2009, Davos, Switzerland.

Raven, John A.; Cockell, Charles S. and De La Rocha, Christina L. (2008). The evolution of inorganic carbon concentrating mechanisms in photosynthesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1504) pp. 2641–2650.

Gohn, G. S.; Koeberl, C.; Miller, K. G.; Reimold, W. U.; Browning, J. V.; Cockell, C. S.; Horton Jr., J. W.; Kenkmann, T.; Kulpecz, A. A.; Powars, D. S.; Sanford, W. E. and Voytek, M. A. (2008). Deep drilling into the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Science, 320(5884) pp. 1740–1745.

Cockell, Charles S. and Herrera, Aude (2008). Why are some microorganisms boring? Trends in Microbiology, 16(3) pp. 101–106.

Horneck, Gerda; Stöffler, Dieter; Ott, Sieglinde; Hornemann, Ulrich; Cockell, Charles S.; Moeller, Ralf; Meyer, Cornelia; de Vera, Jean-Pierre; Fritz, Jörg; Schade, Sara and Artemieva, Natalia A. (2008). Microbial rock inhabitants survive hypervelocity impacts on Mars-like host planets: first phase of lithopanspermia experimentally tested. Astrobiology, 8(1) pp. 17–44.

Cockell, Charles S.; McKay, Christopher P.; Warren-Rhodes, Kim and Horneck, Gerda (2008). Ultraviolet radiation-induced limitation to epilithic microbial growth in arid deserts: dosimetric experiments in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 90(2) pp. 79–87.

Westall, F.; Demets, R.; Brandstetter, F.; Edwards, H. G. M.; Cockell, C. S.; Parnell, J.; Pillinger, J.; Sancisi-Frey, S.; Franchi, I. A.; Kurat, G. and Brack, A. (2008). STONE 6: Artificial Sedimentary Meteorites in Space. In: 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX), 10-14 Mar 2008, League City, Texas, USA, p. 1538.

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Herrera, Aude; Cockell, Charles S.; Self, Stephen; Blaxter, Mark; Reitner, Joachim; Arp, Gernot; Drose, Wolfgang; Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn and Tindle, Andrew G. (2008). Bacterial colonization and weathering of terrestrial obsidian in Iceland. Geomicrobiology Journal, 25(1) pp. 25–37.

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Kapitulĉinová, D.; Cockell, C. S.; Hallam, K. R. and Ragnarsdottir, K. V. (2008). Effect of cyanobacterial growth on biotite surfaces under laboratory nutrient-limited conditions. Mineralogical Magazine, 72(1) pp. 71–75.

Cockell, Charles S. (2008). Interstellar planetary protection. Advances in Space Research, 42(6) pp. 1161–1165.

Cockell, Charles S. (2008). The interplanetary exchange of photosynthesis. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 38(1) pp. 87–104.

Talbot, Helen M.; Summons, Roger E.; Jahnke, Linda L.; Cockell, Charles S.; Rohmer, Michel and Farrimond, Paul (2008). Cyanobacterial bacteriohopanepolyol signatures from cultures and natural environmental settings. Organic Geochemistry, 39(2) pp. 232–263.

Weinstein, S.; Pane, D.; Ernst, L. A.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Dohm, J. M.; Hock, A. N.; Piatek, J. L.; Emani, S.; Lanni, F.; Wagner, M.; Fisher, G. W.; Minkley, E.; Dansey, L. E.; Smith, T.; Grin, E. A.; Stubbs, K.; Thomas, G.; Cockell, C. S.; Marinangeli, L.; Ori, G. G.; Heys, S.; Teza, J. P.; Moersch, J. E.; Coppin, P.; Diaz, G. Chong; Wettergreen, D. S.; Cabrol, N. A. and Waggoner, A. S. (2008). Application of pulsed-excitation fluorescence imager for daylight detection of sparse life in tests in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(G01S90)

Liu, Yonding; Cockell, Charles S.; Wang, Gaohong; Hu, Chunxiang; Chen, Lanzhou and De Philippis, Roberto (2008). Control of lunar and Martian dust - experimental insights from artificial and natural cyanobacterial and algal crusts in the Desert of Inner Mongolia, China. Astrobiology, 8(1) pp. 75–86.

Pullan, Derek; Westall, Frances; Hofmann, Beda A.; Parnell, John; Cockell, Charles S.; Edwards, Howell G. M.; Villar, Susana E. Jorge; Schröder, Christian; Cressey, Gordon; Marinangeli, Lucia; Richter, Lutz and Klingelhöfer, Göstar (2008). Identification of morphological biosignatures in Martian analogue field specimens using in situ planetary instrumentation. Astrobiology, 8(1) pp. 119–156.

Miljkovic, K.; Taylor, E. A.; Tsembelis, K.; Proud, W. G.; Cockell, C. S. and Zarnecki, J. C. (2007). Impact pressures generated by spherical particle hypervelocity impact on Yorkshire Sandstone. In: Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 24-29 Jun 2007, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, pp. 1049–1052.

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Gronstal, Aaron; Cockell, Charles S.; Perino, Maria Antonietta; Bittner, Tobias; Clacey, Erik; Clark, Olathe; Ingold, Olivier; De Oliveira, Catarina and Wathiong, Steven (2007). Lunar astrobiology: a review and suggested laboratory equipment. Astrobiology, 7(5) pp. 767–782.

Warren-Rhodes, K.; Weinstein, S.; Dohm, J.; Piatek, J.; Minkley, E.; Hock, A.; Cockell, Charles; Pane, D.; Ernst, L. A.; Fisher, G.; Emani, S.; Waggoner, A. S.; Cabrol, N. A.; Wettergreen, D. S.; Apostolopoulos, D.; Coppin, P.; Grin, E.; Diaz, C.; Moersch, J.; Oril, G. G.; Smith, T.; Stubbs, K.; Thomas, G.; Wagner, M. and Wyatt, M. (2007). Searching for microbial life remotely: Satellite-to-rover habitat mapping in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 112(G04S05)

Cockell, C. S.; Tsikos, H.; Durante, M. and Parnell, J. (2007). Microbe-mineral interactions in naturally radioactive beach sands from Espirito Santo, Brazil: experiments on mutagenicity. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 46(3) pp. 247–253.

Parnell, J.; Cullen, D.; Sims, M. R.; Bowde, S.; Cockell, C. S.; Court, R.; Ehrenfreund, P.; Gaubert, F.; Grant, W.; Parro, V.; Rohmer, M.; Sephton, M.; Stan-Lotter, H.; Steele, A.; Toporski, J. and Vago, J. (2007). Searching for life on Mars: selection of molecular targets for ESA's aurora ExoMars mission. Astrobiology, 7(4) pp. 578–604.

Cockell, Charles and Raven, John A (2007). Ozone and life on the Archaean earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 365(1856) pp. 1889–1901.

Cockell, Charles S.; Kennerley, Niki; Lindstrom, Maurits; Watson, Jonathan; Ragnarsdottir, Vala; Sturkell, Erik; Ott, Sieglinde and Tindle, Andrew G. (2007). Geomicrobiology of a Weathering Crust from an Impact Crater and a Hypothesis for its Formation. Geomicrobiology Journal, 24(5) pp. 425–440.

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Herrera, Aude and Cockell, Charles S. (2007). Exploring microbial diversity in volcanic environments: A review of methods in DNA extraction. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 70(1) pp. 1–12.

Pearce, D. A.; Cockell, C. S.; Lindstrom, E. S. and Tranvik, L. J. (2007). First evidence for a bipolar distribution of dominant freshwater lake bacterioplankton. Antarctic Science, 19(2) pp. 245–252.

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Misgaiski, M.; Meyer, C.; Stöffler, D.; Fritz, J.; Horneck, G.; Moeller, R.; Rabbow, E.; Cockell, C. S.; De Vera, J. P.; Ott, S. and Hornemann, U. (2007). The influence of shock pressure, pre-shock temperature, and host rock composition on the survival rate of endolithic microorganisms during impact ejection from Mars. In: 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 12-16 Mar 2007, League City, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, C. S. (2007). Mutually assured pathogenicity. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 32(1) pp. 7–10.

Zahnle, Kevin; Arndt, Nick; Cockell, Charles; Halliday, Alex; Nisbet, Euan; Selsis, Franck and Sleep, Norman H. (2007). Emergence of a habitable planet. Space Science Reviews, 129(1-3) pp. 35–78.

Stoffler, Deiter; Horneck, Gerda; Ott, Sieglinde; Hornemann, Ulrich; Cockell, Charles S.; Moeller, Ralf; Meyer, Cornelia; de Vera, Jean-Pierre; Fritz, Jorg and Artemieva, Natalia A. (2007). Experimental evidence for the potential impact ejection of viable microorganisms from Mars and Mars-like planets. Icarus, 186(2) pp. 585–588.

Cockell, C.; Brack, A.; Wynn-Williams, D. D.; Baglioni, P.; Brandstatter, F.; Demets, R.; Edwards, H. G. M.; Gronstal, A.; Kurat, G.; Lee, P.; Osinski, G. R.; Pearce, D. A.; Pillinger, J.; Roten, C. A. and Sancisi-Frey, S. (2007). Interplanetary transfer of photosynthesis: An experimental demonstration of a selective dispersal filter in planetary island biogeography. Astrobiology, 7(1) pp. 1–9.

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Jones, Harriet; Yeoman, K. and Cockell, C. (2007). A pilot survey of attitudes to space sciences and exploration among British school children. Space Policy, 23(1) pp. 20–23.

Piatek, Jennifer L.; Hardgrove, Craig; Moersch, Jeffrey E.; Drake, Darrell M.; Wyatt, Michael B.; Rampey, Michael; Carlisle, Orion; Warren-Rhodes, Kim; Dohm, James M.; Hock, Andrew N.; Cabrol, Nathalie A.; Wettergreen, David S.; Grin, Edmond A.; Diaz, Guillermo Chong; Coppin, Peter; Weinstein, Shmuel; Cockell, Charles S.; Marinangeli, Lucia; Ori, Gian Gabriele; Smith, Trey; Jonak, Dominic; Wagner, Michael; Stubbs, Kristen; Thomas, Geb; Pudenz, Erin and Glasgow, Justin (2007). Surface and subsurface composition of the life in the Atacama field sites from rover data and orbital image analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 112(g4) G04S04.

Cabrol, N. A.; Wettergreen, D.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Grin, E. A.; Moersch, J.; Diaz, G. C.; Cockell, C. S.; Coppin, P.; Demergasso, C.; Dohm, J. M.; Ernst, L.; Fisher, G.; Glasgow, J.; Hardgrove, C.; Hock, A. N.; Jonak, D.; Marinangeli, L.; Minkley, E.; Ori, G. G.; Piatek, J.; Pudenz, E.; Smith, T.; Stubbs, K.; Thomas, G.; Thompson, D.; Waggoner, A.; Wagner, M.; Weinstein, S. and Wyatt, M. (2007). Life in the Atacama: Searching for life with rovers (science overview). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 112(G4) G04S02.

Cockell, C. S. (2007). Originism: Ethics and extraterrestrial life. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 60(4) pp. 147–153.

Leach, Sydney; Smith, Ian W. M. and Cockell, Charles S. (2006). Introduction: conditions for the emergence of life on the early Earth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361(1474) pp. 1675–1679.

Cockell, Charles (2006). The origin and emergence of life under impact bombardment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361(1474) pp. 1845–1856.

Cockell, Charles S. (2006). The ethical relevance of earth-like extrasolar planets. Environmental Ethics, 28(3) pp. 303–314.

Raven, J. A. and Cockell, C. S. (2006). Influence on photosynthesis of starlight, moonlight, planetlight, and light pollution (reflections on photosynthetically active radiation in the universe). Astrobiology, 6(4) pp. 668–675.

Cockell, Charles S. and Dale Stokes, M. (2006). Hypolithic colonization of opaque rocks in the Arctic and Antarctic polar desert. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 38(3) pp. 335–342.

Meyer, C.; Stöffler, D.; Fritz, J.; Horneck, G.; Möller, R.; Cockell, C. S.; de Vera, J. P. and Hornemann, U. (2006). Life after shock: the mission from Mars to Earth. In: 69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, 6-11 Aug 2006, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Weinstein, S.; Pane, D.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Cockell, C.; Ernst, L. A.; Minkley, E.; Fisher, G.; Emani, S.; Wettergreen, D. S.; Wagner, M.; Cabrol, N. A.; Grim, E. and Waggoner, A. S. (2006). Implementation of a daylight fluorescence imaging system to autonomously detect biomarkers of extant life in the Atacama Desert. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 13-17 Mar 2006, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Gohn, G. S.; Koeberl, C.; Miller, K. G.; Reimold, W. U.; Browning, J. V.; Cockell, C. S.; Dypvik, H.; Edwards, L. E.; Horton Jr., J. W.; McLaughlin, P. P.; Ormö, J.; Plescia, J. B.; Powars, D. S.; Sanford, W. E.; Self-Trail, J. M. and Voytek, M. A. (2006). Preliminary site report for the 2005 ICDP-USGS deep corehole in the Chesapeake Bay impact crater. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 13-17 Mar 2006, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Stöffler, D.; Meyer, C.; Fritz, J.; Horneck, G.; Möller, R.; Cockell, C. S.; Ott, S.; de Vera, J. P.; Hornemann, U. and Artemieva, N. A. (2006). Impact experiments in support of “Lithopanspermia”: The route from Mars to Earth. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 13-17 Mar 2006, Houston, Texas.

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Parnell, J.; Lindgren, P.; Osinski, G. R.; Cockell, C. S. and Lee, P. (2006). Simple devices for concentration of microbial life: Experiments in Haughton impact structure. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 13-17 Mar 2006, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Parnell, J.; Bowden, S. A.; Cockell, C. S.; Osinski, G. R. and Lee, P. (2006). Surface mineral crusts: A priority target in search for life on Mars. In: 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 13-17 Mar 2006, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, Charles; Koeberl, Christian and Gilmour, Iain eds. (2006). Biological processes associated with impact events. Impact Studies. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Cockell, C. S.; Fike, D. A.; Osinski, G. R. and Lee, P. (2006). Geomicrobiology of impact-altered rocks. In: Cockell, C. S.; Koeberl, C. and Gilmour, I. eds. Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events. Impact Studies. Berlin: Springer, pp. 21–40.

Taylor, E. A.; Tsembelis, K.; Chapman, D.; Proud, W. G. and Cockell, C. S. (2006). Hugoniot properties of dry Yorkshire sandstone up to 8 GPa. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 845(1) pp. 1488–1491.

Sherlock, Sarah C.; Kelley, Simon P.; Parnell, John; Green, Paul; Lee, Pascal; Osinski, Gordon R. and Cockell, Charles S. (2005). Re-evaluating the age of the Haughton impact event. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 40(12) pp. 1777–1787.

Cockell, Charles S.; Lee, Pascal; Broady, Paul; Lim, Darlene S.S.; Osinski, Gordon R.; Parnell, John; Koeberl, Christian; Pesonen, Lauri and Salminen, Johanna (2005). Effects of asteroid and comet impacts on habitats for lithophytic organisms - A synthesis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 40(12) pp. 1901–1914.

Parnell, John; Lee, Pascal; Osinski, Gordon R. and Cockell, Charles (2005). Application of organic geochemistry to detect signatures of organic matter in the Haughton impact structure. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 40(12) pp. 1879–1885.

Osinski, G. R.; Lee, P.; Spray, J. G.; Parnell, J.; Lim, D. S. S.; Bunch, T. E.; Cockell, C. and Glass, B. (2005). Geological overview and cratering model for the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 40(12) pp. 1759–1776.

Cockell, Charles (2005). Planetary protection—A microbial ethics approach. Space Policy, 21(4) pp. 287–292.

Stöffler, D.; Meyer, C.; Fritz, J.; Horneck, G.; Möller, R.; Cockell, C. S.; de Vera, J. P. and Hornemann, U. (2005). Shock recovery experiments confirm the possibility of transferring viable microorganisms from Mars to Earth. In: 68th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, 12-16 Sep 2005, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.

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Cordoba-Jabonero, Carmen; Zorzano, Maria-Paz; Selsis, Franck; Patel, Manish and Cockell, Charles S. (2005). Radiative habitable zones in martian polar environments. Icarus, 175(2) pp. 360–371.

Cockell, Charles S. and Bland, Philip A. (2005). The evolutionary and ecological benefits of asteroid and comet impacts. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20(4) pp. 175–179.

Peck, Lloyd S.; Clark, Melody S.; Clarke, Andrew; Cockell, Charles; Convey, Peter; Detrich III, H. William; Fraser, Keiron P. P.; Johnston, Ian A.; Methe, Barbara A.; Murray, Alison E.; Römisch, Karin and Rogers, Alex D. (2005). Genomics: applications to Antarctic ecosystems. Polar Biology, 28(5) pp. 351–365.

Cockell, C.; Schuerger, A. C.; Billi, D.; Friedmann, E. I. and Panitz, C. (2005). Effects of a simulated martian UV flux on the cyanobacterium, Chroococcidiopsis sp. 029. Astrobiology, 5(2) pp. 127–140.

Dohm, J. M.; Cabrol, N. A.; Grin, E. A.; Moersch, J.; Chong Diaz, G.; Cockell, C.; Coppin, P.; Fisher, G.; Hock, A. N.; Marinangeli, L.; Minkley, N.; Ori, G. G.; Piatek, J. L.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Weinstein, S.; Wyatt, M.; Smith, T.; Wagner, M.; Stubb, K.; Thomas, G. and Glasgow, J. (2005). Life in the Atacama — Year 2: Geologic reconnaissance through long-range roving and implications on the search for life. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Piatek, J. L.; Moersch, J. E.; Wyatt, M.; Rampe, M.; Cabrol, N. A.; Wettergreen, D. S.; Whittaker, R.; Grin, E. A.; Chong Diaz, G.; Cockell, C.; Coppin, P.; Dohm, J. M.; Fisher, G.; Hock, A. N.; Marinangeli, L.; Minkley, N.; Ori, G. G.; Waggoner, A.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Weinstein, S.; Apostolopoulos, D.; Smith, T.; Wagner, M.; Stubb, K.; Thomas, G. and Glasgow, J. (2005). Spectroscopic results from the Life in the Atacama (LITA) project 2004 field season. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Weinstein, S.; Pane, D.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Cockell, C.; Ernst, L. A.; Minkley, E.; Fisher, G.; Emani, S.; Wettergreen, D. S.; Wagner, M.; Cabrol, J. N. and Waggoner, A. S. (2005). Use of a novel rover-mounted fluorescence imager and fluorescent probes to detect biological material in the Atacama Desert in daylight. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Parnell, J.; Baron, M. and Cockell, C. S. (2005). Endolithic colonization of fluid inclusion trails in mineral grains. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cabrol, N. A.; Wettergree, D. S.; Whittaker, R.; Grin, E. A.; Moersch, J. E.; Chong-Diaz, G.; Cockell, C.; Coppin, P.; Dohm, J. M.; Fisher, G.; Hock, A. N.; Marinangeli, L.; Minkley, N.; Ori, G. G.; Piatek, J. L.; Waggoner, A.; Warren-Rhodes, K.; Weinstein, S.; Wyatt, M.; Calderon, F.; Heys, S.; Jonak, D.; Luders, A.; Pane, T.; Smith, T.; Stubbs, K.; Teza, J.; Thompkins, P.; Villa, D. and Willams, C. (2005). Searching for life with rovers: exploration methods and science results from the 2004 field campaign of the “Life in the Atacama” project and applications to future Mars Missions. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Parnell, J.; Osinski, G. R.; Lee, P. and Cockell, C. S. (2005). Microbial preservation in sulfates in the Haughton impact structure suggests target in search for life on Mars. In: 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 14-18 Mar 2005, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Ellery, Alex; Ball, Andrew J.; Cockell, Charles; Dickensheets, David; Edwards, Howell; Kolb, Christof; Lammer, Helmut; Patel, Manish and Richter, Lutz (2005). Vanguard - a European robotic astrobiology-focussed Mars sub-surface mission proposal. Acta Astronautica, 56(3) pp. 397–407.

Cockell, Charles (2005). A Scientific Impact Response Team for the Aftermath of Small Asteroid and Comet Impacts. Science and Global Security, 13(1-2) pp. 105–115.

Edwards, Howell G.M.; Villar, Susana E. Jorge; Parnell, John; Cockell, Charles S. and Lee, Pascal (2005). Raman spectroscopic analysis of cyanobacterial gypsum halotrophs and relevance for sulfate deposits on Mars. Analyst, 130 pp. 917–923.

Jorge Villar, Susana E.; Edwards, Howell G. M. and Cockell, Charles (2005). Raman spectroscopy of endoliths from Antarctic cold desert environments. Analyst, 130(2) pp. 156–162.

Cockell, Charles (2005). The unsupported transpolar assault on the Martian Geographic North Pole. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 58(1-2) pp. 28–33.

Cockell, Charles (2005). Duties to extraterrestrial microscopic organisms. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 58(11-12) pp. 367–373.

Cockell, Charles (2004). The uses of Martian ice. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29(4) pp. 395–407.

Cockell, Charles and Horneck, Gerda (2004). A Planetary Park system for Mars. Space Policy, 20(4) pp. 291–295.

Cockell, Charles S. and Stokes, M. Dale (2004). Widespread colonization by polar hypoliths. Nature, 431(7007) p. 414.

Edwards, H.G.M.; Wynn-Williams, D.D.; Little, S.J.; de Oliveira, L.F.C.; Cockell, C.S. and Ellis-Evans, J.C. (2004). Stratified response to environmental stress in a polar lichen characterized with FT-Raman microscopic analysis. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 60(8-9) pp. 2029–2033.

Cockell, Charles S. and Raven, John A. (2004). Zones of photosynthetic potential on Mars and the early Earth. Icarus, 169(2) pp. 300–310.

Edwards, Howell G.M.; Cockell, Charles S.; Newton, Emma M. and Wynn-Williams, David D. (2004). Protective pigmentation in UVB-screened Antarctic lichens studied by Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy: an extremophile bioresponse to radiation stress. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 35(6) pp. 463–469.

Cockell, Charles (2004). The rights of microbes. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29(2) pp. 141–150.

Cockell, Charles (2004). The value of humans in the biological exploration of space. Earth, Moon, and Planets, 94(3-4) pp. 233–243.

Cockell, Charles S. and et al (2004). The Trans-Hellas expedition - An exercise in martian expedition planning. Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, 57(3-4) pp. 108–112.

Clark, Melody S.; Clarke, Andrew; Cockell, Charles S.; Convey, Peter; Detrich III, H. William; Fraser, Keiron P. P.; Johnston, Ian A.; Methe, Barbara A.; Murray, Alison E.; Peck, Lloyd S.; Romisch, Karin and Rogers, Alex D. (2004). Antarctic genomics. Comparative and Functional Genomics, 5(3) pp. 230–238.

Patel, Manish; Christou, A.A.; Cockell, Charles; Ringrose, Tim and Zarnecki, John (2004). The UV environment of the Beagle 2 landing site: detailed investigations and detection of atmospheric state. Icarus, 168(1) pp. 93–115.

Lee, P.; Cockell, C. S. and McKay, C. P. (2004). Gullies on Mars: Origin by snow and ice melting and potential for life based on possible analogs from Devon Island, High Arctic. In: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 15-19 Mar 2004, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Parnell, J.; Osinski, G. R.; Lee, P.; Cockell, C. S. and Taylor, C. W. (2004). Hopane biomarkers traced from bedrock to recent sediments and ice at the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island: Implications for the search for biomarkers on Mars. In: 35th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 15-19 Mar 2004, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, Charles S. (2004). A migratory martian base: using the polar summer, escaping the polar winter. Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, 57(1-2) pp. 40–44.

Cockell, Charles S. and Córdoba-Jabonero, Carmen (2004). Coupling of climate change and biotic UV exposure through changing snow–ice covers in terrestrial habitats. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 79(1) pp. 26–31.

Cockell, Charles S.; Berry, Joe; Southern, Adrian; Herrera, Alesha and Yackulic, Charles (2004). Protection from UV radiation in the economic crop, Opuntia Spp. Economic Botany, 58(Supplement) s88-s100.

Rettberg, P. and Cockell, Charles (2004). Biological UV dosimetry using the DLR biofilm. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 3(8) pp. 781–787.

Jones, Jeffrey A.; Barratt, Michael; Effenhauser, Rainer; Cockell, Charles S. and Lee, Pascal (2004). Medical issues for a human mission to Mars and Martian surface expeditions. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 57(3-4) pp. 144–160.

Cockell, Charles (2004). The ascent of Olympus - An Everest anniversary perspective. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 57(3-4) pp. 103–107.

Cockell, Charles (2004). Field innovations in support of Martian polar expeditions. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 57(3-4) pp. 92–98.

Cockell, Charles (2004). The circumnavigation of the moon. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 57(7-8) pp. 277–282.

Cockell, Charles (2004). Impact-shocked rocks - insights into Archean and extraterrestrial microbial habitats (and sites for prebiotic chemistry?). Advances in Space Research, 33(8) pp. 1231–1235.

Cockell, C.S. (2003). A scientific response to small asteroid and comet impacts. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 28(2) pp. 74–75.

Cockell, Charles; Rettberg, Petra; Horneck, Gerda; Scherer, Kerstin and Stokes, Dale M. (2003). Measurements of microbial protection from ultraviolet radiation in polar terrestrial microhabitats. Polar Biology, 26(1) pp. 62–69.

Cockell, Charles S. and Ellery, A. Alex (2003). The Human exploration of the Martian Pole: Part 1 - Four Phases from early expedition to a permanent station. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 56(1-2) pp. 33–42.

Cockell, Charles S.; Osinski, Gordon R. and Lee, Pascal (2003). The impact crater as a habitat: effects of impact processing of target materials. Astrobiology, 3(1) pp. 181–191.

Cockell, Charles S.; Lim, Darlene S. S.; Braham, Stephen; Lee, Pascal and Clancey, Bill (2003). Exobiological protocol and laboratory for the human exploration of Mars - Lessons from a polar impact crater. Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, 56(3-4) pp. 74–86.

Ellery, A. Alex and Cockell, Charles S. (2003). The Human exploration of the Martian Pole: Part 2 - Support technologies. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 56(1-2) pp. 43–55.

Ronto, Gyorgyi; Berces, Attila; Lammer, Helmut; Cockell, Charles S.; Molina-Cuberos, Gregorio J.; Patel, Manish R. and Selsis, Franck (2003). Solar UV irradiation conditions on the surface of Mars. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 77(1) pp. 34–40.

Cockell, Charles (2003). Challenges and solutions for the human exploration of the Martian poles. In: Third International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, 13-17 Oct 2003.

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Cockell, Charles (2003). Life in Martian snows – measurements of UV protection under natural Antarctic snows in the UVC (254 nm). In: Third International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, 13-17 Oct 2003.

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Cockell, Charles; Lee, P.; Osinski, G. and Fike, D. (2003). Life in polar impact-shocked rocks — an analog for micro-habitats at the Martian poles. In: Third International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, 13-17 Oct 2003.

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Cockell, Charles S. (2002). 'Radio-agriculture' - ground and space-based determination of agricultural productivity. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 55(11-12) pp. 362–365.

Fike, David A.; Cockell, Charles; Pearce, David and Lee, Pascal (2002). Heterotrophic microbial colonization of the interior of impact-shocked rocks from Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic. International Journal of Astrobiology, 1(4) pp. 311–323.

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Ellery, A.; Kolb, C.; Lammer, H.; Parnell, J.; Edwards, H.; Richter, L.; Patel, M.; Romstedt, J.; Dickensheets, D.; Steele, A. and Cockell, C. (2002). Astrobiological instrumentation for Mars – the only way is down. International Journal of Astrobiology, 1(4) pp. 365–380.

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Cockell, Charles; McKay, Christopher P. and Omelon, Christopher (2002). Polar endoliths – an anti-correlation of climatic extremes and microbial biodiversity. International Journal of Astrobiology, 1(4) pp. 305–310.

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Cockell, Charles S. and Lee, Pascal (2002). The biology of impact craters: a review. Biological Reviews, 77(3) pp. 279–310.

Cockell, Charles S. and Lee, Marco (2002). Interstellar predation. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 55(1-2) pp. 8–20.

Cockell, Charles (2002). Astrobiology - a new opportunity for interdisciplinary thinking. Space Policy, 18(4) pp. 263–266.

Cockell, C.S. (2002). The science and scientific legacy of Operation Chastise. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 27(4) pp. 278–286.

Cockell, C. (2002). Mars is an awful place to live. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 27(1) pp. 32–38.

Cockell, Charles S. and Barlow, Nadine G. (2002). Impact excavation and the search for subsurface life on Mars. Icarus, 155(2) pp. 340–349.

Cockell, Charles S. and Airo, Alessandro (2002). On the plausibility of a UV transparent biochemistry. Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 32(3) pp. 255–274.

Cockell, Charles; White, Don; Messier, Douglas and Stokes, M. Dale (2002). Fostering links between environmental and space exploration: the Earth and Space Foundation. Space Policy, 18(4) pp. 301–306.

Cockell, Charles S.; Lee, Pascal; Osinski, Gordon; Horneck, Gerda and Broady, Paul (2002). Impact-induced microbial endolithic habitats. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 37(10) pp. 1287–1298.

Cockell, Charles S.; Rettberg, Petra; Horneck, Gerda; Wynn-Williams, David D.; Scherer, Kerstin and Gugg-Helminger, Anton (2002). Influence of ice and snow covers on the UV exposure of terrestrial microbial communities: dosimetric studies. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 68(1) pp. 23–32.

Cockell, Charles; Horneck, Gerda; Rettberg, Petra; Arendt, Jo; Scherer, Kerstin; Facius, Rainer and Gugg-Helminger, Anton (2002). Human exposure to ultraviolet radiation at the Antipodes - a comparison between an Antarctic (67°S) and Arctic (75°N) location. Polar Biology, 25(7) pp. 492–499.

Cockell, Charles (2002). The Trans-Mars Expedition – A Long-Distance, Long-Duration, Scientific EVA. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 55(9-10) pp. 291–306.

Cockell, Charles S. (2001). The martian and extraterrestrial uv radiation environment part II: further considerations on materials and design criteria for artificial ecosystems. Acta Astronautica, 49(11) pp. 631–640.

Cockell, Charles S. (2001). Martian polar expeditions: problems and solutions. Acta Astronautica, 49(12) pp. 693–706.

Cockell, Charles S.; Scherer, Kerstin; Horneck, Gerda; Rettberg, Petra; Facius, Rainer; Gugg-Helminger, Anton; Driscoll, Colin and Lee, Pascal (2001). Exposure of arctic field scientists to ultraviolet radiation evaluated using personal dosimeters. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 74(4) pp. 570–578.

Cockell, Charles S.; Lee, Pascal; Schuerger, Andrew C.; Hidalgo, Loretta; Jones, Jeff A. and Stokes, M. Dale (2001). Microbiology and vegetation of micro-oases and polar desert, Haughton impact crater, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 33(3) pp. 306–318.

Cockell, Charles S. and Horneck, Gerda (2001). The History of the UV radiation climate of the earth: theoretical and space-based observations. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 73(4) pp. 447–451.

Johnson, Jeffrey R.; Ruff, Steven W.; Moersch, Jeffrey; Roush, Ted; Horton, Keith; Bishop, Janice; Cabrol, Nathalie A.; Cockell, Charles; Gazis, Paul; Newsom, Horton E. and Stoker, Carol (2001). Geological characterization of remote field sites using visible and infrared spectroscopy: Results from the 1999 Marsokhod field test. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 106(E4) pp. 7683–7711.

Lee, Pascal; Cockell, Charles S.; Marinova, Margarita M.; McKay, Christopher P. and Rice Jr., James W. (2001). Snow and ice melt flow features on Devon Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada as possible analogs for recent slope flow features on Mars. In: 32nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 12-16 Mar 2001, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, C. S.; Brandt, D.; Hand, K. and Lee, P. C. (2001). Microbial mats of the Tswaing impact crater: results of a South African exobiology expedition and implications for the search for biological molecules on Mars. In: 32nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 12-16 Mar 2001, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, C. S.; Wynn-Williams, D. D. and Horneck, G. (2001). Ultraviolet protection on a snowball Earth. In: 32nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 12-16 Mar 2001, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Cockell, Charles S. (2001). 'Astrobiology' and the ethics of new science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 26(2) pp. 90–96.

Cockell, Charles and Blaustein, Andrew R. eds. (2001). Ecosystems, evolution and ultraviolet radiation. New York, USA: Springer.

Newsom, H.E.; Bishop, Janice L.; Cockell, Charles; Roush, Ted L. and Johnson, Jeffrey R. (2001). Search for life on Mars in surface samples: lessons from the 1999 Marsokhod rover field experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 106(E4) pp. 7713–7720.

Stoker, C.R.; Cabrol, N.A.; Roush, T.R.; Moersch, J.; Aubele, J.; Barlow, N.; Bettis, E.A.; Bishop, J.; Chapman, M.; Clifford, S.; Cockell, C.S.; Crumpler, L.; Craddock, L.; De Hon, R.; Foster, T.; Gulick, V.; Grin, E.; Horton, K.; Hovde, G; Johnson, J.R.; Lee, P.C.; Lemmon, M.T.; Marshall, J.; Newsom, H.E.; Ori, G. G.; Reagan, M.; Rice, J. W.; Ruff, S. W.; Schreiner, J.; Sims, M.; Smith, P.H.; Tanaka, K.; Thomas, H.J.; Thomas, G. and Yingst, R.A. (2001). The 1999 Marsokhod rover mission simulation at Silver Lake, California: Mission overview, data sets, and summary of results. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 106(E4) pp. 7639–7663.