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List of works by James F. Kasting

A Chronostratigraphic Division of the Precambrian

article published in 2012

A catalog of Kepler habitable zone exoplanet candidates

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A hybrid model of the CO2 geochemical cycle and its application to large impact events

scientific article published in May 1986

A negative feedback mechanism for the long-term stabilization of Earth's surface temperature

scholarly article

A revised, hazy methane greenhouse for the Archean Earth

scientific article

Abiotic O2 Levels on Planets around F, G, K, and M Stars: Effects of Lightning-produced Catalysts in Eliminating Oxygen False Positives

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Abiotic O_2_ levels on planets around F, G, K, and M stars: possible false positives for life?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Abiotic formation of O2 and O3 in high-CO2 terrestrial atmospheres

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Annihilation of ecosystems by large asteroid impacts on the early Earth

scientific article

Astrophysical Conditions for Planetary Habitability

Atmospheric Escape and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets and Satellites

scholarly article

Atmospheric Production of Glycolaldehyde Under Hazy Prebiotic Conditions

article

Atmospheric composition and climate on the early Earth

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2006)

Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Atmospheric science. How was early Earth kept warm?

scientific article published in Science

Availability of O2and H2O2on Pre-Photosynthetic Earth

scientific article published on May 5, 2011

Biosignatures from Earth-like planets around M dwarfs

scientific article published on December 2005

Bolide impacts and the oxidation state of carbon in the Earth's early atmosphere

scientific article published on January 1992

Box models for the evolution of atmospheric oxygen: an update

scientific article published in December 1991

CO2 condensation and the climate of early Mars

scientific article published on January 1991

Can increased atmospheric CO2 levels trigger a runaway greenhouse?

scientific article published on 25 July 2014

Can organic haze and O2 plumes explain patterns of sulfur mass-independent fractionation during the Archean?

Chain formation as a mechanism for mass-independent fractionation of sulfur isotopes in the Archean atmosphere

scholarly article by Chester E. Harman et al published August 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Climate science: A delicate balance

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-03-28

Climate-Ice Sheet Simulations of Neoproterozoic Glaciation Before and After Collapse to Snowball Earth

scholarly article

Climatic consequences of very high carbon dioxide levels in the earth's early atmosphere

scientific article

Cold glacial oceans would have inhibited phyllosilicate sedimentation on early Mars

scholarly article by Alberto G. Fairén et al published 28 August 2011 in Nature Geoscience

Comments on the BLAG model: the carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle and its effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 100 million years

scientific article

Could Cirrus Clouds Have Warmed Early Mars?

scientific article

Could we identify hot ocean-planets with CoRoT, Kepler and Doppler velocimetry?

scientific article (publication date: November 2007)

ERRATUM: “HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES” (2013, ApJ, 765, 131)

scholarly article published in The Astrophysical Journal

ERRATUM: “LIGHT SCATTERING FROM EXOPLANET OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERES” (2010, ApJ, 723, 1168)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early earth: faint young sun redux

scientific article published in April 2010

Earth sciences: ups and downs of ancient oxygen

scientific article published in October 2006

Earth's early atmosphere

scientific article

Effects of fuel and forest conservation on future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide

scientific article published on March 1992

Europa, tidally heated oceans, and habitable zones around giant planets

scientific article published on January 1987

Evolution of a Habitable Planet

scientific article published in September 2003

Evolution of a steam atmosphere during Earth's accretion

scientific article published on January 1988

Evolution of the atmosphere and ocean through time

scholarly article

Extrasolar planets: Inner edge of the habitable zone

scientific article published in December 2013

Greenhouse warming by CH4 in the atmosphere of early Earth

article

Greenhouse warming by nitrous oxide and methane in the Proterozoic Eon

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Habitable Planets: What Are We Learning from Kepler and Ground-Based Searches?

scientific article published on May 12, 2011

Habitable moons around extrasolar giant planets

scientific article

Habitable planets with high obliquities

scientific article published on January 1997

Habitable zones around low mass stars and the search for extraterrestrial life

scientific article published on June 1997

Habitable zones around main sequence stars

scientific article (publication date: 1993)

Habitable zones around main-sequence stars: dependence on planetary mass

scholarly article

Habitable zones around main-sequence stars: new estimates

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

How Climate Evolved on the Terrestrial Planets

How climate evolved on the terrestrial planets

scientific article published on February 1988

Impacts and the origin of life

scientific article

Insensitivity of global warming potentials to carbon dioxide emission scenarios

scientific article published in Nature

Irradiated interplanetary dust particles as a possible solution for the deuterium/hydrogen paradox of Earth's oceans

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Life and the evolution of Earth's atmosphere

scientific article

Light scattering from exoplanet oceans and atmospheres

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Limit cycles can reduce the width of the habitable zone

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Long-term stability of the Earth's climate.

scientific article published on January 1989

Long-term stability of the earth's climate

scholarly article published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air

scientific article published in Nature

Low-latitude glaciation and rapid changes in the Earth's obliquity explained by obliquity-oblateness feedback

scientific article published on December 1998

Making Mars habitable

scientific article

Mantle redox evolution and the oxidation state of the Archean atmosphere

scientific article

Mass fractionation of noble gases in diffusion-limited hydrodynamic hydrogen escape

scientific article published on January 1990

Methane-rich Proterozoic atmosphere?

scientific article published in 2003

Modeling the signature of sulfur mass-independent fractionation produced in the Archean atmosphere

scholarly article

New constraints on Precambrian ocean composition

article

New spin on ancient climate

scientific article published in Nature

Nitrous oxide from chemodenitrification: A possible missing link in the Proterozoic greenhouse and the evolution of aerobic respiration

scientific article

Organic haze, glaciations and multiple sulfur isotopes in the Mid-Archean Era

scholarly article

Oxidized micrometeorites suggest either high pCO2 or low pN2 during the Neoarchean

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Ozone Concentrations and Ultraviolet Fluxes on Earth-Like Planets Around Other Stars

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Palaeoclimates: the first two billion years

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2006)

Palaeoclimatology: Archaean atmosphere and climate

scientific article published in November 2004

Palaeoclimatology: evidence for hot early oceans?

scientific article

Paleoclimates, ocean depth, and the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater

scientific article published in November 2006

Paradox lost and paradox found

scientific article published in Nature

Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee's "Rare Earth"

article

Photochemical and climate consequences of sulfur outgassing on early Mars

scholarly article

Planetary atmosphere evolution: do other habitable planets exist and can we detect them?

scientific article published on January 1996

Remote life-detection criteria, habitable zone boundaries, and the frequency of Earth-like planets around M and late K stars

scientific article

Remote sensing of planetary properties and biosignatures on extrasolar terrestrial planets

scientific article published on January 2002

Reply to comment by Stephen G. Warren and Richard E. Brandt on “Snowball Earth: A thin-ice solution with flowing sea glaciers”

scientific article published in 2006

Runaway and moist greenhouse atmospheres and the evolution of Earth and Venus

scientific article (publication date: 1988)

Seafloor hydrothermal activity and spreading rates: the Eocene carbon dioxide greenhouse revisted

scientific article published on January 1985

Searching for water earths in the near-infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Snowball Earth: Asynchronous coupling of sea-glacier flow with a global climate model

Sulfur, ultraviolet radiation, and the early evolution of life

scientific article published on January 1989

Susceptibility of the early Earth to irreversible glaciation caused by carbon dioxide clouds

scientific article published on September 1992

Synthetic spectra of simulated terrestrial atmospheres containing possible biomarker gases

scientific article published on May 2000

TPF-C: status and recent progress

The Carbonate-Silicate Cycle and CO2/Climate Feedbacks on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets

scientific article published on July 9, 2012

The case for a wet, warm climate on early Mars

scientific article published on January 1987

The early Mars climate question heats up.

scientific article

The effect of a strong stellar flare on the atmospheric chemistry of an earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf

scientific article

The evolution of the prebiotic atmosphere

scientific article published on January 1984

The habitable-zone planet finder: a stabilized fiber-fed NIR spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope

The life span of the biosphere revisited

scientific article

The sustainability of habitability on terrestrial planets: Insights, questions, and needed measurements from Mars for understanding the evolution of Earth-like worlds

Theoretical constraints on oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in the Precambrian atmosphere

scientific article

Tidal Venuses: triggering a climate catastrophe via tidal heating.

scientific article

UV shielding of NH3 and O2 by organic hazes in the Archean atmosphere

scientific article published in October 2001

Ultraviolet radiation from F and K stars and implications for planetary habitability

scientific article (publication date: August 1997)

Using biogenic sulfur gases as remotely detectable biosignatures on anoxic planets

scientific article

Warming early Earth and Mars

scientific article

What determines the volume of the oceans?

scientific article published in April 1992

When methane made climate

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Where do we go from here? Astrobiology editorial board opinions

scientific article

Worlds beyond: A strategy for the detection and characterization of exoplanets. Executive summary of a report of the ExoPlanet Task Force Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Washington, DC June 23, 2008

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Xenon fractionation in porous planetesimals

scientific article published on January 1990