edu.ucar.opensky::articles:41879 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T18:09:49.716342 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7xk8kvn Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7xk8kvn https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae058 M. Hagedorn author L. R. Parenti author R. A. Craddock author P. Comizzoli author P. Mabee author Meinke, Bonnie author S. M. Wolf author J. C. Bischof author R. D. Sandlin author S. N. Tessier author M. Toner author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher <p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(239, 242, 247);color:rgb(42, 42, 42);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Earth's biodiversity is increasingly threatened and at risk. We propose a passive lunar biorepository for long-term storage of prioritized taxa of live cryopreserved samples to safeguard Earth's biodiversity and to support future space exploration and planet terraforming. Our initial focus will be on cryopreserving animal skin samples with fibroblast cells. An exemplar system has been developed using cryopreserved fish fins from the Starry Goby, </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(239, 242, 247);border-width:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(42, 42, 42);font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-optical-sizing:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-size:15px;font-stretch:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-emoji:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-position:inherit;font-variation-settings:inherit;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Asterropteryx semipunctata</em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(239, 242, 247);color:rgb(42, 42, 42);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">. Samples will be expanded into fibroblast cells, recryopreserved, and then tested in an Earth-based laboratory for robust packaging and sensitivity to radiation. Two key factors for this biorepository are the needs to reduce damage from radiation and to maintain the samples near -196° Celsius. Certain lunar sites near the poles may meet these criteria. If possible, further testing would occur on the International Space Station prior to storage on the Moon. To secure a positive shared future, this is an open call to participate in this decades-long program.</span></p> UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Institute of Biological Sciences 2024. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US. None eng geoscientificInformation